I woke up about six hours after end of my connection with Skaly. My left side felt a little numb and when I looked there, I saw Skaly, under my blanket, looking up at me like a puppy.
"Good morning."
"Good," she turned a little red, and tried to hide her face in the blanket.
"Did you enjoyed it?"
"Un... I never thought it would feel so good..." her hand slowly rised from the blanket and made a soft contact with my face, "I enjoyed it... I... really loved it..."
As she said that, her face got closer and she planted a kiss on my lips.
"Ah!" suddenly, she fliched back and touched her abdomen.
"What is it?"
"There... something...warm," She pushed away the blanket and revealed her amazing body, I got to enjoy yesterday.
Her blue skin was smooth, young and perky. My eyes followed her perfect lines until they fell on her abdomen. There a black tattoo in shape of heart with horns and daggers was fixed right above her pussy.
"What is this... «Identify»"
"Demon lord's seal... It grants part of my powers to you... which means, that right now, you are immortal like any other demon lord."
"I... Such a gift..." Skaly started sobbing, "Master... I shall work extra hard!" She beamed a happy smile.
"I'm sure you will," I returned her the smile.
In that moment, her hand gripped my dick. "Huh? What are you donig?"
"The seal came to me this way so I shall take the opportunity when I can!" She smiled as she started stroking my dick, which with the combination of morning erection was really easy. She planted a kiss on my lips and we fell back to the bed for another hour.
***
After being released from Skaly's seductive grip, I went to the kitchen, where I already found Yuki.
"Morning," she barked out with cold look in her eyes.
For a second I thought, that she overheard me in the night or few minutes ago, but then I noticed that Gobura, the hobgoblin from mines had a same look in her eyes.
"Morning you two," as I returned the greeting, both of them rised from their seats and started walking towards me.
""Master who is this?!"" they both asked at the same time.
"Well, Gobura is the goblin I summoned yesterday and Yuruki, or rather Yuki is an elf that was in the cave when I made it my domain."
"But that goblin was't this cute yesterday!" With Yuki pointing at Gobura. As I looked at her, I noticed that she was deffinitely more slender and taller then yesterday, just to be sure, I used «Identify»
Name: Gobura
Race: Hobgoblin
Class: Supreme Miner
Level: 10
Stats: HP: 1,000 MP: 10 STR: 1,000 VIT: 1,000 DEX: 100 AGI: 10 MAG: 10 LUCK: 1,500
Skills: Opimized mining, Body strenghtening, Item box (unlimited)
"Yuruki huh? I shall remember that," Gobura smiled wolfishly at Yuki who returned her the smile.
"Don't worry miss Gobura, I won't forget you. But please remind yourself during lunch time, I tend to be rather busy as master Zaru's PERSONAL chef," she smiled and lightings started to flew between the two small chested women.
"Uwaaah! Good morning everyone... what's for today's breakfast?" Skaly came to the room and quickly sit on a stool to hide her weak legs.
"Well, Gobura I want the report on the cave. Yuki what's for breakfast?"
"Wild Zweihorn soup with bread!" Yuki said quickly and smiled smugly at Gobura.
"The caves are relatively safe. We ecountered a lot of Crystal spiders which lead us to belive that there is a nest deeper. Also the cave is full of metal we can mine. We saw copper, iron, mithril, Dualtine and Haberite, all metals that can be used for powerful items."
"Hmm... I see. Can we take control over the nest?"
"With strong enough force I belive we could," Gobura nodded.
"I understand. After breakfast I will create a field floor under catacombs and summon some monsters there. I will also activate the [Lure] effect of the dungeon and enlarge the Dungeon area."
"Also one more thing to report sir. We found dead earthwyrm and miss Renzir took it's bones for an undead creation."
"I see, well, that's hardly something to be wary of. Was there something about that earthwyrm that interested you?"
"Yes. It's bones were hiding a passage. I blocked it for now, but we don't know what is on the other side."
"That can be worrisome... Okay, after I finish my plans, we will go investigate. For now keep the place guarded. Ask Renzir to send there at least five strong warriors. I want them to be at least level fifty."
"Understood," Gobura nodded.
We moved to the dining hall and while Yuki took my right side, Skaly took the left, forcing Gobura to sit in the second row with the kids, who strangely enough took a liking to her as if she was one of them.
The soup was so delicious I involuntarily smiled in bliss. "Ah, this is amazing..."
We happily ate our breakfast and went to everyones field of interest. The Frost girls and Merpy were following Yuki around and Gilat followed Gobura to the cave. Skaly was following me around, so no one was alone.
As I sit on the golden throne, I once again felt power flowing through me. "Activate dungeon skill: Lure. Create floor 2nd, Fields. Summon floor guardian: Elder tree spirit. Alright let's go to the second floor," I signalized to Skaly who was looking at me with sweet smile.
Although I was low on MP, I didn't feel grogy at all. 'That's probably becouse of my increased mana recovery I gained when I became Demon lord...'
We walked through the throne room and when we walked through the doors, we appeared on the fields.
"I see, so this stone ark works as the gate to the lower floors..." I checked the ark and realized that it had same black symbols as my throne.
"Where is the guardian?" Skaly asked looking at the almost endless fields.
"That tree over there. It's an elder tree spirit." I pointed at single giant tree in the middle of the field and started walking towards it. When we came closer, the tree bowed. Literarlly.
"My. Master. Lord. Zaru! I. Welcome. You!"
"Good. As the guardian here I will give you a name. You will be Traich."
"Yes. Sir!" Traich glowed and in the same moment a body of an old man appeared before us.
"Huh?"
"Ah! This feels better, my lord! Now I will be able to look around this floor!" the old man with white hair and beard smiled.
"Wait, you're... Traich?" Skaly spoke confusedly before me.
"Of course young lady! Though, this body is more like a projection of my soul. My real body is this the tree here," the old man smiled.
"Traich, as for what I plan with this floor. I want to start a farm here. That means you will have a lot of subordinates here. Do you have any prefetences?"
"For farming... umm... Slaadi should be enough but I would like to reqiest another monsters for protection of the gate," the man bowed deeply.
"Hmm... Slaads prefer swamps though... what about Quaggoths and Sprites? Those can be both farmers and guardians."
"Ooh! Such an amazing monsters, I shall show you the best fruits of my labour!"
"Alright, alright! Calm down, I'm summoning now. Summon: Sprite 15x Summon: Quaggoth 5x Summon: Goblin 20x" I pushed the old man away from me as he started to kiss my boots.
As the rest of my MP and DP got drained, twenty new monsters appeared. The Sprites, aka the forest protectors, are a rare species of humanoid looking monsters with two pairs of wing looking like a dragonflies, also they are as tall as six year old kids at best. Naturaly they live only under the World tree in the High elvish empire but you can find them in places with high mana density too.
Next are Quaggoths, they look like a mix between lesser vampire and werewolf. They are two meters tall and can be as fast as a war horse. Usually they live in the dark places, but in rare occasions they live under the daylight as well.
Finally the goblins were all the same as Gobura, short with green skin and slightly pointy ears.
"Alright guys, this one here is Traich your boss. I want you to work here as a farmers and guards..."
"Understood!" they replied.
As I looked over them, I realized that the female/male ratio was 85/15 with Sprites, 10/90 with goblins and I couldn't say which about Quaggoths as they all look the same and don't even wear any clothes.
"Should I get them something to wear?" Skaly asked.
"Nah, they are fine. And goblins and sprites have some clothes on them already."
I said my good byes and returned to the lower floor.
'And now I have officialy zero DP... Well, seems like I will have to wait with the expansion of Dungeon area for some more time...'
"Skaly, we are going to the caves."
"Yes sir," she smiled and hasten her steps to stand next to me.
The entery to the mines is behind storage room 03 and is conected to smithy, smeltery and [Grand Storage room 03]. It't relatively close to the throne room too.
As we made our way there, I noticed that Gobura was already here with Gilat holding their pickaxes, I lend to Gobura yesterday. Alongside them were four Death knights and one Lich.
"Boss! You are already here?"
"Yeah, we just summoned some monsters and call it a day. So are you ready to go?"
"Yeah!" Gobura and Gilat rised their pickaxes, while the skeletons hit their ribcages with their right hands as they bow to me.
"Alright let's go. Lich, don't use fire magic, fire have nowhere to go there… Wonder how it works in the dungeon… Anyway! Lead us to the spider nest."
"Yes sir!" Gobura saluted and went inside the mine.
'Though, I'm surprised Renzir can already summon B-ranked monsters like Knights of death and Liches. Last time Knight of death appeared near Dulinor city, where I had my base with Black leaf, it took thirty adventurers ten whole days to defeat it. It's strenght, vitality and passive release of Dark energy makes it for a really hard enemy to fight. Tho, as a demon lord, I should be able to beat them…'
We entered the caves and instantly noticed the different feeling of the surroundings. While inside of the dungeon is usually filled with mana, and the air circulates alongside it, this place was cut of from fresh air by the same means. The air is heavy and stagnate, it's hard to breathe so we need to get through quickly. 'If I had more monsters, I could get the DP faster…'
Speaking of the Demon points, there are only few ways to get them. First and the most important one is from trespassers (1-99 points per minute), this usually means that monsters that have lower level grants less DP, but it's easy to farm them due to their numbers. (For example Crystal rabbits are low ranked monsters that produce 5 points per minute, which by itself should make 7200 points by end of the first day, but if trespasser isn't killed in two hours, it automaticly becomes 5 points per hour). Killing trespassers gives double the point value of the monster and rises it ten times if the monster is killed right after entering the area.
Another way is from allied monsters, which grants 50 points by the end of each day. This does not works on summoned monsters, who each day consume one point as an upkeep. (Monsters that are considered as such are the Frosts and Yuki. It seems that anyone, who swears loyalty to me, the demon lord, is automaticaly considered a monster).
Another way to collect points is by defeating a born enemy, in another words, people and magical being that have opposite karma value then me. Karma value is something that only people with rare skill called «Eye of judgement» can see. These people can judge the people before them to determinate how to dispose of them. (usually those with red karma are weak to holy magic and attacks that uses Blue karma as their source.) Lizzie from the guild is one of those people and she once said that even though I killed a lot of people, my Karma is bluish gray, which was a color, she never saw before.
'When it comes to her, no one can fool her, her intuition is as scary as a dragon…' I smiled to myself as we were exterminating the crystal spiders that came our way.
"Every spider yields around seven to eight Demon points, if we keep this up we will soon be able to turn this cave into a proper mine!"
"OH!" the rest of the group responded.
We were going with Knights of death in front, lich behind them and after that was me with Gilat and Gobura, collecting corpses of the spiders
"Crystal spider claws can be used as heads for pickaxes becouse they are sturdier then most of the metals. But becouse of this sturdiness we can't turn them in another items… so, let's take them apart later so we can have great suply for the future!"
"OH!" Gobura and Gilat pumped up their fists.
"Knights of death! When we ecounter their boss, leave it to me, don't kill it."
"Yessss… mas…..ter." the knights answeared.
We were making our way deeper and deeper. The strings of the spiders cobs, were almost everywhere now, covering cieling, floor and even the walls. The number of spiders also intensified.
"This is wierd… we lived here for so long, but we never saw this many monsters…" Gilat said as he was taking apart one of the dead spiders.
"They were probably feasting on the earthwyrms that lived here previously. This cave looks just like a tunel they leave behind."
"How many earthwyrms do you think lived here, my lord?" the lich asked.
"I would say about ten… no scratch that, with this many rooms, there could be even hundread of them. Be on guard."
"Yessir!"
Soon, we made it to a cavern completly covered in cobwebs. In some places Light crystals were hanging from cieling. 'They brought the crystals here… the boss must be inteligent monster…'
"WHY?! WHY dID YoU CAmE HeRE?!"
"You are the boss here? Get out to the light! I the demon lord Zaru commands you!"
The cobwebs near the cieling teared apart and a giant crystal spider fell to the ground.
"Oh, a Special A rank monster, Hell crystal spider. Rare seeing one this far away from Demon spider queendom. Are you their spy or something?"
"SHut uP!"
"I guess this is where the talking ends huh? (Black flame)" I released dark flames which only consumed mana to burn, which meant that they were safe to use in caves, but are extreemly hard to control. I shot the flames at the spider, burning away half of it's legs.
I jumped high into the air and threw lightning-enchanted daggers, which made the spider paralyzied.
"If you yield to me I will let you live," I said as I placed the black flame in my hand next to the spiders head.
"I-I yield! Don't burn my kids please!!"
I looked over the spider and realized that this entire time it was protecting a giant ball of threads.
"I will mark you as my subordinate with a name. If anyone tries to touch you or your kids afterwards, they will feel my wrath, that I can promise you."
"Okay… I shall accept the name," the spider flatten itself on the ground, "I'm no match for your strenght."
"Your name shall be Kesugi."
"Understood, my lord. I, Kesugi shall serve you well," the spider bowed and glow with golden light.
In the next moment, a humanoid looking upper body grew from her main body. It was a female body with crystal-like skin. The eyes had one pair slightly larger and oval shape, while the remaining six eyes were round, in a row above them. Her hair were long so it touched her spider half of the body. Her hands were equiped with claws on her finges. Her figure was comparible to Skaly's, except for her B-cups.
"You can take your remaining children up to the dungeon. I will change this place into mines. Can I ask you to protect them?"
"Yes my lord. I shall devote myself to improving the safety in these tunels."
Sudenly, her face fixed on Skaly, who was silently standing behind me. "You…" she jumped to Skaly and started looking at her clothes and touching them as well.
"Don't touch my breasts!" Skaly suddenly sceamed out and punched Kesugi and hid behind me, thanks to which I got to feel her ample blossom on my back. "Even if we are both girls that's rude!"
"I-I was just getting feel for the fabric…" Kesugi sulked at the corner.
"Are you interested in clothing?"
"I used to live in a human village, they took good care of me and I produced strings for them. That's how I learned about fashion…"
"I see, would you like to make clothes for us then? To be honest, it would be the greatest way to help us."
"Really?" Kesugi quickly moved next to me and grasped both my hands.
"Yes, really! I will be counting on you!" I gave her a reasuring smile.
And so, Kesugi and her children started working on the last floor, making clothes for everyone. And before I even realized it, another five days went by. During those five days I expanded the Dungeon area to south west and south east, where the forest filled with monsters was.
I was sitting on a throne, when one of the screens started lighting up with red color.
"They came at last," I smiled to myself, which made Skaly and Yuki, who were present look up.
"We have our first visitors from your village. I better give them a warm welcome," I smiled while imagining how I will take information from those two unlucky hunters.