Hours later, I extracted myself from the bliss of the wildhound sisters. I had to improve my dungeon. I had to build it better. I could also incorporate darkness into the dungeon.
I could use it to hide objects or to make entire rooms lightless and impossible to see through unless you had normal magic.
I grabbed the crystal and went to work on creating the place. I expanded the opening labyrinth. I added more twists, turns and false paths. Even false rooms to blunder into that led further away from my throne room and the Void Crystal.
I placed the will o' wisps and wildhounds in these areas. A few of them in the labyrinth where they could ambush adventurers and work together using their different abilities. In one dead-end room, I put a small squad of monster girls.
I created a trap room that I smothered in darkness and left gaping pits in the floor for those who didn't have magical means.
Deep pit traps with spikes at the bottom. I kept the lightning column room to zap the intruders but concealed the door that led from it to my throne room in a darkness-made illusion. Then I put two other doors in the room.
One that led to a fake treasure room, with a gauntlet of pit traps on the way, and the other into another little labyrinth that led nowhere but had a few lightning traps in it.
I put a guard room before my throne room that would be Usiku's. She had her own bedroom off of there. She would be the last line of defense. If need be, she could fall back to my throne room where Garnet, Lana, and I would make our stand. The monster girls were all happy being in the dungeon, just hanging out. They were supposed to be guard monsters, so spending endless hours doing nothing was easy for them.
I envied them. I couldn't do that.
"Very nice," said Souleen. "Shame you didn't run into another Mana River to expand your level of magic, but, still, it's nice coverage. You used almost all your pool. We need to get you more."
"I'm not going to go and attack other dungeon builders," I said.
She smiled at me. "You're a good man, Lord Leo. I'm glad you were chosen."
"Wish I knew by whom," I said.
I felt tired. I headed back into my bedroom. From the living room, I smelled cooking. I went past it to find that both Lana and Garnet were in the kitchen making me dinner. I was the only one in the entire dungeon who had to eat.
It was strange having Garnet and Lana both watching me eat the stew they made. They had softened the salted beef I'd bought in the village. I ate it, squirming there as they waited to hear my reaction.
"Delicious," I said. "Lana, Garnet, you two worked miracles."
"I knew you'd love it, big bro!" squealed Garnet, her wings flapping behind her.
"I had to learn cooking for this role," said Lana. "I worked in a one-star Michelin kitchen for a week. It was horrifying. That chef was so mean. I barely did anything right, but I guess enough of it stayed. I'm glad you love it."
"Yes, I do," I said, smiling at them both.
It had been a long, long day. I was glad to crawl into bed beside my sister and Lana. I was too tired to have sex. They just cuddled up to me and I drifted off into sleep.
The nightmares chased me all night long. I was blind and I could hear Lana screaming. Every time I woke up, I was gasping.
Then I felt my two women around me.
I would drift back into sleep.