Chapter 299: A Lewd Crest
While Shaitan was conquering Lucifer’s seal, I decided to collect the spoils of war.
"I heard ravens like shiny things."
Whether Lucifer did it on purpose or not, magic stones and jewels were scattered all over the floor. Just the jewels alone looked like enough to fill two storehouses and then some at a glance.
"The magic stones...ugh, damn. We already used almost all of them?"
Mid-grade magic stones, high-grade magic stones—almost nothing left. Excluding subordinates cleaning up the dungeon, I called Lune and Luna to organize the magic stones.
"Master, is it okay to just leave that alone?"
Lune pointed at Lucifer being toyed with by Shaitan. Shaitan was like a fish in water, violating Lucifer indiscriminately.
Using her tongue, using her hands, using her tail. It would make an adequate textbook for how a woman would violate another woman.
"Leave it. Finding magic stones is more important right now."
There was one being who cared about whether I’d eat her or not, so collecting spoils of war was important for now.
"I’ll pick mid-grade, Luna take low-grade, Lune take lowest-grade."
The magic stones in the summoning circle were all mixed up together. Couldn’t tell which were more numerous, so we had to each pick one type and collect them.
About 10 minutes.
Whether Lucifer’s seal was sucked out quickly or slowly, I examined the amount of magic stones the three of us organized.
Lowest-grade: 230.
Low-grade: 345.
Mid-grade: 47.
And exactly one remaining high-grade: 1.
"Guess they used a shitload reviving with magic stones...."
Hard to believe this was the amount accumulated in a rank 38 dungeon. At this rate, we could quickly obtain this much just by running our sub-dungeons for three or four days.
"Shaitan, sorry to interrupt, but how many magic stones recovered from enemy forces?"
"Slurp, haa. Roughly 50 mid-grade magic stones. ...Three high-grade ones you’re looking for. Recovered from the enemy executives."
"All three were 4-star? Heh, thank god."
That made four total. Mid-grade magic stones would be used to revive dead Lime, and the remaining magic stones would be made into demon fluid to strengthen our forces.
Now the problem was that tremendous amount of jewels.
"I’m ignorant about jewels—anyone know about them?"
"I don’t know jewels well either...."
"Maybe dwarves would know, but we don’t have any dwarves here, do we?"
"True."
When in Forneus’s dungeon, I occasionally encountered dwarves. A species that would make any weapon if you just paid jewels and money—some of the weapons Brug and I used were dwarf-made.
"Should I request appraisal from those guys?"
"Do you dislike dwarves, Master?"
"They’re trash bastards aiming for war profiteering."
Dwarves proclaimed neutrality between the human alliance and Demon King’s army. To put it precisely, they had connections with both sides.
"Humans and the Demon King’s army are both the same customers. Sure, it’s their choice to survive, but pretty annoying, right?"
"If they take one side, they could get attacked by the other?"
"They’re not maintaining complete neutrality like elves either—they’re straddling both sides and sucking up only the benefits."
Elves were elf-like, and dwarves were dwarf-like.
"If we ever encounter dwarf forces, I need to firmly establish discipline with those guys."
"You’re planning to incorporate them into the legion, right? To monopolize dwarf-made weapons."
"Right. Lune, you’re smart."
Among the dwarves, there’s definitely someone like a union boss. Show that person all kinds of armor designs and they won’t be able to help but lose their mind.
’Just copy a few designs from mass-produced gacha games and they’ll be hooked, right?’
Aren’t there tons of incredibly stylish armor designs? Especially armor for women—
"Ah, Master’s thinking dirty thoughts again."
"I do it 24 hours a day, what’s so surprising."
"The thought you just had is similar to when you were thinking about stockings?"
"Yeah. If we catch dwarves, I thought of armor for you to wear. We’ll trade with those jewels. Like ’Here’s the design, please make it!’ Hehehe."
If trading becomes active, how about introducing it to our entire legion? Just thinking about it is thrilling.
"...Still, we don’t know how much this is worth, so we should leave it to someone who knows."
"How about adventurers? They’d roughly know about this stuff, right?"
"...Right. Lune, Luna. Sorry but you two collect what’s here and take it. Put it all in Slime Dragons and move along the stairs. Units 1 and 2 carry magic stones, Unit 3 carries jewels. Unit 5 stands by here. Gremory returns to the dungeon for maintenance. Guinevere and Galahad...good work. Go rest."
The five Slime Dragons each performed their assigned tasks. And Slime Dragons Units 1-4 descending to the surface each carried Lune, Luna, Gremory, Galahad and Guinevere to the surface.
The only people remaining in Halphas dungeon’s depths were me, Shaitan, and Lucifer.
’Not finished yet?’
She definitely would’ve called me if she’d finished collecting the seal, but Shaitan was still violating Lucifer. Looking closely, Shaitan’s tail was wrapped around Lucifer’s thigh pointing backward.
"Shaitan, what are you doing...?"
"Preparing in case Master might use her."
"Good job. Do more."
Using a brief moment, I decided Halphas dungeon’s purpose.
"Halphas dungeon will be a multi-dungeon."
Main base, multi, sub. I registered Halphas dungeon as my multi. Like Gremory’s dungeon, it became a dungeon that could be operated as a separate dungeon with one administrator.
’Anyone granted the name [Halphas] becomes the dungeon’s owner.’
Though a more sparkling dungeon than our main base, so what? Though there’d be more places to defend from now on, so what? The house owner was decided, and she desperately wanted to become this dungeon’s owner and threw away her life for us.
’I’d be trash if I backstabbed her.’
Couldn’t do something like Forneus did. Moreover, couldn’t do the stupid thing of making such a natural fortress into a sub-dungeon.
"Need to move all the harpy nests here."
The harpies in Gremory dungeon’s ranch would all be moved here. There was one idea that came to mind too, but that was for after [Halphas] revived.
"Master, it’s done."
Shaitan finally called me. Turning my head to look at Shaitan, looking at the lower abdomen she’d kissed, the seal’s pattern had disappeared.
Sluurrrp.
Shaitan carefully sucked out the seal down to the last stroke. On Lucifer’s pale lower abdomen remained only a deep kiss mark Shaitan made in the shape of the seal.
"It transfers?"
"Yes, I’m temporarily storing it in my belly."
"Temporarily?"
"Don’t I need to ask how to manage it?"
Shaitan pointed to a very small seal carved on her belly. An additional stroke had been added to the original seal.
"The seal is just a symbol. But to us daughters of Solomon—the Demon King’s children—it holds very special meaning. It’s proof that he marked us as his daughters. A mark that no demon should easily touch. But if that disappeared...."
"N-no! Don’t! Please!"
When Shaitan stepped onto the summoning circle, Lucifer shed tears and begged desperately. But Shaitan smiled refreshingly and drew up mana toward the summoning circle.
"Originally the Demon King wished for the seven legions to grow together, but...if such an ’unplanned situation’ arose, his thoughts would differ."
"What?"
"He must have anticipated battles between legions. Maybe he even assumed situations like this."
Shaitan stepped back from the summoning circle with a calm face. Then familiar black fog started spewing from the summoning circle.
"...Halphas’s remnants?"
I blurted out some random bullshit, feeling awkward about facing them. Fortunately the other party quite liked my gag, smirking and waving as soon as they appeared.
"Right, same color so understandable mistake. Good attitude. Long time no see, Legion Commander of Wrath."
"...Pleased to meet you. Should I call you mother-in-law? Or father-in-law?"
Really meeting after so long, it felt awkward to address them. Couldn’t be certain of their identity so the title was ambiguous too. So I passed the ball to the other party—to Estu.
"Hmm...true. Can’t tell you specifically due to circumstances.... What’s the big deal? Call me Mother."
"Understood, Mother."
An opponent incomparable to something like Halphas. If I offended them even slightly, my head would fly.
’They roughly know what I did with Shaitan too.’
My throat gulped involuntarily. From here on was Shaitan’s part.
"Ahem, Lady Estu. I have one proposal regarding the current problem."
"Yes, speak."
"Our legion achieved victory against the Legion of Pride. We also collected the seal as the victors. ...Then how far can we dispose of this demon who lost the seal?"
"...I see."
Biologically, Lucifer was the Demon King’s daughter. Even if the seal was taken, handling her as we pleased was difficult in many ways.
"...She’s daughter so it’s awkward to touch her. In times like this, should follow the decision-maker’s opinion. Over there, the Legion Commander whose asshole is already aching—your opinion?"
"L-Lady Estu?"
"Anyway, whatever your opinion, when she says something you’ll immediately go ’As Master wishes....’ playing fox. More comfortable for me to talk with you."
"As expected, we understand each other."
Just like Estu. So I was direct, clearly stating what I wanted.
"Thinking about what they did to our legion, can’t just leave them alone, but they’re too pretty and appetizing to discard, but just bringing them to bed considering how hard the kids worked makes me annoyed.... So."
"Conclusion?"
I made a circle with thumb and index finger and grinned.
"Is forced contraception magic possible for Miss Lucifer? No matter how much seed I plant, fertilization won’t occur...ring...."
"Oho."
Estu looked at me nodding their head. The sly smile looked so scary.
’Did I push too far?’
The seal was spoils of war. But saying too openly I’d use it as I pleased was an act of dishonoring the Demon King. Moreover, saying I’d prevent her from having children—no greater violation than that.
"Hey, even if Lucifer changed owners a few times, she’s the Demon King’s daughter, you know?"
"...That’s true. I misspoke. My apologies."
"Still, the Demon King would prefer a capable and successful son-in-law over an unmotivated daughter, right? Hmm."
"...If you’d see it that way, I’d be truly grateful. Hehe."
Wondered if I should prostrate, but excess is proportional. I bowed at the waist to express gratitude.
"Thank you very much, Mother."
"Don’t really mind if you say what you’re thinking inside? Like you’ll use her cleanly and return her, or you’ll polish training techniques on Lucifer, or you’ll use her as a maid as Shaitan wants."
"...Ahem."
Caught. As expected, my inner thoughts were all being read so couldn’t pull any other tricks. Just revealing my true feelings was much better.
"Th-this doesn’t make sense...!"
Of course, there was also someone ruining the warm atmosphere between me and Estu. Lucifer, who could be called the party to the transaction. Now just one demon who’d even lost her seal.
"H-how...!"
"So noisy, really."
Estu snapped their fingers with cold eyes. In an instant, Lucifer was gagged.
"Should think about assisting the dungeon owner to get stronger, instead of just sitting around leaving the dungeon owner to die or not. Made a little effort to save herself at the end but...no good, you. This is punishment."
Smack!
Estu lightly struck Lucifer’s lower abdomen with their palm. Then a pink-colored seal was newly carved on Lucifer’s lower abdomen.
"A new seal...? 8th legion?"
"No? It’s a womb tattoo. A lewd crest."
"Pardon?"
"A magic circle that draws out the extreme of sex magic. Not a simple tattoo. The effect is...."
Estu laughed low and stroked Lucifer’s lower abdomen.
"...When fruit forms from sowing, see, instead of creating life, I made it so magic stones come out. How’s that?"
As expected, I was definitely receiving the Demon King’s blessing.