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"Phew, that fight was quite arduous… I want to take a nap and a bath, but we have to stay here, huh?" she sighed.

"Let's use the bathroom he got here. I checked it and he had warm water." I said.

"Ooh! So it's not a thing of you?" said Benladann.

"I believe so. But it might not be that common either. It uses expensive magic artifacts to warm water, unlike the simple Runes I use through Flayr's [Boil] Spell. Anyone infuses magic into them and the water that flows out will become warm, not too warm though, just the right amount. Good enough to relax the muscles and so on," I said.

"I see… let's go take a bath and then eat something so we can discuss everything better." Said Benladann, holding my hands. We decided that, for a little bit, to forget about everything and just enjoy a bath.

The bath was amazing, the warm water really relaxed my tensed-up muscles and cleansed all the blood and stench stuck into our bodies. We didn't do anything lewd as we were already quite exhausted, so we lovingly washed each other's backs and hair. We both had long hair, so we usually wash each other's long hair carefully. It has become our morning routine in the bath.

We were already feeling at home in the sect master's palace, it was a bit hilarious to think about. But now, I guess this whole sect is ours. The sect master will be our subordinate and well, something like our "puppet" as we move the strings behind his back and various other Elders.

If the Elders we didn't touched suddenly begin to doubt, well, they'll become loyal zombies too, or might end up as victims of our monster mana core replacement experiments.

After taking a bath, we rushed into the large table where the sect master has his meals. Apparently, the old man has no family and lives completely alone.

We really thought he might have a child or a wife, but he was completely desolate. Living for so long and without any girl at his side? Nor a descendant? I guess the old man must have other priorities in mind.

We had already prepared to deal with them by doing a simple brainwashing charm using Benladann's power, but we honestly felt grateful we didn't have to do anything like that to completely unrelated people to the conflict.

As we ate, we began to finally discuss things as the light of the morning sun began to slowly emerge from the horizon.

"Well, now that the sect has been completely taken over by us, we should relax for a bit, right?" she asked.

"I believe so. Although I don't feel like it is "completely taken over by us". I mean, we made the important figures leading it our servants now, but it still technically not ours… and well, it's better that way. Our own sect doesn't need more people than it already has to be honest." I sighed.

"Indeed, with this is more than enough, I guess. How will we do things from now on?" wondered Benladann.

"We are pretty much done here. A Teleportation Trap was placed connecting the Dungeon with Fuyu, so we don't even need to stay here. And thanks to this connection, we can continue traveling on Fuyu and get all the food and supplies we want using the Elders and the Sect Master's money and resources, coupled with the constant and daily grind for Rank 2 and 3 Mana Cores from the Dungeon… I suppose that with this, we have finally stabilized our income of resources and food, even if we keep growing stronger, this will keep being an important spot. I don't really plan on going conquering everywhere I go either." I said.

"I see! Then that means we can finally march forward and move to another region, dearie? I was waiting for this for some time now… Wait, now that I think about it, most of the sects we'll find will already have the Dungeons with high-Rank Monsters saved for themselves… SO we'll have to go through the whole same drama over and over again, wouldn't we?" wondered Benladann.

"Ugh… You're right. It might repeat a few more times, but we don't really need to force the situation completely, we could act sneakier the next time, and simply conquer their dungeons as we explore them. And just outright ignore the Sects themselves. Though I have to admit it, the Xianxia Genre is very repetitive, so I bet we'll meet with the same repetitive situations a lot… We'll try to just avoid them though, we got better things to do, right?" I asked.

"Huh? Xianxia Genre?" wondered Benladann.

"Erm, well, I shouldn't really treat this as a novel, to be honest… but let's hope the same situations don't repeat too much, or we'll get bored quickly." I sighed.

"I am sure that it won't. This whole continent is pretty vast, I would say. There should be areas, wilder areas, with stronger monsters around, right? We can always get to those and hunt monsters there for us to rank up. Though we'll need more and more Mana Cores of our Rank to improve, so it might take a while by hunting monsters spread around a large landscape." Sighed Benladann.

"Indeed, due to that, Dungeons are so precious. It's because they're convoluted with monsters everywhere, so we can quickly dispose of a large group and get straight to the rewards after that! Maybe we should go conquering dungeons around. Many of these people had no idea you could break through their spatial walls and get to the dungeon core, so we can pick up a bunch of them and expand our Dungeon options… in a while, we might even have a whole hall in Fuyu with many teleportation gates that lead to different dungeons all around the entire continent… That would be certainly a convenient way to move around as we please too…" I said.

"Y-Yeah… The possibilities are endless. Being a Dungeon Master is amazing." Said Benladann.

  "Oh, and about the Vampires…"

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