XVIII

Grind

『S-Day +103』

『Labyrinth VI』

While holding the pink slime on my lap and continually playing with it, I searched for my phone. Once I found my phone, I started browsing pictures I had taken. A lot of the pictures were of Alicia, Minervina, Saya and Illyria in various states of lewdness. Lots of close ups as well.

I found what I had been looking for. A picture of the day I had arrived in Aventine. It was a group shot of the adventurers that had rescued me from that giant turtle. The picture was zoomed in on the girl with pink hair. Her clothing was drab and meant to hide her figure, but it was still obvious she had large breasts.

She's really pretty.

A wiggling in my pants brought my attention to focus. The slime kept attempting to escape, but I picked it up and placed it in my slime bag still alive. I still need to pick up the corpses and with people roaming around, I would rather they did not see the disappearing act. 1 by 1 the corpses disappeared into distorted air. When I finished storing the last monster, the adventurers from the middle lane appeared.

“Finally made it, huh?” I said as I noticed their approach. “The treasure room is clear. Good luck on the RNG.” I waved them goodbye as the had this weird 'I look like an idiot' look on their face.

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『Imperial Villa』

“Shiny~.”

Saya stood inside the royal bed chambers holding a golden candlestick. While the plebs and slaves used olive oil lamps, as well as high servants who were undergoing punishments, the patricians would use magic stones and candles made from the wax of bees. Being highly religious, many patricians would donate candles to the various temples throughout the empire.

Candles were very expensive. Gilded candlesticks even more so.

“Sister Saya, you must not steal from the emperor! Master will bear punishment for our misdeeds!” Illyria, appearing from the doorway, reprimanded Saya for yet another attempt at pilfering from the villa. “Come now, domina has returned.”

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『Imperial Villa』

I returned to the villa after visiting the guild appraisers and selling some of the corpses. The troll corpse netted me 17 silver denarii as the blood, bones, fangs, claws and hide were useful. This was not the case with goblins and orks, unfortunately. Only ork hides were useful, but I had no idea what they used the goblin corpses for.

When I visited the inn, the innkeeper notified me that Alicia had left a message saying to return to the villa when I was done. With nothing else to do for the day, I left for the villa. This late in the day there was few transports available forcing me to walk like I was some a god damned peasant.

Saya had met me at the door as soon as I arrived. I would spend the rest of the day with Saya and Illyria while Alicia recovers. Even though she could have just used a health potion, I know she wanted to get spoiled by me. Tomorrow, I want to make more magic bags for the excess corpses that are piling up as well as sort out all the loot. And the best part? I had checked the bag of magic stones and found that I had received 2 「Celerity Stones」 in that bag of magic stones. The remainder was 1 「Heat Stone」 and 7 「Distortion Stones」.

I walked into the room that Alicia was in. Illyria was massaging her naked body with oil which accented Alicia's tan lines. Both girls turned to the doorway when they heard it open.

“I'm back.” I said greeting the both of them to which they returned the greeting. “I'll be taking a bath with Saya. Illyria, join us when you are done.”

Illyria bowed as we left with Alicia wishing us to 'have fun'. I've missed the both of them, I'll be enjoying all the sex I will be having tonight.

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『S-Day +104』

『Imperial Villa』

“Do you understand, Saya?”

“Mm, no~. I do not understand master's writing.”

I needed more magic bags and magic chests so I had decided to teach Saya how to make it. To do this, she would need to learn 「Runomancy」. She had difficulties understanding the runes I was using as I had written the letters in English rather than Epistylian Latin. Latin was to be avoided so as to prevent any leaks of this tech.

Saya spent the day learning English and in the future I would be teaching her Japanese. All the different writing types of Japanese would help obfuscate how to utilize the runes. Before teaching her the language, I taught her what each magic stone does and how it interacted with each other to create the distortion field. She is a smart girl and understood that portion rather quickly.

A single magic bag with 20 slots was completed when Alicia called out to me. She had gathered a large amount of various grains so we could farm some skill points. Secluded in a room with numerous grain-filled dolia, which were a super-sized version of an amphora, we steadily tried my idea of filling bags with grain and slow pouring a bags worth of kernels onto the page.

It worked.

It would pile up on the page until it reached the copyable amount causing it to vanish into the Grimoire. Every time we ran out of grain, we would move into another room that had more dolia. We had spent all day doing this until the grain stores were nearly depleted. It had gotten to the point where we needed to place the Grimoires in a dolium and fill it with grain until it copied.

Skill Points:

14,881

Attributes, spells and skills naturally gained experience. Although there were no hard numbers on how much XP was gained or cost, it does show the progress in percentages. Unfortunately, I noticed that my resource pools (Health, Stamina, etc.) and recovery attributes did not have any progress. Skill Points needed to be added manually.

Health Recovery:

11

Stamina Recovery:

11

Mana Recovery:

35

Life Force Recovery:

11

11 points per hour was fine when I only had 100 in my resource pool, but now that I had reached 1000, I relied too much on potions. Even if I raised it, I had already confirmed with Mana Recovery that the Oss Curse scaled upwards. Bumping it up would still benefit me in having to use fewer potions, but I could also use the Skill Points to unlock items in the Shop.

Bringing it up to 50 would only cost 298 skill points each, plus Mana Recovery.

From 11 to 20, it would cost 2 points each. 21 to 30, it would cost 4 points each. 8 points for the next tier, 16 after, with the last tier (91 – 100) costing 512 Skill Points each. Once I am able to harvest more skill points, I would be able to max these out. But not yet. I will bring it up to 50 points.

Health Recovery:

11 → 50

Stamina Recovery:

11 → 50

Mana Recovery:

35 → 50

Life Force Recovery:

11 → 50

Skill Points:

14,881 → 13,707

Hopefully this will make a dent in my potion consumption.

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『S-Day +108』

『Imperial Villa』

Saya was able to learn quickly. She had managed to learn basic English in only a few days thanks to the cheat that is her magecraft. Though she did succeed in making simple enchantments, Saya was unable to recreate the magic bag. I, on the other hand, succeeded in crafting 6 10-slot bags.

In between crafting and flirting, I tried mimicking the fireball scroll. It was a simple thing, but it required 70 Mana Points to set. For me to cast a 《Fireball》, it only cost 10 Mana Points. For Alicia it was 25 Mana Points. My lower cost was due in part to having 《Fireball: level 3》. The high mana cost of producing magic scrolls is probably why we have never seen any for sale.

I also surmised that having higher leveled spells reduced the cost of scroll enchantments. 《Earth Wall》 scrolls would be a good thing to stock up on as having a quick-deploying defensive wall/obstacle can offer extra protection. I will also be making mantra and wind spells to use for a dungeon crawl tomorrow.

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『S-Day +109』

『Labyrinth VII』

Alicia and I were easily progressing through the 7th labyrinth. Goblins and slimes and goblins and also more goblins. We had no idea where the slimes were coming from, but as we killed the horde of goblins more slimes would appear to consume the bodies. The horde seemed endless.

Hours passed as we killed goblins, collected their corpses, killed slimes and collected their corpses. The small amount of scrolls I had prepared came in handy. Anytime we would take a break or was busy collecting, we would be ambushed by another wave. The scroll activation was a simple point and shoot function. Walls would appear and invisible blades of wind cut deeply into their flesh. The cost to activate a scroll was only 1 Mana Point. Even tapping it with a 「Mana Stone」 would activate it. Once a scroll had completed its activation, it would disintegrate into dust.

With the amount that we had killed, I should have already cleared 2 of the subjugation quests. When I completed slime subjugation II at the end of Labyrinth VI, it was replaced by slime subjugation III; kill 50. I wondered if it would be an endless type. All the while we had been inside the labyrinth, the pink slime I had captured would follow us close behind. Whenever a fight would break out, the slime would hang back a fair distance. I had decided to keep it as a pet.

We finally made it at the end of the lane and as we approached the entrance to the treasure chamber, we heard the sounds of fighting. Dozens of goblins were being led by orks in fighting against a group of adventurers. Arrows and magic flew through the air as swords and shields collided. Because this was not our fight, we went straight for the treasure chest.

Despite not being hostile, a few goblins and orks would break off from the pack and attack us. We used magic here and there to kill them as we edged closer to the treasure chest. I was pretty sure that both groups stopped fighting for a moment and just watched us as we kept walking. Alicia activated the chest and retrieved her loot then I did the same right after her. I did not bother taking a look at it and stuffed it into my bag. We pushed the bodies we had killed out of the chamber so we could collect it.

We heard the sounds of fighting continue as we left.

「Quest Complete:【Subjugation II】 | Information: Kill 50 dungeon creatures. [50/50] |

Rewards: 10,000 stored Mana, 200 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Subjugation III】 | Information: Kill 100 dungeon creatures. [100/100] |

Rewards: 20,000 stored Mana, 400 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Slime Subjugation II】 | Information: Kill 25 of the same creature. [25/25]

Rewards: 10,000 stored Mana, 150 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Slime Subjugation III】 | Information: Kill 50 of the same creature. [50/50]

Rewards: 20,000 stored Mana, 250 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Slime Subjugation IV】 | Information: Kill 75 of the same creature. [75/75] Rewards: 40,000 stored Mana, 400 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Goblin Subjugation I】 | Information: Kill 10 of the same creature. [10/10]

Rewards: 5,000 stored Mana, 100 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Goblin Subjugation II】 | Information: Kill 25 of the same creature. [25/25]

Rewards: 10,000 stored Mana, 125 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Goblin Subjugation III】 | Information: Kill 50 of the same creature. [50/50]

Rewards: 15,000 stored Mana, 150 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Orkoss Subjugation I】 | Information: Kill 10 of the same creature. [10/10] |

Rewards: 5,000 stored Mana, 100 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Orkoss Subjugation II】 | Information: Kill 25 of the same creature. [25/25]|

Rewards: 10,000 stored Mana, 150 Skill Points」

「Quest:【Subjugation IV】 | Information: Kill 500 dungeon creatures. [122/500] |

Rewards: 50,000 stored Mana, 1000 Skill Points」

「Quest:【Slime Subjugation V】 | Information: Kill 100 of the same creature. [2/100] |

Rewards: Slime Incubator」

「Quest:【Goblin Subjugation IV】 | Information: Kill 75 of the same creature. [15/75]

Rewards: 20,000 stored Mana, 175 Skill Points」

「Quest:【Orkoss Subjugation III】 | Information: Kill 50 of the same creature. [12/50]|

Rewards: 15,000 stored Mana, 200 Skill Points」

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『S-Day +110』

『Labyrinth VIII』

Alicia and I killed more goblins because this dungeon is nothing but goblins. As we found a lull in the slaughter of cheap adds, I turned to ask Alicia a question.

“Hey Alicia, should we tell Saya and Illyria about the Grimoire? It'll be nice to have more synthesizers.”

“Yeah, don't bother. Already tried with Illyria. Nothing happened.” she said, shutting down my suggestion.

“Nothing?”

“Nothing,” she parroted, “probably something to do with us being summoned or even because we have a god's blessing. Who knows?”

Guess we won't be doing much expanded exploitations.

The treasure chamber was filled with orks and 5 trolls. Our lane was filled with nothing but goblins and slimes so this was a nice change of pace. Also, I needed to clear the ork quest. The orks and trolls were busily fighting another group of adventurers and, like last time, we walked over to the treasure chest while killing the ones that broke off and attacked us. Unlike last time, the 2 groups did not stop and we ended up being attacked more and more.

Since the orks had more resistant skin, the fight had become long and drawn out. I was forced to use most of my 8 magic scrolls. 《Wind Blade Scrolls》 and 《Wind Cutter Scrolls》 were used to thin their numbers and an 《Earth Wall Scroll》 was used to disrupt their charges, forcing them around the obstruction so we could fight with swords.

Alicia and I ended up killing the most and had to take time to drag the bodies away so we could put it in our bags. I watched as the adventurers, who had eventually recovered and claimed their treasure, begin to cut into each and every one of their ork and troll kill. Just 1 troll. I killed 1 and Alicia killed 3.

Show off.

We left as soon as we were done. I am pretty sure they tried talking to us, but we were kinda busy.

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『S-Day +112』

『Labyrinth IX – Floor II』

“This place is fucking bullshit.” I said, exasperated from being pinned down by ork fucking mages.

The 1st floor was a breeze with me clearing my slime quest and part of my goblin quest, but as soon as we reached the 2nd floor, we were attacked by magic using orks. I came up with a plan to use 「Bright Stones」 to blind them and have Alicia use shields to block any attacks while I would snipe them 1 at a time.

There were no guards on the 2nd floor meaning the lanes were a free-for-all for any adventurers. Not like we saw any down here. Now that all the orks that were attacking us are dead, I took out a coin to decide which way to go. Not that it mattered as I was pretty sure that all the god damn orks had attacked us. I flipped the coin and disregarded the outcome as we went straight into the middle lane.

Yeah, no, I was wrong. Orks and more orks came at us in waves. Finally we reached the end and entered the 2nd treasure chamber. What was guarding the treasure chest was…

“A giant? Holy shit.” I said as I turned to Alicia to ask her what we should do. She had other ideas as I watched numerous spawned blades launched at the giant. Swords pierced its eyes, daggers pinned into its neck and spears stabbed its flesh. The giant screamed in pain as it eventually died.

“Fuck whatever that was. I want to go back to the villa already. Let's get this shit settled and leave.” she looked haggard and exhausted as she walked over to the treasure chest to collect her loot. I followed suit taking my loot and followed her out.

We left the other lanes untouched.

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『S-Day +113』

『Imperial Villa』

We had ended up spending over 14 hours inside that labyrinth. Even after drinking healing and stamina potions, we were drained.

Today, while we were recovering, I would convert more 「Mana Stones」 so I could refill all of my spent ammo. I also needed to make more magic scrolls. They had proven to be immensely valuable. Having earthen fortifications appearing instantly had managed to save us numerous times. I will be sure to keep a healthy stock.

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『S-Day +118』

『Labyrinth X – Floor IV』

Alicia and I had went all out fighting inside this dungeon. Because there were 4 floors, we had to be prepared to spend the night. In fact, we spent 2 nights. Each floor boss was one of those giants which Alicia was generous enough to let me have a single kill. Standing at around 3 meters tall, they were a pain in the ass to to fight. It did not help that they had an army of orks and trolls to protect them. The 1st floor lanes had been occupied by soldiers, but we never saw any when we reached the treasure chamber and never saw them on the lower floors.

Our bags were starting to get full as we clear each floor. We still had not gotten rid of our previous kills adding to our growing problem. During the times we had rested, we did copy and convert some of the bodies. Alicia had copied the giant into her Grimoire and we learned that it was called an 'Orgoss'. No idea what the fuck that is. Ogre? Whatever, it is a stupid name.

Even though this place is called a labyrinth, not once had we encountered a single fucking minotaur. Those were the most valuable monsters and if we could capture some alive, we could make so~ much money. But no, what was inside the final treasure chamber were 2 orgoss, a bunch of trolls, a bunch of orks and something bigger than an orgoss. Still had a humanoid figure, but did not have any kind of bull-like horn.

I got to work making a choke point by using a new 2 meter tall version 《Earth Wall Scrolls》. I spent all that I had to reinforce it by 2 layers. Because the lane was so wide, I had to expend my own mana to cast new walls. After these walls were done, I made more by using the 1 meter tall version for our fall back position. The final step was to prepare our offensive scrolls and weapons. Pistol and rifle magazines were laid out atop the short wall near the scrolls along with the shield and rifle leaning behind the wall.

“Do it.” I signaled for Alicia to draw aggro.

Alicia spawned swords and sent them to the closest ossians. Chem lights were broken and scattered and 「Glow Stones」 and 「Bright Stones」 were activated and thrown outward. They immediately took notice and charged like rabid animals. Alicia focused fire on the leading orks while I trained my rifle sights on the larger trolls and any mages they had.

Magic. Swords. Arrows. Bullets.

Everything flew through the air as we both assaulted each other. Corpses piled high which caused the earthen walls to begin breaking away as the monsters pushed forward. 100 daggers flew at a time piercing flesh and armor. Magazines dropped to the ground emptied. Dust and smoke replaced orkish spells. Limbs fell apart as blades of wind cleaved their bodies. The popping of pistol fire gave out tinnitus.

Roars and screams echoed throughout the chamber. What we had thought to be 100 or so ossians, swelled to more than double. There were many lanes which had been unexplored for years. Now those lanes were emptied of ossians as the echoes sounded out. I was suddenly attacked from behind.

As I was firing at the ossians in the front, something was smacking against my ass. I turned around and saw the pink slime I had been bringing along bouncing itself against me. From its docile temperament, I had thought it was fine to keep us company, but now with the chaos around us, it attacked. I aimed my pistol at the traitorous creature…

《!》

In the distance from where we had came from, I saw a dim light appearing. It grew brighter and brighter as it traveled closer to me. An attack from the rear. Pinkface was actually warning me. I held my pistol with its last magazine in my left hand while I grabbed the scepter with my right. Too late was their counterattack even as the reinforced walls I had created crumbled which only made it easier for Alicia to produce large swords and clear out multiples at a time. All my bullets were spent.

Even my sword drank blood.

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『Dungeon Guild – Lobby』

Over 40 people stood in silence.

Soldiers, adventurers, bodyguards and workers stared at the display showing the statuses of each dungeon level. The voice a 1 man caused this silence. An unimportant adventurer who was waiting in line had seen as the display light blinked off.

“It's off.” was all the man said as he pointed at the display. Faces turned 1 by 1 as each person wondered what the man was speaking of.

No one remembers the last time labyrinth X was cleared. Labyrinth IX was a massive undertaking that has caused numerous deaths and even more numerous injuries, but X has never been cleared to anybody's knowledge. Only the record keepers would know of this.

Once the silence faded, the lobby was sent into an uproar as to find out what had happened. Was it a malfunction? Was it the soldiers that had entered? 10 lanes were available and all but 1 was taken by a contubernia of soldiers. Immediately, those soldiers who had emerged from the labyrinth 2 days ago were sought out. It was confirmed that all the contubernia was forced to retreat due to the difficulties that the 2nd floor held. Now the people needed answers.

They had found a decanus, a leader of a contubernium, from one such unit exiting the appraisal room and was bombarded with questions. He answered all that he could, but could not satisfy their curiosity. The people had then left to spread the word and wait at the level exit.

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『Labyrinth X』

「Quest Complete:【Subjugation IV】 | Information: Kill 500 dungeon creatures. [500/500] |

Rewards: 50,000 stored Mana, 1000 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Slime Subjugation V】 |

Information: Kill 100 of the same creature. [100/100]

Rewards: Slime Incubator」

「Quest Complete:【Orkoss Subjugation III】 |

Information: Kill 50 of the same creature. [50/50]

Rewards: 15,000 stored Mana, 200 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Orkoss Subjugation IV】 |

Information: Kill 75 of the same creature. [75/75]

Rewards: 20,000 stored Mana, 250 Skill Points」

「Quest Complete:【Orkoss Subjugation V】 |

Information: Kill 100 of the same creature. [100/100]

Rewards: Orkoss War Banner」

「Quest:【Subjugation V】 | Information: Kill 1000 dungeon creatures. [493/1000] |

Rewards: Illusionary Repetition」

「Quest:【Goblin Subjugation IV】 | Information: Kill 75 of the same creature. [38/75]

Rewards: 20,000 stored Mana, 175 Skill Points」

It took hours to collect all the bodies and weapons. We converted what we could when our storage was filled to capacity, but there was so many to collect. I should have bit the bullet and purchased more 「Amplifier Stones」. Hindsight 20/20.

The giant that was larger than the orgoss was still breathing. Alicia had done a number to it as its body was littered with stab wounds. As I moved closer, I noticed it had a single large eye. Cyclops. It looked at me as I stood over its face. Tried to move its arms, but only twitched. Tried to roar, but only whimpered. I looked down on the face of this creature before stabbing it in the eye.

When the chambers was cleared, we moved to the treasure chest. It was much larger than the other ones we had seen before. At least by 4 times as much. Alicia went 1st and received a large chest from the grand chest which we could not move due to its weight. Same size as the chests we had been using. She made space in her 1 of her bags and stored it away. I received the same large chest and stored it away. We had received similar items from the upper floors, only they were much smaller. About the size of a toolbox.

We made our way back up. The annoyance of having to backtrack to the exit made me question if this was worth it. Each floor we reached had a small amount of orks that had avoided fighting us until now. It took about a day to return.

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『S-Day +119』

『Dungeon Guild』

What the fuck is this?

We exited the labyrinth and were met with a horde of clamoring monkeys. Like screeching banshees, they would not shut the fuck up. People begging to know what had happened. People demanding to know what had happened. People spitting profanities at the fact 'children' were allowed in the dungeon. If I had a bullet left, I would have shot him in the god damn fucking face.

“Fuck off, we're exhausted.” I yelled at the screeching monkeys. So tired we were that I could not even form a proper spell. The guards did nothing to curb the mob as we forced our way through. We had to use weapons to deter them away as I started to feel my bags being pulled on. I even drew my sword at the person who called me a child. He backed off and scurried away like a rat.

As we arrived at the taberna, we were notified that there were no rooms available. Hearing this, a man approached us as we were speaking with a receptionist trying to get her to find us a room and directed his attention to Alicia.

“Hey hey little girl. If you need a room, my friends and I have a nice big room with a nice big bed that needs to be warmed.” said the alcohol-soaked man standing next to me, but was speaking to Alicia.

Is this guy fucking retarded?

I could not see it, but I know Alicia was glaring at him. I, too, was glaring at the idiot standing next to me. He pissed me off so much that I was able to concentrate enough to produce a very light 《Gust》 to nudge him away from us. Against a wall. About 5 meters away. Think I heard a cracking sound as he thudded against the stone.

“Fine, whatever, I don't give a shit,” I said as I returned my attention to the receptionist, “then get us the fastest transport to take us to the imperial villa.”

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『S-Day +120』

『Imperial Villa』

We were definitely followed. Not as if they could do anything. If they had attacked us as we were traveling to the villa, then maybe they would have had an advantage, but all I could surmise was that they were gathering information on us. The guards were alerted and instructed not to allow anyone in without our say so. At the moment, numerous unknowns were skulking around the perimeter.

Now that it was a new day, our bodies were rested and refreshed. My 'spirit' had also become reinvigorated thanks to Saya and Illyria. Spending over an hour in the hot bath with Saya sitting on my side locking lips with me and Illyria sitting on my lap with my dick buried inside her was exactly what I needed to cure my fatigue. Halfway through, the girls exchanged places.

Done with my bath, I joined Alicia in sorting through the loot and converting 「Mana Stones」 so I can get more bullets and 「Amplifier Stones」. Each 「Amplifier Stone」 costs 200,000 stored mana and I wanted to increase our current bag's capacity as much as possible.

The previous labyrinths had given us miscellaneous weapons, armor pieces and magic stones. Normal-type weapons and armor. But the 10th labyrinth had given us chests. Small chests for the 2 upper floors, a medium sized chest on the 3rd floor and a large chest on the last floor.

The 1st floor chest was an unremarkable chest of mixed magic stones.

The 2nd floor chest was a mix of gemstones. Apparently gemstones were still a thing that was valuable as magic stones did not have the luster and attractiveness that gemstones held.

The 3rd floor chest was filled with magic tomes and magic scrolls. Very cool, but I need to sort it out later.

The 4th floor chest was a drum roll worthy amount of gold coins and jewelry.

No idea how much money is in here or how much gemstones and the jewelry were, but it definitely replenished our dwindling wallet. It was all something I needed to sort through later on as the 「Amplifier Stones」 were finally piling up. As I started work on altering our current bags, Alicia stood up and began changing into different clothes.

“Onii-chan, I’m heading out. I’ll be late so no need to wait up.” she said as she filled a bag with gold coins and gemstones.

“Un, yeah, have fun.” I said as I returned my attention to taking apart the enchantments on my backpack.

In order to reorganize the bags, I would need to remove all items which are being stored. For the ones with large bodies, I had to leave it as is. There was no room in the villa that would not cause an uproar if seen.

Magic Chest Mk I: 100/100 tiles (x250 stack) in use. (Unchanged)

Rucksack: 0/80 tiles (x100 stack) in use.

Backpack: 0/50 tiles (x50 stack) in use.

Leather Bag Mk II x3: 0/50 (x50 stack) in use.

Small Leather Bag Mk II x5: 0/5 tiles (x50 stack) in use.

Alicia's Backpack: 0/40 tiles (x50 stack) in use.

Alicia's Drop Leg Bag: 0/5 tiles (x30 stack) in use.

Alicia's Leather Bag Mk II x4: 0/50 tiles (x50 stack) in use.

Alicia's Small Leather Bag Mk II x3: 0/5 tiles (x50 stack) in use.

For the smaller bags, I had to reduce the number of tiles in order to increase the stacks. I was able to also alter the bags I had crafted the other day. Now I just need more chests.

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As Naoki busily addressed their current storage issues, Alicia had gathered a handful of guards and departed the villa using the imperial carriage. The number of people observing the villa had waned, but she was still aware there were many in hiding. She directed the driver to travel to her selected destination: a high class brothel.

When they had entered the 「Dungeon Guild」, she noticed that Naoki had been staring at the animal girls which were working as servers or waitresses. After spending days searching, she had finally found an available girl which fit her parameters.

Sitting in front of Alicia was the madam of the establishment. A well aged woman, who wore a toga rather than a stola, quietly sipping on a cup of wine as she listened to Alicia's request. A girl was then brought to Alicia for inspection. About the same age as Saya and with violet and red hair, the ears atop her head and bushy tail made it obvious she was an ossian.

“Vulposs Hykin. Very rare and very expensive.” said the madam with a seductively enticing voice.

“Virgin?” asked Alicia as she glanced at the girl.

“As you requested. The price is 10.” the madam replied as she insinuated 10,000 gold aurei.

“Remove your clothes, lay on the bed and spread your legs,” Alicia instructed the girl then continued her inquiry to the madam, “and this is the only one available?”

“The only one that meets your strict specifications.” the madam said as she observed Alicia's inspection.

Alicia was thorough in her inspection of the foxgirl. She noted that the girl was so very human-like in appearance. Her skin was soft, shiny and had no hair, save for her head and tail. Her toenails and fingernails were thicker and would require proper cuttings. Her face had no whiskers, but had canines which protruded into obviously cute fangs. Her fox-like ears lay above and slightly to the side of her head, higher than those of a normal human. The girl was able to manipulate her ears freely.

Her breasts were small and, from the words of the madam, were quite normal for most ossians. Her tail connected to the coccyx above her anus and was controllable. Lastly, Alicia caressed the girl's genitals until she had reached orgasm in order to check her reactions.

“Acceptable, I want a set of clothes for the girl and a cloak to cover her as well as a grooming kit. Are there any special instructions in caring for the fur? And can she speak?” Alicia was satisfied with her inspection as she asked her final questions.

“Oil and brushing,” the madam curtly replied as she snapped her fingers at the nearby slaves to fulfill the request, “she can also speak, but restrains herself from doing so. You will barely hear a peep from her. The girl also grows body hair normally and must be addressed under Domina's discretion.”

While Alicia counted out the gold coins, the slaves returned with the items. The girl was made to redress and wear the cloak. Her ears and tail were covered and she carried the bag containing the clothing and grooming kit.

“Does she have a name?” Alicia asked.

“Sidony.” answered the madam.

“Let's go.” Alicia ordered the girl before sending farewells to the madam. They made their way to the carriage and was ordered to enter. She looked at the driver and the idling guards, “We're returning to the villa, form up and stay alert.”

Upon returning to the villa, Alicia relieved the guards and driver from duty and took the girl inside. She led her to the door of the bed room she shared with Naoki and their servants. The lights were on and there were sounds which could be heard clearly. In front of the door was a house servant patiently waiting for any orders. She saw as Alicia and the girl approached her and was ordered to remain as she was.

As quietly as possible, Alicia opened the door. Saya turned her head at the movement and saw Alicia placing a finger over her lips. Saya returned her attention back on Illyria as she bounce up and down on Naoki.

“That man is my husband and your new master,” she said to the girl as she was placed in front of the opening. Alicia then undid the girl's cloak and moved the clothing aside to expose the girl's legs. The girl's hand was then moved and placed between her legs.

“Aside from being harmed, you will accept any order my husband gives you. He says to spread your legs and you will spread your legs for him. He says to get on your knees and take him in your mouth, you take him in your mouth.” The girl moaned as she was made to masturbate while listening to Alicia's words. “Shh, I have plans for you. You will be a surprise for him, but not yet.”

They continued to watch as Illyria would frantically grind herself until she reached orgasm. Her moans echoed in the room. With unsteady legs, she removed herself from Naoki and was assisted by Saya. Semen could be seen dripping down her leg. Alicia supported the foxgirl as she had her 2nd and last orgasm for the night.

“Good girl.” Alicia whispered in her ear.

Saya and Illyria walked shakily as they had reached the door in order to leave and cleanse their bodies. Alicia pulled them aside and explained the situation and were instructed to take the girl along. They would be the girl's handlers. As they left, Alicia took the house servant and entered the bedroom.

Naoki was already asleep from the extraneous exercise. Alicia knew that unless there was danger approaching, he would not wake up.

“Use your mouth to clean him,” she instructed the servant, “and do so until he hardens.”

As minutes passed and the girl's mouth became sore, Naoki was able to become erect once more. “Good, you're dismissed.” Alicia said as she removed her clothes and mounted her husband.

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“Sister… what should we do?” Illyria nervously asked as she stared at the naked foxgirl sitting in front of them.

“I do not know, but Domina gave us instructions. W-we should fulfill them.” Saya replied, equally nervous.

Both girls tentatively approached the naked foxgirl with a bottle of shampoo, body wash and a scrubbing cloth.

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『S-Day +122』

『Dungeon Guild』

The task of modifying the bags were completed sooner than expected. Saya still had trouble learning 「Runomancy」, but was getting the basic understanding of it regardless. Once it was completed, I reorganized all the corpses and stacked them into the smaller bags. Alicia and I were now in a large room withing the 「Dungeon Guild」 so that we may offload the corpses.

“W-what is this?!” screamed the man as his gaze was set upon the mountain of my arrogance. Or achievement… whatever.

Goblins, worgs, frogs, orks, trolls and the ogres. Those were all the ones we would be selling and there were a lot of it. The cyclops I had killed was copied into Alicia's Grimoire since I did technically steal her kill.

“Yeah, so, if you could hurry up and sort through this so you can pay us, that would be great~.” I said to the stunned man. Seeing that he was unmoving, I turned to Alicia to ask her to get a dungeon pass for the maze. “I'm on a timetable, so if you could stop wasting my time, that would also be great.”

“It… it will take some time to sort through this. I will also require help in doing so.” said the man, finally not being slack-jawed.

“Fine, whatever. I will be in the dungeon somewhere and when I return, I expect everything will be sorted out. Also, I know exactly how many of which ossian there are in this pile and I’ve recorded what state each corpse is in so don't think of scamming me.” I warned the man as I turned to leave.

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『Maze VII』

When I met up with Alicia, she told me that Maze VII was the only one available aside from the higher levels. It seems that tales of our exploits have spread enough that many adventurers and soldiers have gathered and challenged the dungeon en masse. In fact, many groups have lined up just to conquer Labyrinth X. The guild is even offering 'reservation passes' to mitigate the number of demands.

The guards said nothing as we passed through the gate. We made sure the area was clear before we prepared our gear. Mazes functioned differently from Labyrinths in that monster spawns can happen randomly regardless of whether it is occupied or not. It is technically possible that there are large armies worth of ossians hiding in the lower floors.

My rifle and pistol was thoroughly cleaned. My magazines were refilled and the small bags which held it were strapped in an easily accessible position. As many defensive scrolls were crafted as possible. We carried enough food and wine for a month each. Pinkface was sitting comfy in my backpack wobbling and jiggling happily. Since it had protected me, I had been spoiling it a bit at the villa.

We developed a system where I would take point while wielding my shield and scepter and Alicia would follow up with her magic floating daggers. Unlike the labyrinths, mazes had multiple intersecting corridors. Like a spider's web tangled with another spider's web, dead ends were frequent and so were the varying types of ossians.

There were enough goblins that I would be able to finish my quest, but there were other ossians that we have not encountered before. Rat-type, goat-type, boar-type, rabbit-type, cat-type and I swear to god I saw an ostrich that managed to run away before we could kill it. Someone else managed to catch it as there were many other groups of adventurers and soldiers down here. Just like in the labyrinths, if they were to ask for help, we could offer assistance, otherwise there was a rule of non-interference so we would not bother others.

We cleared corridor after corridor and room after room as we progressed through the 1st floor. Any time we would find a safe house, we would use it to relieve ourselves and take a break. The safe rooms themselves were fairly spartan in furnishings and divided into 4 rooms which varied in size from safe room to safe room. A sleeping quarters held multiple stone platforms for beds, a latrine with showers and running water that lead… somewhere, a meeting room with stone furniture and a kitchen with also stone furniture, some were equipped with magic items.

There was a single wide gate that acted as a door that separated the safe room from the 'outside'. There were no other doors inside the safe room, however. The gate was thick and reinforced with metal.

Any time we wanted some rest or just wanted to get laid, we would just pull out a bed from my bag. If we were alone. I had no interest in letting these assholes see a naked Alicia. She is much too gorgeous to be gazed upon by the lower classes.

Not all safe rooms were safe. Some we had come across were damaged and unusable. Some which we were occupying became under siege by monsters. Many we had to ignore because it was occupied by people with avarice-filled eyes. Even if we were to kill them and take… claim their loot, it would not matter much as their items were usually garbage.

“Finally, the boss room for the 1st floor.” I said excitedly as we finally found what we were looking for. “Now all we have to do is give it the ol' kill-kill and we can go to the next- and~ there's a line. Great.” my relief was washed away at the sight of multiple groups sitting or standing by a wall.

“The chamber lord guards the treasure chest. If you want to skip it, just follow this path down.” a very helpful adventurer informed us. As a reward, I tossed him a spare ration bar.

We proceeded to the 2nd floor after activating a parchment trigger which opened a doorway. Then we proceeded to the 3rd floor. Then the 4th floor. We killed and slaughtered where ever we could and ignored occupied random treasure chests and treasure rooms. From the small treasure chests that we did come across, I kept expecting a mimic to attack us. Not being able to attack treasure chests made mimic-checks really difficult and would up my paranoia. Thankfully there were no mimics found.

The 4th floor was much larger and we started noticing that there were fewer and fewer adventurers. The more we explored, the more we became lost. We were able to breeze through the upper floors in less than a day, but we were tired now. It became a struggle looking for a safe room that was not filled with trash mobs or ruined by trash mobs. We continued clearing corridors and rooms searching for a safe room.

It took a couple hours before we were able to find a nice, clean safe room. Exhausted, we pulled out a bed and crashed.

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“Run! We have to run now!” Lavinia screamed as her party was being chased by numerous orks which were lead by an orgoss.

“But we can't just leave him!” Claritia pleaded with the party leader. “I can heal him and we can all esca-”

“Ahh!” the dying scream of an ally interrupted the girl's words. An orkish arrow piercing his back.

“Quickly, there should be a safe room nearby!” Lavinia had realized that this was an area their group had already passed through in an attempt to return to the upper floors. She glanced behind her and noticed 3 of her party members were slowing down. “You 3, drop the bags and hurry up!”

*crash*

Before the 3 adventurers were able to catch up, rocky debris crashed between the party. Of the 8 members, 5 were now lost. The remaining party were forced to continue fleeing as more orks, who were drawn to the noises, appeared from other corridors.

“It's nearby, hurry!”

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Screams and roars and rumblings. Screams and roars and rumblings. Screams and roars and-

Whatever that is, they need to shut the fuck up.

I was awoken to the noisiness of whatever was happening outside the safe room. Not that I was actually asleep. It sounded like orks, but there were shouts and screaming mixed in. I was barely able to grab a couple of seconds of sleep and now this happens. Even Alicia was forcibly awoken and looked very groggy.

Since it was orks, it should be no problem to kill them and let the slimes clean up the area. Without bothering to put any armor on, I grabbed my scepter and made my way to the gate. The noise grew louder and louder with each nearing step. The screams grew louder and louder with each nearing step. I reached the gate and opened it.

“Kami-fucking-sama, would you all shut the fuck u- oof!” as I tried to reprimand the annoying fucks, something tackled me to the ground. We, some-crazy-how, spun midair and I landed on top the unknown person as we fell into the safe room. My vigilance did not give warning which had caused this to happen for some reason. And now I was trying to figure out what my hand was squeezing… um.

Soft. Something soft like Pinkface. … … ... Oh god dammit, it's someone's breast…

“Kyaa!”

Health:

847↑/1000

Stamina:

248↓/1000

Mana:

906↓/1000

Life Force:

355↑/1000

Strength:

30 → 48

Intelligence:

36 → 42

Precision:

39 → 63

Wisdom:

38 → 44

Dexterity:

32 → 47

Willpower:

29 → 39

Endurance:

37 → 51

Perception:

45 → 68

Toughness:

32 → 43

Charisma:

33 → 36

Resistance:

30 → 33

Luck:

69 → 70

Health Recovery:

50

Stamina Recovery:

50

Mana Recovery:

50

Life Force Recovery:

50

Skill Points:

13,707 → 15,262

Stored Mana:

871,013

Status Effects:

Fatigue (Major)

Exhaustion (Minor)