Chapter 21

Note: Thanks to Alex for beta reading this!

When I woke up the next morning, it was to the spicy scent of cinnamon porridge. I was sleeping cuddled with my big sister. She was cold, but that didn’t feel all that bad. My dungeon was always at the perfect temperature for me to go around naked, so there was never getting cold.

I rose and headed to eat breakfast, thinking about the problem of helping the halflings. Halia was already at the table, smiling at me. And Fara and Kassie were there, too. I blinked at the sight of my elf. She gave me a bright smile.

“I have the calculations ready,” she said.

“And you just now are telling me?” I asked, sitting down. My mother brought out a bowl. It had slices of apples in it, too.

“Your mother refused to let me,” said Fara, glancing to my dryad.

“You needed a full night’s sleep,” Mom said, sitting down beside me.

Isatu appeared. She spent a lot of time sleeping. Kassie blinked at the sight of the dragon. In her human form, she was all red scales save the bands of yellow on her belly and tits. She was petite and adorable, her black hair flowing down her back, horns peeking through. Her yellow eyes gleamed.

“Good morning, Lord Leo,” she purred. “How many days did I sleep?”

“Three,” Garnet said. She ran up and rubbed at Isatu’s head between her horns. “There’s my cute dragon-puppy.”

“Dragon ... puppy?” Kassie asked, staring at Isatu. “Is she...?”

“A fire dragon?” I asked. I nodded. “Though she is a lazy thing.”

“Sleeping is just so much fun,” said Isatu. “Lord Leo made a pile of gold coins for me to nap on.”

“She’s so cute on them,” said Garnet. “Super adorable.”

“How goes the teleportation circle?” I asked.

“I’m making progress,” said Kassie. “I think I have it all translated. It’s very fascinating how it works. I’m hoping to start testing soon.”

I nodded, forcing myself to eat. I wanted to drive the tunnel and send the wildhounds to scout the town. Only ... I frowned. They could be seen. I didn’t want to alert Sulanga that I had infiltrated his city. I didn’t want him to be on guard. I always used my wildhounds to scout.

“What is it, honey?” Mom asked as she sat a plate with a raw slice of beef on it before Isatu. She liked her meat cooked her way. “You’re stirring your food, not eating it.”

“Just wondering if the wildhounds are the right ones to scout Sharithin,” I said, Isatu breathing fire on her steak, the meat sizzling and filling the air with a wonderful aroma.

“The puppies are amazing at it,” Garnet said.

“Yeah, but what if they’re seen?” I muttered.

“The ghosts,” said Halia. “They’re hard to see in daylight and can phase through walls.”

“See, this is why I keep you around,” I said, smiling at Halia. “Great ideas.”

She winked at me.

“I thought it was her big tits, big bro,” Garnet said, her wings fluttering.

“He likes my big boobs,” said Isatu. “And your little boobies. Lord Leo likes all boobies.” The dragon picked up her half-charred steak and bit into it, the insides still raw. She devoured it with hunger, her dragon wings fluttering behind her.

Kassie blinked as she ate her porridge. “Wow, this is an ... interesting world.”

“It’s fascinating,” Fara said, her ears twitching. “Every day, I am thrilled to be Lord Leo’s librarian. To research and record and discover.”

“And to cum on his cock,” said Garnet. “Fara loves his dick, Kassie. She squeals on my big brother’s cock. It’s so delicious.”

“I see,” Kassie said, looking a little uncomfortable.

“She’s no part of the harem, Garnet,” I said. “Cool it with the sex talk.”

“I’m a succubus, big bro,” she said, winking at me. “I don’t think I can. It’s like programmed into me. I have to be like this.”

“No, you choose to be like this,” I told her. “You’re free to be that wicked, little slut you were hiding beneath all those adorable pigtails. When the real you start dating, you’re going to make Mom go gray.”

“How can I start dating when I love you, big bro?” She smiled at me. “Even in that world.”

“You’re going to have to grow out of that infatuation,” I told her. “It sounds like Maya and I are dating. It’ll suck for the real Garnet.”

“Yep,” said Garnet. “But lucky for me, I’m the part of her that’s here having fun!”

“This is all so strange,” Kassie said.

“And fascinating,” said Fara. “They have many different stars. Sports stars. TV stars. Movie stars. Porn stars. Rock stars.”

“Coffee stars,” said Garnet.

“Don’t make up stuff to mess with Fara,” I said. “She’s trying to research our world. She has books to write.”

“Oh, no coffee stars?” Fara’s ears fell. “Coffee is such an interesting word. What is it?”

“Only the nectar of the gods that I miss so much,” groaned Terra as she sauntered in from the bedroom. “I loved the stuff. I was a barista. It was my job to prepare the coffee and serve it to horny guys who stared at my tits. Like Leo.”

“So you were like a priestess of the coffee,” Fara said. “Fascinating.”

“Yep, something like that,” Terra said. “I’m going to go spar with Smerta. I want to be ready for this fight with Sulanga.”

I nodded. “Where’s Ms. Trueno.”

“I think she’s fucking her way through the monster girls,” said Nina. She was lying on the couch. “She told me she wanted to try them all. I think she might have been a repressed, Catholic girl too ashamed to really get wild. Dressing slutty probably was as far as she could go. Something harmless. But now ... I imagine the arachnes have her bound up. They’re probably doing all sorts of naughty thighs to her.”

I nodded and finished my breakfast while Terra, Maya, Crystal, Morana, Hagane, and Mrs. Lucina left to have training with Smerta. Halia quickly finished and headed off to continue training the recruits. They wouldn’t be used on this mission.

They were nowhere near ready to take on a dungeon builder of Sulanga’s prowess. I wished I could get some priests, but if there were wizards who could use Life magic, then I bet they could use the healing spells that I knew.

Kassie left to do her research and Fara fetched her notes.

“Get some sleep,” I told her. “You look like you were up all night.”

“Thank you, Lord Leo,” she said. “If you have any questions, or if there are any problems, wake me.”

“I will.”

Mother collected the bowls. I rose. Garnet did, too. She took Isatu’s hand and followed after me. I smiled at the two petite monster girls. They both had red, leathery wings, though Isatu’s was a far brighter hue. A fiery red as opposed to a sultry crimson.

I created a lectern by the void crystal and spread the notes and maps on it. I studied them. Sharithin lay on the other side of the Low Carianith Mountains that my dungeon was in. They were in the same valley we had to cross to reach the dwarves and the Twins’ dungeons, which lay in the next ridge of mountains, the Vorianil. But the city was to the southeast and much farther away than any place I had driven my tunnels.

But killing Dark Saint Anguin had swelled my total reserves of mana. I couldn’t do more powerful things with it, but I could do more things with it.

From the entrance hall, I drove the tunnel to the southeast, following Fara’s detailed notes. I plowed through the mountains then sloped it down at a gentle grade to be low enough to cross the fertile valley. I extended it further and further, burning through the capacity. It took mana to maintain everything I made from monster girls to furniture to the dungeon itself.

Finally, I should be below the halfling city.

“Duhot, I’m moving you and your sisters to the end of a tunnel. If you rise up, you should come out in the halfling city. Or close to it. I want you to scout it out in detail and figure out exactly where my dungeon is. I want to know where monster girls are and where we can bring up the dungeon exits for the other monster girls.

“We will not fail you, Dark One,” Duhot said in her mournful voice.

“I know you won’t,” I said and found the five ghosts. I moved Duhot, Dusata, Grobi, Ipalsi, and Nevidena to the end of the tunnel. I released my Void Crystal and turned to find my sister rubbing at Isatu’s pussy.

I arched an eyebrow at that.

“Just petting the dragon-puppy,” cooed Garnet, her crimson tail swishing behind her. It was narrow and ended in a spade-like tip. “She’s been napping for a few days. We should make sure she’s healthy. I’ll lick her pussy, if you take her asshole, big bro.”

I shook my head at my little sister. She would never change. The ghosts would need some time to scout the enemy. This would take my mind off waiting for the ghosts to report back.

“Fine, fine,” I said, shaking my head. “You’re a naughty thing.”

She grinned at me. “So naughty.”

“Will you like my butt, Lord Leo?” Isatu purred. “I haven’t had a good orgasm in forever!”

“Because you’ve been a sleepy dragon,” I said and fell to my knees. “Okay, turn around and thrust that ass out at me.”

“Mmm, thank you, Lord Leo!” My dragon turned around. The daughter of the first dungeon builder, which made her the granddaughter of Queen Puabi the Incarnation. That made me blink for a moment.

I hope you’re cool with the things I do to your granddaughter, I prayed to the entity that brought me here.

I wasn’t about to stop, though. Isatu was my adorable dragon.

I grabbed her butt-cheeks and parted her red-scaled rump. Her asshole appeared. Her wings fluttered over my head as I leaned forward. I pressed my face into her crack. I savored their hard, pebbly texture. Then I kissed right at her sphincter.