Chapter 2

We had been in Twilight for a few days now and it wasn’t a bad little town. The dungeon wasn’t crowded like the one we started in and the processing was a lot friendlier. With a lower level of visitors the frequency of finding a monster was much higher though the drops not any better. We ran into lesser treants, which were basically mobile trees. They weren’t very fast, but getting hit by one hurt like hell all the same. Silver used her blade to block and chop like a lumberjack so she made short work of these guys.

The dungeon had thirty levels and going to level ten only took us two weeks, but after that things got complicated. The number of monsters grew and didn’t stop. When I saw Jewel flying through the air I knew we had hit our limit. After healing her we headed to the surface and sat in our room as I tried to figure out what to do. “Master it’s clear, we need another member for our team.” was Jewel’s solution. I looked over and saw Silver nodding in agreement. “Dungeons often double in difficulty every ten levels. A new fighter would be the perfect solution.” I shrugged and figured we could afford a good fighter so the next day I asked about a slave market in town. All I got in return was comments saying this town was far too small to support such a thing.

This meant only one thing, we were going to have to return to Kratar. I had no idea how far I could travel with portal so I decided to make a quick trip to the town with the bugs. I opened a gate and when we all stepped through we were in our room and I knew we had something possible after all. I opened another gate and we stepped out in Grendel’s forge. There was a scream and when I looked around I saw the old dwarf on his butt glaring at me. “By Zendar’s scabby cock what the hell are you doing scaring the shit out me like that you damn fool? Throw a note or something through before going in so you don’t get yourself killed next time damn it all.” The girls followed and ran over to help the old man off the floor.

“Sorry there Grendel, this kind of travel is new to me and I didn’t know there were rules.” He patted the girl’s hands and smiled at them. Then he started glaring at me again. “Well what the hell do you want and how did you find out my Dwarvish name?” We told him about the younger Dwarf and how he knew the old man’s work on sight. “Ah Freming, that little punk used to be an assistant who struck out on his own after only working for me for eighty years.” We told him what we had been up to and why we came back. “Yep, that is a very common expense for slave parties. Of course it’s safer than getting some new person you don’t know to fill a needed spot. You never know when they might poison your water and leave you to die for a fancy sword.” He gave us permission to use his forge as a transfer point, but I had to alert him that we were coming through from now on.

We left his shop and headed to the slave market. I worried the girls might have issues but they seemed to be doing just fine. I found the dealer we had met before and he was happy to see us. He took one look at Silver and smiled. “I’m glad to see you finally found a master that could understand you.” And he even bowed his head to her which caused her to smile a little. “So I take it you are here looking for a new slave to join your party?” I nodded and he looked at the girls. “If I may ask, what weapons do you two use.” They told him and he nodded. “Well then you are either looking for ranged or melee. I don’t have a ranged that would fit your group, but I do have two melee fighters you can look at.” We agreed and he left for a little while. He walked back in guiding two young looking rabbit girls.

“Now these two are sisters that trained their whole lives together. I hate to split them up because they complement each other’s style, but I can if you can only afford one.” Jewel did her evaluation from a distance while Silver walked over and looked them over and even touched their arms and backs. Silver stood up and looked at me. “This one has a fouled rib on her left side. It was broken a while ago and healed wrong. You can see how she stands it impairs her skill.” I looked at Jewel. “The other has a bad leg.” They then walked over to me and seemed to be in a bit of a huff.

The dealer sighed. “Yes, I was hoping to find someone who might be able to help them. The prostitution houses will give me a good price, but after you did so well with your wolf I thought I’d give you a chance.” I saw Silvers tail twitch and I knew she was planning something. “Well they aren’t great fighters, but two whores might be nice.” She said before looking at Jewel. “It would be nice to have someone for master to have fun with around.” The two bunnies seemed worried about that.

“So how much for two whores?” Jewel asked and the dealer smiled. “Well for two fighters I would have asked two thousand each, but as prostitutes, three thousand for the pair.” I nodded and we slapped palms to finalize it. After handing out the gold the two girls were given my mark. As we were leaving the dealer looked at me. “If you end up needing some fighters feel free to come back any time to see what I have in stock.” I nodded and then we left and headed to Grendel’s for the trip home. We got to his place and he took one look at the girls and then at me. “What the hell are these two supposed to be? Bed warmers?” I shook my head. “That’s what I was wondering about but when my women make a deal I don’t fight it.”

Jewel looked at the two of them and smiled. “You’re both kick boxers aren’t you?” They nodded while not understanding what was going on. Silver had to bend over a little to look in their eyes. She took their hands and looked close at them. “You both like heavy gauntlets as well.” The new girls only nodded. They all looked at me and I shrugged. “So old man, do you have something that will work on two growing girls like these two?” He came back with almost matching sets of small gauntlets for the girls to try on. They headed over to the dummy and, when they unleashed, it was impressive. The two were like acrobats, but every punch was powerful. They worked in tandem and it was quite the sight to see. The old man called them over, went to his bench to do some work and we all waited for him.

“Here you go, these should fit a lot better.” The girls put them on, slammed fists with each other and nodded. “So how much do I owe you for that?” I asked and he glared at me. “I’m still paying you back for your ideas, though after that scare I may shave off some. Just take these and let’s find them some armor.” Well in an hour we had two well-dressed fighters and they both seemed a lot happier to be back in some kind of form. We bid the old man good bye and headed home. We did it in steps since I still wasn’t sure about my skill and when we stepped into our room I felt very tired.

The bunny girls knelt at the foot of the bed, and out of the way, while my girls supported me to the bed and gave me a few mana beads to bolster my reserves. Silver looked at the girls with a gentle smile. “Don’t worry you now have a very kind master.” Jewel looked at them and smiled. “Have you been given names?” They both shook their heads. Then I noticed something odd. Rather than identical twins, they looked more like mirror images of each other. “Then from now on the girl with the small mole on her nose is Yin and the other is Yang.” The two girls smiled at this and looked at each other. “Ok, now I want Yin to come up here and lay next to me. The girl hopped, and I do mean hopped, in bed next to me. This was the one with the broken rib so I had her lay on her good side.

I pulled myself close to her, put my hand right over the old injury, and began to use my higher level healing spell. The cute little thing gave a small cry as things grew back into place and in doing so pulled at the muscles and tissues that had grown around the injury. I could feel her body shake and her long legs seemed to vibrate as she endured the treatment. The hardest part though was the whimpering her sister was doing as she watched her sister “suffer” under my hands. “Calm down little Yang, master would never injure one of his women. When he is done you will see what a kind and loving master now owns you.” A part of my heart still hated knowing I owned these girls.

When the light died off Yin just laid there panting and I looked at her sister. “It will take a little while for her to be fully healed. Her injury was old and undoing the damage meant fixing more than just her rib.” Yang looked at me in surprise. I rolled over and patted the bed on that side. “Ready to have your leg fixed?” Her long ears danced as she nodded frantically. “Then come over here.” She scrambled up next to me and buried her face in my chest. “You’re going to have to move up higher, I can’t reach your knee.” She wiggled up and that put her face a little higher than mine.

I closed my eyes and as the magic started to penetrate the injury her arms wrapped around my neck and held onto me. I pulled her leg up a little and felt the magic spreading past the actual injury and move out to heal damage caused by years of compensating for the injury. Her whole body was trembling as this happened and as the muscles were healed her body twisted. “Silver, is this making you as hot as it does me?” Jewel whispered. I head a few deep pants. “I am soaking through my pants watching master bring out such deep reactions in these girls.” What kind of horny women have I created with these girls? As the magic faded away Yang suddenly pulled my chin up and her small mouth attacked mine. I felt her tongue searching out mine and I had to exert massive will to slow her down.

I pulled back my head and her soft green eyes were filled with very complex emotions. “Didn’t master buy us for this?” I shook my head. “No, I took you in because my family needs you and your sister’s skills.” She nodded but her desire hadn’t gone down a bit. “For healing our bodies so well my sister and I will be happy to use them in any way you want.” I heard a whimper that was very familiar and looked over to see both my girls with their hands in their crotches. For some reason that really killed any kind of sexual mood that was existing and I pulled her hand from my face.

“Yang, you and your sister are great fighters and my family, my two other slaves, will help you to be even better. We are dungeon divers and from this day on you two will be a part of this family. Do you understand?” She nodded and I saw her cooling off. “Yes master. You need us to fight in the dungeons for you.” I rolled my eyes and then looked into hers. “No we need you and your sister to fight along side us, to become a part of our family.” I felt movement behind me so I rolled onto my back and Yin was sitting up. “We don’t understand. Are we combat slaves or sex slaves?” Ok that explained where they were coming from.

“Girls while you are legally my slaves, I will not treat you as slaves.” They really got confused now. Jewel and Silver split up and sat behind each of the bunnies. “Your master is not like other humans. He has great powers and great skills.” Silver told them. “He also has a heart that is unlike any you have ever known. He doesn’t see any of us as slaves or even demis, he sees us all as his family.” Jewel added. I reached out and took the hands of both girls. “Yin, Yang, you now have two big sisters to help you through life.”

The young women turned to look at the loving smiles their new sisters were giving them and then curled up with them and began crying. My two ladies held them like children and stroked their heads just like I did to them once upon a time. The rest of the day turned into a family cuddle session with Jewel and Silver telling the two new sisters all about the man who rescued them from slavery and formed our family. Then they talked about the battles we had been in, the dungeons we explored, and love we all shared. Somewhere about the middle of this conversation our new little sisters reached out and took my hand in theirs.

“So master is a mage?” Yin asked. “Or is he a healer?” Yang asked. Jewel sighed. “Master is Master and that is all we have to say. What he can do is masters business and no others.” The girls nodded their heads. I reached out and both girls became part of our party. Silver showed a very gentle side with these two. “Girls, we are forbidden to speak of master to others. We don’t even speak of it to each other very often because someone may be listening.” They both nodded and smiled at me. “Unlike other people Master loves and cares for us like family. We don’t know what it is to be hungry anymore. We have the best of clothing, and our armor and weapons are one of a kind. He heals our wounds, and our hearts.”

The two girls suddenly hopped up, stood in the middle of the room and then did a high kick that put the bottoms of their feet together. They looked at me from between their spread legs and smiled at me. “We used to do this as children but since our injuries we haven’t been able to. Thanks to master we are sisters again.” Then I saw two blonde colored tails wiggle at me and my heart skipped a beat. Just like with my first two loves I was going to do my best to make those tails twitch like that for the rest of their lives.

I had the girls go out the window before going downstairs to tell them I had two new slaves sent to me so I would need to pay for them and their meals. Then I left, met up with the girls, and we headed off to buy them new clothes. I also pulled a set of matching rings out of my box and turned them into storage rings. Their reactions to having and using magic were as expected and they looked at me just like the other two usually did. Once the two girls had picked out matching shirt and short sets we headed to the guild to get them registered, get dungeon cores for them, and head inside.

We spent the rest of the day following those two around as they took down monster after monster to raise their levels. Watching those two in action was breath taking as they seemed to dodge every strike, and coordinate their attacks. Those rather thick thighs were actually padded muscles that allowed them to launch deadly kicks and even fly off walls. They had the training and ability to go deeper, but they also needed to relearn their bodies now that their old injuries were a thing of the past.

That night I crawled into bed and all four girls came out of the bathroom dressed in long tunics. “Master our little sisters hope that tonight you will show them just how different a man you are from those that they have known before.” They slowly walked to the side of the bed and slid into bed with me. My older girls stood by the side of the bed and looked on at as their little sisters really joined the family. In the end all my girls felt satisfied and had fallen asleep to my absolute joy.

For the rest of the week we watched the bunnies gain in experience and power. With my slave boost and my party boosts the girls were developing at an incredible rate. I did have to do some first aid now and then as they adjusted to their bodies and power, but overall they were doing great. When I took them to see Freming for the first time he knew who had made their weapons, but shook his head. “These are great gauntlets mind you, but they are not made for these girls. He pointed out how they were worn in places and even dented.

“See how the girls use roundhouse and back hand strikes? Being smaller they use the wind up for the real damage dealers. Heavy plates should be mounted, or even heavy spikes.” I had an idea and drew it out on the floor. “Interesting design, rather than a spike that can catch on things, these are pointed studs like on boots.” I nodded. “Make them a little larger and they will focus the power of the hit in a tiny area.” He nodded along. Then I took a large boot. “Now make some steel caps that cover the toe and heel of their boots. That way their toes are protected for kicks and the heel is protected for spinning kicks.” I then explained it to him just like the videos I watched on the net when I was bored did. “So we make a soft inner lining with a hard outer lining for boots and shoes? That alone is amazing. Adding a layer of steel between the two would make dungeon diving much safer.”

As he and I knelt on the floor drawing things out all my girls stood over us watching and smiling. “I told you our master is the master.” Silver said to the bunnies who nodded and looked on as I designed a form of foot armor just for them. Then I felt small hands stroking my neck and shoulders as they listened. They now understood even more that I held nothing back for them and their safety. The dwarf then looked at them standing over me and smiled. “Do you girls understand this?” He pointed to the mess on the floor. “Your master is giving me knowledge that doesn’t exist yet. He is showing me something to improve your lives, but also something that I can use for my own to sell and make money. Have you heard him ask for a single silver for this?” The two girls shook their head. “Now my honor says that I will pay him for this, but he didn’t ask before showing me a way to help you two. You mean more to him that gold.”

Well two girls fell on me and wrapped me up in their arms. I reached back and stroked their heads and kissed their cheeks. “Freming, you do understand. For my girls nothing is more important than their safety.” He nodded and then smiled. “For this new idea, what say I make these girls some new gauntlets from Dwarven steel? It’s lighter so it may not hit as hard, but it will take a lot more abuse. Find someone to add toughness to them and they will still be good enough for their great grandchildren will use them.” For some reason the girls ears laid back. He looked at them and then me. “You are taking them to Dargon with you aren’t you?” I nodded and then realized I hadn’t told them that.

“Master will be taking us where slaves walk free?” The two asked and I shook my head. “No I will be taking you somewhere you will no longer be slaves, even to me.” Their ears did a rather strange dance. “What if we want to stay with master?” I chuckled. “Well we are a family aren’t we?” They nodded and then my words actually sunk in. They may have slave marks but they were not slaves in my eyes. When we get to Dargon, nothing will change except that they can walk away if they want. “Ah see that Sam? They just realized their hearts are marked far deeper than any slave mark.” The two girls buried their faces against my neck and the old man laughed as he took the girls old gauntlets to the back.

For the next couple of days we switched places. Yin and Yang stayed in the rear watching while the three of us took on levels nine and ten. They watched carefully as Jewel and Silver showed off their skills over and over and I could tell they were thinking about how we would be able to work as a single unit. Then I pulled them all back and began to rain absolute hell on anything I could find. By ranking up in the wind and water skills I had graduated from fireball to fire lance and the damage was far greater than ever before. Fire storm went from sparks to mini fireballs. The water ball developed into ice lance. Water wall became Ice wall. Mud floor became quicksand. I was becoming a magic monster in my opinion.

After the bug event I started feeding points into my stats that controlled magic. This not only worked on my elemental stuff but also my enchantment skills and all the others. When I made Yin and Yang’s rings they were almost twice the size of the other storage rings I had. My cleric abilities seemed to take a good jump too. I had to wonder about some of my skills, but I hadn’t had a lot of time to think about much with four girls always looking to me for direction.

Yin and Yang were always so excited to see Jewel and Silver in action. The four talked about ways to work together and ask each other how to do this or that. When we went back to the inn I did something I hadn’t before. I gave them each a few gold and asked them to go have fun together. I had seen other slaves out and about without an owner and so I told them to take some cash and go have some fun without me. “But how can there be any fun without master?” the sisters said in harmony. “Girls I need some time to meditate alone. Something has been bothering me and so I would like you all to go out, talk, eat, go see if there is any clothes you would like to have. Enjoy your time as a family.”

They all left with some rather determined looks and I went to the room and sat down. With a little peace and quiet I opened up my stats page and looked at what was going on with me. I had ten points in the bank and I wondered if they could be used on my abilities. I tapped on learning curve and it just said that I would adapt to new skills five times faster. That was good enough for me since I was currently unlocking all kinds of things with a single touch. Maybe it means that I can use them faster?

XP bonus was self-explanatory but I tapped it and tried for the first time for an increase. Yep, in the explanation there was a little plus mark and when I tapped it it went to six times normal. That could get too broken too fast if I wasn’t careful.

Party bonus would mean the girls would level faster and so I tapped that three times to bring it to almost equal to mine as long as we were in a party. I wanted the girls to get the most out of the dungeons so that if, or when, they left me they would be the best they could be.

I had never looked at slave control because I didn’t like the idea of controlling the girls. I wanted them to follow me of their own free will. When I opened it up I suddenly felt like a complete idiot. This allowed me to look into their stats and abilities as if they were my own. I found they were all listed and they had all collected a nice pile of points since I made them my slaves.

I went through each girl’s stats and shifted points here and there so that each of them would gradually find themselves stronger and more powerful. I found that each girl also had racial traits I could boost and so I felt a little bad making these calls on my own, but I did. I stayed away from Silvers leader of the pack skill, while upping Jewels Leader of the Pride skill. The girls already saw her as the alpha, but it seemed this would boost her stats that would help her abilities in observation, analyzing situations, and adaptation. Yin and Yang were new so I could only enhance their body enhancement skills.

I was wondering what else to do when the door burst open and all four girls were looking at me in a bit of a panic. “What’s wrong girls?” I called out as they looked around our room in a bit of a panic. “Master we were sitting downstairs when all of us started having strange feelings. Like something was wrong with us and then we thought maybe there was some strange magic going on so we came to see if you were alright.” Then I saw it. Jewel was closest to me, Silver was backing her up, and the twins were guarding the open doorway. Jewel was now the natural leader of her pride.

“Girls please come over here and sit with me. We have some things to talk about.” The door closed and then they all piled into our bed around me. I began to give them an easily digestible explanation to what had occurred, and why. I told them I had been tapping into a magic I had that would allow me to use some of my life energy to increase their abilities and their bodies. This got a lot of frowns. “Master cannot be sacrificing his energy for us.” I pulled Yin to me and gave her a kiss. “Girls I am fine and this isn’t a cost to my life. By increasing your talents and abilities it means we will all live longer and have a better ability to survive any challenge.”

First I showed the twins the hand accuracy game of peas portage. Once they got the hang of it they giggled a lot. “Now that you have it learned, try going faster.” They started again and little by little they got faster and faster till even Silver’s mouth dropped open. Then suddenly they stopped crying “Ow, ow, ow.” Their palms were red and then they realized just how fast their hands were going. Jewel looked at me and I rolled my eyes. I have a better way to do this. We all got off the bed and I opened a portal. We went through it and we found ourselves in the local dungeon.

“Master, are we where I think we are?” I nodded and Jewel smiled wide at me. “Master do you understand what this means? We don’t have to give anything up to the guild if we come and go through your portal.” I slapped my forehead at my lack of foresight. Unlimited access to the dungeon and its treasures meant we could mine these places and keep everything for ourselves from now on. “Jewel, it looks like one of the things I blessed you with is working.” She looked at me and then realized she had never thought of it before either.

I began to show the girls how I had helped them and they were going crazy with it. Now all four girls were doing parkour all over the tunnels and screaming like children doing it. Their ability to dodge and move faster had them literally racing along on the walls of the hall we were on. They wanted their weapons but I held firm. “Not right now. You are all too excited and too new to these skills. Not to mention we ought to drop over to Freming’s shop and see what he has for the twins.”

After a bout of pouts and kisses we walked back into our room and then headed over to see our local blacksmith. We walked in and since he had a smile we figured there was good news. “Well I made a contract of patent with a shoe maker and now you all get a pair of these.” He reached into a bag he had and set up five pairs of boots. We all picked up the ones we figured were ours and switched to the new ones. They all had smiles as they bounced in place at the new feel and even the dwarf was smiling since there were four rather busty girls bouncing in front of him.

“Alright you four, come out back and let’s see if your masters idea works for you.” Freming put a board in a brace and pointed to one of the twins. “Now you, see what you can do to this with a back kick.” With that Yin spun around and when she hit the board it shattered. “Well that answers that question.” He then grabbed another board and asked Yang for a front kick and got the same results. “Ladies, your feet are now true weapons.” He took a hammer, dropped it on his own toes, and watched it bounce off. “These are handy for heavy work as well, no more smashed toes.”

The gauntlets were still in the making so they all asked for him to adjust their armor. When he asked why they showed off a little and he nodded the whole time. “Looks like you girls all leveled up recently. I am greatly impressed.” After an hour of sitting and talking, all the work was done and he seemed quite happy. Then I had an idea.

“Freming, do you ever buy enchanted items from a dungeon?” He nodded and then showed me into his office and then into his safe room. “I don’t get many thanks to those greedy bastards, but some do come out of the wilds now and then. These are all I have.” I touched each one and discovered a shield ability and a high level strengthening spell. “So would you buy more if you had a source?” A smile spread across his face. “Now how in the world could that happen? People are searched going in and out and can only leave with items already logged.” He leaned against the wall as his smile grew. “That means anything I happen to buy would have to be legal since it’s impossible to smuggle anything out.” I nodded.

He looked around the safe. “I think I would be able to give any adventurer a good price for anything he may have found in a wild or unmanaged dungeon.” I cleared my throat. “Are you looking for anything in particular?” this made him squint at me. “At the moment no, but I could make a short list of enchanted items I could use. After all we only have one enchanter and he’s already overworked.” He looked around at the shop and then looked out to the forge. He then sighed and looked at me. “Since it’s only you and me I will come out and say it. I need tools that are enchanted because the ones I have are wearing out. The price for hardening a hammer is the same as a sword and that is too much for a simple smith to pay. Only those who make deals with enchanters get to have things like that. If you can help me out, I will stand by you.”

Well how can a man say no to that kind of an offer? He went to get the tools he needed enchanted and told me the enchantments he needed on them. As he handed them to me I enchanted them and his eyes bugged out of his head. “No wonder that old man treated you so good. With a skill like that the nobles would take you away and drain you dry.” He looked at the hammer I had just worked on. “You put on a medium level enchantment?” I nodded and he almost fainted. “This would have cost me half my shop alone. I’m not sure I could pay you enough for what you are doing for me.”

We went back to the inn after that and just relaxed around the room. We had decided to let the twins dive with their old equipment we got back from Freming in the morning so that left us the rest of the day for the girls to relax, but of course they couldn’t. They all sat together and talked about diving tactics and possible new way to interact in battles. As I watched I noticed they all let Jewel lead. That night we also learned that the changes were having an effect in bed as well as the in the dungeon.

Right after breakfast the next morning I opened a portal and we came out on the eighth floor. It was deeper than the twins had been, but because they wouldn’t be acting on their own we wanted to see how we worked together as a team. We made sure to hit each and every hidden room we had seen before now and all of them had new goodies for us to collect. When it came to fighting Jewel and Silver held back a little in order to better incorporate the twins and it was working great.