Kyeeek!

A camel monster blocks my path. I swung my fist and smashed the camel monster's head into the wall.

Thud, thud thud!

A gargoyle spread its wings and flew out from the side passage. As it tried to swing claws, I swung my leg and kicked it, splitting it in half.

Keeek!

Goblins got scared at my charge and ran away. I trampled and burst the backs of bastards hindering my advance and moved forward.

Lune, did Lune escape properly? What if there's a strong monster in front of the portal causing delays? I was anxious but calmly eliminated Gremory's subordinates rushing at me one or two at a time and advanced.

And at the end of the long passage.

Beyond a field of corpses riddled with arrow holes, the sparkling portal came into view.

"Uaaaah!!"

I ran at full speed toward the portal. The last remaining camel monster reached out to grab my ankle, and I barely shook it off by throwing the stalactite from my shoulder at the camel monster's arm joint.

Crash!

I rolled out through the portal. Rainbow light wrapped around me and my consciousness became hazy, and I rolled forward then stopped caught on something.

"It's a familiar ceiling."

Really fortunately, I arrived at my dungeon's passage. It was the moment all tension in my body released.

"Master!!"

Lune was tearfully above my face. I struggled but sat up and caught my breath. Fatigue from invasion and escape remained, but my heart was light with relief at escaping the enemy dungeon.

"Father."

"...Yeah."

Arthur supported me, and I grabbed Arthur's hand and stood up. Arthur alone was struggling, so ultimately only after Lune and Lime all rushed over could I stand and lean against the wall.

"...Sorry for being heavy."

Since everyone looked strained, I apologized first. I wasn't heavy on purpose, but seeing the three's struggling faces, I felt morally sorry.

"Dad, go rest. We'll block them now."

Meri brought me water in a wooden cup.

Though ordinary cold water, it was as sweet as Lune's honey. My body burning with fever cooled a bit, and I exhaled deeply and pointed at the portal with my chin.

"Can't go yet. It's not completely over, so we need to focus."

"But your wound."

"The wound will heal quickly. Meri, do you know healing magic?"

"Yes. I'll use it right away."

Meri aimed her staff at my shoulder and raised mana. From the staff tip glowing pink, light powder flowed and settled on my shoulder wound.

"The wound's a bit deep."

"Apply some healing and spit, and it'll be fine. Before, even worse wounds healed after sleeping one night."

"But!"

"But nothing. Meri, the war's not over yet. The opening battle just ended. Can't let our guard down."

Words for subordinates and simultaneously for myself.

We completed reconnaissance, we didn't win the war. But since assessing enemy forces was complete, this war would soon become our victory. I fastened my robe and checked my subordinates.

"Nothing happened in a day?"

"No. We caught everyone who came in. We captured female adventurers as prisoners, but they're all refusing to enter Ras Village. Male adventurers all resisted so Hases handled them."

"That's fine. Good if everyone's safe. Female prisoners.... There's a way, so don't worry."

If dungeon masters learned from each other and increased forces, I learned something good from Gremory's dungeon.

Professional spawning ground.

I just thought of a chicken coop using Harpies and stud hunters, never thought of making a professional spawning ground using a tentacle monster.

'It'd be nice to have such a subordinate, but for now we need to win the war.'

And now it's time to overcome that adversity. I pointed beyond the portal now passable in both directions.

"Alright! Now it's our turn to attack!"

"...Yes!"

At my declaration, all subordinates raised weapons. They were enraged like they'd rush beyond the portal any moment to make Gremory kneel.

"Wait!!!"

I panicked and calmed everyone.

"...Starting tomorrow! We'll attack tomorrow!"

"What?"

"We're not going right away?!"

"Uh, no."

A person needs rest after being in enemy territory for a day, right?

"Father, what if Gremory attacks in reverse?"

"Then we respond of course. Lune, Lime. No injuries? Then you two become the core and respond. It'll be easy to handle unless Gremory's main body or avatar comes over."

And whether main body or avatar, they're definitely out of their minds from the tentacle monster. Whatever kind of monster it was, probably just one that makes them lay eggs in their belly.

'Too bad I didn't see directly.'

How Gremory would escape from the tentacle monster could be learned after catching her later. For now, I had no intention of counterattacking Gremory's dungeon, so now the choice was Gremory's.

Whether to attack again. Or defend the base.

Whether implicit truce or continued battle depended on Gremory's choice, but I welcomed either.

If enemies come over, respond; if not, rest.

"Master, when are we going to attack?"

"Tomorrow. The moment Andras awakens."

"Andras? Are you deliberately waiting a day to bring her?"

"No."

I corrected my subordinates' misunderstanding.

"Even so, isn't this a situation requiring full force? Tomorrow, after Andras is born, we enhance everything we can enhance and go in."

So until then, standby. I rested in the passage again and waited for Gremory's choice.

***

"Ah, Scar Theology went to Gremory's side...."

The succubus watching the seizure battle grimaced and shook her head. Though she managed and dispatched them, the intestinal manager tentacle monster [Scar Theology] was one of the beasts causing revulsion in many ways.

"If he wasn't the Demon King's direct lineage, someone would've definitely killed him."

The succubus couldn't understand. No matter how much she thought, she couldn't understand why such a vile, filthy bastard was a '1st generation' beast born directly from the Demon King's seed.

'I'm glad I was born a succubus.'

The succubus hugged herself and nodded.

"What are you praising yourself about?"

"E...Ms. Estu?"

Beside the succubus appeared a woman in black suit attire, Estu. She looked at the war situation the succubus was spying on through crystal and grimaced.

"That thing really...ugh, so filthy."

"You shouldn't say such things, Ms. Estu."

"Even though I painfully birthed that egg, filthy is filthy."

The succubus had much to say but held back. Estu put her arm around the succubus's shoulders and pointed at the battlefield.

"Hey, who do you think will win?"

"Won't Gremory win? She's a renowned elementalist anyway."

"Really? Then I'll pick...this orc."

The succubus tilted her head.

"Even excluding Gremory, the force ratio is only 2:8?"

"It's fine. Wanna bet? If you win...I'll lend you the Demon King's bed for one day."

"Really?! Ahem, finally I'm receiving the Demon King's grace too. Hoho."

The succubus smiled drowsily and swelled with dreams. Estu poked the succubus's cheek with her finger and mocked the succubus.

"What if you lose the bet?"

"Aw, would I really lose?"

"If you lose...hmm...."

Estu pointed at the pig orc waiting in front of the portal beyond the crystal.

"You work crushed under him?"

"This bi...."

The succubus failed to manage her expression.

***

Time came.

Gremory only sent a few scout goblins and didn't send main forces. Maybe shocked from having her avatar violated by me, she didn't send her avatar either.

Ultimately we spent very comfortable yet tense time. We spent time anxiously fretting about when enemies would appear.

And that time also ended.

We welcomed a new comrade.

[Notice: Monster synthesis has been completed.]

[Synthesis Target: (Andras) ★★★★★]

The cocoon opened, and a woman wearing wing dress like a black dress opened her eyes.

Gentle appearance with slightly drooping eye corners. Overall merged as the word synthesis meant, yet that face resembled the Harpy who was the center.

The first female-type beast I summoned after Hases.

[Andras: ★★★★★]

Level: 24 / 100

Species: Andras

Age: 32 years

Gender: Female

Rank: N++++

Birth: Grimfang's Dungeon

Affiliation: Grimfang's Dungeon

Occupation: Progenitor Andras

Harpy was reborn as the pinnacle of the Andras species.

"...It was really a long time, Master."

The Harpy who opened the shell and arose, the woman who should now be called Andras, placed her hand on her chest and gently greeted. Except for sharp nails, she looked more human than the Andras I killed.

"You waited a lot?"

"Yeah. Never imagined it'd take 7 days."

"Hehe, of course, is being reborn as 5-star an easy task? But thanks to you, I could be newly born. Thank you so much."

Andras knelt before me and bowed her head.

Though speech was still informal, that action was like a knight receiving a title. As the Harpy born in Solomon's dungeon was reincarnated as a new being in our dungeon, loyalty to me became stronger than before.

The more they were newly born through my merit, the more subordinates became wholly mine.

"Stand."

"Yeah, Master. What should I do? Want to do it here to celebrate evolution? Other kids can watch. Hehe."

"We're at war now."

"...War? What are you talking about?"

I briefly conveyed the situation.

"We need to attack something called Gremory now. You...it'd be awkward to fight at the very front."

Though she became 5-star, the level itself was extremely low. A subtle number like summing four people's levels and averaging. A level too difficult to face 3-humped camel monsters.

"You're on the second team."

"Second team?"

"Yeah. Means not vanguard."

I pointed at subordinates behind me. I already organized subordinates into 3 large squads, and those among them capable of evolution were all lined up waiting.

"So guys! Don't cut in line, wait! I'll do you all one by one!"

7 days of sub-dungeon grinding, adventurers invading through the front, and battles with Gremory dungeon's subordinates were sufficient to make subordinates elite soldiers.

And among them were bastards who could evolve to the next stage.

"You go up on the summoning circle! Next person standby! Cross the line and evolution gets delayed to very last!"

I repeatedly hit the evolution button mechanically like stamping a factory press machine.

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tak.

White light continuously flashed on the summoning circle.

***

Gremory, who barely saved her avatar from the tentacle monster while fallen to climax, or actually killed her avatar, reorganized her battle lines.

"Damn, if I'd known this would happen, I should've pulled some banshees...."

Information about enemy force composition was extremely limited. And during the one day when the two-way portal opened, the enemy unexpectedly didn't attack.

"If only my body was fine.... Damn."

Gremory lay in the bedroom and struggled to sit up. Like the women in the tentacle monster's spawning ground, Gremory also conceived the tentacle monster's seed.

Thanks to that, currently, Gremory was in quite a dangerous state. If the pig orc attacked again, Gremory responding like before would be difficult.

'But still hasn't attacked yet.'

Are the wounds deep?

Is he preparing forces?

Or did he get scared seeing Gremory's army's power?

"Either way, for me, if I just buy more time...."

Gremory checked the time when the seeds sprayed inside her would sprout and be born as fruit. 6 hours from now. In 6 hours, she'd spawn tentacle monster's spawn randomly, and they'd all become new forces standing at the vanguard raiding the pig orc's dungeon.

'Come all you want. I won't be careless this time.'

She wouldn't let him dig ant tunnels in the dungeon again. Gremory barely stood up holding her belly bulging like a pregnant woman. Beyond the vision shared with goblins, the portal sparkling was clearly visible.

"Hehe, yeah, come on over!"

From the portal's beginning to the heart, goblins and jokamels, and monsters urgently summoned through magic stones waited at the entrance on standby. Even forces were deployed without exception in the path the pig orc drilled.

To capacity limit, pulling out souls to create forces. She emptied even warehouses and used even magic stones left as usage fee for the tentacle monster.

Flash.

The portal emitted light, and Gremory shouted toward all forces.

"Advance! Kill the ene-"

Grroooaar!!

The moment Gremory's soldiers raised weapons.

Three slime dragons that poked their heads beyond the portal roared.

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