After feeding my subordinates breakfast, I quenched my thirst with Lune and proceeded to synthesize and evolve my dungeon subordinates all at once. The magic and system of Solomon, which Gremory praises, showed flexibility in summoning and evolution even in multi-dungeons, and I refined my forces through repeated synthesis and evolution.

And so, currently.

Three 3-star Slime Dragons.

In addition to the ones that could already evolve on their own, I had six Big Slimes and eight High Ghouls created by repeatedly synthesizing the ★ ones. The numbers didn't quite work out, so one Ghoul (★) was left over, but Meri came up with a solution right away.

"Dad, you can just summon a Ghoul here, feed it to the Ghoul, and use a magic stone for the level."

"Where am I supposed to get a magic stone? Wait a minute, my disciple. You're not planning to use the magic stones in my dungeon, are you?"

And so, the High Ghouls became nine. On top of that, the Harpies left over from synthesizing Andras had their levels filled up just barely, and all the Harpies except Harpuia became Harpy Angels.

After making every effort to reduce the number of existing subordinates, our dungeon's restructuring was complete. Through this battle, all the monster subordinates reached ★★. Our forces became even stronger.

Me, Arthur. Orc 2.

Lune. Elf 1.

Eila, Meri, Lily, and nine hunters. Humans 12.

Lime, Line, three Slime Dragons, six Big Slimes. Slime species 11.

Nine High Ghouls led by Hases.

Andras, Harpuia, and three Harpy Angels. Avian species 5.

Including me, we were adjusted to exactly 40 people, and the barracks capacity that had been hastily increased was now more than full. Plus, Gremory's dungeon counted as a separate dungeon, which was icing on the cake. Gremory was the first to share her dungeon status with me.

[Gremory's Dungeon]

Rank: C-rank

Danger Level: 124

Capacity: 2 / 424

Prisoners: 0 / 0

"I feel so damn sorry."

"I can just lay more eggs... actually, no. I can't lay any more."

The spawning rooms of the tentacle monsters that Gremory had been using as a prisoner detention facility had all burned down. Excluding the missing 4-star camel, Gremory didn't have a single monster subordinate left.

"What about the goblins?"

"I culled them all. Those bastards, they were the ones who pushed Jokamel Filters off the cliff? I found out when I poked around."

Gremory tapped her head with her fingernail. Gremory suddenly became scary.

"Don't worry. I'm not talking about brainwashing magic or mental magic. Goblins may be cunning, but they're not that smart, so if you just lead them a little in questioning, they fall for it. I don't need subordinates who stage coups."

"I agree with that."

Though we're both actually trying to stage a coup against Solomon.

"So, question. Why is your dungeon capacity so wide? I barely got over 50 people capacity by maxing out the level of four barracks."

"When you reach C-rank, you can pick dungeon management characteristics. You're still D-rank, right? Then you wouldn't know."

Gremory drew her finger straight down vertically.

"You can build up to four barracks per floor, right?"

"Yeah."

"You know that third passage in our dungeon? The path with all the traps. Have you been there?"

"It looked so obviously like a trap that I didn't step on it and went around through the ceiling. What about there?"

"That's where we have our super-sized barracks. My subordinates usually stay there and come up by rope when needed. There are four super-sized barracks that can accommodate 100 people at the same time. Pretty crude though."

Gremory shuddered as if the thought alone was unpleasant.

"Forces of ★★ or higher are in the central cavity. And the ★ ones grow underground. My subordinates and I call it the shithole."

"Because they're pieces of shit?"

"That's part of it, and you know how much shit over 200 subordinates produce? It's a kind of sewage treatment plant. That place."

"..."

Gremory's subordinate welfare was the worst. At the same time, it was also sufficient motivation to increase the subordinates' desire to become stronger.

"I make them wash their bodies in the river flowing through the dungeon when they come up, so the smell comes off too. Hehe."

"That's amazing in many ways."

It would be rude to criticize someone else's dungeon management, but now Gremory's dungeon is my multi-dungeon under the name of alliance. So I couldn't help but interfere.

"Let's pay some attention to subordinate welfare. Our subordinates will look down on kids who roll around in a shithole."

"That's because you went crazy fighting!"

"So have your subordinates ever seriously injured even one of ours?"

"Fucking bastard, using facts to beat me unfairly."

Gremory grumbled curses, having nothing to say. In fact, except for the Ghouls who served as shield soldiers in the vanguard, none of our dungeon's subordinates were seriously injured.

"But I seriously injured you!"

"Yeah, I recovered completely. And I didn't die and recovered completely. The end."

If there was someone who got hurt the most, it was me. But Meri's healing magic was quite excellent, and the burns on the exposed parts were also completely healed. The unique regeneration and recovery power of Orcs, even if not as much as Trolls, was unrivaled.

If I hadn't had such recovery power in the first place, it would have been difficult to have the Gremory party, and the subsequent wild Ras party. How could a burn victim lying in a hospital bed lie on top of Lime and make Eila ride cowgirl?

"Looking at your troop composition, I got the feeling right away. You're the type who pushes with camel monsters and gargoyle numbers while mixing in goblins, right? The type who pushes with numbers. Your magic head works well, but your troop command is a total mess, a total mess. That's why you got wrecked even with subordinates five times more than mine."

"Ugh."

At my continued fact-bombing, Gremory turned her head away. Her face seemed quite sulky, but even while doing that, her clone was probably working hard with Arthur.

"Fine. Just take care of yourself for now. Even though you know more about dungeons than me, it seems like you're worse at managing them than me."

"What, you. Are you someone who got kicked out after being a dungeon owner? So you got another chance?"

"I'm a management genius."

The administrator herself certified it. I decided to think later about how to manage the multi-dungeon.

"Meri."

"Yes, you're looking for this, right?"

Meri handed me a heavily soot-stained robe. The robe that was automatically created when I evolved remained completely intact even though my whole body was set on fire. The Andras blood that had been thick on it seemed to have all come off in the flames, and the robe became stiff and even crumbly.

Whoosh!

I shook out the robe once like shaking out a blanket and put it back on. Meri still had questions about the existence of items created by evolution, but someone who could solve that...

"Hey, Gremory. What's the deal with the items that appear when you evolve?"

"That? Lord Solomon makes it so you can bring equipment from the future. By fulfilling the strict evolution conditions, you use space-time magic to pull the power of your future grown self forward."

"Whoa."

"...Is that possible?"

I was just amazed, while Meri's eyebrows twisted as she felt deflated. I put my hand on Meri's head and patted it gently.

"Come to think of it, didn't you also get born at this age in just a few seconds?"

"...That's true. Yes, Lord Solomon is amazing~"

Meri was talking playfully, but Solomon's magic and system were really no joke. Honestly, I wondered if we could even win.

But there's always a way. There must be a way, or else why would I dream of a coup? I tightened my robe and raised my arms to the side. Then Lune jumped from her spot like a ghost and landed on my shoulder.

"Hmph."

"Let me just ask you one thing. Where did you get this High Elf? From monster summoning?"

"I picked her up."

"...Master, what do you mean you picked me up?"

At my words, Lune poked my stomach with her heel. While doing so, she twisted her butt left and right, protesting on my shoulder. I grabbed Lune's foot and tickled it in retaliation.

"I picked you up when you fell over in surprise after seeing me."

"That's true, but it's a little embarrassing, so could you correct it? Say you caught a cute elf to keep."

"That's true too. It's not wrong, so just go with it. I won't mention what you said when you were first captured, for the sake of your honor."

"If you mention that, other people will want to know!"

She thought I was really going to eat her and got scared and pissed herself. It hasn't even been two weeks, but it feels like a long time has passed.

"Well, I'm going. Gremory, you stay with our kids and teach them various things. Especially to Meri."

"...? Where are you going?"

"Our dungeon."

I pointed with Lune beyond the passage, to where the portal was.

"There might be invaders in our dungeon."

***

A moment later.

Lune and I returned to our dungeon through the portal. At the end of the elongated passage, the path was blocked by bending toward a cliff. I stopped in front of the passage that used to be a crossroads.

Poke.

I stuck my finger deep in. A hole was quickly made in the temporarily packed dirt wall. There was no reason to bring Lime to break through, and when I lightly tapped it with my foot, the wall quickly collapsed.

"You keep a guy who can't even find this as your adjutant, so you get wrecked by me."

"You dismissed it right away."

"I caught the 56th too easily."

"Master, you got hurt. It was extremely dangerous."

"It's always high risk, high return. Though I can't do it again."

I tore down the false wall and carefully stepped into my bedroom. Since I had swept up all the Ras Village residents, there was nothing in the dungeon except what I had made.

"Lune, is there anyone inside?"

"...There doesn't seem to be anything in the cavity."

Lune perked up her ears and drew her bow. Something seemed off. There's nothing in the cavity. But beyond the cavity?

"Let's go a little further."

I took big strides forward. The iron sword whose teeth had all fallen out from beating Gremory's forces became an iron club good for hitting anything. Whoever gets caught will get a home run swing.

"Master, you seem to be going too fast..."

"I came to my own house, so it feels bad to walk like a thief."

Thieves who enter while the house is empty should be beaten, and I shouldn't be moving carefully worrying about thieves. As I moved forward quickly, Lune jumped off my shoulder altogether and went ahead.

"I'll go in front. Master, you worked hard fighting yesterday."

"I worked harder in bed."

"That's true, but will you trust your subordinate a bit? I got pretty strong too."

As Lune herself was feeling, Lune had grown greatly. Lune's current level was 42. Since we entered my dungeon, I could quickly check my subordinate's level without having to touch her ears.

"What good is getting stronger? You still have a long way to go to reach 4 stars."

"Still, Master, a little elf who didn't know anything grew this far quickly, right? It's all thanks to you, Master. Hehe."

"Sure. Yeah."

We arrived at the cavity. Fortunately, the cavity retained the same appearance as the day we left. There was no trace of invaders.

In the cavity.

"...Sniff sniff."

"Why?"

"I smell fruit somewhere."

"...By any chance, Master, if you called me separately to the cavity... Hehe, if it's like that, you should have said so earlier."

Lune grabbed both ends of her skirt and lifted it slightly. But I lowered the hem with the iron club.

"No. It's not your smell. Yeah, this smell with more water and sweeter is melon scent..."

Ah.

I ran straight ahead. The smell, no, this scent, became stronger and pierced my nose the more I ran toward the entrance. Lune followed behind me, watching for signs from the entrance of our dungeon, Ras Village.

"Oh my."

Lune noticed too. I launched my body toward the false wall blocking the dungeon entrance.

Crash!!

After the thin false wall shattered, I rolled forward and swung the iron club forward, preparing for any situation. In case someone was waiting in front of the false wall to attack.

But my iron club cut through empty air. I quickly looked around, and after confirming there was no one around, I patted my chest...

Thump thump thump!

Footsteps were heard from somewhere familiar. I carefully opened the door to the breeding latrine I made for the male Andras. The wooden fence had been erected again.

Thump thump thump thump!

There was a stupid elf stuck in a hole with her upper body unable to get out. Looking closely, the elf seemed to have forced her upper body in and her chest got stuck.

I could tell she was an elf without seeing her ears. It was already a taste and smell I'd experienced once. The elf seemed to sense my presence and happily kicked the ground with her feet.

Thump thump thump thump thump!!!

The elf lay flat on her back, wildly swinging her legs and spreading her thighs left and right. As if asking to be grabbed and pulled out.

The reunion with Luna was the worst.

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