New species are always welcome.

New ranks are always welcome.

I clapped and cheered at the giant stone statue being born in the rainbow light.

"Happy birthday!"

[Summon: Gargoyle (★★☆☆) has been summoned.]

Bat face, solid muscles, and demon wings. Except for its body made of rock, it was a proper dungeon gargoyle.

And at the same time, a Monster Summoning Ticket popped out. With one more from the daily reward, it somehow felt like I'd gotten a free summon.

Born as 2-star, and 4-star—the maximum that could be pulled from summoning facility Lv.2.

In essence, I'd pulled the best combat power that could be extracted from the current summoning table by breaking through a 1% probability.

'It's a shame it's not a female monster.'

It's disappointing in many ways. I can't keep increasing harpies forever, and May is living inside Lime's chest.

'At this rate, it'll become a harpy nest.'

Perhaps the cavity might become the harpies' main base. Like bats hanging from the ceiling, then launching surprise attacks the moment someone enters the cavity.

'I should avoid monster summoning until I strengthen my forces.'

Monster Summoning Tickets or magic stone summons could call forth Estu again.

While I'm happy to feast my eyes, Estu appearing means I caused some kind of error again.

'It'd be troublesome if the guys from the 72 dungeons come attacking.'

Even if Estu or Baal might let slide that this is Baal's old dungeon, the others below them would covet the dungeon if they heard the news.

'It's still too early since the foundation isn't established yet.'

The standard is Forneus's dungeon. To reach at least that level, I'd need close to five hundred subordinates, and there would need to be at least ten beings like me.

'Lune, Lime, Hases, and the gargoyle.'

Focus on intensively raising the core members and mass-produce harpies to increase combat power.

'I'll hold onto the Monster Summoning Scrolls until the summoning facility reaches level 5.'

The day 5-stars appear on the probability table and reach a 5% chance will be a happy gacha party. Whether it'll be an explosion of joy or an explosion of death remains to be seen.

"Next batter!"

I brought over the shell-less egg. It was the egg May laid, May's keepsake, and a completely new form of egg.

'But will a summon work when it's from a human and an orc?'

A combination that was almost taboo in Forneus's dungeon, but deliverable from the Demon King's castle? I felt a sense of déjà vu.

'Orc or human, I get that. But what about half-orcs?'

Doesn't that mean there are already several who've committed this? I felt a chill for no reason.

I'd have to crack it open to know. I immediately attempted the summon.

Woooom.

The egg in the center of the summoning circle wobbled left and right. Purple mist slowly rose from the summoning circle, and the fog began to thicken more and more.

'2-star?'

No. The magic flow is quite intense for a 2-star. Could a 4-star be born again through miraculous probability?

Woooom.

As magic seeped into the egg, it began to grow larger. Its size grew bigger than an ostrich egg, bigger than an exercise ball, and soon grew to about the size of a refrigerator.

'This is a new effect.'

Crack, crack.

Cracks formed on the surface. As it split left and right, purple mist flowed out from inside.

"...Mm."

Inside was a naked girl who resembled May, smiling at me among the slime.

"...Daddy?"

The girl's eyes sparkled green.

I reached out my hand toward the girl, and she grabbed my hand and emerged from the egg that had grown like a chrysalis.

"Wow."

Lune was shocked by the girl's tremendous size. Her height was similar to Lune's, but her chest was no joke, probably influenced by her mother.

"Hehe."

The girl's laugh resembled May. At least it was fortunate there was nothing resembling me.

"From today, you're 'Meri.'"

"Yes!"

[Reproduction: Meri (★☆☆, Human, Lv 1 / 60) has been born.]

Today's probability was good. Perhaps because I met Estu, and breaking through the 5% probability, a human was born instead of an orc or half-orc.

'I thought an orc would come out.'

Who knew I'd gain a human subordinate this way. But I couldn't put into words the strange deduction that arose in my heart.

'I'll never see my child.'

She's my daughter, but doesn't feel like a daughter. It's hard to express this feeling, but it felt more like a close dungeon subordinate.

"...Anyway, congratulations. Both you, Meri, and the gargoyle."

Though it was becoming evening, there was still much to do.

I checked their information—

[Notice: Rok Grimfang's evolution conditions have been updated. 1) Max out level. (75 / 75) , 2) Successfully reproduce by planting seeds in 5 different beings. (1 / 5)]

"...."

The evolution method I desperately longed for finally appeared.

[Daily Quest: Summon a monster 1 time.]

[Reward: Monster Summoning Scroll x1]

[Daily Quest: Hatch a monster 1 time.]

[Reward: Monster Summoning Ticket x1]

...Somehow the moment I decided to save them, I gained 2 Monster Summoning Scrolls.

***

Thanks to the high ghouls' efforts, lumber was supplied in large quantities, but I couldn't build more barracks to increase personnel.

[Notice: A maximum of 4 barracks can be built on the 1st floor.]

"Tsk."

I finally hit a problem. Monsters keep piling up, but the methods to increase maximum capacity are extremely limited.

There are currently two ways to break through this difficulty.

'Either expand underground or upper floors, or sacrifice monsters.'

The former requires using slimes to dig out new paths. There might be other monsters throughout the cliff, or there might be dimensional gates connecting to other dungeons.

'But at least basement level 1 or ground floor 2 should be safe.'

Tomorrow the slimes will have to dig hard. Underground seemed better than above ground.

'Or raise the dungeon's rank.'

My current dungeon rank is E. Previously I didn't know how to raise it, but thanks to meeting Estu, the holes in the system here and there began to fill one by one.

[Dungeon Rank Up]

[E-rank -> D-rank]

1).Achieve danger level 50 (25 / 50)

2).ecure 3 or more ★★★ subordinates (1 / 3)

3).Achieve summoning facility Lv.2 (O / O)

[Notice: - Dungeon Rank Up]

The higher the rank, the more facilities you can build. But the danger level also increases accordingly.

'The enhancement facility can definitely be opened at D-rank.'

[Altar of Sacrifice: A facility with a name that clearly looks like it's for grinding subordinates was unfortunately a D-rank facility.]

'Plus hatching-related facilities were also D-rank.'

[Hatchery], [Incubator]. Either way, they're unknown facilities I can't build right now. To reach D-rank, I need to dramatically increase the danger level.

'So far there have been exactly 25 dungeon invaders.'

A dungeon that killed or captured 25 people. Among them are ★ and ★★★, but that doesn't seem very important.

[Notice: How to increase danger level]

[Repel invaders in the dungeon.]

[Bonus to danger level increase when defeating those higher rank than the dungeon master.]

'I only went up 1 because I only caught guys weaker than me.'

Thanks to Estu, such a kind message flew in, so I feel a bit relieved. Since it's so kind, I wanted to know specifically how many stronger enemies I need to catch for the bonus to increase, but unfortunately the system didn't allow that much.

'But if they appear directly later, she'll tell me, right?'

Surely when the conditions are met, she'll pop out like a ghost again. There might be a pushover 4-star like Eila.

'Tomorrow I can harvest fruit from Eila.'

What kind of child will be born from Eila? Human? Orc? Or something 5-star?

'Better not get my hopes up.'

For now, let's just focus on raising the dungeon rank and my evolution.

'Current capacity is 37. Maximum capacity is 41.'

Though 4 capacity slots remain and I have tons of summons left today, I still have no intention of filling those empty 4 slots with summoned monsters.

My children.

Until I can make the Altar of Sacrifice to organize monsters, I'll fill the remaining capacity with my children, starting with Meri.

The eggs the harpies lay?

They'll pile up one by one next to the storage.

"...Would it be weird to eat those?"

What reaction would the harpies show if I ate them?

"Lime."

Gurrgle.

Lime only stuck its head out from the ceiling. It seemed to have realized that moving through the ceiling after hearing orders was more convenient than dropping down each time.

"Go bring a harpy. The squad leader."

Lime disappeared to the ceiling with very leisurely movements.

A moment later, a harpy with a swollen belly flew over with difficulty and landed in front of me.

"You called?"

"Should I have gone instead?"

"Ah, no. I'm fine. Huuuk...!"

She doesn't look fine at all. Harpy's body swayed greatly back and forth as her wings trembled. I grabbed Harpy's waist, and Harpy buried her face in my chest and gasped for breath.

"Hieek!"

Plop.

An egg created by the stud hunters dropped from below Harpy. Thanks to the fairly hard shell, it was unscathed, and though the surface was smooth, it had the shine of laying another harpy.

"Ah...."

Harpy seemed fairly accustomed to laying eggs now, not streaming tears and drool. She just gently lowered her feathers as if wrapping something precious.

"Harpy."

"Yeah."

"Would it be weird if we ate that?"

"...."

Harpy looked up at me with a blank face. Even though I brought it up, I suddenly felt extremely sorry.

"Uh.... So, harpy eggs shouldn't be eaten, right? Right?"

"...That's up to the master."

Harpy pouted her lips sulkily, then lifted the egg with her feathers and presented it to me.

"Everything in this dungeon belongs to the master. This egg, the humans who planted seeds to make this egg, and me who laid this egg."

"That's true, but."

"And originally harpy eggs get eaten a lot anyway. I understand that much. We're laying the next generation, but for other species, eggs or we ourselves can be food."

"...."

Morally I could eat slime bodily fluids, but roasting and eating a harpy was a bit much.

"I actually think it's strange. From the master's perspective, aren't we like sparrows?"

"When you put it that way, I feel less burdened."

"Hehe. Thanks for at least feeling that burden. Some crazy bastards display eggs and smash them to relieve stress. If you're not going to hatch them, at least eat them. Tsk."

"...."

It seems the common sense of demons and monsters is on a different dimension from my former human concepts.

"So master, are you hungry? Want to eat?"

"...Mm."

Thinking this was food made from another guy's semen was pretty awful, but when Harpy offered the warm egg she just laid with her feathers, I felt strangely different.

"Can I really eat it?"

"Why are you asking my permission?"

Harpy tilted her head in genuine incomprehension. I wondered if Harpy's common sense was strange, so I called Lune.

"Lune. Given this situation, what do you think?"

"Hmm.... Wouldn't it be okay?"

Lune also shrugged, treating it as no big deal.

"If it were eating your own kind, that'd be different. Right?"

"That's true. No matter how much you're the master, if you told me to eat the children I bore, I might seriously consider bashing my head against a wall."

"Of course I'm not that much of a scumbag."

Where would there be a crazy person feeding eggs to chickens?

"So what'll you do? Eat this? Or should I put it in our barracks?"

"Have you laid many?"

"Hmm.... The daughters are working hard, but the humans are struggling. Including this one, we've collected about 9. Nothing you're hoping for though."

She meant they're all Harpy★. With a 94% probability of only 1-star appearing, unless breaking through the 6% probability like the only Harpy Angel, there was no way other eggs would appear.

"Then just lay new eggs."

But there's a way to make her lay 2-stars. I grabbed Harpy's armpits and moved her to the bed.

"Oh my?"

Harpy's eyes widened in surprise. I lay spread-eagle on the bed.

"Climb on. And Lune, come here."

"Yes!"

Lune had no resistance to threesomes at all. Harpy also had no qualms about multiple partners after doing it with other humans.

Squish.

As Harpy climbed on top of me and moved her hips, I simultaneously gently licked Lune's rear as she sat on top of me.

It was planting time.

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