Monsters are an important resource.

And the methods to obtain that resource are extremely limited.

Thanks to Lime, a slime sub-dungeon was created, and inside we could obtain up to 153 slimes 3 times a day.

Of course, getting one slime dragon was better in taste, nutrition, and efficiency than 50 slimes, so whenever my daughters leveled up, I went in together and collected the slime dragon.

Then how would I obtain resources other than slimes?

I found the answer.

"Borrow from the Demon King!"

When I summoned monsters through magic stones, those monsters became my property and became minions who received my commands.

"Now this monster is mine. I can do whatever I want with it."

The monsters I could currently summon were more than I thought.

[Magic Stone Summon: Use magic stones to summon subordinates.]

[Slime 20 / 5 (Lowest)]

[Big Slime 27 / 8 (Low)]

[Slimefolk 27 / 10 (Low)]

[Slimehole 1 / 5 (Mid)]

[Ghoul 20 / 10 (Lowest)]

[High Ghoul 27 / 10 (Low)]

[Harpy 20 / 30 (Lowest)]

[Harpy Angel 27 / 20 (Low)]

[Mini Gargoyle 20 / 15 (Lowest)]

[Gargoyle 27 / 25 (Low)]

'Just looking at the variety, it increased a ton.'

First, since I'd evolved them normally, I could summon slimeholes too. Simultaneously, since I'd summoned a ★★ gargoyle, I could also summon something called mini gargoyles, which were lower individuals.

'Slime species aren't worth summoning.'

Just directly collect stuff from the slime sub-dungeon and that's it. So slimes were out. If there was really nothing to summon, just summon one slime for daily quests and eat it deliciously.

'Harpies are used for feathers.'

Eggs were being made in real-time at the chicken coop. But there was no way to obtain harpy feathers.

So let's airlift harpies from the Demon King's castle!

Since killing offspring of beings hatched from eggs born in this dungeon would lower morale anyway, let's kill and use monsters dispatched from the Demon King's castle.

'Lucky that corpses remain.'

If monster corpses were eaten by the dungeon and disappeared, or if the system blocked them as unusable, I was planning to give up.

But my plan fit together quite appropriately.

"Master! I finished it!"

Lune smiled brightly holding a pillow stuffed full of feathers from two harpies.

The slime dragon epidermis, completely drained of fluids and washed in water, was washed once more by Lime. And filling the cleaned epidermis with harpy feathers, one pillow was created.

A slightly long pillow for me, Lune, and Eila to use together at once.

Slime dragon fluids hardened quickly, making them absolutely unusable. In comparison, harpy feathers were appropriately fluffy and came out in quite large quantities.

'Two would make about three pillows each.'

Ultimately the goal was to make blankets and clothes, but for now I decided to focus on making pillows where I could at least rest my head comfortably.

"Lune."

"Yes."

I held a harpy talon left over after Line ate. Line apparently didn't like eating hard things, so she didn't even touch bird talons.

"Mm...."

Lune was lost in thought for a moment. I scratched the ground hard with the talon while waiting for Lune to answer. Though there were durability issues, it was really perfect for digging earth.

"Isn't it a bit much to leave just the talons and make them plow fields?"

"...Won't the harpies be shocked?"

"Then let's not do it."

I handed the talon to Lime, and Lime happily ate it.

'My sensibilities and their sensibilities are different.'

If Lune, who had common sense in this world, was disgusted, that was really problematic.

"How about spreading slimes on the floor to make a bed?"

"It'd be squishy and soft, but you never know when you'd get eaten by slimes."

"Using ghouls' hard arms as sticks or something?"

"Even so, swinging around corpses is a bit."

I asked Lune about each thought that came to mind, and what Lune said no to was definitely no.

"Then I guess using things other than creatures would be moderately okay?"

"...Master?"

Lune turned pale, but my thought of siphoning resources from the Demon King's castle didn't stop.

"Hehe."

Lowest-grade magic stones still remained. And quite a lot of low-grade magic stones remained too.

"Lune."

"Yes."

"Do you know what tool humanity first began handling in ancient times?"

"...?"

"Stones."

I placed 25 low-grade magic stones on the summoning facility. With capacity still maintaining 40, it was now time for a new monster to appear.

"Gacha!"

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

Ugly.

The gargoyle looked way uglier than the first one I summoned. Its muscles weren't bulky and it looked like a bat full of greed. I carefully asked Lune so the gargoyle couldn't hear.

"Doesn't that one look kinda worse than the first one?"

"It's the same though."

"No. It's ugly."

Specifically, the number of ☆ was ugly. If not for Luna, it would be living as a statue at our dungeon entrance by now.

"Master, perhaps...?"

"Is this a bit much?"

"...Since it's stone, wouldn't it be okay?"

Permission granted. I pointed in front of me to the gargoyle standing blankly.

"Come here."

I pulled the gargoyle from the summoning facility, and then-

Thump!

I thrust my fist into the gargoyle's chest and burst it. The gargoyle immediately shattered into pieces, and Lune clapped and let out an exclamation.

"Wow, one shot!"

"You can kill it in one shot too, Lune...."

Of course a level 75 killing a level 1 gargoyle should do this much. I collected reasonably decent items from the gargoyle's stone fragments.

"Lune. Doesn't this wing look appropriate to use as a shovel?"

"What are you going to bury?"

"Who knows."

Whether it'd be people or something else was for later, but the stone fragments would be used in various good places. I lifted the gargoyle's talons.

"Look at this. This is perfect to use as a rake."

"...Well, it'd be better than harpy talons anyway."

Everyone becomes happy if you just don't think about how it was made. Since humans are beings that use tools, all sorts of paleolithic and neolithic tools obtained from gargoyles would enrich the humans' lives.

Now 20 magic stones remained. I wanted to get some more harpies, but unfortunately today's sub-dungeon had been run all 3 times.

Meri, Harpuia, Slimefolk. The three daughters' levels were already 14. Given the slime dungeon's characteristics, if I concentrated experience on them just once more each, they'd each be able to level up tomorrow.

'Then now I need to do what I need to do today.'

Main event.

"Lune, you check the pillow condition with Eila. And Lime, you collect all these and follow me."

Guruk.

Lime put the gargoyle's stone fragments inside her body. When I lifted Lime, who'd easily swallowed about one statue's worth inside her body, I felt a weight like a person.

"Lime, is it heavy?"

Gururuk.

Lime seemed quite burdened, but was enjoying that weight from holding the gargoyle's stone fragments.

Slurp.

Lime rubbed against my face with her breasts, and I exited the dungeon's long corridor holding Lime within my reddened vision.

Today's main event.

That was my evolution.

***

At that moment, Barony of Virgo.

"This is driving me crazy."

Baroness Virgo was about to lose her mind from the rain still steadily falling.

'There's a dungeon.'

Monsters had rushed out of the dungeon and attacked the village. And they'd completely eaten without leaving a single proper corpse and disappeared.

This 'disappeared' drove Baroness Virgo to stress.

'That means monsters came out of the dungeon following orders, attacked the village, then returned.'

Not just a problem ending at a lair where monsters lived.

There was a commanding individual. And that was as good as saying the entrance to one of the Demon King's 72 dungeons had opened.

'There's no way to know what level it is.'

Form a subjugation force. Then it naturally advertises that a dungeon appeared in the territory.

Form a reconnaissance unit. But there would be limits to the forces that could be mobilized.

"...Can't be helped."

The citizens' safety or her own safety? If forced to choose, the Baroness was human who thought according to the latter.

'Citizens exist because I exist.'

The Barony of Virgo family's only legitimate child. Citizens would also live safely only if she was alive.

Then to strengthen the territory's power, she needed means to maintain forces completely while grasping the dungeon's information without harming the territory.

"No choice but to request the Adventurer's Guild. Sir Gray!"

The Baroness scribbled phrases on parchment with a quill pen and summoned Sir Gray, who soon entered the office.

"You called?"

"You were definitely the child of a noble family with roots in the capital, right?"

"Yes, that's correct."

"...Then would you go back home briefly?"

Gray was flustered at the sudden vacation. The Baroness wouldn't just give vacation for no reason.

"Do you have something to tell my family?"

"No. I'm grateful enough that you're contributing to our barony. What I want to ask is this, this."

The Baroness tapped the parchment with her finger.

"Isn't Marquis Leo's territory on the way to the capital? Please officially submit this request to the Adventurer's Guild there."

"Ah!"

Sir Gray admired the Baroness's wit.

"Indeed, our territory's soldiers won't have to go confirm directly!"

"Sir Gray. Huff, ...this can't be helped. Our territory's knights and soldiers are too busy to possibly check even this small monster den in the remote regions. Isn't that right?"

"Yes. Of course."

"Then I'm counting on you."

The Baroness handed the parchment to Gray. Their eyes met briefly, and both, having confirmed each other's true nature, smiled knowingly.

"Then Baroness, when does my vacation start?"

"...Won't you have lunch together after a long time?"

"Baroness."

Gray put the parchment in his bosom with a subtle look. Firm chest muscles showed slightly, and the Baroness swallowed.

"Since it's a special occasion, won't you dine intimately between lord and vassal?"

"Good."

The Baroness called the attendant.

Scrape, scrape.

Only the sound of cutting steak echoed in the dining room.

***

Outside, humans were busily working.

"Ah...you came?"

The first to greet me was Lily. Lily was laying logs flat, making firewood to light fires with the ghouls' help.

"Equipment to give you all."

I distributed the gargoyle's stone fragments to the humans. Lime scattered all the gargoyle pieces she'd been holding inside her body on the ground.

"The shape's like this but it'll be quite sturdy. Use it where needed."

"...."

The humans picked up the crude but one-by-one gargoyle pieces and started making something appropriate with them.

Someone carving wood, someone using the gargoyle's wing like a real shovel, someone weaving wood and gargoyle talons to use like a plow. I let out an exclamation watching their movements.

"You guys are really used to this, huh?"

"We're people who've lived in slash-and-burn villages countless times."

Lily answered nonchalantly while digging holes in the ground. The ghouls who came out for labor support very skillfully fitted logs into grooves dug in the ground.

"Th-there, a little more to the left...."

Kruuuruk.

The endurance guy fearfully asked the ghoul, but Hases didn't care at all and erected the wooden fence according to that request. The area outside the dungeon that was originally just an empty lot was gradually taking shape.

Though crude, it was gradually taking the form of an outpost.

'As expected, having humans use their heads is much better.'

Their skill at appropriately erecting wooden fences and building houses on their own was excellent. If things kept going like this, a human village would be more than sufficiently created outside the dungeon.

'I can increase humans outside capacity as much as I want.'

How great that time was even accelerated by Solomon. I called the two men who were carrying logs together and reinforcing the huts.

"You two there."

"Y-yes? Are you speaking to us...?"

"...."

The quick-shooter bowed with a servile face. The endurance guy just bowed his head watching my reaction, unable to speak.

"Seeing what you're doing, I'll moderately give you a chance."

"By chance, you mean...?"

"Harpies."

The quick-shooter brightened, and the endurance guy frowned.

"If you want, I'll give you harpies as companions. If they want it too."

"I-is that really true?"

The quick-shooter was already hooked on harpy breasts.

"Yeah. Depending on what you do, you can eat harpies or be eaten by harpies."

"Yes...."

"And you all."

"Hik."

The four female slaves stopped working and trembled. I just wanted to talk but they were so scared I felt sorry.

But now it was time to see their fate. I suddenly lifted Lily, who'd been standing confidently beside me.

"Watch carefully."

"W-wait, such humiliation, heok?!"

Squeeelch.

I grabbed Lily's thighs from inside and lifted her up, spreading them left and right.

Harvest, 10 minutes.

"Uh, hekk!"

Lily's body began heating up intensely, and the humans' gazes stabbed toward Lily.

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