After having a late dinner with Lune.

I could finally have time to settle the dungeon capture.

The system thankfully waited for the settlement while I shared an intimate meal with Lune, and I could finally exercise my rights for seizing the Andras dungeon.

[Seizure Battle: 'Rok Grimfang Shek' has seized 'Andras's dungeon.]

[Register as subordinate dungeon - Register as a separate dungeon. You can dispatch subordinates to operate it as a second dungeon.]

[Absorb as sub-dungeon - Gather the dungeon's essence into a Dimension Stone to make one. You can create a new sub-dungeon inside your own dungeon.]

[Register as 'Andras' - Relocate all existing facilities to that dungeon and register it as Solomon's 63rd dungeon.]

"Three options again?"

Just like my evolution had three branches, my rights to the Andras dungeon were also divided into three major options. How to evolve wasn't a big concern right now, but this required some thought.

Multi expansion.

Resource farming.

Or moving.

There was one right answer.

"Absorb as sub-dungeon."

What I needed right now was a place for our dungeon's monsters to gain experience. The slime sub-dungeon alone was clearly insufficient, and we needed a place for 2-star and above monsters to farm experience.

I could expand multi later, and I had absolutely no intention of joining under Solomon.

'I'll just suck on the sweet honey Solomon gives, and someday go eat Estu too.'

It was something that would enrage Solomon if he heard, but at least if I didn't side with humanity and became an enemy of the human alliance, Solomon would be happy.

Guuuguuguu!

The Andras dungeon I'd captured collapsed from the entrance. At the same time, the Andras corpses that Lune and I had alternately farmed for experience were enveloped in purple energy.

Kwa--aang!!

The dungeon entrance crumbled down. The gate connected to the Andras dungeon collapsed helplessly, and the Andras dungeon was completely sealed.

[Notice: Absorbing 'Andras's Dungeon' as a sub-dungeon.]

[Reward: Dimension Stone - Andras x1.]

A brilliantly black glowing stone appeared before my eyes. I immediately stuffed it into my robe pocket.

"Lune, now you can level even after evolving to 3-star."

"I wonder how many Andras will come out?"

"Well, we'll know once we install it. Probably not all 666, right?"

And I brought up a new window.

[Quest: Andras Subjugation (666/???)]

[Can obtain unhatched egg upon subjugating XX]

[Upon subjugating 666: (Andras) ★★★★★ <- Achieved!]

Ggieeeek!

With the screech of a strange bird, light flashed from the Andras corpses. I covered my eyes with my arm, and the Andras corpses scattered as particles of light and gathered into one.

Uuuuung.

"Whoa."

Should I call this brilliant or mysterious? The Andras corpses disappeared without a trace and began clumping together as individual particles of light. The form was definitely an 'egg,' and I grabbed that obsidian-like egg.

[Andras's Egg]

[Can hatch at summoning facility.]

[Upon hatching: (Andras) ★★★★★ hatches.]

"Looks like she'll be reborn."

"Her?"

"Dunno. I don't know either."

Whether a daughter would be born or she'd reincarnate like Eila, we'd only know by cracking the egg open. I tapped the egg to check its condition. The egg's surface was hard, but just in case, I decided to keep it myself.

"Good thing we didn't clean up."

Though we'd caught all the Andras for Lune's and my experience, it would've been difficult in many ways to create a tomb for these birdbrains a bit away from our dungeon.

"I was planning to mobilize the ghouls later to pluck feathers, but we won't need to do that now, right?"

"You plucked the harpies' feathers."

"Well, that's... yeah, you're right. But those were summoned from the Demon King's army, weren't they?"

"So now you'll make an Andras sub-dungeon and pluck them?"

"Obviously."

I suddenly sensed something strange. Then how does a sub-dungeon work? You can enter three times a day and even take materials out—is that even possible?

'Solomon must've cast some kind of spell.'

It all came back to Solomon, but it was beyond what I could comprehend with my thinking. I'm not the one creating sub-dungeons anyway, I just need to enjoy the system's benefits.

"Now the question is how to take this back."

I pointed at the Andras corpse. I'd pulled it out in a hurry, but I didn't need much from it.

"Let's just carry it. After we carry it back, I'll have the ghouls transport it."

I lifted the Andras. With so much blood already drained, it wasn't that heavy. I carefully carried the Andras so the wings wouldn't get damaged and left the dungeon.

"I hope we get another dungeon next time too."

"Will you make that one a sub-dungeon too?"

"Nah, I'll expand multi a bit."

And by then I'd expand the dungeon enough. I left the collapsed dungeon with Lune.

Someday, I hope Forneus's dungeon appears too. I walked the night road with an excited heart.

Though darkness had fallen heavily, Lune's eyes shone even on the night road, and there was no problem retracing our path backward.

About 30 minutes.

Walking at a pretty brisk pace, fortunately the ghouls had razed the village as ordered without any problems.

As ordered...?

"Hases."

Keuruek.

The high ghoul wearing an armband, Hases's mouth was mixed with wood chips and blood. I pointed at the ruins where everything had disappeared.

"What did you guys do here?"

Keurureuk.

Hases started miming by moving his body this way and that. Lune nodded her head a few times, then translated Hases's words for me.

"He ate all the humans in the graves, and thought you wanted to hide the Andras, so he ate them too leaving only bones. He collected all the bones in one place and buried them deep, and dismantled the houses to stack firewood...?"

"Firewood?"

At the end of Hases's pointing finger, wood pieces were stacked messily like a campfire. Dismantled and gathered in one place, it looked surreally like some assemblage art.

"The ghouls have some artistic sense."

The house beams and pillars were neatly stacked with wooden planks fitted inside—it looked like viewing some art piece.

Keurureuk.

And Hases pointed at something for me.

Fire.

It was a small flame burning brightly. Apparently they'd kept alive a small ember that remained in the stove.

"You want me to burn this?"

Keuruek.

"You stacked it so damn cool though?"

Keurureuk?

They'd torn down all the houses and made the woodpile like Jenga—did I really need to set it on fire? But Hases was strongly insisting on lighting the fire.

"They say you'll wet the bed if you play with fire at night."

I took the ember and lit the dry firewood. The dismantled houses became kindling and started burning in the fire.

"Anyone who sees this will freak out."

"Won't they think it's just fire from the slash-and-burn village?"

"If that's the case."

Even if someone came looking after seeing this fire, they'd only find land turned to ash.

They wouldn't expect there to be a bone grave of humans and monsters beneath the ashes. I handed the Andras to Hases and assembled all the ghouls.

"You worked hard late into the night. Let's go back."

It'd be late at night by the time we arrived. I put Lune on my shoulders and headed back to the dungeon.

It had been seven days since fleeing Forneus's dungeon and creating a new dungeon.

I had captured a complete dungeon.

***

At that time, in Marquis Leo's territory.

The knight, Gray, arrived at Marquis Leo's territory late at night. He didn't need to stop by on his way to the capital, but Gray had business at the adventurer's guild.

Ding-a-ling.

After tying his horse at the stable, Gray opened the adventurer's guild door. The adventurers inside cast suspicious glances at the appearance of a proper knight.

'Why's he here? A knight?'

'A fallen knight? Looking at his cloak, he's not a beggar though.'

'Maybe someone caused trouble and he's here to challenge them to a duel?'

While everyone speculated about Gray's purpose for visiting, a bespectacled receptionist cautiously approached with documents.

"Um, sir knight? What brings you to the adventurer's guild..."

"Ah, my apologies, lady. I'm Gray, a knight from the Barony of Virgo."

Gray slightly removed his robe to show the crest embedded in his armor. At the clear symbol indicating a noble house's knight—moreover, a knight of noble birth—the receptionist jumped in surprise.

"I'm sorry!"

"Ah, no, not at all. Haha, please be comfortable, lady. I came here to make a request."

Gray first revealed his intention so the other party wouldn't be uncomfortable. Everyone perked up at the mention that a knight was making a request at the adventurer's guild.

"A request, you say...?"

"Yes. It's not my personal request, but one directly from the Baron."

Perk.

The eyes of all adventurers in the guild fixed on what Gray was taking out. The long wooden tube that seemed to contain parchment had the crest of House Virgo stamped in wax seal.

"...."

The receptionist gulped and received the wooden tube. The material that looked high-quality at a glance, and the seal stamped with Baron Virgo's crest was definitely not fake.

"...Excuse me, if you have time, would you speak with our guild master?"

"Of course. If you'd be so kind as to show me the way, I'd be very grateful, beautiful lady."

The receptionist blushed and guided Gray. Gray followed with a good-natured face, and the adventurers stared at his back for quite a while.

The smell of money.

The adventurers caught the scent of money that Gray left behind.

***

It had been quite a long march.

We'd left outside early in the morning and only returned to the dungeon when the moon was high in the sky. It was probably well past midnight, and at the dungeon entrance, the hunters welcomed us.

"You're back?"

Arthur greeted me first. His face showed signs of fatigue, as if he'd worked all day.

"Did anything happen today?"

"No, nothing special happened. ...It's just from receiving training from Mother Eila."

"Ah."

I scanned the surroundings. Eila wasn't here, but I noticed a couple log cabins had been built inside the temporary stockade. Since all the ghouls had left, Arthur probably worked hard building houses with the hunters.

"Good work."

"Not at all, Father must have had a harder time traveling so far."

Arthur looked to see if I had anything to carry, then flinched in surprise when he saw the Andras on Hases's back.

"...A new mother?"

"Dead. It's a corpse."

Arthur recoiled in shock. Though both ghouls and Andras corpses were dead, the ghouls were alive so the revulsion must've been less. I scanned the area.

"You're back...?"

"Yeah."

Lily looked haggard as if woken from sleep, and the other hunters also stirred themselves. Just like when we left, all the hunters were holding their positions.

But something was missing. Something that should be there wasn't.

"Where are the Andras?"

"Th-that is..."

Arthur's face showed difficulty, confusion, and embarrassment. Arthur clearly seemed reluctant to answer, and I worried something might have happened.

"Did something happen?"

"...Yes."

"Were you attacked? Did the Andras die?"

"No, it's not that. It's not that, but."

Arthur sighed and pointed inside. It seemed too difficult for him to say with his own mouth.

"Can't you just tell me straight?"

"...They died."

"??"

Arthur opened the door to the latrine booth made of wooden planks. Just as I'd told them to wedge her in at night, the female Andras had only her head stuck in the cave while shaking her ass coquettishly.

'She's completely pickled.'

Though she couldn't hear sounds, she seemed to sense the commotion and was hoping to be fucked quickly.

But there was no reaction from the side. There wasn't anything there to begin with.

"...Don't tell me what died was."

"Yes."

Arthur hung his head low with a gloomy face.

"...Around evening, the male Andras died."

"Why?"

There was no attack, and no reason for death. During the day, I'd used slimes to melt the mucus again and put him in the barracks inside the dungeon, so there was no reason to die—

"Ah, no way."

I put Lune down and ran toward the barracks. I arrived at the barracks where the harpies stayed.

"...."

The harpy wearing an armband jumped in surprise at my appearance. The harpy's belly was swollen again.

"Move."

"Th-that is..."

I moved the hesitant harpy aside and opened the barracks door.

"...."

Inside, the male Andras lay peacefully in a pose you'd see in an Egyptian sarcophagus. Though his mouth was a beak, he seemed to be smiling faintly with his eyes deeply closed.

"Wow."

And I marveled at seeing all the harpies had swollen bellies.

From harpies to Harpy Angels.

[Harvest: The Andras seed planted in the harpy species is ripening into fruit.]

[Harvest targets: 6 harpy individuals]

[Harvest time: Varies by individual]

"...."

All harpies except Harpuia were pregnant. I solemnly bowed my head toward the Andras.

Male Andras.

Four human hunters and six harpies. A total of ten females. Wrung dry for 24 hours, he left behind six eggs and departed this world.

I expressed my apology and respect to him by personally making a grave for him in a remote spot outside the dungeon with a sincere heart.

Cause of death:

Death by pussy.

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