Building Harem And Dungeon With Monster Girls

Mthunzi had no problem with this room, but he was also a dungeon builder. Would these adventurers? The columns flickered on the map. So did the red dots. Damage afflicted them. The right one winked out. The final one lasted a heartbeat longer.

Then it vanished.

Died.

I swallowed. Four adventurers killed today. I glanced at the door out of my throne room. Then I marched to it, stamping across the map. My sister gasped something, but it was lost to my tumultuous emotions.

I stepped out into the hallway, heading to the door to Usiku's guardroom. I burst in. She had relaxed, her weapons lowered. She tensed when she saw me. Her blue eyes shot me a questioning look.

"It's over," I said. "They're dead."

I opened the door and moved down a hallway to the lightning room. The traps that lined it, a mix of pits and lightning blasts, didn't affect me. I threw open the concealed door. The room smelled of burnt air, that electrical scent.

Two bodies lay smoking where their dots had winked out. One was dressed in robes. A slender body with purple hair and pointed ears, a staff clutched in her hand. An elven wizard. The other was a brawny man in shiny armor, a cape smoking on his back. His sword lay inches from his fingers. I stood over them and sighed.

"I didn't do anything to you," I whispered. "Why did you try and attack me?"

The corpse had no answer.

With them dead, they could be manipulated by the dungeon. I buried the four adventurers in their own tomb that was impossible to access. Their gear I added to the treasure chests I scattered in the labyrinth. I didn't want to kill adventurers. Maybe if they found the loot, they would be content with the reward and flee.

Three days later, the third party entered. There were three of them. I stared at the dots as my monster girls, all brought back to life, converged to attack them. I swallowed as I saw them moving in to kill the adventurers.

Then I did something that might be the dumbest decision I ever made.

Stop! I shouted at my monster girls. Fall back. Hide. Let them pass.

Lord Leo! rang through my mind from all twelve of my monster girls.

"What are they doing?" asked Lana. "Why are the monster girls retreating down the side passages? They're letting the adventurers get in."

"I know," I said. "I'm going to parley with them. I want to talk with them. Find out what they are doing. Maybe get the adventurers to stop targeting my place."

"What?" gasped Lana.

"Big bro!" Garnet stared at me in shock. "That's insane."

"Yep," I said. Usiku, come to the throne room.

Yes, Lord Leo, came her answer.

I drew in a deep breath as I watched the adventurers moving forward. I couldn't do anything about the traps, but one of their dots appeared skilled at disabling them after they triggered the first one. They moved through the labyrinth, my monster girls hiding like I commanded. The party approached the lightning room.

"This is so stupid," muttered Garnet.

"Probably," I answered. "But I don't want to kill them. Maybe they can be reasoned with. Show them I'm not like the other dungeon builders. I don't want to cause problems."

"It's noble," Lana said.

Garnet puffed out her cheeks and her tail swished back and forth. "You're risking your life, big bro. You're the only one of us that can't come back. You die, and it's over for all of us."

"I'm not going to die," I said. "If they fight, it'll be the four of us against the three of them. We have the advantage."

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