After tasting Lune above and Eila below, I ate them both until I was satisfied.
"Haaa..."
Lune's lower area was covered with bite marks from my sucking, and her face was bright red. But her arms were still bound by vines so she couldn't resist at all.
"Haa, ha..."
Lune rolled her eyes back and passed out.
The innocent elf who knew nothing about sex kept spouting all kinds of stuff while I was sucking on her—saying it's dirty, saying it's filthy. But now she's exhausted and collapsed. I carefully laid Lune on the bed with Eila.
'One's a 1-star that can grow to 5-star, and one's a 4-star but who knows when she'll wake up.'
Would be really nice if I just knew how to make them subordinates. I pushed aside my regrets and stood up. Time had already passed way over 30 minutes, and the summoning facility was sitting quite nicely in one corner of the cave.
'It's just a pig pen though?'
A wooden fence with bamboo-like thin wooden stems laid on the floor drawing something like a magic circle. And the slime dragon's magic stone placed in the center was floating at about hand height, giving off a mysterious light.
[Construction: Summoning Facility Lv.0 has been built!]
[With Summoning Facility Lv.0 built, you can now summon subordinate monsters.]
[Construction Completion Reward: 1 Monster Summoning Scroll]
"Knew it, basic gacha."
If I'm summoning subordinate monsters in the form of parchment, it's familiar to me having played countless gacha games, but I couldn't bring myself to summon a monster right away.
'I've got shit luck.'
I even failed the reincarnation gacha spectacularly.
In a world where the system only activates if you're a dungeon master, I was born as another demon's slave soldier, and even as an orc—a fat orc that won't slim down no matter how much I exercise.
The only positive thing is that it seems I can grow up to 5 stars.
If Rok Grimfang's (★★★☆☆) remaining two stars mean I have two more chances to grow, I can definitely reach 5 stars.
Anyway, since it's my first gacha, let's just summon a monster with a relaxed mind. I don't know what monster will be summoned, but I desperately needed workers to renovate the dungeon right away.
'Maybe they'll become subordinates to defeat enemies.'
Gacha.
It's gacha time.
I unfolded the monster summoning scroll. Inside the parchment was an geometric magic circle drawn, and I immediately pressed [Subordinate Summoning]. Luckily the summoning facility was set up so the summoning proceeded smoothly.
[Subordinate Summoning: Summon subordinates to protect the dungeon.]
[Normal Summon]
[Magic Stone Summon]
[Bond Summon]
"...Do I need friends too?"
Some of the summoning method names look weird. I pressed them one by one carefully and could figure out their features.
[Normal Summon: Use a Monster Summoning Scroll to summon a subordinate.]
[★ 35%]
[★☆ 30%]
[★☆☆ 20%]
[★★ 10%]
[★★☆ 4%]
[★★★ 1%]
[Current Monster Summoning Scrolls: 1. Total 1 summon attempt possible.]
"Look at this fucking trash game?"
My gacha luck is already shit, how can it even limit the maximum number of stars you can grow to? Whoever made this system is definitely filled with malice.
How can there be separate seeds for nobles and generals—no, for 5-star and 6-star! I was really pissed, but I still couldn't carelessly use my monster summoning scroll.
'Let's hold off for now.'
Not too late to summon after checking out the other summoning methods. The traps I installed at the entrance haven't been triggered yet, so I checked the other summoning methods with peace of mind.
[Magic Stone Summon: Consume magic stones to summon subordinates.]
[Slime 0 / 5 (Lowest)]
[Currently summonable monsters: 1 type]
"Lime. Says you're a monster that eats five lowest-grade magic stones."
Lime had no response. Having already devoured the entire slime dragon, Lime was busy eating the remains of other slimes. I felt déjà vu and rushed over to tear Lime away.
"Hey! Did you eat the magic stones?!"
Crunch, crunch!
In Lime's mouth, a lowest-grade magic stone was already half melted. Like a hamster with its mouth stuffed with food, Lime had a whopping eight lowest-grade magic stones in its body and was melting the stones with its mouth.
"Spit it out! I said spit it out!"
I squeezed Lime. Lime squirmed in pain, and eventually the lowest-grade magic stones popped out of Lime's body.
"Sorry. But how was I supposed to know I'd need those?"
Lowest-grade magic stones are worth less than random pebbles on the street. They can't even be processed into magic tool materials—lowest-grade magic stones are only used by young monsters in dungeons for playing marbles.
"You just eat the slime remains. No magic stones, dude. I'm gonna make your buddies with these."
Lime went limp and ate the slime remains. I hurriedly ran around the dungeon collecting the cores of all the slimes I'd crushed, and every single one was a lowest-grade magic stone.
Only 40.
Considering there were about 70 slimes inside the dungeon, it meant the remaining 30 or so were eaten by Lime.
"...At least it should do the work of 6 slimes, it's a 4-star after all."
I decided to believe that. If it doesn't properly fulfill the role of 6 subordinate slimes, I'll use Lime for slime masturbation like the pathetic adults in my tribe used to enjoy doing in Forneus's dungeon.
'There's really nowhere else to use lowest-grade magic stones.'
Still, just in case, let's keep some spares. Except for the number needed to summon one slime, I piled all the remaining 35 lowest-grade magic stones in one place.
'There's two more I haven't checked.'
One's a summoning method. I checked the problematic 'Bond Summon' thing.
[Bond Summon: Currently unavailable]
"If it's unavailable, why'd you show it and get my hopes up? Damn."
Ptui. I spat once at the screen, then checked something else. The facility I just finished constructing.
[Summoning Facility: A magic circle for summoning subordinates.]
[Current Level: Lv.0]
[Daily Summon Limit: 0 / 10]
[Facility Level Up Condition: Summon monsters 10 times]
"Ugh...."
I suddenly hated Lime.
1 summon from the monster summoning scroll, and counting the slimes I can summon by scraping together every last lowest-grade magic stone—8 times.
I'm exactly 1 short.
"...Wait no."
There's a magic stone right there, isn't there? That innocent monster happily devouring slimes without knowing anything.
'Don't games like this usually give you resources when you sacrifice subordinates?'
Material items, or experience books, or magic stones, or magic stones. I left that as my last option and tried to accomplish my original goal first.
'To renovate the dungeon, I need to at least make some slimes—'
Clang!
A sharp sound of cutting through air rang out. I stopped what I was doing and picked up what I'd carved from the wood chunks.
Intruders.
I don't know who, but they're definitely not coming with good intentions.
That's because those entering right now are 'destroying' the traps as they come in. I pushed Eila and Lune to the side of the bed, then gripped the club I'd made by carving wood chunks.
Whoever comes—even if it's a group of elves or Forneus's tracking unit—I can't die here.
'I'll kill them all.'
***
A small mountain village in the Barony of Virgo.
In a tiny village with barely twenty households, young men full of vanity were busy today having childish adventures. Their crude wooden swords and armor made from woven animal hides looked somewhat decent, but they were trying to give off a 'hero' vibe.
"Alright, let's go! Today we're definitely conquering that dungeon!"
At the head of the young men, a blonde youth named Richard raised his wooden sword high with a bright smile, encouraging his companions. Including Richard, there were three young men and one woman with brown bobbed hair shuffling along holding a staff. Those four were members of the renowned [Richard Knight Order] in the village.
"Richard! Going any further is dangerous! They say monsters come out from here!"
"Right. We can't do this without the adults' permission, you know?"
The other two young men tried to calm Richard down, but Richard threw a tantrum, swinging his wooden sword.
"Jack! Kai! You guys are too scared! Right, Mary?"
"...Yeah."
The woman with the staff, Mary, blushed and agreed with Richard. The other two young men's expressions soured, but Richard, emboldened by Mary, strongly asserted his opinion.
"Let's just take a quick peek at the cave entrance, okay? We saw what was there last time, didn't we?"
"There was one slime."
"Right, a slime! Can't the young men of the great Zodiac Kingdom catch a single slime? Don't worry. Slimes are what you punch to death with your bare fists!"
Richard clenched his fist and led the way, and the three followed behind Richard. Following the path they'd checked beforehand, they arrived at the slime dungeon they'd found before—
"Wh-what...?"
The entrance was blocked. They'd definitely marked it last time, but the mark had disappeared without a trace.
"Richard, over there."
Mary pointed to a spot quite far from where Richard was standing. At the bottom of a sheer cliff, where vine stems hung down like legs, was clearly the entrance to a cave with signs that something had been going in and out.
"It's a dungeon!"
Richard ran toward the dungeon without thinking, and the two young men hesitated and glanced at each other.
"Richard, let's go together!"
Mary blushed and followed Richard, and the two young men followed Mary with resigned faces.
"Look at this! There are slime traces here—"
Swoosh.
Something caught Richard's shoulder. A tree branch embedded in the wall sprang from where Richard couldn't see and grazed his cheek.
"Ow..!"
Blood appeared on Richard's cheek. The group fell silent.
"...If there are traps, that means there's something inside, right?"
"Richard. Let's go back. Let's tell the elders...."
"No way! If we do that, the territory soldiers will come again!"
Richard firmly shook his head and gripped his wooden sword.
"...Let's just scout it out, and if it's an enemy we can handle, we'll take it down!"
"What? What if we can't handle it?"
"We run. Don't worry, have you ever seen a monster above low-rank appear in our Virgo territory?"
Richard's eyes were full of confidence.
And it didn't take long for that confidence to turn to despair.