Wandering back into the dungeon after so long felt a bit underwhelming to the incubus emperor. Deceived by his own memories, he remembered the place to be much more threatening with a looming sense of someone or something watching his every step.
"Absolute Corruption: Emperor of void!" Activating his newly acquired ability under his system, Haruki conjured up a throwing spear made from darkness itself. "Get down here you nasty bug!"
Throwing the spear at a poisonous spider the same size as him, he pierced through its body and made it shriek out as it died. Once the monster's soul had left the vessel, the weapon created from darkness absorbed the flesh into the void, leaving behind not a single clue of the spider ever existing.
"The skill seems similar to your dark light spell," after assessing the ability, Margarette stepped up beside Haruki to give him her input. "If that's all it can do then, it's a bit useless don't you think?"
"Thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case," using the ability again, Haruki clad himself in a set of armor made from the very same skill. "Riley and I tested this a bit before, try firing an arrow at me."
Carelessly ignoring the outer threats of the dungeon, Margarette took a few steps away from her master to fire a flaming arrow at him. Watching this whole thing unfold, Asuka as well as Riley wished to test out their new skills soon as well.
"Is this far enough?" Nodding to Margarette, Haruki gave her permission to shoot at him. "Alright then, fire arrow!"
Being an expert mage she didn't need to call out the spell, but not wanting him to be caught off guard by the release time from her flaming bow, she announced the spell regardless. As the arrow left her fingers and tore through the air, Haruki simply stood his guard without flinching even a little.
"See?" He muttered, as the arrow hit him in the chest but got consumed by the armor made from darkness. "And I can do a lot more than just armor.'
So long as his imagination could conjure the thing he wanted to create, he could make it with ease be it armor, vehicle, or weapons.
"Maybe you can try to infuse a soul from one of the monsters next time?" Riley's suggestion instantly got everyone's attention to her. "Make use of Fay's abilities you copied, you know?"
After hearing Riley's idea, Haruki regretted letting the spider's soul escape from his grasp. If he could trap it in an object of darkness then perhaps, he could've animated life inside an inanimate object.
"That almost feels like playing god…" Unsure whether he should push that boundary, he decided to move forward with the group.
Even though the monsters so far felt stronger than last time, there was still a lack of monsters that could match up to Haruki's skills. At first upon entering the now infamous minotaur dungeon, all they'd run into were a flock of slimes, a small goblin tribe, and a bundle of poison spiders, but now as they ventured deeper without encountering anything worth fighting, Haruki's whole party had loosened up a little.
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Watching the four human-like creatures making their way easily through hordes of her children, the queen of Arachne glared at them through her crystal ball. Her vile mouth split in fours hissed at the terrible monsters culling down her hatchlings.
"What are you hissing at now?" Calling from under her, the queen of goblin hoards glared up at the Arcane queen huddled up in her web.
"These monsters! These humans! They keep killing them! They keep killing my children!" Screeching at her, the queen of spiders squinted all eight of her human eyes at the goblin under her.
"Stop screeching!" The goblin queen rebutted before caressing her forehead to ease the migraines she'd suffered because of the Arachne. "That slime girl is keeping that damned minotaur company, if you keep screeching like that he might just kill us all instead of protecting us and our children as he promised!"
"Why isn't he going to kill them then?!" Still, in a horrid state, the half-human spider jumped down from the ceiling. "If he can't protect us and our children, then why are we even serving him?!"
So far the arcane queen had only witnessed the three queen's children trying to defend their territory while indulging in the warm flesh of a woman, the king of minotaur was only working his penis.
Giving the spider queen a sideways glance, the queen of goblins shuddered at the thought of her complaints making it to the king. Squeezing her arms tightly, she quickly adjusted her boar skin clothes that covered the minimum skin that was required of her to cover.
'This impulsive fool will get us all killed.' Eyeing the Arachne's scaly yet busty upper body, the goblin queen scowled before grimacing at the site of her bloated ugly back. 'How did she even manage to take the minotaur's fancy when her backside is that of an abhorrent bug?'
Hiding her disgust like always, she glared back into the spider queen's eyes.
"I'll ask him, but I don't think I'll be the one coming here to check on you next time," the goblin queen continued, holding her finger stern by the Arachne queen's many eyes. "And if he gets angry, I won't stop him from stomping on all your eggs."
Turning around with a growling sound resonating from under her gritted teeth, the goblin queen made her way back to the frenzied minotaur king.
'Damned if you do, damned if you don't…' Knowing full well that betraying the minotaur king was bound to get her killed, she was trapped in a prison she'd walked into herself. 'If I knew he'd be this useless, I would've mated with a goblin or a slime instead.'
Watching the goblin queen walking away, a tribal blue mark over her green skin caught the Arachne's attention. She kept glaring at the thing until the queen had walked too far off for her to see the mark properly.
"Betraying her dead husband so quickly? How shameful can she be?" Despite resorting to the same means for survival, seeing the symbol of her marriage with the goblin king on her back, the queen of spiders was gravely disappointed.
'And that slutty slime…she's the worst of us all.' The very thought of the queen of slimes made her want to vomit her organs.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢