Chapter 360: Someone Stronger Behind Me
Our passage was far too narrow for hundreds of people to pass through. Even with twenty orcs and twenty Cookie Elves standing staggered in two rows, it was still a bit cramped.
A natural fortress that no one had ever conquered before.
Sure, in the past, enemies strong enough to send Baal running had probably gotten through, but now I was the master of this dungeon, and the defensive formation I had carefully crafted was fully in place.
A passage too narrow for large forces to enter.
Traps rigged so the ceiling could collapse and form partitions when needed.
The legion’s elite soldiers stationed at every critical chokepoint to deal with enemies.
"Trying to bulldoze us with sheer numbers? Have you no shame?!"
"Shut your mouth!"
"Come on, then! Come and get your hearts pierced by our arrows!"
The hostages had to be rescued. But even knowing that, the fear of death made it hard to step forward. Even without their thick shields, the orcs standing planted in place served as powerful shields just by being there.
Thwip thwip thwip thwip!!
The Cookie Elves hiding between the orcs loosed their arrows. The soldiers charging at the front tried desperately to raise their shields and swing their weapons, but it was useless.
"Gurk!"
When they protected their hearts and heads with shields, the elves aimed for other vital spots. Luckily, the Cookie Elves had absolutely no qualms about sniping groins. The soldier whose groin had been pierced collapsed forward onto his knees on the ground.
"You cowardly bastards!"
"If you’re so bothered, then fight dirty yourselves!"
"Archers, fire!"
Levis screamed the order. The archers scrambled to the front line, hiding behind the vanguard soldiers as they raised their bows.
"Loose!"
The blind arrows of the archers, with no specific targets, flew in straight lines. The Cookie Elves who had been about to fire just laughed at the dozens of incoming arrows and adjusted their aim.
"Pick ’em off!"
Thwack thwack!
The iron-tipped arrows and wind arrows collided midair. Naturally, the elves’ wind arrows deflected the arrowheads, and the arrows the humans had shot stuck into the ground at angles.
"Aaargh!!"
The wind arrows grazed over the soldiers’ heads. Not only had the elves precisely hit the arrowheads to ricochet them, they had also performed a stunt of warning shots aimed at the soldiers, and the subjugation force was terrified.
"How dare you wave bows around in front of elves!"
These were people who had drawn bows for at most twenty years, facing those who had done it for centuries.
"Ahem, ahem, Captain Levis of the subjugation force! Listen well!"
Sensing a murderous gaze from somewhere far behind me, I quickly shouted toward the front. Levis was glaring at me ferociously while deflecting wind arrows with her spear.
"You’re far too weak to break through our defensive line! Come back when you’re stronger!"
If we kept up this standoff, only meaningless sacrifices would result. Unfortunately for them, the soldiers who had chased after the hostages were equipped specifically for field combat, and they were woefully underprepared to subjugate a dungeon.
"Trying to breach us without even a priest or a mage? You’re a thousand years too early! Come back after you bring some! Preferably women!"
"Y, you bastard! What do you plan to do if we bring women?!"
"Kill them! In bed!"
At the blunt yet double-meaning remark, the human soldiers’ faces twisted in disgust. They seemed to naturally picture something based on my words and actions, but there was nothing they could do about it.
They had run hard to get here, yet they hadn’t inflicted any damage on our dungeon, and on top of that, they had been blocked at the very entrance. If they wanted a war of attrition, that was only better for us.
’Bodies are piling up on the floor.’
Counting both those killed outside and those killed inside the dungeon, the total had to be at least fifty. Most were green new recruits, two-star types, while the real meat of their force, three to four-star soldiers and adventurers, were hanging back in the rear, playing it safe.
"I’ll give you ten minutes, Levis. This is the last and only chance to retreat that I’m giving you. If you don’t get out of our dungeon within that time..."
I tapped the front of my pants with my hand.
"I’ll take you all prisoner and stuff you. Regardless of gender. Heh heh heh."
At my words, the soldiers’ faces went pale. The subjugation force’s morale had dropped to rock bottom, and if we just kept up the standoff like this, the victory was ours. Levis ground her teeth, alternating her sharp glare between me and the soldiers.
"You filthy monsters...!"
’Sorry, but even the time you spend hesitating works in our favor.’
If we were simply plugging up the dungeon, we’d be at a disadvantage, but unfortunately for them, I was running multiple operations simultaneously.
"Hey. How long are you going to keep this up? Huh? Ah, never mind. I’m getting really bored, so..."
I tapped the system window. Just keeping up the standoff was fine, but the Cookie Elves still had plenty of stamina left. The orcs, too, had only suffered minor injuries or fatigue; none were seriously wounded or dead.
’This is the best way to provoke an enemy.’
[Shaitan, bring ’that one’ here.]
[Preparations are done. I’ll send an orc.]
It was a tried-and-true method, and at the same time, the best way to throw enemies into shock and terror. As I issued the order to Shaitan through the system window, an orc from the reserve unit waiting in the cavity beyond the passage appeared, gripping a leather leash.
"Boys, make way."
The Cookie Elves and orcs split to the left and right. In the space wide enough for one person to pass, behind the newly appeared orc, a disheveled blonde woman was crawling on all fours like a dog.
"..."
Levis’s expression went cold. The soldiers behind her gaped in shock. I took the leash from the orc and yanked it up hard.
"Hngk!"
The blonde woman lifted her head, tears streaming down her face. With her haggard appearance, she wore a leather bra and panties with the leash tied to her, and on her head sat a dog-eared headband.
"Let me introduce you. What’s your name?"
"I, I am... hngk...!"
The woman dropped her head with a grief-stricken face. The self-loathing of being treated as less than human in front of others, the shame of having her nearly naked body exposed in front of so many people, and the terror of knowing she’d die if she didn’t follow my orders all radiated from her entire body.
"...Master’s puppy...!"
"Good, well said. Now you should wag your tail, shouldn’t you?"
"H, here...?!"
"Yes. Make sure they can see you clearly."
With a face full of despair, the woman thrust her rear toward the soldiers. On her behind, a dog tail made of worwolf fur was attached. Naturally, its end had been molded from hardened slime jelly into an anal plug.
"Hah, hah..."
The woman wagged her hips side to side, breathing heavily. The tail dangling down swayed left and right in time with the movement of her behind.
"Harder!"
Crack. I struck the woman’s behind with a leather riding crop. Thanks to the fact that more area was exposed than covered, a deep red line formed on her white bottom.
"Is that what you call wagging?! Do you want to go back to the ranch?!"
"I, I’m sorry! Please, not the ranch, please! Hngk, hngk...!"
The woman bowed her head low to the ground and began to sob. At the sound of her crying, Levis, who had been glaring at me, swung her spear violently. The orc beside me hurriedly raised an iron shield.
CLANG!!
An impact strong enough to dent the shield erupted. As dust rained down from the ceiling, I let out an admiring gasp.
"A powerful blow. To shoot divine power like that from such a distance, no less. Though it missed!"
As I humiliated a human, Levis gripped her spear shaft with trembling hands. Some of the soldiers were taken aback by her sudden attack, but the long-range strike imbued with divine power seemed to speak for the feelings of Levis and the subjugation force.
’Rage at seeing a fellow human being humiliated by monsters.’
It wasn’t just humiliation; it was the look of sexual abuse that had set them off. In particular, among the adventurers in the back, the women had turned their faces away and were covering their eyes and ears even in the middle of battle.
’They have no idea this is consensual play.’
"Hngk, h... hngk...!"
The woman wagged her hips side to side, smiling. Even so, the sound she made was still crying, and with her humiliating gestures and trembling hands, anyone would have seen her as a woman being violated.
"The captain of the subjugation force who came to rescue you just attacked me. As a fellow human, what do you think of that?"
"I... I think she has committed a sin punishable by death."
"Krrk! Stop it! Don’t insult her any further than that!"
Levis shouted desperately, swinging her spear. But this time, the arrow-like spearhead of divine power didn’t even reach the shield.
CLANG!!
A wind arrow flying from deep within the dungeon traced an arc and intercepted Levis’s spearhead. Levis’s eyes darted left and right with a look of disbelief on her face.
"H, how...?!"
"Why? Surprised that someone could parry the attack of a five-star like you? Heh heh heh."
"Y, you didn’t do that! There’s someone stronger than you behind you!"
"Whoops, you caught me."
A chocolate scent far richer than the Cookie Elves’ tickled my nose. I had asked her to guard the first basement floor, but apparently she had gotten worried and come up briefly.
[She says she’ll provide covering fire from a distance where she can’t be seen. Don’t worry.]
"...Right. It’s not time to show all our cards yet."
The misunderstanding that there was someone stronger than me was within the range of what I’d planned for. But coming up to support me despite my orders was impertinent, so I’d have to punish her instead with a doggy style switched to side-lying.
’And I’ll handle Levis’s punishment too.’
Grip.
I clutched the woman’s leash. Then I grabbed her hair.
"A sin committed by a human must be atoned for by a human. So, how will you atone?"
"...I’ll service Master in apology."
The woman knelt before me. I parted my robe to either side and pulled out my goods. My massively oversized cock, still a bit soft since it wasn’t fully erect, but even in that state thicker and longer than the erect members of most humans, made its appearance.
"Y, you, you, you, you...!"
’Pointing at me with your finger while not even looking away. No, you’re trying to attack.’
Levis swung her spear again with a fierce expression. The direction the spearhead was flying was none other than past the kneeling blonde woman’s neck, toward my cock.
"Where do you think you’re aiming!"
CLANG!!
Another ricochet. The divine power spearhead bounced off and fell to the ground before it could reach me. The divine power spearhead flickered near the soles of my feet, but since it didn’t hit, that was fine.
"Trying to enjoy myself here and you keep interfering! Fine, that’s it! Levis’s crime, you’ll atone for it!"
"What?! That’s preposter, kyaaa?!"
I forcibly lifted the woman up. I’d intended to slowly build up the shock by showing them a tip-kiss, but the subjugation force was already plenty riled up. They had been furious from the moment I dragged the woman in by the leash.
’Imagining their own family in this state would make them furious.’
Since I had personally shown them how prisoners of our legion were treated, their rage was understandable.
It was clearly different from those who had been sexually aroused during the Ras Vegas siege. Their excitement wasn’t sexual; it was true rage and bloodlust born from a desire for revenge.
A dangerous situation where they looked ready to charge at any moment.
"But a fire truck doesn’t stop even at a red light. Once a man drops his pants, he’s gotta bust a nut and pull them back up!"
I lowered my hand to the woman’s crotch and spread the leather garment open to either side. The outfit was designed to open at the crotch in the first place, with leather straps fastened at the pubic bone, leaving her sex completely exposed.
"M, Master...?"
The woman, Lily, looked up at me with anxious eyes. We had already done this on top of the wall before, but right now we were facing death right before our eyes. Just as the enemies were feeling the terror of death, Lily was trembling instinctively at the threat of death.
"Don’t worry. Even if I die, I won’t let you die."
I whispered softly so they couldn’t hear and pulled Lily into a tight embrace. I lifted one of her legs and hooked my arm through it, lowered my hips, and aligned my tip below Lily’s entrance.
"Behold, humans! This is the fate of those who invade our dungeon!"
Squelch.
I plunged into Lily. The moment I entered her, Lily threw her head back, and I pulled her waist toward me and stepped backward, both so she could feel reassured and yet as roughly as if I were using a sex toy.
Thrust thrust thrust thrust.
I pounded into Lily while taunting Levis with my eyes.
Will you charge in? Will you just stand there and watch? Or will you retreat?
If you keep dithering around, I’ll keep ravishing the prisoner this whole time. Acting, but still.
"All forces, charge!!"
Levis’s choice was to charge. I smiled and snapped my fingers.
"Sorry about that."
The Cookie Elves leaped over the orcs and burst forward. Then they raised their bows.
"Everything has its order, and there’s a proper sequence to dungeon raiding too."
Rumble rumble rumble.
Mounds of dirt began to collapse from the ceiling. From the entrance to the entire passage we were defending, everything slowly began to cave in.
"You’ve got some nerve trying to hit the main base first. Conquer Ras Vegas first. Wouldn’t it be a shame to skip the mid-bosses and come straight for the final boss?"
"Retreat!!"
Levis’s judgment was swift. The subjugation force was already scattering and fleeing in panic. Even as she pulled her forces back, Levis glared at me until the very end and leveled her spearhead at me.
"You, I will absolutely kill you."
"Heh heh heh. There’s something I’ve always wanted to say back to guys who say things like that."
I lifted Lily’s hips, pulled my cock out, and aimed the tip at Levis. Thanks to her having invaded the dungeon, the system was giving me her basic information, however briefly.
Levis Ann.
★★★★★☆.
Lv.92.
"You, I will absolutely fuck."
