118 Epilogue
Styx had miraculously survived but suffered great losses from this war. The entire landscape had changed, which brought more than a mild amount of curiosity from the remaining dungeon residents, who were used to seeing a forest but were now welcomed by endless fields of wheat.
"ROARRRR!!!" The sky itself quivered as a might roar sounded out and an enormous serpent like eastern dragon appeared from the horizon and swam in circles in the air above Styx, Spider and Aura.
The dragon had a grand white mane of hair around its neck the swayed in the wind. Beside the dragon was a woman with long and straight pitch-black hair, her fringe cut at her brow. On her back were two pairs of wings covered in equally black feathers.
The fallen angel was but a tiny black speck next to the colossal dragon's body, but her presence was equally distinct.
Dragon descended from the sky, tiny wisps of white flame sprouting on his body and causing it to slowly fall apart like ash in the wind. His human form, somehow already clothed, descended in front of Styx alongside Loreley.
"I am soo sorry," Dragon said in a sarcastic tone, leaving Styx unsure how to react to his words. "Once that temporal barrier was erected, it was all over in an instant. Nothing I could do even if I wanted to."
He then looked at Spider, who was standing behind the dungeon lord both protectively and obsessively whilst glaring at him with a threat gaze.
"The womanizing dungeon pockets another Monster Lord of the Abyssal Forest. I'm shocked and frightened, perhaps I will be next?"
Styx knew that he had an inability to speak in the correct tone, so he didn't take offense to what only appeared to be mocking words.
"I have no interest in men."
As the Monster Lord ran his fingers through the air, they morphed into claws that silently severed several invisible and razor sharp spiderweb threads blocking the path between him and Styx.
Loreley on the other hand, had a face much more stern and strict than usual.
"Who, no, what was it that appeared as the barrier burst. It felt… odd."
Styx wore a broad grin as he curled his finger, indicating the overly strict fallen angel to approach him.
"Closer… no, closer…"
Lorely unhesitatingly walked closer and closer, eventually becoming within arms reach of him while Spider oddly didn't try prevent her. Styx shot out his hand his grasp her modest breasts through her clothes, but her hand leisurely rose and caught his wrist.
He tried with his other hand, but it was caught just as casually. Her wide crown-like halo began rotating faster while she gave him a reproachful look.
"What do you think you are doing?"
"Surely you didn't expect me to tell you for free, right?"
"My body is off limits?"
"Oh? Then I won't tell."
"Very well."
Styx was taken aback. He had thought this information was important to her and was looking to extract some casual benefits. She wasn't playing along and stoically denied him though, even no longer asking for information.
"Tch, it is just a quick feel. Weren't the other angels coming later going to become mine? We can be considered partners already."
"Not all angels are the same," Loreley casually responded whilst releasing his wrists and backing away.
"You can feel my chest instead," Dragon stated and stepped forward, causing Styx's expression to fall.
"I'm not interested in men's chests."
"Are you sure? They are quite firm, if I say so myself."
"DEATH!"
Unable to restrain herself any longer, Spider lost control and attacked Dragon like a berserker, still naked and creating a sorry sight for sore eyes as she was immediately beaten back and restricted by Loreley who caused several black rings of light to bind her huge body.
"Calm down, he can feel yours too."
Dragon's words caused Spider to calm down and grab onto Styx from behind as soon as her bindings were released, his head firmly wedged in between her giant breasts whilst he felt the situation was spiralling out of control.
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Styx's new throne room, if he were to call it that, had recently been completed, but he was still cleaning up after the war with the human kingdom he was inside.
The throne room was an enormous, open cavern that was filled with several meters of still water covered in pink and white water lilies. A low bridge just above the water with no railings extended all the way to the centre of this ocean like lake.
White marble tiles covered the walkway and central artificial island construction that was rectangular in shape. Polished black pillars stood around the outside of the platform, whilst a magnificent throne of sharp angles and carvings stood on a raised platform at the far end.
Along the sides in a bowed formation, where thirteen smaller, but equally grandiose thrones for the direct dungeon wives. Spider wasn't an official dungeon wife, so nine of those thrones were currently occupied, the remaining four highly contentious positions.
Styx sat alone at the moment, his only company a pair of highly possessive red eyes on the ceiling looking down at him.
"Spider, come here."
The giant woman dropped down from the ceiling, cracking the newly laid marble tiles from the force of the blow but also demonstrating their strength by not breaking immediately. She was no longer constantly naked, now wearing custom made giant clothes that hugged her figure.
Spider was incredibly picky as to what fabric she would wear, so it was a painful process to make her clothes.
"I have told you my story, what do you think of Anthea and what a god is?"
"She just wants to use you. I will keep her away."
Spider's speech capabilities improved at a rapid pace and she could now speak full sentences cohesively. There were still some issues and complex statements were often broken, but even those were being improved on in an almost inconceivable speed.
"I have already told you that's not the case. Why do I even ask, when you have such terrible opinions of everyone. Aura just wants to eat me, Dragon wants to mate me, Loreley wants to own me, any reason to keep them away."
"They should all stay away."
"Have you decided on a name for yourself?"
"Spider."
"No, something different."
"Styx."
"Also no! Come up with something proper, or I will!"
"Spider."
"Fine, I will think of something then."
Giving up on asking the possessive spider her opinions, he focused on his own thoughts.
He was occupied on what a god was, both the type of god that was common in the divine realm and reached by becoming <Lv. 100>, and the Anthea type of god.
He didn't understand how Anthea was in this world, but the most likely answer was either his old world had merged with this one at some point of time, or a god like Anthea was not bound by world.
She was also able to communicate with him via the global system, but she, or one of the other gods, only answered one question of his.
"Where is my home world?"
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You are currently in it.
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Perhaps that meant the Maple Dragon Kingdom is his original world in the distant future after merging with the infinite myriad world, which he will need to look into the annals of its history to find out.
He had countless other questions that remained unanswered, but he was missing key pieces of information in order to figure them out. What he needed to know more than anything, was what happened in his world between when he died and was reborn as a dungeon.
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The dungeon lost nearly all its combat forces, both monsters and dungeon residents, in the war. This slowed down mining and production considerably whilst also emptying a lot of internal regions of the dungeon.
The residents who had remained in the dungeon as non-combatants and or the final line of defence had been safe due to that protection, but none more so than those who had moved to the newest living district.
The vertical city built on and carved into the wall of the mana shaft was protected by the enormous mana generator and regulator, meaning the residents living there had only felt several small shakes and that was it. The interest of people to live in this area rapidly skyrocketed and there was no home left empty.
The town outside the dungeon had been mostly ruined, as had the one inside of the dungeon. He went to the inner town, where repairs and cleaning work were being rapidly undertaken.
One of the foremen of the area was Piri, the young dark elf girl with light grey skin.
"Hey, hurry up with that wooden beam! I want it put up immediately, these houses need more reinforcement if they are to keep standing! Slave, stop slacking!"
She was both strict and severe, swinging her small fists at anyone who didn't listen to her fast enough. She was weak, but her position in the dungeon was higher than most so they were forced to listen to her orders.
"Future husband, you're here!" Piri did an about face and bounced on her feet before diving into hugging Styx when she saw him approaching, the hug recipient merely rolling his eyes and placing a hand on her head.
"How is the rebuilding?"
"Really well, but they can work harder."
"Don't push people too hard, Piri."
"Okay~"
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"This is impossible!"
Rebecca Euklid staggered and collapsed onto the ground weakly, her legs no longer having the strength to support her.
"I assure you, that is very much the reality," Styx's cold voice echoed in the young duchess' daughter's head. "Your goddess can no longer protect you."
"Do you… not understand what that means?"
"I understand that you had best surrender to me immediately is what that means."
"Goddess Eve was our greatest protection from enemy kingdoms! We only have one god, and she was powerful too! If she is gone…"
"I have already sent someone to pick you up."
As Styx's words finally sank him, Rebecca detected a presence behind her and rapidly turned around. There stood a woman so beautiful everything else in this extravagant room seemed bland in comparison. She had a pair of large wolf ears on top of her head and irises that were like pitch black whirlpools, sucking in all light.
"A-Aura…" She stuttered, instantly recognizing the Monster Lord from her involuntary stay in the dungeon.
"Come."
"P-please, let me contact my mother first."
Upon hearing from Styx, Aura nodded her head and silently walked behind Rebecca as she stood on shaky legs and approached towards where her mother and father's studies were.
Styx's voice sounded in her mind one final time, indicating how serious he was about retaliating against the kingdom.
"With no more goddess to hold me back, I am free to move about as I wish, including my Monster Lords. Your kingdom will come to learn the price of their actions. You will also do as you are told, or you shall be punished. Do you understand?"
"...yes."
Rebecca's words were but a squeak, but her mind was currently in great turmoil. Worst of all was that she felt she couldn't defy Styx even if she had the ability to.
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Attached in paragraph comments is pictures of work station (this is how bright it is when I get home. It looks better in person and during the middle of the day.)
