122: Dungeon (1)

Chapter 122: Dungeon (1)

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The golden light engulfed Neji entirely and the light caused his vision to be too bright for him to see. In that soundless space, Neji stood for a few seconds before his vision slowly returned.

“My liege.” A woman, who was kneeling and yet was as tall as him, spoke with her head raised. “Welcome back.”

Murcia, the green-skinned ogre woman, said and waited for Neji to respond.

Neji nodded, his sight clear now, and spoke. “How long has it been?”

“Only a second, as usual.”

It’s only been a second since Neji had last left this world, though he had spent two weeks in the outside world.

“I see, good.” Neji nodded and gestured for Mursha to stand up. 

Kurai jumped from his shoulders and hopped above Mursha’s head.

“Papa, take mommy out!” Kurai said. “She must be suffocating!”

“Okay, okay, give me a second,” Neji said and opened his inventory, where he could see Kimi’s face on one of the slots, looking like a Profile Picture. He shoved his hand inside that slot, his hand going through Kimi’s face before he pulled out her unconscious body and softly placed her on the ground.

It worked!

Mursha looked stunned.

‘Such high-class spatial magic... Truly, High-Humans are something else.’ She nodded to herself. It was a wise choice to follow Neji. But she was curious about something?

“My liege, if you don’t mind me asking, who is this Demi?”

Demi was a term used for Demi-Humans. From the looks of the woman lying down, wearing maid clothes, she was a Cat-Human.

“...Is she a maid from your plane?” Mursha asked carefully. Monsters hated Demis because they hunted monsters and saw them as nothing but lower life-forms. But Mursha wouldn’t dare to say something dumb if this maid was Neji’s own maid. She knew he might have made love with her, but that wouldn’t stop him from killing her if she were to misbehave. He was more of a monster than her sometimes.

“She’s my maid, and she’s my lover too,” Neji said as he crouched down and tapped her neck. “Be sure to treat her like how you would my own wife.”

Mursha’s body trembled in shock as she gulped and straightened her back. “Y-yes, of course my liege!”

Kurai gave a cat-like chuckle from above her head while Neji gave the last tap on Kimi’s neck.

There was a jolt as Kimi jumped up with a gasp. Neji moved away, barely avoiding a clash of heads, and Kimi’s wide eyes started to look around.

Her shocked eyes became curious and the curious eyes became surprised.

“This looks like the basement of some monster village…” She spoke, her eyes running around before they stopped on Mursha’s feet. Slowly, her eyes squinted up Mursha’s legs, her thighs, her abdomen, her overly large chest, and finally, it landed on her scary face.

“Uh… is that a monster girl?” She suddenly sniffed the air, her nose twitching. “This scent… this is the same scent you return with every now and then after school.”

Kimi turned her head to Neji, looking as if she had just solved a mystery. “Wait, so there are living beings inside this dimension?! That’s incredible!”

“Young master, are there-” She tried to stand up but stumbled on her dress. Neji caught her before she could fall down and placed her straight. 

Kimi cleared her throat. “That was embarrassing as a retired Pro Hero… erhm.”

Neji laughed and shoved his hand inside his inventory. “That’s because you’re wearing your maid dress. How about you wear this?” He took out a medieval armour for females and reached it out to Kimi.

Kimi slowly accepted the armour with impressed eyes. “Oh… wow… So you do have everything on your Pocket Dimension as you claim?”

Mursha was again shocked. ‘Pocket Dimension…? Only Class-8 Mages and above can make such things.' She stared at Neji in awe and again realized her smart choice to follow him.

While Mursha was staring at Neji, Kimi stared at her. “Um, can you turn around? I want to change.”

Mursha immediately turned around and climbed the ladder of the basement, saying. “I am just above the door, call me whenever you need me.”

With that, she shut the door close above and let Neji and Kimi have some quiet time since Mursha had taken Kurai up too, who was resting on top of her head.

Kimi quickly undressed and started wearing her armour. She had never worn such a thing, and nor did Neji since he just had to click ‘Equip’ to wear these armours. So the two of them spent around 10 minutes making Kimi wear the armour.

At last, scratching his chin, Neji whistled as he watched her. “Wow, you look gorgeous.”

Kimi smiled. “Oh, thank you. But is this necessary? It’s not exactly heavy, but it’s still uncomfortable since I’ve never worn such a thing before. Not like we’re gonna fight or anything…”

“About that…” Neji trailed off. “I guess it’s time for me to confess. Well, I have to fight monsters of many kinds to get all the magic items I bring out.”

“...”

“Monsters that can kill me.”

Kimi stayed silent and only stared at him.

Slowly, she raised her hand to her head and massaged her temple. “Oh, well. It’s not as if I can stop you… Guess this is why you didn’t bring Momo or Nejire?”

Neji nodded. “There is a reason why I am so obsessed with these magic items, and I don’t want to uncover that reason yet, which means Momo and Nejire are better to stay out of this since they’re annoying and you’re not.”

Kimi stayed silent for a while and sighed. “Oh well, whatever. Just tell me what I am to do here, and I will try to do so.”

Neji smiled at that. “Try saying ‘Status’. If anything forms in front of your eyes, tell me.”

“Okay.” Kimi nodded. “Status.”

Seconds passed and Kimi only blinked. “Status?”

From her confused tone, Neji realised that this didn’t work.

‘Oh well… Even if she’s inside a dimension created by the System, her existence should still not be suitable to form a status.’

He had honestly expected this much.

“Was… something supposed to happen?” Kimi scratched her head. 

“Anyway, it doesn’t work so don’t think too much of it.” Neji shrugged. “I brought you here for something else anyway.”

He then turned his head upwards on the entrance outside the basement. “Mursha, open the door.”

Mursha did so and after a while, Neji and Kimi walked outside the basement and now stood in the King’s house. This was Mursha’s home once, but it wasn’t in any way something that could be called a house. But Neji had built a proper building with wood. Now, this was a two-story wooden building with a proper washroom and multiple bedrooms.

But that was all on the second floor. On the first floor, there was a pseudo-Throne Room, though for now, only a large throne made of white marble existed on the warmly lit up empty room.

“Mursha,” Neji sat down on the throne, in front of Kimi who whistled at him. “Call the best healer and mage we have.”

“As you wish, my liege.”

She turned and walked away in heavy footsteps.

Kimi, observing the room and Neji, finally spoke. “So you’re making some kind of monster kingdom in this place? Kinda cool. Did you fu- sleep, sleep with that woman?”

Kimi corrected herself, noticing Kurai sitting on the arm of the throne. The cat tilted her head at her stutter but didn’t bother more than 2 seconds as she started to scratch the back of her ear.

“Well, yeah, I guess. I have around 21 people under me, all females since the dudes died in a recent attack against Cyclops. Orcs and Ogres, all females. I think I should hire some more, though.” Neji said. “I have slept with exactly every one of them, too.”

“Ohhh, I see, I see.” Kimi chewed on her lips, but again noticing Kurai, she decided to change the subject. “So, uh, you don’t have a queen? I am asking because I see no throne for a queen.”

Neji stared at her, at her face that was slowly growing red. ‘Is she getting wet thinking I have a Queen?’

She was too far gone at this point. But she needed to feel superior to at least these monster girls. She was far far more important to him than them.

“Well,” Neji slid his hand inside his inventory and yanked out another marble throne, placing it beside the one he was sitting on using his telekinesis. “You’re my queen, are you not?” He asked. “Come, sit down.”

“Uh…” Kimi blinked, her face losing the blush as she stared at him dazed for a moment before giggling with a much harsher blush. “Stop being corny. Okay, I will stop being so down bad, at least in this dimension.”

Neji smiled at her as she slowly walked and sat on the throne beside him. “But, my attire is kinda more like a Knight’s, no?”

Neji shrugged. “True, true. You want a royal milf queen dress? I have a few of-”

Before he could finish speaking, Mursha returned with two Orcs beside her. “My liege, I am not interrupting something, am I?”

She spoke while the two Orcs behind her stared at Kimi’s throne with a shocked expression. They exchanged some words between them and stretched their bodies to present themselves in front of the new woman who seemed to be their Queen.

“No, you’re not,” Neji replied. “I was just exchanging some jokes with your Queen here.”

“Ah… I see.” Mursha nodded and kneeled silently.

That was a gesture that she had nothing else to say anymore, which Neji accepted and looked at the two Orc women. The Orc women were green-skinned, too. It seemed to be an evolution that Orcs gained at Level 100, where their pink skin changed to green. The two women in front of him were respectively [Level 114] and [Level 103], so they had experienced this evolution.

This also made them more beautiful than before, and for reference, the woman on the right looked exceptionally charming. 

Around her short and petite stature, she wore a green dress with golden outline, which tightly covered her medium sized breasts. Around her head, a golden thread was weaved along her hair, while two white flowers were tucked beside her ears. She didn’t have a pig nose, and instead had normal human-like nose. 

She was the mage, also known as ‘The Witch’ by the villagers here. 

Neji recognised her from before. He inclined his head to her and the healer. “Good to see you two again. Let me cut to the chase. Can you two heal mental wounds?”

The two girls exchanged glances. “Mental wounds…? Can you kindly elaborate, my liege?”

“It’s a trauma,” Neji replied. “Can you guys cure trauma? I know both of you were at your 90s Level, back then you couldn’t even regrow a missing limb. But now that you have evolved, are you confident in curing a long, 13 years old, trauma?”

Both of the women sheepishly scratched the back of their heads. The mage girl talked first. “Um, I am not really good at healing magic, let alone mental magic. So I, unfortunately, don’t even have an idea on how to cure this.”

Kimi was silently listening to them, curious, as she spoke. “Wait, so they are magicians? Does magic exist in this place?”

Then again, she was seeing talking orcs and ogres, so it shouldn’t be that shocking.

Neji nodded his head, answering to both Kimi and the orc mage. Then, he turned his head to the healer. “You have any idea?”

The healer slowly shook her head too. “No… Unfortunately, I can’t do mental magic. In fact, only the Demis should have spells to cure a 13-year-old trauma. I am really sorry.”

She dipped her head to the ground again, joining the orc mage.

Neji sighed at that. “Welp, guess that’s it.” 

Until the 4th floor, the dungeon only covers the great jungle. On the 5th floor, it goes underground and Neji doesn’t know what exists there. So the earliest he could meet any Demi should be when he steps in Floor-6, but that would take at least a few months in this dungeon-time.

He was about to talk again, but he noticed Mursha looking at him with a strange light in her eyes. “What is it, Mursha?”

“My liege, if it’s about mind magic… I have an idea.” Mursha said. “I have told you about the Four Great Beasts, right? In this southern part of the great jungle, the Great White Tiger resides. According to the rumours, the White Tiger is most proficient in mental spells.”

She was suggesting Neji should kill the White Tiger. In this world, killing someone didn’t turn them into light particles, like other dungeons. They also didn’t drop loot. But from what Neji had heard, the Great Beasts do turn into light particles and drop loots, and after a certain time, they also respawn.

“Interesting…” Neji slowly scratched his chin. “Guess we got a little cat to hunt.”

A cat that could probably one-shot the weakened All Might.

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