Chapter 12:

 Welcome, Dhelpra and Dinaka

And so, we now had two new members to the party.

After fucking and a quick nap, I woke up to my arms holding two naked Dhelpra and Dinaka, clinging to my body. I was naked as well and was covered in dry sweat. 

I felt relaxed and mellow. 

I noticed Albana in the other bed looking over at me.

“Hey zemra, these two want to join our party,” I said to her. “What’s your names?” I asked them.

“I’m Dhelphra and she’s Dinaka, meow.”

“You guys actually came at a good time. Albana and I were looking for new members, right Albana?”

“Y-Yes,” Albana said. She seemed to be shy.

“We didn’t say we wanted to join your party, but we will do as shief says, meow,” Dinaka said.

“I guess we have to drop out of school and send a message back to the company, meow,” Dhelpra said. 

So they were students, I thought. 

That explained the school uniforms. They were dressed in white polos and black skirts. I especially liked the skirts since it exposed their sexy thighs.

“You will keep your uniforms on, but we have to gear you up. From our fight I’m guessing you guys aren’t mages, so I’ll have you be frontal swordswomen in the formation when we go dungeon diving,” I said. 

I stood up and took the two long swords and gave one to each of them. I also took the extra armour and gave it to them. 

“I’ll stick to my Imagination Magic from now on since I’m better at that than swordsmanship, though I will always keep my machete and three daggers one me for emergencies. We only have one extra armour, so we’ll need to go shop for one more set. Or two actually, I think Albana should have one too. By the way, are you two good with swords?”

“Yes of course! We are the strongest in our tribe after our brothers, meow,” Dhelpra said.

“Mire, mire… I think with you two added to our party, we should be able to defeat the floor boss on Floor 11,” I said.

***

Mehmet

I am in chains right now. 

I have no idea where we are headed. I am naked and in a prison carriage with other captured Dukagjinians. There are no windows so we can’t see where we are. 

I should have listened to Arben…

After Arben that fucking mutt stole my Riding Lizard, I made my way back to the village. 

What I saw there was horrendous. 

From the bushes, I saw all the men, even boys and baby boys, gathered up and killed. Their corpses were put into big piles but not burned. 

I then saw all the women gathered and shipped away. The entire village was stripped of everything valuable, but all the buildings were kept intact. 

I kept spying on the soldiers for hours. Many times I wanted to attack and kill them, but there were too many. An entire army.

I kept observing them, trying to be smart like Arben and gather information. 

Although these people were disgusting and brutal, they were very organised and tactical. 

Eventually I saw what they used the dead bodies for: They cut down all the trees. Then they dug all the corpses evenly across all the deforested fields. They were using my brothers and father and clan members as fertilizers.

The looting was organised. Not once did I see a soldier steal an object from the village for himself. All the loot was simply put into one big pile and transported away. 

There were men, women, and even children and old people, organising all the looting. It was such a shocking sight to me.

I hid in the bushes until night. 

I got really hungry, so I tried to sneak in the village to get some food. 

How fucking stupid of me. 

Immediately I was spotted and they sounded the alarm. 

I barely made it away without getting caught, and was now running for my life. It was pure luck that while fleeing, the Riding Lizard’s didn’t spot me. I made sure to cover myself in mud to mask my scent, so that helped.

I walked for days and days.

 I knew I needed to get out of Hazani territory. 

And while I was walking, the sight was depressing: Neighbouring villages that used to be so lively were desolate, completely looted and with no people except for a few soldiers left.

 Even when I thought I was out of Hazani territory, I kept finding desolate villages and hid in the forest to avoid getting caught. 

I ate fruits and berries and killed many monsters while walking. 

Eventually I made it to a small village in Gjakova territory. The people there were very kind to me. 

They told me the news about what had happened with Slobden the Evil, and the complete annihilation of South Dukagjina. And about the war concession. 

Upon hearing that the people from Gjakova weren’t going to fight out of fear, I was enraged.

That night, when I was finally sleeping in a bed for the first time since the destruction of my village, we were attacked by slave catchers. 

I tried to defend me and the people who had taken me in, but the slave-catchers were too strong and fast. 

They were completely different from the slave-catchers I had encountered when my village was attacked once. These slave-catchers moved in formations of three: One mage, one shield-bearer, and one man with a magic entanglement net. 

I was easily overpowered and knocked out. 

When I woke up, I was in this prison carriage, on my way to god knows where.

I hope Arben is still alive and doing better, that fucking bastard.

***

Arben

“How do I look in this, meow?” Dhelpra said. 

I had given Dinaka the spare armour. We were now looking for some new armour a special chest plate for Dhelpra because her boobs were too big.

“I think shief approves, meow, I can smell sexual arousal from him,” Dinaka said.

“Okay, we’ll take this one, now hurry up. We need to eat breakfast as well,” I said.

“Oh, can we eat meat, meow?” Dhelpra said.

    “No, meat is for special occasions. And it’s expensive” I said. But then she and Dinaka started pouting and gave me puppy eyes and grabbed my arms and squeeze their boobs on me. I saw Albana get flustered from this.

    “Okay okay, we can pick up some qebapa, but only a little!” I said.

    “Thank you shief, meow!” they said.

We bought the armour for Dhelpra and also bought some light armour for Albana to wear beneath her robe. 

After Dhelpra and Dinaka finished draining my wallet eating all that meat, we finally made our way to the dungeon. 

After a few hours we were back on the 11th floor.

 I was in the rear looking over everyone. 

Albana was in the center protected by everyone and mapping and providing support magic. 

Dhelpra and Dinaka were in the front as swordsmen. 

It would have been more ideal to place me in the center, but after the attack from behind last time, I was not willing to risk Albana’s life. And I could simply fly above everyone and fire spells, though I still had trouble keeping balance firing and flying at the same time.

“We should be able to find the floor boss this time,” Albana said.

“Floor bosses always drop good loot, meow,” Dinaka said.

“So you guys have been dungeon diving before?“ I said.

 “Of course shief, meow. Though our parents forced us to only do it part time and focus on school, meow.”    

“Oh, okay,” I said. “By the way, sorry about your brothers. They were trying to kill me so I had no choice.”

Then Dhelpra said, “No worries, meow. They died because you were stronger. The strongest deserve to live and the weak die, meow.” 

This comment shocked me. 

Since I had never met any beast people back in Dukagjina, I had no knowledge about their culture. I later learned beastfolk were very ‘survival of the fittest’ oriented, and had strict hierarchies based on strength. 

They are also very loyal people. In the 5 Year Lufte they were valueable allies and were essential for my victories.

***

After fighting many Fireants, we eventually made our way to the boss room. 

It was a huge room. 

And in it were dozens of huge red Fireants, and one big fat Queen Fireant who was the boss.

“Eew, she looks so disgusting,” Albana said. 

It had this huge white stomach.

“Everyone get behind me! I will fire the first shot from a distance. Then the Fireants will attack me. Dhelpra and Dinaka, only go in front of me to attack once the Fireants are about to reach me.”

“Yes shief,”  Dhelpra and Dinaka said. 

“Yes Arben,” Albana said.

I wondered what the best spell would be. 

I was also worried about getting attacked from behind. So I made a big earthwall behind us. Of course the fireants could tunnel through it, but it would take them some time and I would hear them. 

I had tried not using fire attacks because I wanted to not repeat the same mistake from the 10th floor. Also because these tunnels were small and I didn’t want to kill us with smoke poisoning. 

But I deemed this room big enough. 

I put out my hands, and started loading up a huge Fireball. I made this one bigger than any I had ever made before. It was about two times the size of my body. I could even  hear the girls behind me gasping. 

I fired.

A sneak attack from about 50 meters away. 

It landed directly on the Queen Fireant. 

A huge explosion followed and the shockwave pushed us back.

When the smoke cleared, I had killed the queen and the rest of her soldiers were blown to pieces.

“Oh qyche, what the…” Albana said. 

Everyone was in shock, me included. 

I should watch out how much mana I put into my attacks in the future, I thought. That fireball could have easily brought down this entire room.

“Shief is so strong, meow!” Dhelpra said.

***