Episode 63: Human Ranch
Episode 63: Human Ranch
"What's going on?"
We arrived at the meeting place.
A trendy café closest to Seol-hwa's house.
"Can we talk just between us?"
Seo-ah spoke while looking directly at me.
"No time. Just say it."
I needed to return quickly to educate the newly born goblins.
"Mother mentioned it. Doppelgangers suspected worldwide are entering Korea."
She explained with a quiet sigh.
The faint smile on Seo-ah's face suggested she felt pleased about receiving praise from Sword Queen.
"Oh? Then we should hurry our defenses."
Seemed that god bastard finally had fire at his feet.
Acting so brazenly when he should be hiding in the shadows.
"Defenses? What defenses?"
"Defenses to protect my kingdom. You're coming too. I'll show you something."
We left the café.
Returned home.
"Been a while since you've been here, right?"
We descended to the basement.
The passageway to my kingdom awaited here.
"Tch, I guess?"
Lee Seo-ah gritted her teeth.
She'd gotten cocky lately without proper discipline.
"Come in. I'll show you the kingdom I built."
I opened the door leading to the dungeon.
A rift formed in midair.
A miniature version of the typical Dimensional Gate.
"What's this?"
"What do you think? My private dungeon acquired recently."
I forcibly shoved the bewildered Lee Seo-ah through the gate.
"This is... a subway? Which station is this? Did a place like this exist?"
Seo-ah panicked.
Toilet entrances lined the corridor in perfect rows.
No subway in the world looked like this.
"The real entrance is here. Follow me."
I'd configured it so arrivals from Seol-hwa's house would always land at the trap zone.
Leading Seo-ah forward, I opened the inner gateway.
"Where is this?"
A clearing the size of a school athletic field spread before us.
Goblins scurried busily across the space.
Dungeon's first underground level.
Officially designated the Anthill Sector.
Giant cave-like openings pierced all four walls of the clearing.
"This is the forge. Goblins with exceptional craftsmanship make weapons here."
We entered the northern cave first.
Scorching heat made the air shimmer.
Clang. Clang. Clang.
The rhythmic hammering of metal echoed through the vast space.
Among the subjugated dungeons, one produced flame stones.
Demon stones emitted tremendous heat when specially processed.
This conveniently allowed forge construction.
"Why... make weapons?"
Seo-ah stared at the weapon piles stacked in the corner.
Easily numbering in the hundreds.
"To create treasure chests and place them throughout the labyrinth?"
"Labyrinth?"
"Yes, labyrinth. The forge isn't our only facility. West side has an alchemy workshop, east has a magic workshop crafting artifacts. Quality isn't top-tier due to skill limitations though."
I explained each cave's purpose in turn.
The southern cave received bait caught in traps.
Given time, the dungeon would expand further.
"Next floor... is a massive farm. Had to build it with our growing monster population."
We descended to underground level two.
The space doubled in size.
Vast fields dominated the area.
Goblins diligently tilled the soil.
"Planning to raise livestock later. If space and another issue get resolved."
I intended to breed livestock if problems were solved.
Through repeated modifications, we could create demonic beasts farmable within dungeons.
I'd already selected two suitable species.
Rabbit-type monsters and pig-type demons would suffice.
"What issue?"
"I'll show you the final floor."
I suppressed a smile.
Escorting Lee Seo-ah downward.
A crimson crystal dominated the central chamber.
Its red glow illuminated the spacious room.
"This chamber holds the Dungeon Core. Detailed functions can wait."
"You left the core here? Are you insane?"
Seo-ah's concern showed she'd grown attached.
Our bond strengthening pleased me.
"That's why I'm building a massive labyrinth upstairs."
Repeating what the doppelganger god did to me.
Though unlike him, I didn't plan to kill people.
"What..."
Seo-ah seemed half-conscious with shock.
"Let me reveal the dungeon's true nature."
I demonstrated the dungeon's real power.
A perfect doppelganger of Lee Seo-ah emerged from the core.
"Using these to replace people entering the labyrinth."
"For what purpose?"
Horrified, Seo-ah demanded answers.
"To expand our Dick house network, obviously."
The momentous occasion arrived.
"Welcome Master. Here are yesterday's newborn monster counts."
Seol-hwa, who'd descended earlier, handed me an A4 document.
Goblins - 10
Slimes - 30
Impressive birthing numbers for one day.
The Dick houses had worked diligently.
"Good. Shall we replenish traits now?"
Entering the ranch pen in the corner.
"Please stop..."
"Enough..."
Sobbing voices reached us.
Gulp.
Seo-ah swallowed nervously.
"Ta-da! My personal ranch."
Lights illuminated the ranch.
Attached to a lower abdomen was part of myself.
A clone designed solely for sex without trait installation.
This allowed infinite trait implantation and monster production.
"Normal pregnancy takes too long. Hence this solution."
Tentacles pistoned like machinery.
Suddenly stopping.
White fluid gushed forth.
"Oooh, cream pie. Cream pie."
The sight resembled a cream pie.
The Dick house's belly rapidly swelled.
Sploosh.
Two goblins entered the world.
Instinctively suckling breast milk.
Birth completed faster than instant food.
A healing slime emerged to treat the Dick house.
"Hiiik! Stop... stop sucking my breasts."
The milk feeding ended.
But dozens more goblins awaited their turn.
A goblin headbutted her chest.
Sluurp. Sluurp.
Suckling sounds echoed through the ranch.
"Uuugh."
Goblins unable to reach breasts thrust into her ass and mouth.
Though not fully mature, their ability to copulate proved goblins truly were princes of lust.
"Wanted to give rest periods, but current numbers are too low."
I'd planned three-day recovery periods between breeding cycles.
But completing the labyrinth quickly required more effort from them.
"When more Dick houses join, we'll compartmentalize zones."
Recovery rooms for rapid healing.
Planned specialized zone management through division.
"Won't too many monsters cause rebellion?"
Ah, that concern?
Already anticipated.
"Don't worry. I possess perfect control over them."
I'd attached clones to every newborn monster.
Clone-controlled monsters could never disobey me.
"Help me... hyaak!"
A pleading Dick house reached climax.
Love juice gushed forth.
Forming puddles on the floor.
"..."
Seo-ah averted her eyes.
She didn't protest or call this wrong.
Though not to Seol-hwa's degree, she'd already fallen into my grasp.
"Good. Let's go out. One last thing to show."
Returned to the core chamber.
"An earlier unmentioned function. Like a monitoring room, it shows each dungeon sector."
A screen materialized before Lee Seo-ah.
Displaying the subway restroom's interior.
People worked unaware of being observed.
"Someone interesting here."
A girl Seo-ah's age entered the restroom.
Perfect chance to demonstrate trap mechanics.
Time to pull her into the dungeon.
She entered a toilet stall.
I immediately triggered the trap.
Without warning, she teleported into the dungeon.
'What? Why won't it flush?'
Panicking when the water didn't drain.
"Hmm... shall we collect our trapped toy?"
I grabbed a cleaning slime.
Slimes simplified cleanup without manual effort.
"Wait!"
Lee Seo-ah shouted.
"What? You know her?"
"She's my university classmate."
Her comment jogged my memory.
A student from their same project group.
Name was probably Lee Hah-yul.
"Ah, right. Busy lately, forgot."
A month's passage had blurred her face in my memory.
"...What will you do? I'll follow your lead this time."
I tested Seo-ah's intentions.