Chapter 62: To the Labyrinth! (8)
Chapter 62: To the Labyrinth! (8)
Whirring.
To suppress the Rampant Obelisk, Fermaton’s regular knights and adventurers rushed into the Labyrinth.
"All this fuss over a berserk beast from only the 5th floor..."
"Adventurer. Watch your tongue."
"Yeah, yeah. But seriously, it’s only the 5th floor."
Despite the emergency, the hastily assembled subjugation team entered the Labyrinth at a fairly leisurely pace.
The 5th floor.
A depth even greenhorn adventurers could reach in no time.
No matter how much of a berserk entity appeared there, it would still be weaker than the average beasts found below the 11th floor. It was likely just a giant monster—large in stature but inefficient to hunt.
"Why don't we just leave it alone and let it spawn some monsters?"
"What?"
"If you leave a Rampant Obelisk be, it'll consume enough to create new monsters."
The adventurers licked their lips.
"We wait for it to lay eggs, then kill them immediately. Then... hehe. We can farm magic stones way more efficiently, right?"
"Fermaton ordered an immediate subjugation of this Obelisk."
"Tsk. Why are they being so proactive all of a sudden?"
The adventurer grumbled before clapping his hands.
"Aha. Is he worried his females might get hurt?"
"...Where did you hear that?"
"Heh. A friend who went down for some manual labor at dawn told me. He said the Young Lord’s females formed a three-person party and went down. They probably got fucked over on the 5th floor, right? Since contact was cut off and all."
"That is not the case. They are also knights belonging to Fermaton. Mind your words."
"Hmph. We'll see once we get down there. I’m actually looking forward to it. What if they were caught by the berserk entity and are being used for breeding—"
Creeeak.
The moment they reached the end of the 5th floor, the subjugation team felt goosebumps break out over their entire bodies.
"It's... over?"
There was nothing.
On the 5th floor, where the berserk entity was supposed to be, there were only traces of a battle. At the end of the floor, not a single monster remained.
Instead.
Flutter.
There was only a white cloth tied to a pickaxe driven into the ground.
Aside from the words 'Clear' written in red, and the pickaxes and magic stones the miners had abandoned in their flight, there was nothing else left.
"It hasn't even been thirty minutes since the alarm went off, and someone already took it down? Who?"
No one knew.
However.
Thirty minutes later, three women and a Living Armor stealthily moved through a corner of the 5th floor, avoiding the public eye as they exited the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth itself remained as it always was.
* * *
"Cheers—!"
I clinked glasses with the three—no, four of them.
"Whew. I never imagined we’d achieve such results in our first battle."
"I am sorry, Young Lord."
"There is no need to be sorry, Master Astarotte. You did your best."
Astarotte had to continuously transmit the magic signals from my body to the Living Armor.
She wasn't just sending them normally, either; she had to keep my cock buried in her crotch and transmit my essence as a magic signal. It was only natural for her to be exhausted.
It’s like a generator being perfectly fine, but the electricity failing to flow because the transformer in the middle stopped working.
No matter how overflowing my stamina was, if Astarotte—the one receiving it—couldn't handle it all, the signal would inevitably cut out or stall, just like it did this time.
"Though the first step was small, the end shall be grand. We went down to the 5th floor this time, so next time will be the 5th floor again. And the time after that, the 5th floor. If we go ten times, that’s the 50th floor, and once we conquer the 50th, we can reach even deeper."
Clink.
I lightly swallowed the wine, parching my throat.
It felt strange to quench my thirst with alcohol, but I couldn't let this thrilling sensation pass without a drink.
"...In the future, even more terrible monsters will appear within the Infinite Labyrinth. Laura. The other three have already seen and experienced them firsthand, but this was your first time."
The same went for me.
Seeing them in person, that is.
"But we returned alive. It may have only been the 5th floor, but everyone survived and returned together despite the Labyrinth's rampage. That is an undeniable fact, and through this incident, we have realized several things."
What we lack.
What we need.
What we must be careful of as we descend.
And what we must do moving forward.
"We’ll think about the future later. For today, enjoy yourselves to your heart's content. There’s plenty of food and drink prepared, so eat as much as you want."
Of course.
I said there was plenty of food, but rather than greasy dishes, it was mostly light fare that was easy to stomach.
Fruit platters that paired well with wine, or light caprese to cleanse the palate.
And dozens of bottles of wine loaded onto a transport cart.
"Serica. I ask for your understanding. This is a mass-market version, much lower in quality than what you drank last time."
I had raided the warehouse to set the mood for my first sex with Serica, and it turned out the expenses back then were a bit higher than I expected.
—No, how could he drink this much wine...! He really spent a staggering amount. Tsk...
So, I bought dozens of bottles of the budget wine adventurers often drink—the kind you could find in a convenience store.
"But you of all people should know. You know what money was used to buy this wine."
"Is it not the proceeds from disposing of the magic stone we got from the Rampant Obelisk?"
"Exactly."
The 'magic stone' of the Rampant Obelisk that the four of us fought together to obtain.
I had Amy sell it separately, gave her 10% of the sale price as a bonus, and used the rest to prepare the drinks and snacks.
All of it.
"Sh-shouldn't we have saved at least a little?"
Without leaving a single cent behind.
"Master Astarotte. Don't worry about the maintenance of the Living Armor or the production of a new one; I’ll have Fermaton issue a new request for that."
Using Fermaton’s funds to buy something like a Living Armor was fine.
If I paid for it as a service fee to the Magic Tower, no one would suspect a thing.
"You’re supposed to spend it all the first time. Right? We prepared so much here before going down, and we all made it back safely even after encountering a berserk entity. On a day like this, we should enjoy ourselves even if we eat and drink everything."
Clink.
I downed another drink.
"Then..."
I sat down in my chair and spread my legs wide.
And then.
"Who wants to be the first to have a drink?"
Trickle.
I lightly poured wine over my cock.
Along with the sensation of my cock instantly heating up, I began to feel a bit tipsy. I reached out toward the four women staring at my member.
"Anyone want the first glass? No one? Then..."
"I'll go first, Young Lord!"
The one who stepped forward first was the lewd rabbit.
"Just a light... heehee."
Laura knelt before me.
Lick.
"...I'll suck up every last drop."
She began to feast on my cock.
* * *
Sex, sex, sex.
Drunk on alcohol, I kept thrusting my cock, spraying semen everywhere.
"Ugh..."
Perhaps because I drank so much last night, my hangover was unusually painful today.
My whole body stung, especially my back, which felt like someone had clawed at it, and my lower body was stiff.
'What the...'
Laura wasn't the type of woman to scratch like this, Yurdias wouldn't dare raise a hand against me, and Serica was the type who just pretended to sleep while being taken.
Astarotte was out of the question entirely.
So why were there deep hickeys on my collarbone and why did my back sting so much?
"Ugh..."
My head throbbed.
It felt like something had gone terribly wrong with my memory of last night; something was off.
'Could it be illusion magic?'
Did someone cast an illusion on me?
Or did the Infinite Labyrinth do something to me after we suppressed the Rampant Obelisk?
I didn't know.
Unless there was something nearby that could help me figure out what I’d done, I had no idea what I’d been up to last night.
"Ugh... what is this...?"
First of all.
"Where even am I..."
The room I was lying in wasn't my own.
It wasn't the office, my bedroom, or even the sex room that was cut off from the outside.
It was a guest room.
A room for external guests visiting the County of Fermaton.
So, did I sleep in a guest room?
Why?
It had been days since I started waking up with Laura in my arms; had I gotten bored of her already and decided to wake up with another woman?
Or did I bring Laura to a guest room to fuck her?
'What happened?'
Only one memory from last night surfaced.
After enjoying myself with the three of them in the office, I remembered coming out to get more alcohol.
But after that, my memory was...
"......Huh?"
Beside me.
"...Mother?"
A naked Zenith was sleeping, her body covered in even more hickeys than mine.
Not just her breasts, but her entire body was covered in the marks of being devoured by a man.
And.
"......."
The dark red and white stains left on the bedsheets.
No matter how I looked at it, it was that.
"......Huh?"
Fuck.
"I'm screwed."
In an instant, scenes from last night began to overlap in my mind.
Me, drunk.
A bunny girl appearing before my eyes.
I thought something was strange, but I was horny, so I pounced on her and took her.
—St-stop... mgh...!
—Hehe, did you come out because you wanted to be raped?
—M-mgh?!
"......."
I had forcibly covered her mouth, stripped off the bottom of the bunny suit, shoved my cock in, pushed her into this guest room, and fucked her repeatedly from behind.
But.
...It wasn't Laura; it was a different bunny girl.
"No, goddammit."
There was only one outfit dropped on the floor—a bunny suit, but it wasn't Laura's.
It seemed.
In my drunken stupor, I had raped Zenith and taken her virginity.