Building Harem And Dungeon With Monster Girls

"But you'll save me." She smiled at me. "We love you, Lord Leo. We're all willing to die for you. Garnet. Big Sis Lana. All of us."

I swallowed against the emotion and nodded. I felt terrible, but they were right. They were magical creatures. Their souls were never gone. I could always rebuild their flesh. I hated how this made me think of them as disposable.

No one should ever be disposable.

I gripped my spear and we pressed on. The tunnels wound and twisted and turned. Zaibas took steps with caution. She braced herself for the traps that she expected to fall on her. The holes in the ceiling made my skin crawl. There had to be a few monster girls left. What if an ooze fell on us? Just engulfed one of us and suffocated us in gel.

Zaibas reached a door. She grabbed the handle, her back set. Then she flung it open. Steam billowed around her. For a moment, I expected her to scream, but then it cleared to show a bridge out over the water. It was a warm room. Tendrils of vapor rose from the water.

"What's the trap?" I muttered. "Rooms this big have traps."

"Always," Halia said. "Never trust a room that you can't touch both walls at once. Monsters or traps are there."

Zaibas ventured into the room. It was a square, the bridge going out to the other side. It ended at a wall. I frowned as we stepped out with her. I glanced down the side. The water was about ten feet below. A single pillar supported the bridge right in the middle. It had a ladder running down the side to climb out of the water.

The pool was a deep blue. The depth was impossible to say. The only door out was to our left. Ten feet above the water, no way to climb up to it. The walls were a smooth blue.

Everything was wet. Water dripped from the ceiling, condensing from the steam.

"The bridge rotates?" I asked. "Giving you access to the exit."

"That's annoying," Halia said. She peered into the water. "I guess someone has to jump in there and activate a switch."

"It's right there, Lord Leo," Zaibas shouted. She pointed to it. Then she dived over.

"Wait!" I shouted, but she had already plunged into the water. Her bluish form almost vanished into the background, impossible to see.

Shapes moved.

Figures rose out of the depths fast. I could see fishtails swishing and hair billowing. Mermaids with big breasts surged in and attacked Zaibas. She twisted in the water as they seized her. Lightning flared from Zaibas, lighting up the water. One of the mermaids spasmed, but they had tridents they thrust at my will o' wisp.

"Fuck!" I snarled and undid the buckles on my breastplate.

"Leo?" gasped Lana.

"Going in after her," I growled and then pulled open my robes. I dropped them to the floor. I snagged up my spear. My wrists throbbed from the vines, but I didn't care. I dove into the water.

The warmth engulfed me. It was like swimming in a hot spring. The mermaids liked it warm. Zaibas twisted in the water. She dodged a trident thrust at her.

Her electricity crackled, but the water was so big, how far could it travel before it dissipated. I lunged my spear into the back of one mermaid.

She stiffened. Blood drifted from her. Two more twisted around to face me. They had purple and green hair that billowed about them, scales matching their tresses.

They formed fresh tridents. Zaibas swam at one, hugging her by the neck. The trident buried into her flesh even as she fired her lightning into the mermaid.

The other drew back and threw her trident at me. The three-pronged spear hurtled through the water, a trail of bubbles behind it. I kicked hard to the right. It flashed past me. Bubbles burst from my mouth. I had to breathe.

She formed another one as if she hardened it out of the very water around us.

"Shadows flow and darkness sharpen, let the cunning of Lord Zuen stab!" I shouted, unleashing my magic.

A blade of night flew from me through the water. Not as fast as it normally did, but she was in the process of drawing back her trident to throw it when it took her in between the breasts. Her eyes widened. She stared down at it protruding from her tits. Then she dissolved away.

I spun around to help Zaibas but...

I was all alone in the water.

I kicked for the surface, my lungs screaming. Spots of darkness danced across my vision. I clawed at the water, reaching for the top. Then I burst out with a mighty gasp of air. I sucked it in. Lana and Halia stared down at me, relief on their faces.

"Zaibas?" Lana asked, her voice tight.

I shook my head and swam for the controls. It was beneath the ladder. A wheel. I grabbed it, my feet treading water. How many of the enemy monster girls had we killed? I'd lost track. Did he have more to unleash? I didn't know.

I twisted the wheel.

The entire structure swung with a grinding that rumbled from deep in the water. It was slow, a ponderous turn as it twisted the weight of the bridge.

Lana and Halia both stumbled for a moment before catching their balance.

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