Fantasy Dungeon Builder's Harem

Morana reached the other side of the building and peeked around the corner.

Crystal's legs kicked as she was held in the air, the treant's woody branch strangled the ice sprite. The banshee wasn't about to let that happen. She charged around the corner and rushed down the alley, a scream building in her chest.

The banshee stepped up beside Crystal and wailed.

Her deathly shriek echoed down the alley and struck the treant. But it didn't kill her like a lesser monster girl. The treant screamed in pain and staggered back. Amber sap burst out of her nose and spilled from her eardrums.

She grabbed her head, branches rustling overhead.

Crystal grabbed the branch choking her with both her hands. Ice spread over the staggering treant. Then, with a hard jerk, she snapped the frozen branch and dropped to her feet. The treant shrieked in pain, injured.

Morana wailed again.

The treant screamed and fell to the ground. She thrashed, the deathly attack blackening parts of her wooden body. Morana smiled. One more, and her foe was killed. The darkness in her swelled. She opened her mouth.

"Life revitalizes and mends, let the restoration of Lord Dumazid mend!" Lord Sulanga cried as he flew over the street.

A burst of green energy, almost like an arrow, fired from him and struck the treant. Her thrashing stopped. The blight vanished. Morana gaped at the more advanced healing magic that the enemy dungeon builder could use.

Ranged healing? screeched through Morana's mind. "That's not fair!"

"Right," Crystal asked as the treant's branches surged down the alley at her.

Restored to health, a wave of them hurtled at them. Morana shrieked, withering a half-dozen branches, melting them before her. Crystal conjured an icy dagger, but it was pointless. the branches slammed into her, throwing her to the ground.

One thrust into her mouth. It grew down her throat, choking off her screams. It pushed down her esophagus and into her guts. She thrashed on the alley floor. Morana shrieked again. The treant screamed in pain.

The branch reached Crystal's stomach and burst with smaller twigs that ripped through her guts and burst open her abdomen, killing the ice sprite.

"Sherida, Lady of Light, armor me in your brilliance," Halia prayed to her goddess, begging for help.

The werewolf leaped at Halia in a blur of gray fur. She swung her sword, but not fast enough. The enemy monster girl slammed into the paladin.

Light exploded.

The werewolf howled as Lady Sherida's protection threw the beast back. She hit the ground, rolling across it. Her fur smoked from the attack. The werewolf shook her head as Halia charged forward, blade buzzing in her hand.

As the werewolf rose, her blade sang. A blurring arc that cut off the beast's head. It spun from the werewolf's body. Then she melted away into motes. A big smile spread on Halia's face. She glanced behind her. The halflings were almost all gone.

They were close.

The alarm screamed through the dungeon again. Werewolves snarled.

From the stairs that led up to the city, four more gray wolves burst into view and charged down the hallway at Halia. Behind them, came a bigger wolf made of crackling lightning. The raiju. Halia drew in a deep breath, the prayer to Lady Sherida spilling from her mouth.

Ms. Trueno, along with Piaro and Mastab, moved through the building to find a way to ambush Sulanga. They just had to keep him busy. They found a back door that spilled onto an alley. Ms. Trueno looked around, Piaro and Mastab stepping out with her. The three scaled monster girls listened to the sounds of battle.

Morana shrieked with fury.

Snarls echoed then a pair of werewolves bonded from around the building, one on each end of it. Ms. Trueno and the two basilisks were surrounded. The two snarled, hunger in their golden eyes, fangs dripping saliva.

Ms. Trueno roared her defiance at one.

Her shout cracked the stone of both buildings lining the alley as the sound hurtled at the werewolf. She dodged back around the corner, the sonic attack soaring past. Behind her, the other werewolf snarled and charged.

Piaro and Mastab exhaled their noxious breath. It roiled at the werewolf. The beast leaped at the last moment, soaring over their petrifying breath. The two basilisks gasped as the werewolf slammed into Piaro. Jaws clamped down on the basilisk's head.

Crushed her.

Piaro's screams cut off with a sickening crunch. The monster girl vanished as the werewolf landed and whirled to attack Mastab. The basilisk slashed her claws at the werewolf, hitting her in the head and knocking her to the ground.

"Lightning arcs and sizzles, let the fury of Lord Enlil spread!" Sulanga cried from above.

Lightning slammed into Mastab, throwing her into the wall and killing the basilisk. Then the bolt sizzled for Ms. Trueno. In the alley, she had nowhere to jump. As it struck her coppery scales, she sent out to her student a final message.

"Keep Static Aura up!"

Ms. Trueno died.

"Keep Static Aura up!" Ms. Trueno cried a moment before I felt her presence vanish. Dead.

It was going bad up there. Morana was the only one left alive on the street. I didn't know how many of the werewolves they killed, but more were streaming down the tunnel. Terra charged down the tunnel to aid Halia.

"Shit," I growled and rushed after her.

"No! Lord Leo!" Kassie shouted as I ran by her.

I stopped and glanced at her. "What? I have to help them fight!"

"We're almost done sending the halflings through!" Kassie cried as she ushered on the next group. She was right. Just a few more had to be sent through. "You have to be here so I can send you to the Void Crystal and close off the dungeon."

"Shit, shit, shit," I growled, watching Terra rush to Halia, the werewolves' howls echoing down the tunnel. She was right.

"Isatu!" I cried. "We need you. Get to the north tunnel and help Halia and Terra fight!"

"Yes, Lord Leo!" squealed my fire dragon like a puppy chasing after the stick that was just thrown.

Halia stood in the middle of the tunnel as the werewolves rushed at her. She raised her sword, ready to slash down the first one that leaped at her. The lead wolf slid to a stop and snarled at her, fangs bare. A second came up beside her. Halia hacked at them, filling the air with blurring attacks.

"Kill her!" roared the raiju.

"Who will be the first to die?" Halia growled. "I am Halia, Daughter of Anguin, and wielder of the Blessed Blade of Light!" The sword hummed. "Come on, you craven bitches! Attack me!"

The werewolves growled while the lightning wolf roared. Halia could feel the attack would come any second. She wasn't sure she would survive. Not this many. But if she died, then she died for Lord Leo and the future of this world.

The wolves leaped.

Siwang stepped out of the dungeon and into Astovin with his three companions. Halflings were everywhere. The people of Astovin were ushering them to places to get food and medical aid. Siwang swallowed at the sight of the wounded refugees.

His mother was at his side, the wraith trailed by black mist. Her sharp claws gleamed in the sunlight. Behind him was Guang, his Light companion. The lampetia was a busty woman made of glowing light. She had been his teacher, a wonderful woman that had helped him find meaning in dying with books on philosophy. Then came his newest companion, Lei. His friendly neighbor was a cyclops with bronze skin and one eye. She could summon armor of silver and fight with a hammer that burst with thunderclaps.

"Oh, my," she said. "I think we're a little late."

"Feya!" Siwang cried as he spotted the fairy ushering out a group of halflings from a building. "Feya, what is going on?"

"The evacuation of Sharithin," she said.

"But you attacked without me?" Siwang gasped. "I thought I was going to help."

"Yes, we did," said Feya. "We wanted to use only level two monster girls. And Lord Leo can't reshape his dungeon with you and your monster girls in it. Sorry."

"Oh," Siwang said. He wanted to help. He wanted to be out there and fighting. "Well, how's it going?"

"Badly," the fairy said. "Most of our forces are dead and the dungeon's breached."

Siwang swallowed.

Terra rushed up beside Halia and slammed her clay fist into the werewolf's head with a shout.

But it was only a glancing blow. The snarling wolf's head snapped to the right, an ear torn. Then the monster girl lunged at Terra. Teeth sank into her clay leg. She gasped at the pain as it tore through her flesh, deforming it.

"Terra!" shouted Halia.

Her humming Blessed Blade thrust into the side of the werewolf. Ribs crunched. The beast stiffened then dropped, teeth ripping free of Terra's flesh. The bitch took some of Terra with her, but she smoothed out the injury.

Not much mass lost.

The other werewolves snapped at them. Terra swung her hammer fists and Halia her sword. They stood side by side, holding the hallway, protecting the halflings and buying time. They just had to hold and kill these beasts.

"For Lord Leo!" cried Halia.

"Yes!" shouted Leo.

"MASTER!" roared the lightning wolf.

The raiju leaped over the other werewolves. Terra gasped as the crackling monster girl slammed into Halia. Sparks burst as Halia screamed, driven to the ground by the snarling beast. Fear swept through the golem.

The treant slammed branches at Morana.

The banshee shrieked her rage and grief at what happened to Crystal. Her deathly wail withered the branches. The treant shouted in pain, staggering back from the power of a grieving banshee. Black mist spilling down her back, Morana advanced.

The treant caught her balance and sent fresh branches growing from her head. They rushed at Morana. The banshee shrieked. Her scream blistered the branches. Leaves shriveled black and fell off. They rotted.

The treant howled her agony as Morana advanced. A queen of death, majestic and furious. She didn't let up her shriek. She destroyed the branches. Then her pain struck the treant herself. The woody monster girl raised her arms to shield her face.

The pain causes her to collapse onto her back. Her skin withers. She was a companion. She had more toughness and strength than the werewolves, but Morana didn't relent. She stood over her enemy, picturing Crystal's agony.

The treant spasmed, her bark withering to gray than black.

She screamed one last time and vanished.

"MOTHER!" roared from above.

Morana shot her gaze up to see Sulanga Stormfury flying above her, his flaming face blazing with pain and anger. He thrust his finger down at her, his eyes burning coals. She gathered in fury at him. He was the cause of all this pain and suffering.

The halflings were suffering. Her fellow monster girls having to die once more. Leo being in danger in the dungeon. Everything was in jeopardy because of the arrogant monster hovering in the air who thought he had the right to conquer what he wished.

She shrieked as he roared, "Flames erupt, let the conflagration of Lord Gibil blaze!"

Her screech burst across the aura of static energy around him. Sparks discharged, devouring her deathly energy. Then fire exploded around her. She had nowhere to dodge. It filled the entire alley. Morana screamed in agony one last time.​