Fantasy Dungeon Builder's Harem

Crystal followed Terra, Guang, and Paanee up the stairs to gain the wall. A group of enemy soldiers rushed forward with big ladders. The ice sprite formed a dagger, her body cold with anger at these pissants for assaulting her home.

She threw a dagger out at the soldiers, taking one in the face. He dropped, but the others trampled over his body, bringing those ladders closer. Paanee's acidic spit took another soldier in the head, melting his helmet into his face.

"We should open the gates and let Siwang's cockatrices out," said Terra, glancing at Crystal. "They can shout at it while the goblins can defend the gate."

"Yes, yes," Crystal said. "And the ghosts. Send them down there, too. They'll give those soldiers a fright."

"We will," moaned Nevidena, her voice full of grief and sadness.

"What about us?" Hrudei asked. "Unleash us, Noble Crystal." The aos si had such fierceness in her purple eyes. "They will not know how to react with us in their midst."

"Fine, fine," Crystal said. "That leaves the orcs, kelpies, and wildhounds plus us four to defend the wall."

"I'll help hold the gate," Terra said and hurried back the stairs.

Crystal glanced out at force. The ghosts spilled down while the gates opened. Paanee and Guang spread out down the line. The ice sprite conjured more ice daggers and hurtled them out at the foes. Paanee and the kelpies spat acid down on the soldiers. The cockatrices spilled out and formed a ring.

They shouted.

Men collapsed, paralyzed.

The aos sithe vanished in bursts of light and appeared down amid the soldiers. Hypnotic lights swirled around the fey monster girls. Soldiers swayed, transfixed by them. With a shout, they started killing each other, beguiled by the beautiful aos sithe.

I like their style, thought Crystal.

With their mournful wails, the ghosts surged into the soldiers. They touched the men who screamed in terror and died. Weapons stabbed into them, but they were ghosts. Ethereal. The blades and spears passed right through them.

Siege ladders reached the wall.

"I got the left side," Crystal called to Guang.

The lampetia nodded. She darted down the wall to the right and fired beams of light at the siege ladders. The orcs drew their golden swords, rushing to defend the wall, wildhounds loping with them. Paanee had the kelpies with her, their acidic spit striking the attackers.

One siege ladder snapped in half, melted by their attacks. Men screamed.

"That's it," Crystal shouted as Dzelzs thrust her sword into the face of the first attacker up her ladder. "For our dirty boy! Let's kick their asses!"

"FOR LORD LEO!" roared the orcs and wildhounds.

Terra watched the cockatrices shouting. They slammed into the soldiers near the gate, paralyzing them with their sonic attacks. The former barista smiled, forming her hands into hammers. Her clay body shifted, her boobs shrinking.

"Goblins, keep them alive!" cried Terra.

"Yes!" Hipera cried.

The goblins darted between the cockatrices. They were short, but their size made it hard for the soldiers to defend against hamstring attacks. Those that got close to the cockatrices were dropped and dispatched.

Blood filled the air. This wasn't like battling monster girls. The enemy didn't die. Terra watched up close the damage inflicted on them. She readied for the fight, standing before the open gate. Her eyes flicked around.

Aos sithe appeared in flashes of light and swirls of rainbow. The ghosts left screams of fright and corpses behind as they moved through the enemy soldiers. It wasn't even fair. They took no damage from the enemy.

The cockatrices paralyzed more and more men. A wall of stunned soldiers lay in an arc, forcing those wanting to attack to scramble over them. The soldiers attacked with a ferocity that surprised Terra. She could see why in their eyes.

They were afraid but also they hated it.

They despise us, Terra thought.

A soldier thrust a spear that skewered Klitorsa. The goblin vanished in a burst of motes. Terra sighed as the cockatrices kept shouting. The soldier that killed the goblin fell paralyzed. Atri, another goblin, slit that one's throat.

They won't stop until we're dead, Terra realized. They've grown up thinking we're monsters. Literal monsters that must be exterminated no matter the cost. These are not conscripted soldiers forced to be here.

They're patriots fighting for their world.

A woman shouted. Divochyy, one of the aos sithe, died.

"Don't let up!" Terra cried. "No quarter! For Lord Leo!"

Mrs. Bella Lucina soared over the south wall with the thunderbirds. They crackled around her, their bodies made entirely out of lightning. She watched the battle. A pile of paralyzed soldiers formed before the basilisks at the gate, Terra in the midst of them. The ghosts left trails of green and dead. The aos sithe had soldiers killing soldiers.

Divochyy died.

On the wall, the orcs and wildhounds fought against soldiers spilling onto the ramparts from ladders. Nos's head flew from her body and vanished in a burst of motes. Mrs. Lucina winced, hating to see any of the cute wildhounds die.

Paanee slithered to help the fighting on the wall. Her ball of acid took one soldier in the face. Then she leaped at another, wrapping around him and crushing him. On the right end of the wall, Guang fired beams of light, melting through the breastplate of a soldier on the wall.

"We have to help them!" Mrs. Lucina cried, her halo blazing bright.

Light fired from the ring over her head and smote a soldier gaining the walls. The thunderbirds dove for the ramparts. Lightning burst from their wings, striking soldiers. The orcs hacked their swords, taking blows on their golden armor.

It was chaos. With soldiers on the wall, Leo couldn't refresh his monster girls, either. The dungeon was being invaded. It was Mrs. Lucina's job, and the job of the other monster girls, to see that it didn't happen.

She fired another blast of light from her halo.

Crystal threw daggers as fast as she could make them. She formed them in both hands, whipping them out at soldiers. Some shattered on armor. Others struck flesh, leaving soldiers screaming in pain or dying.

Dzelzs staggered back, her throat gushing blood. The orc clutched at it before she faded away, motes dancing around the soldier that killed her. Jibha, one of the kelpies, leaped. The monster girl slammed into the soldier and threw him back. He fell over the wall and crashed down the siege ladder, knocking a dozen men off with him.

"Come on!" Crystal shouted, hurtling more ice.

Paanee screamed. A soldier cut deep into her side. The armless naga bit him. He collapsed to the ramparts, spasming from her poisoned bite. She bled badly. She swayed for a moment before righting herself. Acid spat from her mouth and melted another soldier's face.

The naga collapsed and vanished, succumbing to her wounds.

"Shit!" Crystal snarled.

Hela and Ci leaped on a soldier. The two wildhounds drove him to the ground as they tore out his throat. Du leaped into a soldier just as he reached the top of the ladder. She hit him and threw him back. She jumped off, but he grabbed her tail.

She yelped in pain as she was pulled over the wall with him. He crashed down the ladder. She landed on the ground amid the chaos of the attack. She snarled and threw herself at a soldier. Crystal hurtled a knife to protect her, killing one.

But there were too many. Du died.

Lightning cracked down from the sky, slamming into the soldiers. The ghosts drifted through the soldiers, leaving the dead in their wake. Swords and spears passed harmlessly through them. Crystal formed another dagger of ice.

With a groan, the soldiers broke. They screamed and turned, fleeing the wall. They collided into each other, some dropping weapons. Like a wave passing through the enemy formation, panic washed over them.

Crystal watched the rout.

Terra might not have a heart, but the golem felt like hot blood coursed through her body.

The soldiers fled. They turned and fled. Something in her burned hot. This anger. These soldiers had attacked her home. She wanted them driven away. She wanted to be safe. She stood in the ring of cockatrices and goblins.

"CHARGE!" she roared and surged forward.

She scrambled over the pile of stunned soldiers and gave chase. The cockatrices and goblins rushed with her. Cockatrices screamed, striking soldiers at the rear, stunning them. She reached the rear ranks and swung her hammer fist, battering down a straggler.

The goblins swung swords, hamstringing soldiers and finishing them off.

Howls joined the chase. Five of the wildhounds surged with them, running from the wall. The three kelpies bounded with them, firing balls of acid to strike the soldiers. Ethereal ghosts joined the chase, touching soldiers and dropping them.

Ice daggers crashed into the backs of soldiers bursting on armor. From the sky, lightning bolts and beams of light flashed down. The fleeing soldiers left smoking dead. They threw down their weapons. Helms. They raced as fast as possible, shoving at each other in terror to escape.

They crashed over officers on horseback trying to stop the rout. They rushed out into the fields. Terra stopped giving chase. She watched the soldiers running far. The battlefield before the south wall was clear.

"South wall secure, Leo," she sent as she turned her forces back for the gate.​