My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

“This place looks creepy.” Chance clung to the back of my shirt.

Wasn’t she supposed to be my bodyguard? I mean, given her age, I was happier if she stayed behind me rather than racing off into dungeons. As far as escort missions go, she had so far been better than most. Although now that I was looking around, I had to agree. The back hallways had a utilitarian feel, but this boss room looked like a cave. The pillars rose into the blackness and there were a lot of dark corners to hide in. I was pretty sure the boss was in one of them because I didn’t see it anywhere else.

Cobwebs were floating in the darkness, and the sound of something suspicious was moving in the dark. I could feel both girls grabbing onto me. I had a feeling there would be some reveal event. Some boss monsters just sat and waited, but others liked to make a flashy entrance. I was guessing this was going to be one of the flashy ones.

Predictably, it was only once I reached near the center and the last person had entered the room that the boss door slammed shut, and the torturing began to turn on one by one in a menacing way. As they lit up, I started to get a better look at the area around us. It was webs. The entire room was covered in webs. That only meant one thing.

As the final torches turned on, a large black creature began to lower to the ground. It had enormous fans and eight long spindly legs that came out from a fat black body. It was taller than me, a massive spider.

“Ehhh! I hate spiders!” Cici cried out, leaping onto my back.

“It’s too big!” Chance whimpered. “Someone kill it!”

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“We’ll stop it!” There was a sudden chorus of shouts just as I opened my mouth to speak.

Before I could move a step forward, the group of paladins blew past me. They all descended on the spider like a wave of maniacs. Even it seemed startled by their sudden aggression. They didn’t hold back a single hit, using powerful paladin light spells as they slammed their shields and swords into the spider. It let out some screeches, but at the end of the day, this was only the C island boss. It was quickly torn limb from limb.

The battle ended in only a few minutes when the screaming topped. The men had a few small wounds, but I didn’t offer to heal them. They could have probably avoided all of those had they not acted so recklessly. As they finally left the spider’s corpse, one of the paladins fell to his knee in front of me, looking at the two girls with a creepy smile on his face.

“We took care of the spider for you, my beauty!” He declared.

“Eeek!” Chance hid behind me even more. “Save me, my lord!”

“H-he didn’t even do anything though…” The knight glared at me.

“Why wouldn’t she be frightened, you’re covered in spider guts! You’re terrifying!” I shouted, giving him an accusing look.

He looked down at himself, and then at the other paladins who were also covered in spider gunk, and he made a horrified sound before running to Anne, who quickly scolded all of them as she healed them. I felt a bit more relieved though that it turned out that these men who were too dangerous to be around children were actually secretly pretty bad with them. At least there was still a balance to this world.