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Mutually Beneficial Dungeoneering 19
🕑 Added 2024-08-29 05:12:49 +0000 UTCSword goes in, guts come out, that is the task of the adventurer!
Well, sometimes a meat rod goes in and rearranges the adventurer's guts instead, but Mara liked to think that it didn't make her any less of an adventurer. And well, she wasn't about to complain about having hit Level 7 from bearing an Ogre's child and then slaughtering the very ogres that got her that level.
The canyon-like structure of the level made it enough of a challenge just to navigate it, fighting in the tight space of the hallways between rooms was just no go... for the most part. However, the clay-like structure of the walls wasn't indestructible, the labyrinthine canyon that faked an open blue sky was hard to navigate for normal adventurers...
But the Ogre Monarch, floor boss of the Fourth Floor, the strongest creature in the floor, could smash the walls like they were made of, well, regular old clay instead of Kamadeva's own blend.
Slaughtering enough Ogres, and in particular busting a breeding chamber, were the conditions to make it appear. Mara and her party weren't about to waste time, as Level 7 fighters they wanted to make sure they didn't miss anything on the floor that was easily accessible, now that they had a very real advantage over the fifth level fourth floor boss.
Well, it being a lower level was a bit of a crapshoot really, because it also was a boss, and that meant it was vastly stronger than its level would imply, which included being faster, stronger and more durable than Mara herself, and she was the strongest member of her party.
Benny could scarcely block its attacks, which wasn't a good thing considering his effeminate, girlish frame packed more power than most would believe, and he had already been disarmed and began relying on the size difference.
The Ogre Monarch was very slightly smaller than the superior breeder that Mara had given birth to not too long ago, both in terms of width, size of his muscles as well as its height, but it moved much better, and it used its immense strength much better, swinging a massive iron baton, not a club, a proper baton, around like it was a toothpick, tearing through the clay-like surface of the Labyrinth walls like glass, and managing to smack Benny's raised arms, even as he rolled with the impact and relied on the strength of his armored vambraces, he was still sent flying, rolling and then getting back on his feet as the Monarch rushed towards him, each of its steps making the walls and floor shake.
Cursing under her breath with a word so foul it never shall be repeated, Mara took off running, dodging around a collapsed section of the wall, and jumping just in time to land on the Monarch's back and shoulders just as the Monarch was raising its baton to smash Benny into the ground, and then slashed with her sword at the grayish bronze skin of the Monarch, cutting through the shitty leather coat covering its shoulders, a vague parody of a king's mink coat, and knocking its coronet off its head, stopping its attack and making it stumble to the side.
Mara's hand hurt from the reverberation of the impact, bosses were absolutely no joke and they only got stronger the further into Kamadeva one dove.
Before she could leap off of the monstrous Ogre's back, it reached behind itself and caught her with its arm, wrapping the thick sausage-like meaty fingers around her midsection, immediately making her feel like if she hadn't leveled up before facing it, she would now be spitting out her internal organs.
Before it could actually do that, though, a series of knives and rocks pelted the Orc, many of them bouncing harmlessly off its skin, but one finding purchase in its ear, digging into it and letting out a gush of blood.
Roaring in pain, the large monster threw Mara off and away, upwards mostly, slamming her into the sky blue rocks of the ceiling, cracking them and leaving a small crater, but the impact only jostled her enough to remind her she was still alive, so when she came down she did a pirouette and landed on her feet, the ground underneath her cracking from the force of the impact and spitting out a glob of phlegm and blood.
The Monarch's roar was cut by Cupcake, who managed to, as she ran around to flank the floor boss, throw a knife into the creature's mouth and its own instincts and reflexes caused it to bite down into the knife and swallow it. Its skin was too tough for Cupcake's thrown weapons, both Benny-made and improvised on the spot, to actually hurt it, but its insides clearly weren't, because the monster bent over and puked, spitting out a mangled knife that was now a lump of blade shards and steel, covered in blood, as well as a huge load of bile and blood.
Unfortunately, and demonstrating an ability that was a problematic bane for adventurers starting on the next floor, it clearly wasn't down for the count just from the internal injuries and in fact had regenerated them fairly quickly.
The nature of monsters in dungeons was usually malleable and they could develop abilities that were unusual or even impossible for any other living creature to have... a perfected regeneration that allowed quick recovery of wounds was one such ability available only to monsters.
Also apparently that had pissed it right the hell off. Its skin turned a bright shade of red, and it exhaled steam out of its nostrils. Its face, already very ugly, became even worse as it became swollen and its eyes sunken in, its muscles bulged and it began to increase in size.
"Get ready for phase 2!" Mara called. "Cupcake, switch to overwatch until it prepares its special attack! Benny, I'll distract it, get your mace and support me as soon as you can! I'll keep its attention on me!"
Nodding, Benny scrambled to his feet and ran.
The Ogre Monarch tossed its baton when it transformed into its second form, and its hand would've been too big to wield it anyway, as it simply became way too huge. Unfortunately for it, its massive size and sudden growth, especially considering it had become so immensely muscular that its own bulk made it difficult to move, gave it lumbering moves, so even though it tried to bring its fists down on Benny like a pair of meat meteors, the only thing it found was the floor, which it turned into a massive crater.
Mara ran up to it, realizing it was now so big that it nearly reached the ceiling on this slightly lower part of the floor, which actually gave her a rush as she ran up its leg and torso, having to take multiple steps to reach its back, it was a rush like nothing she had experienced quite yet, it was incredibly exciting to fight a creature so large she could literally run up its body, slashing at it as her momentum carried her, barely scratching the surface of its skin with her light slashes, then vaulting over its shoulder as it tried to catch her with its incredibly meaty hand.
The wind rushing past her from the movement of its arms was enough to actually make her feel the incredible power behind each of its motions, its arms were so thick and girthy that she could use its bicep as a slide, landing with her crotch on the inner elbow, then planting her hands on its thick, veiny red muscle, not its cock this time, allowing her to cartwheel forward, pushing off just in time for it to slam its other hand into its arm, as if trying to squash her like a mosquito.
It cried out in anger and pain from inflicting damage upon itself - because Mara, when she flipped, had left it a nice surprise with her sword being left in place so that when it slapped its arm, it pushed Mara's sword entirely through its own arm, shooting it onto the floor and burying it up to the hilt.
The hole in its arm regenerated very quickly, it was the equivalent of a sewing needle going through its arm anyway, luckily it was a good enough sword that it survived the trip through the arm and into the floor unscathed. Mara slid off the Ogre's shaking arm and hit the ground, crouching beside her sword and putting both hands on it, slashing upward as if she was drawing it from the dungeon itself, just in time to catch the incoming fist that would've squashed her, slapping it away though it left her entire upper body shaking and tingling from the impact and pushed her back, causing her to fall on her butt.
The Ogre seemed to take that opportunity to rear its head back, open its mouth and immediately start gathering visible energy in its mouth, intending to launch some sort of powerful attack... Which was the exact moment Cupcake was waiting for, as she immediately showered the open mouth with attacks, grabbing everything she had on hand, including pieces of the floor, the wall and the ceiling, as well as knives in many different shapes.
The red Monarch's mouth was full of rock and metal and energy and it couldn't hold onto its attack, it was losing the ability to control its energy and said energy exploded in its mouth, in a shower of blood, gore and bone, bits and pieces of its head landing everywhere and mostly covering Mara with it.
It fell on its knees, its arms limp, the energy dissipating in a cloud of dark mist.
Mara sighed and relaxed. "Wow, I can't believe-"
And then it collapsed forward, its arms reaching for Mara's face and neck, and immediately wrapped its extremely huge hands around Mara's torso and head, crushing her with its incredible strength, slamming her into the ground, making a crater, and then attempting to crush her. Mara's eyes caught, between its huge fingers and as she used all her strength to try to stop from being crushed in a single instant, the flesh of its head regenerating. Of course its regeneration wouldn't just go away just because it transformed into phase 2, why would life ever be easy!?
"Shit! I'm not strong enough to help!" Cupcake shouted.
Groaning and putting all of her strength in her arms, legs and core to use, Mara resisted the unbelievably powerful force of the Ogre's seemingly limitless strength with all she had and some she pulled out of nowhere, a little bit of panic settling in as she realized she might actually not be able to hold it off for much longer-
Only for its grip to suddenly go slack as its half-formed head only managed to create a functional mouth to let out a pathetic, weeping wail of pain.
Mara kicked off its hands and managed to move out of the way, rolling along the floor just in time to watch the reddened Ogre Monarch fall in the very crater it had made with Mara's own body.
As it hit the ground, Mara saw the handle of Benny's mace sticking out of the Ogre's butthole.
"Found its weakpoint!" Benny called, throwing a thumbs up.
"W-Wow, how did you guess?" Mara said, her voice trembling a little as she moved around the large... corpse? It wasn't moving.
"Its asshole was glowing, so... I kinda went with my gut feeling," Benny admitted, scratching the back of his neck. "A-And, well, I've become pretty acquainted with men's weak spots as of late."
Mara let out a guilty laugh. "Sorry about that."
"No no, it's, it's okay, I mean..." Benny shook his head, "we beat the boss," he said, "we should celebrate!"
"Yeah, before we go into the fifth floor, we should probably celebrater. I guess it was too much to hope for that we would get another level from this," Mara muttered, spitting some blood and saliva. Most of her body was okay, but she did have some injuries she'd need seeing to. Besides, she wanted to consult with Rosie on how to proceed.
The Golem who had been helping them since the start was a font of a large amount of knowledge, even if the prices for her help were sometimes a bit annoying, it's not like Mara had any objection to going back to the lower floors and fetching some goblin cocks for her, considering how lucrative it was.
Cupcake nodded. "Should probably kill it before we go," she said.
Mara nodded and approached the twitching head of the Ogre, raising her foot and then stomping down on the head, and as soon as she did, the entire body of the boss began to bloat and inflate.
"Fuck, it has a death explosion!" Cupcake shouted. "Take cover!"
There wasn't much to take cover behind considering the Ogre had smashed most of the walls to the point of creating the largest open space in the entire floor so far, so the most Mara and Benny could do was just jump away and hit the ground, covering themselves with their arms, but Cupcake, a ranged fighter, dove behind the pile of rocks she'd been gathering to toss at the Monarch.
That meant that she was the only one that wasn't covered in the bright red blood of the ogre as it exploded. Luckily, no meat chunks or organs went flying, just a shower of boiling hot and acidic blood that burned on the skin, melting rock and damaging equipment. Both Benny and Mara screamed in annoyance and pain from it, but it only burned them a little and didn't actually manage to inflict much damage, thanks to them just barely making it out of the blast zone and going prone.
"Everybody okay?" Mara called.
"Am fine!"
"Perfect over here!" Cupcake replied.
"Cool, let's check for drops!" Mara said, as she pushed off the ground, kipping up to her feet, and then walking towards the now even deeper crater the ogre had been in.
A red orb and a...
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me," Mara muttered.
"That's one big fucking dick," Cupcake mentioned.
"I think it's the size of my leg..." Benny muttered.
"Think it'd go all the way through me?" Cupcake asked, raising a hand to her green forehead, then running it past her nearly naked, massive tits, which only had a few droplets of red and some burns from the splashing, compared to the other two, shaking her tits and ass as she observed the... member on the ground.
"You know that'll literally kill you right?" Mara asked.
"Pshaw, I'll be fiiiiine," Cupcake said.
"Besides, this is a dungeon boss dick, I'm sure it's gotta be worth something, right?"
Later that day...
"Ho-lee fuck that thing was worth a SHITTON of money!" Mara said, as she swung a massive bag of change over her back.
"I would complain about you being a spoilsport and not letting me try it out," Cupcake said, swinging a bag nearly as large as she was on her back, "but I'll content myself with this giant sack of money!"
Benny carried his own bag at waist level, but it was clearly difficult due to its size, so he shifted to follow the other two's carrying method.
"If you ever get one of those again," the pink haired golem at their chosen gate spoke, clapping her hands together, "remember, I never bought it from you! And remember, Rosie's Gate is the place for questionably legal monster drop sales!"
"Alright, everyone, let's go celebrate because we just hit the jackpot and I NEED some R&R after all we just went through."
"Great, amazing, I know just the place, you guys up for a drink?" Cupcake said.
"Okay, but I have to be in bed by nine," Benny said, "I need to get up early tomorrow so I can work with this Dungeon Core," he said, raising the red orb they'd gotten from the Monarch.
"Partying until nine AM it is!"
"No I meant nine PM, Cupcake!"
They would not stop by nine PM... but of course, by that point, Benny was just in too deep to care anymore.
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Ignacio Nadeo
Good news! It was just a slight stomachache and the runs! Bad news, now I feel even worse and can't even sleep! But at least I could work a little. Eeeeeeverybody huuuurts~
