A Demon Lord's Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming BlissChapter 13
Let’s Roll a Gachapon!
Editor: Joker
A full night’s rest was more than enough to allow Illuna to fully recover from the verge of death . In fact, she was so healthy that I almost couldn’t believe my eyes . At first, she’d almost looked like the child of some random hobo . She wore rags and was covered in so much blood, dirt, and filth that I didn’t realize that she was actually quite the looker . I now knew that the child had s.h.i.+ny blonde hair, big, brown round eyes, and a face pretty enough to put celebrities to shame . The height she stood at only added to her charm . She was just tall enough for me to feel the urge to pat her on the head whenever I saw her . Give her a few years, and I’m pretty sure every guy that sees her is gonna end up all over her .
Lefi had told me that vampires and succubi were beautiful, but Illuna seemed more than just that . There was no way that she wasn’t well above average even taking her race into consideration . I’m pretty sure the kidnappers that raided her village thought the same, seeing as how they killed literally everyone else .
Naturally, I’d replaced her rags with actual clothes . She was wearing a one piece dress that looked near identical to Lefi’s, with the biggest difference being that it was a good bit smaller . Their hair colours were different, and Lefi had both horns and a tail, but I couldn’t help but think that the two looked like a pair of sisters, especially when they stood next to each other . The biggest factor that played it into it was that they were both undeniably beautiful .
“Woah! What’s that!?” The vampire ran around the dungeon, curiously examining and asking about everything she saw .
“What? Oh, that?” That’s the pop up pirate game . ”
“The pop up pirate game? What’s that?”
“It’d be easier for you just to try it . You see those toy swords lying around where you found it?”
“Yeah?”
“Try sticking them through one of the holes in the barrel . ”
“Okay!”
Illuna followed my instructions and impaled poor Blackbeard with several plastic blades . Nothing happened at first, but she kept trying until the toy finally reacted . The plastic contraption made a bit of a clacking sound as the pirate was ejected from his barrel .
“Woah!” Illuna grabbed Blackbeard and ran over to me . She held her prize up and spoke with a big smile, to which I responded in kind . “Did you see that, Yuki? The guy in the barrel went flying!”
Dungeon life wasn’t exactly what I could call thrilling . Not much happened, and I didn’t really need to do any real work . My pa.s.sive income was more than enough for the dungeon’s residents to live off of . I needed something to stave off both Lefi’s boredom and my own, so I’d bought a bunch of random, cheap stuff to keep us entertained .
That said, the dragon girl refused to play the pop up pirate game . Our good friend Mr . Blackbeard had smacked her dead in the face the first time she got him to pop, so she’d avoided both him and his game ever since .
After a few moments of watching over the young vampire with a smile, I sat myself down atop the throne and relaxed . By now, I was so used to the fancy chair that I no longer found it awkward to sit in . In fact, it was extremely comfortable . I popped open the menu and quickly checked over a few key stats .
Hmm . . it looks like I’m actually earning quite a bit now . I kind of want to keep growing the dungeon’s territory, but at this point, I don’t really need all that extra pa.s.sive income . It’s not like I’m going to need it unless I decide to save up for something super expensive . Which means… I can finally “have a little fun . ”
I’d always been interested in RNGesus’ bounty, but I’d refrained out of the concern that I was just going to be wasting DP . but I mean, it’s not like it’s really a waste . Honestly, all I’m doing is checking out my options . The gacha doesn’t say what it has, so giving it a few spins and finding out is clearly the most obvious and natural thing to do . I’m totally not actually giving in to temptation . Nope .
After a bit of self justification, I tapped the gachapon tab and reviewed my options . The menu layout was simple . There were only four b.u.t.tons . Each had a numeric value on it, designating its price . Let’s see… 100, 1k, 10k, 100k . The more expensive ones probably have better rates and prizes, but the 10k and 100k ones are a bit too rich for my blood . The one that costs 100 has probably only got junk in it, grand prize aside, so I guess I’ll stick with the 1k gacha for now .
With that decided and out of the way, I tapped the b.u.t.ton . Particles of glowing white light began gathering in front of me and gradually taking form, much as it had when I summoned s.h.i.+ .
“Is that… a pistol?” Huh . Neat . ” The thing that’d formed in my hand was basically a scaled up derringer with a cylinder . Though I’d called it a pistol at first, I soon realized that it was more of an oddly shaped revolver . Pistols didn’t have cylinders, after all .
Fancy engravings ran along both the gun’s barrel and its grip . Whoever engraved this thing has got some pretty good taste .
After looking it over, I a.n.a.lyzed the weapon in order to see what it could do .
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Magical Handgun: A ranged weapon that uses magical energy as ammunition . Its magazine can hold up to seven bullets .
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“Wow . Not bad at all . ” Admittedly, I found the weapon awesome . It was the type of gun that would’ve made me throw my wallet at the screen and mash the whale b.u.t.ton if I saw it in a game with microtransactions . There was no doubting it . I’d won a pretty d.a.m.n good prize . I was certain that it was one of the gacha’s rare drops .
I wanted to test it right away, but I stopped myself short and instead continued to roll . There’s no point in testing it right now . I’m going to get more cool s.h.i.+t if I keep rolling, so I might as well wait and mess around with all of it at once later . Plus, it looks like I’m a good luck streak, so I should probably keep rolling before it goes away .
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Oh G.o.d, why? Why didn’t I just stop after the stupid gun?
A few minutes later, I found myself lamenting my choices . I’d rolled the gacha a tonne, and found myself staring down a pile of trash . My rolls had produced the following
Pan Lid x 3
Dish Scrubber x 2
Soap Bar x 2
Wooden Cup x 1
Some Sort of Cloth x 1
Bottle of Salt x 2
Wooden Spoon x 1
Spool of Hemp x 1
Stuffed Animal x 1
Tupperware Container x 1
Finger Puppet x 1
Vinyl Bag x 1
Keyholder x 1
Pencil x 1
Some Sort of Cord x 1
Each and every single member of the veritable heap of garbage sitting in front of the throne was worth less than 100 DP .
I can’t believe I just fell for Gambler’s Fallacy . Hook, Line, and Sinker at that… G.o.d d.a.m.n it . I kept telling myself that my bad luck streak was going to end, and that I was going to hit the jackpot sooner or later . Evidently, I was wrong . Ugh… I forgot that my luck is even worse than s.h.i.+’s . And s.h.i.+ is a G.o.d d.a.m.n slime . A slime! The weakest monster there is!
I swear, this stupid thing’s rigged to h.e.l.l and back . It must’ve only spat out that gun because it was my first roll and it wanted to bait me into rolling more . s.h.i.+t . Stupid “random” number generator led me by the nose . And like, why’s the most common thing gotta be a f.u.c.king pan lid!? What the h.e.l.l am I going to do with 3 G.o.d d.a.m.ned lids!? It didn’t even get any pans! Like, come on! Why couldn’t the most common item at least be some sort of consumable I could actually get some value out of? Why’s it gotta be something this G.o.d d.a.m.n useless?
I sighed as I lifelessly leaned back into the throne . Just seeing the trash pile made me feel dumb and unmotivated . The action caught Illuna’s attention and prompted her to ask me a question .
“What’s that weird blue thing?” She pointed straight towards the screen I’d been manipulating just a few moments prior .
“Oh, this? This is the dungeon’s menu . I use it to c—wait . ” I cut myself off . “You can see this?”
My response had been reflexive, so I hadn’t thought much about her question until after I’d started responding .
“Yup! It’s weird, glowing, and kinda transparent!” The vampire said with a smile .
Wait, what the h.e.l.l? Wasn’t I supposed to be the only person that could actually see the menu? Not even Lefi could last time I checked, so why can Illuna?
“I wanna try doing what you’re doing . It looks really fun!”
“Uhhhh… Sure . But just once, okay?” Can’t have her falling for Gambler’s Fallacy . Not that I have the DP for it .
“Yay! Thanks Yuki!” The vampire skipped over to the throne, climbed up my knees, and sat herself down in my lap . “Uhmm… So how do I make stuff come out?”
“You see this b.u.t.ton?”
“The second one from the top?”
“Yeah . Poke it with your finger . ”
“Okay!” Illuna happily tapped the floating screen .
Light flooded the throne room . There were far more glowing particles than there’d been on any other occasion . In fact, there was enough to dye the entire throne room in blinding light .
“Holy c.r.a.p . ” My eyes felt like they were about to bulge out of their sockets .
“Wow, it’s so pretty!”
So many of the light particles had gathered that they didn’t even immediately take a solid shape . I could make out that whatever the gacha was spitting out had four legs and a tail, but that was it .
Once the light finally vanished, it left behind a living thing, a creature whose ma.s.sive frame towered a full head above my own . It was covered from head to toe in a layer of white fur that shone with all the l.u.s.tre of a fresh coat of snow . Jagged claws extended from all four of its feet, each sharp enough to slice even a boulder in two . Its gaze, which was focused on us, was one that seemed to convey intelligence . I could tell that the creature, the wolf, could think . That it was no mere beast . My overall impression was that the canine gave off an aura of dignity and grace .
The only word to describe Illuna’s pull was one that embodied luck itself: jackpot . I was so shocked to see the prize that my jaw dropped and froze in place .
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General Information
Name: None
Species: Fenrir
Cla.s.s: Lord of Wolves
Level: 1
HP: 1810/1810
MP: 5452/5452
Strength: 607
Stamina: 685
Agility: 784
Magic: 872
Dexterity: 890
Luck: 140
Unique Skills
Extremespeed
Everchanging Chains
Transformation
Skills
Claw Combat Arts II
Ice Magic IV
Lightning Magic IV
Crisis Detection IV
t.i.tles
Kin to the Demon Lord
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Uhh… is it just me, or is that thing a fenrir? Like, you know, the G.o.d-Eating wolf from Norse Mythology? The only conclusion I could draw was that, in this world, fenrir wasn’t just a myth .
Wait, what the heck? This thing’s stats are super high . Holy c.r.a.p . It’d probably outcla.s.s me if we were the same level . In fact, it’s already more agile than me . It’s got all sorts of skills, and its cla.s.s is ridiculous too . Like holy h.e.l.l . It’s already Lord of the Wolves even though it was literally just born?
“Wow! It’s a really big wolf!” Illuna squealed, got off my knees, and ran towards the wolf .
“Wait! Hold up!” I immediately ran after the little girl and attempted to stop her . Ohhh c.r.a.p . It’s totally going to eat her .
Fortunately, I was wrong . The giant wolf seemed to recognize us as its masters . It didn’t mind Illuna attaching herself to its leg . In fact, it even leaned forward and lowered its gaze to demonstrate that it was tame .
“Wow, it’s so soft!”
“You sure are brave, Illuna . What would you’ve done if it attacked you?”
“It doesn’t smell like a bad wolf, so it’s okay!”
Uh…what? Is that just a vampire thing? It doesn’t look like she’s got any skills that tell her whether something is dangerous, but she seems really confident, so…
s.h.i.+, who wasn’t doing anything in particular, approached the fenrir . The slime stood in front of the wolf and bounced around, as if giving it a lecture . Though it wasn’t actually saying anything, I felt as if it was telling the newcomer that it would show him the ropes . The overall impression I got was that s.h.i.+ was effectively acting no different from a kid puffing up its chest and bragging .
Despite being way stronger, the Fenrir didn’t mind that a mere slime was treating it like it was higher up the social ladder . In fact, it almost seemed like the wolf was intently listening to everything the slime had to say . If you could call it that .
Wow . That’s uh, one h.e.l.luva mature att.i.tude . d.a.m.n, Fenrir-bro . You a real man .
“What an outrageous creature to summon,” Lefi grumbled as she dragged herself over . She’d been asleep, indulging in laziness, but all the commotion had eventually forced her out of bed .
“Yeah, I figured . It sure does look decently strong, huh?”
“Your description is inadequate . It does not even begin to capture the creature’s potential . The fenrir you have summoned is young, a mere pup . It has not yet realised its full strength,” said Lefi, matter of factly . “It will be like me once it matures, a creature of which legends are sung . I have fought just one in the past, and it was so difficult to defeat that I wished not to ever encounter another . ”
“Holy s.h.i.+t . ” It’s that strong? I can’t believe that even Lefi acknowledges it . Wait, did she just say this one’s still a puppy? Even though it’s already bigger than I am? I was a bit concerned about the wolf’s final size . Hopefully it’ll at least be small enough to comfortably fit inside the throne room .
“I must admit, I am quite impressed with both s.h.i.+ and the girl . Neither is flinching in the face of such a creature . I would not be surprised to find both maturing into individuals of great influence and power . ”
I know, right?