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Chapter 20: Dungeon Beta-Test

A Worm’s Guide to Highschool DxD

-----Raynare-----

Seeing the evil smile on this Devil's face, I can't help but feel as if I just sold my soul to this rather handsome individual. What have I gotten myself into?

-----Lilu Flauros-----

She may be hot, but she's such a pretentious bitch. Oh well, I've got plenty of time to work on her. Transporting us to the Estate back in the Underworld, I lead them to the entrance to the Dungeon.

"Alright, here you go. Just step inside, answer any questions the screen prompts you to answer, make sure you read the rules and sign the consent form. Blah blah blah."

-----Raynare-----

What the fuck is he even talking about? Whatever, as long as this actually helps me get stronger, I don't care. I'll do whatever it takes! "Fine! Whatever you say! Let's just get started already!"

The Devil then gestures to the portal and I step in without hesitation. For some reason, I'm now floating in a black void. What the hell?

Welcome to the Dungeon!

Please state what name you would like to be referred to as.

Please confirm whether you would like to participate in sexual content or not.

"What the hell?! What kind of question is that?!" Shouts the fucking pipsqueak, Mittelt.

"Hmm, so the monsters in this Dungeon are capable of performing sexual acts in addition to regular combat?" Asks Kalawarner.

Well, it has been a while... Stating that I'd like to be referred to as Raynare and agreeing to participate in sexual content, the menu updates.

You have indicated that your preferred name is: Raynare!

You have approved of being exposed to sexual content!

Have fun~!

With that, I find myself laying down an extremely comfortable bed. Sitting up, I find that Kalawarner and Mittelt are both laying in identical beds. Doing a quick check of my powers, I have no issues with forming Light Spears, so it seems that everything is fine.

"Now what? We just go out and kill shit?"

Rules governing current Dungeon Instance!

Kill Monsters, get loot and EXP. EXP can allow you to become stronger until you reach the limit of your potential. If you access the Dungeon Shop, you can spend stockpiled EXP to undergo a "Breakthrough" to advance to a higher limit. (Two-Winged Fallen Angel > Breakthrough > Four-Winged Fallen Angel).

Loot can include a wide variety of things ranging from potions with various effects including improved health, magic, and stamina regen, combat buffs, etc. Sacred Gears are also viable loot drops. If you are defeated (HP reduced to zero), you will be kicked out of the Dungeon with none of the collected loot, and only a portion of the EXP gained.

Regarding sexual content. If you have elected to enable sexual content, then rather than just trying to kill you outright, monsters will prioritize trying to overpower/restrain you in order to sexually torment you. If you are defeated and subjected to a sexual defeat, you will accrue sex-related debuffs. If you end up being fucked into a coma, this will be treated as having reached 0HP, but you keep more EXP.

Okay, so if I kill enough shit, I can undergo a breakthrough and gain a new pair of wings? Awesome. "...Sacred Gears are also viable loot drops.- What the actual fuck?! How?!" Continuing on, if I get "killed", I lose all of my loot and a portion of my hard-earned EXP?! Well, beats actually dying I guess.

Enemies focus on fucking you with sexual content enabled, you receive permanent sexual debuffs if you get fucked too much and can be fucked into a coma?! Huh, almost sounds like it'd be worth losing. Wonder how this works with guys? Is that why Dohnahseek wasn't invited?

"Seems simple enough. Well then, let's get this show on the road." I say before stepping through the open doorway followed closely by Kalawarner and Mittelt.

Stepping out of the door, I see that we're in some sort of stone corridor. A maze? Typical. Looking up, I see that the ceiling's pretty high up, about 40-50 feet from the ground. Well, there's no point to flying yet since there's a ceiling and there aren't any ground-based hazards that I can see.

-----Lilu Flauros-----

Hmm, so they're taken their first steps into the labyrinth. So far, so good. They've got a bit of a ways to go before they encounter the first group of Undead. I decided to be nice and gradually ease them into things with some basic Zombies. The new monsters come later.

Hmm, I reach into my inventory and pull out my cellphone. "Hey Riser? Wanna come watch something fun?"

"Oh? What do you have in mind Lilu?"

"So, you know that thing I was telling you about with the Dungeon training? I found some fresh victims to test it out on if you and your Peerage want to watch."

"Well, Riser does agree that it would be a good idea to get an idea as to what you have in store. Who exactly did you find to test it for you?"

"I put in a call to Uncle Azazel to send over some weak-ass cannon fodder Fallen Angels. I should probably mention that they all opted for the built-in sexual content mode."

"You included a sexual content mode?"

"Yeah?"

"Riser is on his way."

-----Raynare-----

Blasting yet another retched Zombie with a Light Spear, I can't help but recoil at the stench of rotting, cooked flesh. "These things are disgusting."

"Well, at least they die easily." Says Kalawarner. She's not wrong, but more importantly- "have you noticed?"

Mittelt responds with "yeah. I can feel it. Not much mind you, but I can feel some sort of power flowing into me every time I kill one of these things. I can feel my total magic power reserves steadily increasing in addition to the smoothness with which my magic is flowing through me."

Kalawarner also responds with "in addition, I can feel the little aches and pains that come with prolonged physical exertion becoming lessened. As though are physical abilities, our stamina and endurance steadily increasing as well. It took me a while to pick up on it but..."

"Indeed. So far, everything that the Devil promised has come true. If these increases in power carry over to the world outside the Dungeon..." Suffice to say, it represents a critical game changer.

"Power and influence." That's what the Devil, Lilu Flauros, said before. If this Dungeon truly does provide all that he's promised, he'll have all of the power and influence he could ever want, and not just from the Devils. The Grigori and even the Archangels would be forced to make concessions for him.

"Well, I for one don't mind slaughtering any number of Zombies if it means getting easy powerups."

-----Lilu Flauros-----

Sitting in my Dungeon Master room with my Peerage as well as Riser and his Peerage, I can't help but smirk. "You shouldn't have said that."

"Oh? What's wrong?" Asks Riser.

"They've been having a fun time slaughtering a bunch of low-level Zombies. They're about to run into something a bit more troublesome than Zombies."

After all, [Undying Ghosts] are a bit more of a challenge than Zombies. They may not be very strong when it comes to dealing damage, but they're tanky fuckers considering that they spawn at max stats.

-----Mittelt-----

Firing another Light Spear at these damn ghosts, I can't help but yell at my dumbass team leader. "You just had to fucking say something, didn't you?! You just had to taunt Murphy! Didn't you?!?!"

"Who the fuck is 'Murphy'?! Not important, just keep shooting!" Raynare shouts back at me.

I feel like the difficulty shot up tremendously all of a sudden. First we get a bunch of pathetic Zombies that go down in 1-2 hits, then we've got these nigh-unkillable super ghosts?! What the fuck is this difficulty spike?!

-----Lilu Flauros-----

"In hindsight, maybe I should tone down the amount of mana used to summon the Undying Ghosts on the beginning floor. I tried to keep Undead and the like segregated by floor based on the difficulty of the spell used to summon them, but Undying Ghosts are kinda weird."

"How so?" Asks Riser.

"Well, Undying Ghosts are meant to use up your entire supply of mana to summon an Undying Ghost whose stats are equal to twice the mana you invest in their creation. However, they have a cap of 600 on their vital stats, so a maxed out Undying Ghost would only take 300 mana to summon. Well, the Dungeon basically has infinite mana for the purposes of monster creation, so it creates Undying Ghosts of obscene power that would likely be on par with more advanced Undead."

"Riser sees your point. Indeed these 'Undying Ghosts' seem a bit too powerful for this floor, even with their noted vulnerability to Light Magic."

"Maybe I'll turn down the spawn rate, only have a certain number of them per floor and treat them like mini-bosses." I then order the Undying Ghosts chasing Raynare and her team to back off.

-----Kalawarner-----

Panting heavily while trying to catch my breath, I turn back to see how many of those damn ghosts are running around but "it looks like we either lost them, or they gave up."

"Thank God!" Exclaims Mittelt. Yeah, understandable.

"Well, we're still alive, so let's keep going." Says Raynare, but though she tries to play it cool, I can tell that she's feeling pretty rattled by the experience.

Just as she turns to take a step forward, a not-so-subtle click can be heard; the only prelude to the floor disappearing from underneath her as she falls down into the darkness. Before Mittelt or I can respond, the false floor closes again. "Well shit. That's not good."

-----Raynare-----

After recovering from the shock of falling down a trap door, I try to move, only to find myself restrained. "What the hell?! What is this?!" Trying to free myself from whatever's restraining me, a series of lights starts to ignite showing that I'm- in a fucking spider web?!

Then I hear a series of clicks resounding from around me as a number of far too large spiders the size of German shepherds start to surround me. Oh hell no! I am NOT about to be fucking eaten by spiders!

I go to conjure a Light Spear, when suddenly one of the little bastards bites me on my thigh. I feel a sudden burning sensation rush through me, but it's not painful like I expected, actually it feels rather good~.

"Ara ara? Look what dropped into my nest! I lovely little birdie~!" Comes a mysterious voice. Then from out of the gloom comes what I can only describe as a Drider of some sort.

"Well, you don't need to worry your pretty little head about being eaten, or maybe you do~? After all, you did consent to being devoured~! Fufufu."

"No I didn't!" I shout back.

"Oh, not the bloody, gruesome way, I meant the fun way~." Speaks the strange spider lady. Her upper half is a fair-skinned woman with pale blue hair, while her lower half is like a much larger version of the spiders surrounding me. Her exoskeleton is a similar frosty blue shade to theirs, and not unlike her hair now that I think about it.

"What do you mean by 'the fun way'? We're both women here." I respond.

"Never underestimate the power of a twisted, perverted mind~. Having said that-" the spider-taur then proceeds to rip my clothes off with her claws, rears up and pins her feet to the wall like she's preparing to crush me, then from the area of her spinnerett comes a massive fucking tentacle?! "-you ever tried getting fucked by an ovipositor and being an egg-cubator~?"

Oh fuck me.

-----Riser Phenex-----

Watching the black-haired Fallen Angel get a massive fucking tentacle shoved into her cunt while having large spherical objects, her "eggs" I assume, pumped into her, I have to admit that this was definitely worth coming to watch.

Taking a quick look around, I see that more than a couple members of my Peerage are watching the action unfold with no small amount of intrigue. Admittedly, that's not my cup of tea, however... "You wouldn't happen to have any of them that are purely women, would you?"

"Most of the Arachne are purely women, they can just morph ovipositor's for fucking women when the time comes. Why? Interested?"

"Personally, that's not really my thing. But Riser can think of more than a couple of our peers who would likely be interested. Have you considered creating and selling monsters?"

"I have, mainly as potential customized Peerage members for those looking for a particular set of skills in a Peerage member. I guess entering a sort of 'sex pet' trade, or even domestic servants would be a viable business venture. I'll need to consider it. You seriously think there's a viable market for monster girls?"

"Monster girls, monster boys, mixed-gender monsters, there is definitely a market for this sort of thing in Riser's humble opinion."

Oh I'm sure there is. Now then, what's going on with Kala and Mit?

-----Kalawarner-----

After being separated from Raynare, Mittelt and I decided to keep going. Of course, things got fucking wild when we stumbled into what looked like some sort of cheese cellar, only to then be set upon by a horde of mutant rat-like creatures the size of newborn calf's.

Sure, we managed to mow down a few of them, but they just kept coming. So we ran away.

Then things got even worse as we ran into a room filled with raised platforms filled with skeletal archers. Each group of skeletal archer's was accompanied by skeletal wolves who kept growling and barking at us.

With the rats closing in from behind and the only way out of the room requiring us to run a gauntlet through the room, we decided to try and fly our way across the room as fast as possible.

We both ended up being hit by a few arrows that seemed to have been poisoned. The poison in question seemed to deplete our stamina as well as hinder our ability to use magic, which caused us to fall out of the sky. Thankfully, we landed near the exit, so we ran through into the next area.

-----Riser Phenex-----

"Oh they're so fucked. This is almost over." Says Lilu.

"Why is that?"

"Well, you ever hear of a movie called 'The Darkest Hour'?"

-----Mittelt-----

Pulling the last arrow out of Kalawarner's back, we continue making our way around. Eventually, we come across a strangely dark section of the Labyrinth. Up till now, the walls have been lined with some sort of magical flames providing light, but now the walls were lined with some sort of electric bulbs that were super dim.

"I've got a bad feeling about this Kala."

"Same here."

Then we both pause as we hear a strange humming sound. Then from the corridor to our right, we see a section of lights shining super bright compared to the rest of the Labyrinth. The humming seems to be coming from over there.

Then a Zombie wanders into the area near where the humming was coming from and is suddenly snatched up by some sort of electric tentacle, then is pulled towards the source of the tentacle, and disintegrated.

"What? The fuck? Was that?"

Hearing more humming coming from the left-most corridor, I look at Kalawarner and sigh. "Guess we die?"

Then the invisible creatures snatch us up in their tentacles, but rather than kill us, the rip off our clothes, extend the tips of their tentacles to our nipples and clitoris's, then start applying electric shocks to us.

-----Riser Phenex-----

"What sort of creature is this?"

"It's based on the aliens from that movie I mentioned before. They're invisible, hunt by sensing electricity, and being reeled into the electrical fields that surround their main bodies will fry you instantly. Obviously, I made some adjustments to their behavior so that if encountered with sexual content enabled, they prioritize overwhelming you with electrical stimulus."

Intriguing. Perhaps I should commission something like this? It's something of an open secret that the Phenex Clan are largely masochists by nature. And a creature that specializes in electro-shocks would be a welcome addition in the bedroom from time to time.

I can't wait to see what else Lilu's got in store.

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