If I didn’t deny my true nature and power for so may years, maybe the unsealing process would have lasted only a few minutes at most, not hours. All I could say was that I was a fool… A fool who continued to believe that I would end up being hated because of who and what I was.

Upon returning to the second floor, I found Dankyun standing still in front of the maze and waiting patiently for the return of his commanders, now either dead or walking away from my dungeon. He didn’t move an inch from when he ordered everyone to scatter and find the exit. Whatever was left of his force was either here with him, dead, or lost among traps and imps.

I managed to survive somehow…

Huffing and puffing, I looked back and saw the dead imps on the floor. Only bits and pieces remained after I attacked them. The battle was tough, but it was not over yet. Without any soldiers to support me and tortured by the complexity of this infernal maze filled with numerous traps and monsters, I was now faced with an even greater danger. Somewhere within the darkness and shadows before me, a terrifying monster laid hidden, waiting for the opportune moment when to jump out and slit my throat!

No! No! No! This dungeon maze was all sorts of wrong! It didn’t even have a decent mirror! All of these walls were all wavy and reflecting our images, making me dizzy and confused with each step I took. There were also the traps and monsters roaming around this place that we had to worry about. This Dungeon built too many spike traps and flamethrower traps on these corridors! It was a pain to get past all of them!

While Nanya was preparing herself for the upcoming battle by unsealing her power, I led Shanteya through the maze on the fourth floor. I then carried her over the lava on the third floor and guided her through the maze on the second floor.

I believe I was among the first to see the signal from the two scouts sent by lord Dankyun. The explosion from their spell followed soon after, and we pulled our horses in that direction. We went off the usually traveled road and entered the thick forest, but Milord Dankyun didn’t care, he didn’t even sheath his sword after Princess Ayuseya vanished before our very eyes. He was mad and furious. We all saw him cast his Supreme Skill to destroy the human's academy.

To see Ayuseya alive and well nearly brought me to tears. The only problem was that I was technically a big floating crystal who had no eyes. Although she was crying and hugging my crystal body, I couldn’t even return her warm embrace. I was cold and motionless like a piece of furniture, but on the inside, I was throwing a real party of joy. For a moment, I even forgot the fact that a very angry and annoying Supreme Ranked Adventurer was approaching me at lightning speed.

An hour or so before I summoned Ayuseya back to the academy, I woke up from my sleep.

NO! Ayuseya! I screamed and reached out for her, but she wasn’t there anymore.

Everywhere I looked, all I could see was the darkness of my Inner Mind, but Shanteya wasn’t there to greet me as usual, causing me to be confused and scared for a moment.

Was it all just a nightmare? I wondered as I tried to settle down my breath and fast beating heart.

Illsy’s voice was so weak. He was trying as hard as he could to survive Dankyun’s onslaught, pushing himself beyond his limits, to the point of fainting from exhaustion.

In all my life, I had never seen another man try so hard for me, but seeing him in pain, seeing him suffer like that made my heart feel strangled by a hand covered with needles.

How can I let you suffer like this, Illsy? I said, but he didn’t reply.

With a speed faster than the human eye could see, she dashed towards Dankyun, who noticed the incoming danger and lifted his right hand up to block the first strike. He didn’t even flinch when he received the blow. The shockwave was so powerful, it shattered the window behind him into a billion pieces, and the impulse sent him flying through it. The frame was blown apart, and the wall cracked because of his sheer size.

Lifting my head up from my el’doraw’s chest, I turned my gaze towards the draconian princess. My eyelids were heavy, I was tired, true, but not to the point where I would allow myself to fall asleep and ignore the enchanting sight which suddenly appeared before me.

That night, I had a really weird dream.

I was back in my old world, at my parents’ apartment in Romania. Alina was there as well, but I couldn’t see her face very well. I couldn’t see mom or dad’s either, they were all blurry, but I recognized the place. The photos of the old me were up there on the shelf, commemorating various moments of my life.

Not long after Dankyun was guided towards the dormitory by Tuberculus, his small army of loyal soldiers began to set up their temporary camp. They confiscated the small garden behind the main building and took it upon themselves to keep any nosy students from interfering with them.

Two groups were already formed with the sole mission of finding any trace of the royal princess inside the academy’s campus. I was told to let them inside any room they pleased, however, I had no intention of letting them step inside mine. I removed the front door and raised an Inconel wall in its stead. It made it bothersome to invite people over, but until I made a safe door, it had to do.

I waited patiently at the border of the Dungeon's territory. Just a moment ago, one of the soldiers entered it briefly and measured its level, it was 64. A rather small level for a Dungeon with a territory of this size. I doubted the academy needed so much, but most importantly I couldn’t see Nanya sacrificing her own Magic Energy to help out a Dungeon no matter the reason.

I woke up the following morning in the pleasant company of two lovely women; one was a draconian princess, and the other was an el’doraw former assassin. Their soft bosoms brought a happy grin to my face, reminding me once more of how much I enjoyed big breasts. Maybe that was why I ended up with an allegiance to that sort of god. If he was up there, then surely he was blessing me in that very moment.

Good morning, Master… whispered Shanteya.

Despite the troubling thoughts floating around in my mind when I went to bed, I did manage to get a good night's sleep. If I were to guess, it was most likely thanks to Shanteya’s soft, bouncy chest. Her embrace was soft, and her lips were delicious every morning I woke up by her side and every night I went to bed with her. Although I was married to Nanya and Ayuseya, I felt like my heart longed more for the el’doraw slave than either of the other two, but it might have been just because I spent more time together with her. I trusted her, and most importantly, she was completely loyal to me with or without the submission spell cast on her.

After Nanya and Ayuseya walked out of my room, I was left alone with Shanteya to think about what I had just done, besides the obvious fact of marrying a foreign princess and someone with the title of Mad Destroyer. That being said, I had the feeling I could select my own title as well, unfortunately, I had yet to discover where exactly in my Status the list with all of them was hidden. Maybe the title appeared depending on the number of people aware of that specific title? Either way, that wasn’t what troubled me at the moment, it was the whole Dankyun fiance thing.

There was a graveyard silence in my room as everyone looked at the black tattoo rings now decorating Nanya and Ayuseya’s left ring fingers. It didn’t take a genius to realize what they symbolized, but even the little gears inside my noggin were having a hard time turning around in an attempt to process the information. The reason was because all of this was so sudden and way too shocking for all of us.