Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World
Chapter 576: Dungeon of the Endless Dark

Chapter 576: Dungeon of the Endless Dark

Asmodeus and his group arrived at the island after flying across the ocean.

What shocked them was the once-beautiful water, which shone like a dazzling blue sapphire, just like Ryuji’s eyes. Became stained black by a sludge-like ink that seeped into the ocean from the distant cavern.

“It seems the island was a bust this time…”

“Yeah, I thought that the festival held on this island was the key.” Asmodeus sighed at the black ocean, his heart throbbing with danger whenever he peered at the distant cave.

“Are we going to head there now?” Velvet asked.

Yumiko started squatting and loosening her limbs, her eyes focused and sharp. Leviathan’s armour became more water-friendly, her legs exposed to light as her exoskeleton contracted to her crotch and hips.

“We should be prepared for battle the moment we enter, Master.” Levia’s soft eyes fluttered as she turned away from the cave. “I can sense a strange energy lingering within the soil.”

“I see…”

He couldn’t help but feel proud of Levia, who managed to change and win everyone’s acceptance.

“Let’s go, my lovely wives.”

“Hmph~ we’re still waiting for the ceremony!”

“I hope you find me a nice ring.”

“Master!”

The three women weren’t wrong. Asmodeus touched his chest with a smile, and the powerful throbbing of his heart became much faster after hearing Yumiko and Velvet’s response. Because the only woman legally married to him was Yuina, this occurred during his conquest and aid of the Beast Empire.

“I promise.”

Asmodeus shot into the air, leaping from he island with his wings spread out like a graceful black bird of prey, followed by the three women. They appeared like four gods descending from the heavens above, ready to bring about their judgment upon those who defiled the world.

The irony that they were demons, and the enemy was a former god.

“Phew, what is this place?”

Although he had visited this cavern in the past, now, after his battle, it seemed reformed.

A huge opening with no markings of the cult of death, just black stones that shouldn’t exist in this part of the continent, likely due to the ink or the cause of the ink in the ocean.

Velvet’s eyes gleamed as her exoskeleton changed into a set of black and purple armour, while Yumiko wore a Kimono-style combat dress with red, black, and white colours.

Levia’s armour folded, with two layers of plating, reducing her speed, but her defence doubled.

She stepped forward, holding her massive shield across her body with the broad edge facing outward and the narrow tip parallel to her face. A small slit between the plates allowed her to see while protecting most of her vital spots.

“Let us go.” She walked forward, with Velvet and Asmodeus on either side, and Yumiko following behind, as their speed gave them an advantage over any enemy.

It seems her ability to control her armour has improved…

Asmodeus admired her from behind, noticing that her hips and figure remained clear even in this heavy armour. He smirked at the faint shake of her hips before Yumiko pinched his cheek.

“Focus on the cave, not her ass!”

“…”

Ever since she became a mother, Yumiko’s immunity to Asmodeus and his sly tricks and flirtatiousness grew stronger. He couldn’t help but smile, knowing that even though her personality remained similar, it felt like something new had emerged within her.

I guess I am growing as a person as well…

His mind returned to the current moment.

The air was thick with a heavy stench of salt and rotting fish that lingered in their noses.

“There’s no guards…” Velvet muttered, her hands crackling with a faint purple lightning.

Asmodeus also kept his focus up, worried there might be an apostle or some powerful enemy, the dagger that almost stabbed him then… he remembered it could kill someone if it stabbed them.

The authority of death.

A powerful mythical ability that surpassed magic, even if Mephisto stopped being a god, the position he held still existed, and for all Asmodeus knew, someone else could have taken the seat, leading to a new prophet, a new apostle, and a new cult.

Strangely, I can’t feel any sign of them…

He felt a chill run down his spine as he looked around, trying to find anything suspicious. He knew that Yumiko and Velvet were masters of detection, yet even they struggled to sense anything in this oppressive environment.

Not to mention his powers, but even he felt like he was walking with a blanket covering his face.

The thick atmosphere was almost tangible, like he reached into squishy jelly when moving his limbs.

This place is wrong… the structure… the smell, and this ominous aura.

Asmodeus’s mind told him something was strange, but he couldn’t grasp what was happening. His mind was confused and disoriented.

And then—

A flash of black light curved through the air, followed by an explosion of purple flames. When the dust settled, a massive crater opened up in the cave walls, revealing a series of black pillars from behind them.

“What the fuck is that?” Yumiko hissed.

“A damn corpse exploded when I punched it!” Velvet’s right arm oozed with blood and a black ooze, similar to the corruption.

“This cave is enormous, how can the small thing we saw from outside be this big…?” Levia muttered.

Asmodeus looked at his palm, closing his fingers and feeling the strange watery air and focusing. “It’s a dungeon!? We’ve entered a dungeon!”

“What!” The girls all exclaimed with shock, especially Yumiko.

“How can that be?! Dungeons don’t just pop up like mushrooms on trees! You need some sort of magical relic or ancient artefact! And where was the portal? Shouldn’t we have felt something… oh?” Yumiko’s eyes opened wide. “Is this strange atmosphere the portal?”

He smiled at how fast she noticed, the strange air and the long passage to the first corpse was the dungeon portal.

The further they came, the easier it became to move and sense things.

Suddenly, there was a shuffling under the earth…

A moment passed as the group prepared their weapons. Inside a cave-type dungeon, it was dangerous to blast the walls recklessly, as they had earlier, so Velvet and Asmodeus could only use their close combat skills for now.

Swish!

Something darted past Asmodeus’s head, his body shifting to the side with a series of lightning-fast steps. He didn’t have time to look down to see what struck the ground before another swished past his ear.

“Yumiko, take them down!”

“Hmph, of course, my darling husband. Let me show you how much I’ve improved.”

Her feet bounced off the floor in a strange rhythm, faster… faster… until it looked like she was almost floating.

“Shrinemaiden Arts – Ghost Step!”

Her body flickered from existence, appearing on the other end of the hallway as her fists formed a blur of black light that shot through the air, her kicks and punches ripping apart the miasma around them, but more than that…

With a single punch, she crushed the skull of a black figure, her body spun with a second kick to the side, catching another figure and sending it smashing into the wall.

Her body then flew towards the third figure as it tried to escape, her fists shining with a dull glow, each punch creating a shockwave of blackness that tore through everything.

After she dealt with three figures, she vanished again and appeared on the exact spot she had disappeared, still bouncing, slowly reducing her speed as her feet became visible and a bead of sweat dripped down her cheek.

“It seems that becoming a mother affected my stamina.”

She pouted.

Asmodeus smiled. “It’s been less than three months since you gave birth to our daughter; give your body time before you start training yourself to the bone again.”

The other women giggled as they approached the corpses.

However, the ground and strange miasma churned several times in a vortex, and the figures doubled in number. This time, six of them shot like bullets towards Yumiko.

“Wha!?”

Clang!

Levia’s shield covered Yumiko’s body, as the figures exploded into black ink and seeped to the ground.

“They’ve multiplied!”

“How annoying, can’t we get a rest? Violet Surge!” Velvet punched her fists together, and with a crackle of violet lightning, the entire cave illuminated with a violent storm of destruction.

He watched her beautiful body and powerful magic tear apart the enemy with ease… Asmodeus learned once again that he had to be careful if she ever became angry at him.

Yumiko was strong physically, but Velvet’s magical power was enough to damage him even in his Demon King form.

Shuffle!

Once again… the dark figures reappeared, this time with twelve of them…

“This is annoying.”

Asmodeus flicked his axe and lifted it over his shoulder.

With each kill, the blood in his veins bubbled and raged, drawing him into the battle.

“This seems to be a battle of stamina, likely a gauntlet. So let me take care of it.”

He stepped forward, his body swirling with a blood-red and pitch-black aura that entwined into one beautiful spiral. The ground shook beneath his magical pressure, the air around him crackling as if an electrical storm had begun.

“It’s been a while since your husband got a chance to impress you.”