A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss

hen I first started, but I could no longer produce anything more potent than a flickering, weak flame, the size of what you’d see on the end of a matchstick.
Apparently, my last experience had led me to think fire magic to be something dangerous.
My brain had started unconsciously suppressing it so I wouldn’t hurt myself, and there wasn’t really much I could do about it.

I was a bit miffed that I’d effectively thrown one of my more potent affinities down the drain, but I didn’t mind it too much.
I didn’t need it.
I still had a strong affinity for both earth and water, and I was getting significantly better at both.
I was already able to control the temperature of the water I created.
All in all, my magic was still a bit on the weaker side.
It wasn’t of much use in combat quite yet, but that was fine.
I would only get better with time.

“Alrighty.
Looks like this section of the map’s fully fleshed out.” I continued playing around with the menu as I started to move.

Like many others before it, I’d spent most of the day exploring and examining the dungeon’s surroundings so I could further expand my territory.
I wasn’t actively hunting monsters.
I only fought those that I happened to come across along the way.
All my expansions had led down from the dungeon’s entrance; I was slowly taking control of all sections of the mountain that lay beneath my cave.
My current income had already become a whole three Lefis worth of DP each day.

That said, I was almost always flat broke.
I blew all my DP on dungeon expansions every single time I had enough.
I was really excited to see how my territory would end up once I was finally done taking everything nearby over.

“Wait, what’s that?”

I felt like I saw something out of the corner of my eye, so I directed my gaze away from the open map and checked my peripherals.
Turning to the left, I immediately saw the thing that’d grabbed my attention.
At first, I couldn’t make out what it was.
All I could tell was that it was some sort of creature, and that it’d collapsed in a bush.

A sticky red liquid garnished its body.
It was clearly heavily injured.
In fact, it was covered in so much blood that, at first, I’d assumed it to be some sort of corpse.
As I had already made the surrounding area a part of my dungeon, I glanced to the right and checked the map, only to find that it was marked as an intruder—that it was still alive.

Curiosity got the better of me, so I approached it while keeping up my guard.
Only after closing in did I realize that the thing was a young girl.
She was covered from head to toe in blood and collapsed face first in the dirt.

I immediately ran over and gave her a quick checkup.
She had a pulse, but she was unconscious.
The deep claw shaped wound on her back seemed to indicate that she’d been attacked by a monster.
The gash was deep, it didn’t look like she was going to live for anything more than just a few minutes.

Fortunately for her, I happened to have a potion on hand.
I opened up my item box and grabbed it.
The life-saving fluid was contained in a small bottle; there wasn’t too much of it. Uhh… I think I can just pour it on her, right?

The bottle hadn’t come with instructions, but Lefi had briefed me on its use a bit earlier, so I knew what to do.
I popped off its lid and carefully started to dribble its contents over her wounds.
I took excruciating care not to miss a drop.
Despite being a deep laceration, her injury began to close at a rapid pace the moment the liquid so much as touched her.
She regenerated so quickly I almost felt it disturbing.

“Nrghh…” The girl began to stir after I used about half the bottle.
The cuts were flat out gone and her skin had been restored to a soft, glossy state, as one would expect from a child.
Her breathing, which had started off shallow and ragged, had returned to normal.

Whew… Looks like she’s out of danger. I heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that the girl had made it, finally letting out the breath I’d held since I began her treatment.
The process of healing her was so exhausting and nerve wracking that cold sweat had formed on my brow, so I promptly wiped it off with an unsteady hand.

As demonstrated by the little girl, the high class potion I’d just used was extremely effective.
It allowed the person it was used on to regenerate limbs much in the same manner as P*ccolo.
It could repair a giant gaping hole in one’s stomach without much difficulty even though such a wound would otherwise be fatal.

Holy shit.
You could probably use this thing to just rush things down without a care for how much damage you take.
You could even turn a soldier into what is effectively a zombie if you just keep using these things… That’s kinda terrifying.

Lefi was the only reason I actually had the potion on hand.
She told me that it was better for me to hold onto one just in case, as, although my stats were high, I wasn’t exactly the strongest thing around.
Her warning was a fair one, so I’d heeded it even though the potion was a bit expensive. Never thought I’d be using it like this though.
I guess Lefi really does give good advice from time to time.
I should probably treat her to chocolate or something when I get home.

Still, that girl’s in awful shape.
Her clothes are torn and ripped, and her pretty blonde hair’s all disheveled.
She’s got a lot of injuries, and most of them don’t look recent.

A single glance was enough to tell me that the young blonde I’d just treated had experienced her fair share of misery.

“Either way, I guess I should probably take her home.
It’s not like I can just leave her here, after all.”

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