Chapter 439: She Asked Me to Kidnap Her

I was going to rescue the virgin elves, yes.

But rescuing them wasn't where the problem ended. Save them and then leave them to their own devices and the same thing would happen all over again, and I couldn't just sit back and watch that.

'But if I simply take them into the Legion, what does that make the elves we already have?'

However kind and warmhearted elves may be, as a Legion Commander I can't just accept the virgin elves as they are. Even if they were forced and turned into dark elves, there had to be a proper distinction between them and the elves who came before.

[The virgin elves are beings who have to be reborn anyway.]

Once an elf's ear is cut off, it doesn't grow back. But our Legion, the Demon King's Army, has a reincarnation option that regenerates even a torn hymen.

[Once we rescue the virgin elves, we'll lock them up and have them lay eggs until they reincarnate.]

They wouldn't be getting out until they reincarnated. Which is why I'd planned to remodel an existing facility for the virgin elves' exclusive use.

[Basement 1 of our dungeon. Inside the area Luna manages, I'll build a prison for the elves.]

If the existing ranch was where the whole Legion's captured human adventurers, demons, and the like were turned into food, then basement 1 would be a barn purely for elves.

[Ah, this is what you'd call an 'Elf Ranch.']

Until they reincarnate, they can't come up to the surface. Even if they wanted to escape, there's nowhere to escape to except the stairs, where cookie elves would be standing guard. And however far down they dig, the system has it sealed off with a magical barrier.

[It adds one more tier to the rewards we hand out across the whole Legion. An invitation to the Elf Ranch.]

Ordinary criminals get sent to Gremory's ranch to be milked by Andras and harpies, while those who've earned real merit in our Legion get sent to the Elf Ranch to enjoy elves to their heart's content.

[The virgin elves get a chance to be reborn, and our Legion's boys are happy just to get to do it with elves. Two birds, one stone.]

For the sake of that blueprint, I'd come to Astaroth's dungeon looking for the 'livestock' held here.

***

"This place is laid out ridiculously. Sectors inside sectors."

"It's literally a dungeon inside a dungeon."

We'd been stuck mapping out the succubus sector belonging to a boss whose name we still didn't know. We didn't have to sneak around one step at a time like when we were surveying the overall structure, but between that and beating down the succubi who came lunging at us every so often, we barely had a moment to think.

"Ugh. Doors on both sides of the hall. This is filthy annoying."

"Master, doesn't this layout look familiar?"

"...Of course it does. It's identical to the ranch prison, isn't it? All packed shoulder to shoulder."

"Yes. The Avalon basement was the same. A place built to fit in as many private rooms as possible..."

The very place certain people had sneered at and called a brothel.

Rooms crowded side by side along a long corridor, like some dark underground installation, called that place straight to mind.

Build a barracks or upgrade it to a garrison and you can fit several to a room, but succubi, being female, apparently prefer a one-per-room studio setup.

"This is turning into whack-a-mole. Here we go."

I yanked a handle. The succubus waiting right there in what amounted to an entryway stabbed a blade at my stomach.

"Die, pig orc!"

"Fat attack!"

I thrust my belly forward and fell right on top of her.

Aiming for the one place the dwarven heavy armor doesn't cover was a good idea, but my gut is harder than dwarven plate. Her dagger slid off sideways, and I flattened her under me.

"Ha ha, jackpot!"

Inside the room were three dark elves chained by the wrists to the wall. Their eyes lit up when they saw the succubus go down, and then they saw who had saved them, and their lips started trembling.

"H-how are you here...!"

"I've come to rescue you!"

I punched the succubus in the solar plexus to make sure she wouldn't be getting up again, then stood. Lune came in behind me and put an arrow into the same spot to finish the job.

"Let's see... the chains run up to a pulley on the ceiling? They were playing some pretty niche games in here."

"Sniff, sniff. All three smell like chocolate. Master, they're un-virgins."

"Yeah. I was hoping there might be some virgin dark elves out there, but of course there's no such thing."

I'd let myself hope, for what it was worth, and it came to nothing. I pulled on the chain hanging from the ceiling. The chain was fastened to all three of their necks.

"All right, let's go."

"...?"

"You're not... going to unchain us...?"

"Why would I unchain this? Follow me before I start pulling."

I took hold of the chain and walked out the door. Whether the dark elves got dragged across the floor or not, having rescued them, I needed to get them back to the entrance.

"That's eight now, right?"

"Fewer than I expected. Don't you think there are more on the other side?"

"Probably. There are four sectors, so the elves were likely split four ways. That's what I'd have done."

Assuming succubi have no use for female elf prisoners is just prejudice.

Physically a succubus can use her tail like a male organ, and in dreams she can turn her partner into a man or grow one herself and take them by force. Shaitan taught me the range of succubus possibilities a long time ago.

"So even the dark elves in the succubus sector haven't exactly gone untouched by the incubi... a bit of a shame."

"If they were virgins, were you planning to put it in each of them once, Master?"

"Yeah."

"...If they were virgins, hnngh. ...Just a taste?"

Clank, clank.

At our conversation, the dark elves following behind us started thrashing violently. They glared at me with venom in their eyes.

"You traitor to elvenkind!"

"Oh my, I think that one was aimed at me."

Lune turned around with a bright smile.

"We've met before, haven't we? You used to insult me every single day for not having a mother."

"Traitor to elvenkind! That a girl like you became the high elf princess is a disgrace to every elf alive!"

"Ah, you figured it out from the shape of my ears. But are you sure you want to keep talking like that... Master, would you hand me the chain?"

I passed Lune the chain holding all three leashes. She hauled on it hard and forced the three of them to their knees.

"You ignored the Queen's own orders and walked out of the forest, and look where it got you. Weren't you the ones saying the Queen's word was absolute? All that talk about how everyone would have to obey you without question once you became queen. Say that to us and any sympathy I had drains right out. At this point you're beyond sal..."

Lune stopped mid-word and bit her lip.

"...beyond salvaging, I think. Master, let's turn these ladies into livestock, all of them."

"Well held, Lune."

What elf could look at one who had become a dark elf and feel nothing? But Lune forced on a mask of coldness and dragged the three of them all the way to the sector entrance.

"You have got to be kidding...!"

The dark elves were appalled at the divine power of the genital shield, at the true nature of the Holy Sword Meri wielded, and at the sight of the dark elves we'd already taken.

"What? I set all that up to protect you, didn't I? So the livestock I went to the trouble of catching wouldn't get hurt."

Glurp, glurp.

The dark elves already in our custody had their hands and feet bound, with a bra and panties of red slime covering their chests and groins. With sad eyes that had given up on everything, they smiled bitterly at the three Lune was hauling in.

Give up and life gets easier. That was the look.

"Lime, start."

"Got it, Master."

Lime turned both hands into the shapeless slime form. As those wobbling hands reached for them, the three dark elves shoved at each other and screamed.

"N-noooo! Stay away!"

"Where do you think you're running to?"

Lune pulled the chain taut so they couldn't get away. They kept screaming and struggling anyway. Worried the collars would draw blood at their throats, I planted my feet on their backs to hold them still.

"First things first, we've got to wash you out."

Lime's hand slid into the front and back openings of one of the dark elves. As the slime worked into her body like an enema, she screamed nonstop and tried to squirm away.

"What's the matter? I'm only cleaning Astaroth's Legion's filth out of you."

"S-stoooop!!"

"Ugh, this one squirms the most out of all of them. This isn't working, Lime."

I hoisted the dark elf up. Red slime dribbled thickly out of both openings.

"Just swallow her whole. Full-course wash cycle."

"Nom."

Lime engulfed the dark elf inside her body. The dark elf ended up sealed in like she was wearing Lime as a hazmat suit.

Glurp, glurp.

Lime began eating away at the dark elf's whole body from the inside. Not literally eating her, more like wiping the foreign matter off her the way she cleans residue off my dick.

"Ah, this is what you'd call a washing machine."

Ten minutes later.

Fshoo.

The dark elf Lime spat out the back end came out naked, her skin as fresh as if she'd just stepped out of a shower. I fastened the leather straps back onto her wrists and ankles.

"Don't get any ideas about running. If you run anywhere near Meri and I catch you, I won't be so easygoing next time."

"W-what would you do!"

"What do you think? Toss you in with a pack of incubi who are dying to bang an elf. Hey, you had it easy in the succubus sector, dealing with women. The elves in the other sectors are getting passed around by incubi as we speak."

"...."

The dark elf bit her lip and said nothing. I tapped her cheek lightly, then lifted her thin breast and bit down on the nipple.

"Ngh?!"

"Hmm... you're still the richest of all the dark elves so far. At least somebody actually stirred the chocolate powder into the milk with you."

Maybe because she'd been rescued from deeper inside, the flavor was clearly a cut above. If the assumption holds that stronger succubi got assigned the higher-quality elf prisoners, there might be more dark elves, and better targets, further in than this.

"Hey, elves. Let me ask you something."

I met the frightened elves' eyes and asked.

"The head succubus of this sector. Anyone know where she is?"

Regrettably, nobody did.

***

"Damn it! What the hell are those bitches doing in there! Hey! Get out here! Get out here and work, work!"

Orias kicked the wall of the succubus sector, throwing a fit. The tantrums that had come every few hours were coming with shorter and shorter gaps between them.

"Hnngh..."

"...."

Caim and Focalor, who should have been reining Orias in, let it slide. Every other sector and the corridor lines had all been checked, and no trace of the enemy hiding underground had turned up.

"We dug out our whole sector and checked it! You're the only ones left, you inconsiderate wenches!! Are you in there turning elves into men in your dreams and using yourselves as cum dumpsters?!"

The insult was severe enough, and still the door didn't open. His patience gone, Orias finally raised his foot at the wall with everything he had.

"You worthless bitches!"

Boom! Orias's kick landed and the wall began crumbling away in chunks. He shoved his face into the crack that opened.

"Let's see what's going on in the-"

Pshoo.

Orias's vision was gone. Everything above his neck simply ceased to exist. Caim and Focalor nearly screamed.

"You've got to be kidding...!"

"Don't tell me the reason it's been quiet all this time..."

Fssss.

The divine power of the Beam that had erased Orias's head faded away like mist. Headless, Orias slumped against the wall.

"...."

Caim and Focalor carried Orias's corpse over and threw it onto the Virginium Shield in front of the sealed door.

Zzzrrkt!

The instant his corpse vanished, the Virginium Shield vanished with it. Caim and Focalor immediately dove down through the floor.

"I knew it!"

An underground passage ran a long way toward the succubus sector. Caim and Focalor pulled up their mana and readied themselves fully for a fight.

"Glory to the Legion!"

"This damn... huh?"

Thud. The two of them stopped short at a dead end. No matter how thoroughly they searched in every direction, there was no way forward.

"Hey, hey! You're a Nightmare! Phase up through it!"

"You think that's possible?! Only the succubi can touch anything up there!"

"Damn it, if you've got time to talk, shut up and get a shovel! We're digging up through here!"

With a quarter of the sealed door glowing, Caim and Focalor started shoveling their way up into Asmodeus's sector.

***

"Dad, the Virginium Shield broke. I think we've been found."

"Tch. What filthy timing."

Smashing through every door the succubi had hidden behind had taken a long time. In the meantime we'd successfully rescued seventeen dark elves in all, and there was exactly one door left.

"Hey, dairy cows. Get up and walk on your own now. We're getting out of here."

I threw Lime up at the ceiling. She stuck there and began eating her way through it.

Crrrunch.

The hole she'd plugged with slime opened wide again. The dark elves gaped at the secret passage in the ceiling.

"Lune, take the lead and guide them."

"Where should we head?"

"Back to the portal entrance."

The timing was just about right. I laced my hands together into a step, and Lune pushed off my palm and my shoulder and jumped up through the hole.

"Hey, dairy cows. Any of you can't manage this?"

Shake, shake. The dark elves shook their heads. I jerked my chin upward.

"Anyone who wants to escape, line up and get over here. If you'd rather not escape, go ahead and get raped to death by incubi."

"...."

The dark elves hesitated a moment, then realized this was their last chance and vaulted up off my hands. Being elves, all of them cleared the roughly ten feet with ease using me as a step.

"...I don't know why every single one of them makes a point of stepping on my head on the way up."

"Karma, Dad."

Meri giggled and released the genital shield sealing the sector door. Now anyone outside could come and go from the succubus sector freely.

"Dad, let's get out of here."

"...Meri. Let's check just one thing before we go. There's one room left."

I pointed at the room in the dead center of the sector. In all our sweeping of the other areas, there was exactly one room we hadn't been able to check.

"It's dangerous. We've got less than twenty minutes."

"Twenty minutes is plenty. Besides, I've got you, don't I? Protect me if it comes to that. All right?"

"...Haah, let's go."

Meri tucked Virgo between her breasts, and I scooped her up and ran for the door. Every other door had been smashed to pieces, and only this one was firmly shut.

"Delivery!"

I stomped the door in. The wooden door shattered, and the inside of the room came into full view.

"Whoa."

"...Wow, that's insane."

Meri and I both lost our words the moment we stepped inside. There, an elf whose face I knew, white-haired and pale and naked, lay on her stomach on a bed looking back at us.

"F-first Elder?!"

"...Hello, intruders."

The white elf, her ears perfectly intact, waved at us with an expression of deep annoyance. There were horns on her head, wings on her back, and a tail above her rear.

"An elf succubus...?!"

"I'm Asmodeus. Administrator of this sector. ...Technically."

The elf succubus who called herself Asmodeus waved at us and yawned enormously.

"Take me with you when you run. Pretend you kidnapped me..."

"What are you talking about? What are you after?! Is this a trap?!"

"I thought you were supposed to be smart. This is unexpected. Does this answer the question?"

Asmodeus spread her legs toward me. A pale pink slit that looked like it had never once been used opened and closed at me like a mouth.

"You said to spread my legs if I wanted to surrender. There. Surrender."

"...Are you mocking me?! Now I'm angry!"

I set Meri down and dove at Asmodeus.

"I'll be taking you hostage!"

I dropped my pants on the spot, drove myself into Asmodeus, and lifted her up.

At that exact moment.

Kabooom!!

A tremendous explosion, and the sound of a wall coming down somewhere far off.