Several hours had passed after Thomas and his, now her party left the dungeon. Reiko was slumped in the core room, dreaming of getting her master’s attention, when Dewari suddenly manifested for the first time in months in the dungeon. Dewari immediately moved to Reiko’s side and woke her up. Reiko took a couple minutes after being woken up to focus. The moment she saw Dewari she jumped.

“What are you doing here. You’re not going to shackle me with more bad traits are you?” she said, thinking that Dewari couldn’t possibly be here for anything good.

“No, I am just here because Misaki has been sulking to long, so I’m going to force her to manifest her avatar. But you need to tell her about the local area, as a dungeon she needs to know those things.”

“But she almost never pays me any attention. When was I supposed to tell her these things,” replied Reiko.

“You have had a couple of opportunities that you have wasted,” said Dewari as she waved her hand, an instant later a small girl about 135cm tall appeared in the core room. She had light blue hair ending in silver that fell around her waist, a cute round face with crimson eyes. A pair of silver horns sat on her head, along with a silver tiara. Her skin was smooth like porcelain and her breasts appeared to be a C cup, she was wearing a semi-transparent silver dress that was clearly cut to emphasize her assets. Before the girl had even processed what had just happened, Reiko cried out “So cute!” and was hugging her. The girl tried to do something and then a panicked expression appeared on her face when she failed.

“Dewari, let me go back. I don’t want to be stuck in my avatar,” said the girl in a cute if a bit hysterical voice.

“Nope, you can’t just hide in your core, for the rest of your life, you need to face the fact your a girl, now. So until you accept that you will be stuck in your avatar. Now I’m busy and have to go, Reiko be a good girl and teach your master about the surrounding nations,” said Dewari moments before she vanished from the room. Reiko excited to share her knowledge, while still hugging Misaki, broke into a big smile and began to talk about their surroundings. 

“The dungeon is located in what is commonly called the Elven Forest since the majority of this forest belongs to the Elves. Not far from here are a pair of major roads that link the Elven kingdoms with human lands and Dwarf lands. A trading town with the Dwarven Kingdom is roughly located to our northwest. To our east lies the Elven Kingdom of Bluewood, and directly north of them lies my homeland the Elven Kingdom of Stormwind.”

“Let go of me and sit over there,” interrupted Misaki. “Now you mentioned two different elf kingdoms practically bordering each other, why is that? In the fantasy books, I have read Elves are always united under one kingdom,” asked Misaki as Reiko complied with Misaki’s order.

“Our two kingdoms were once united millennia ago, according to the history books. Accounts of the time are sketchy, but they all say the cause of the split, was a difference of opinion about a plant.”

“Humans, fight each other for all kinds of reasons, but a plant is a new one to me. Well, continue with telling about the surroundings it sounds interesting.”

“To our south and extending to our west as well, lies the Rosewood empire. They’re one of the larger human states, currently the reigning leader is Empress Rosewood, since her husband was killed last year in a battle. The empire is split between the factions of the three princes, and was set to hold a tournament a couple months ago, to determine the succession. I was sent by my father to attend and hopefully negotiate a peace treaty with the new emperor. Then there is the Aurora Theocracy, located to the south-east of us. They are ruled by the Church of Light, well the human sect of it anyway. Which is quite radical, and warlike. In the Theocracy, women have very little in the way of rights and non-human races are enslaved on sight. They constantly war with their neighbors and preach humans as superior to the other races.”

“I don’t like the sound of them. They sound a bit too full of themselves.”

“Yes, well you will have to be careful since the Theocracy likes to enslave dungeons and we are close enough to their territory for their influence to reach here.”

“I’ll keep it in mind and you can move if you want,” said Misaki, and an instant later Reiko was rubbing against her and kept on repeating “play with me” over and over again.

Two and a half weeks after the adventurers, had found the dungeon another group appeared. It was a group of three people. Two men of around thirty, both were rugged and well built and a woman, who was small and pretty. When Misaki analyzed them, she found them to all be level 45 and were C rank adventurers. Both men were human, one being a swordsman, he other a rogue, while the girl was a dwarf healer. The Swordsman was a rugged looking individual with short red hair, a stubble beard, and was wearing reinforced leather armor that was designed to provide as much protection as possible without impeding movement. The rogue was a little shorter, his muscles were leaner, he had black hair and looked as if he had been in the sun a tad bit too much. His armor was leather and designed for ease of movement over protection. As for the Dwarf she was wearing some light leather armor that was clearly designed for ease of movement over protection leaving her arms and legs mostly exposed as a result, like most dwarves she was short, had green hair that fell to her shoulders that was kept in a braid, while her chest wasn’t that large maybe a B cup. As Misaki watched them approach she was pretty certain her monsters weren’t going to stop them.

Sure enough, as she had suspected the trio breezed through her first floor, with ease and they avoided every trap with their rogue easily spotting them and disarming them when necessary. They took a few minor scrapes when they challenged the first-floor boss which was a party of demons, all level 12 with boosted health pools, not even a challenge for a party of C rank adventurers. The second floor was a different story, the group easily defeated the average monster on the floor which was level 13, but the way to reach the boss room had them stumped.

“Well Richard, have you figured it out yet?” said the Dwarf, to the rogue.

“No, I haven’t this dungeon is unusually clever for a young dungeon. And this puzzle doubles as a trap, so if random answers are a definite no, unless you want to risk instant death that is, since this one is far deadlier than the ones on the first floor or elsewhere in the dungeon,” said Richard.

“Well can you hurry up, I’m starting to feel funny.”

“I know it’s the dungeons pheromones they weren’t that strong on the first floor so I hardly noticed, but they’re noticeable here. Just ignore it the best you can,” replied Richard as he continued to study the puzzle.”

“So what, make this puzzle so tough?”

“Don’t bug me, I think I have almost got it just give me a few minutes,”

“Alright, I’ll go wait in the hall with Michael,” said the Dwarf. When the dwarf, came out into the hall she came out to find Michael jerking off. At first, she just froze, then her mind went pink and all her resistance to the pheromones vanished. Moments later she was naked and having fun with Michael, much to the dungeon’s delight.

While those two were having fun, the rogue Richard, tried his answer only to be proved wrong, when the trap triggered, only his quick reflexes prevented the trap from killing him, but he still lost three quarters of his HP to the trap as it broke his leg forcing him to use one of his potions. Since the healer didn’t come when he called, he left the room to confer with his comrades, and to find out why they didn’t come, only to find something, he had not expected to see. The dwarf was on her back moaning in pleasure, as Michael was groping her small boobs and thrusting into her. Overcome by a surge of jealousy and envy, the rogue then stabbed his comrade in the back, the moment he came. Giving the dungeon another unexpected boon, and then he yelled at the dwarf.

“What the hell, are you two doing? We’re in a dungeon and you’re going at it like animals, what happened to your common sense? Eh, Daliah? Where is it?”

“What did you do that for? And I’m not a child I can do what I want,” said Daliah as she prepared to cast her resurrection spell, only for a group of lust demons to come around the corner. She continued to try casting her spell, but was forced to stop, when one of them hit her with a spell, which really hurt since she wasn’t wearing her armor. She then turned to fight and help the rogue. The group was defeated without too much trouble, but by the time they finished off the last demon, the two-minute mark on Michael’s resurrection had expired, and he had been teleported to the entrance.

After beating the last demon the two adventurers saw Michael’s body vanish, and a notification popped up for them, telling them that the adventurer Michael had been teleported to the entrance.

“Great, looks like Michael is at the entrance. And has probably been turned into a girl, thanks to you, are you happy?”

“Ha, serves him right for losing his head in a dungeon,” said Richard as he watched the corridor, while Daliah put her armor back on. Once she had her armor back on, the two rushed to reach the dungeon exit. They weren’t attacked at all on their way back and reached the entrance about half an hour later, where the rogue was jumped by a very angry, naked girl with red hair, C cup breasts, and creamy tan skin. She quickly pinned him to the ground and yelled,

“You asshole, DON’T go backstabbing your comrades, how would you like it if I stabbed you in the back!?”

“Nice view,” replied Richard, as he ogled her chest. Seeing his gaze Michael moved her hands to cover her chest, then Richard pushed her down.

“Hey let me go, Don’t do that,” said Michael as Richard started to grope her, but Richard was very horny from the pheromones and his sense of reason wasn’t all there. Daliah tried to help Michael only to end up joining the fun. Half an hour later, Daliah was comforting Michael who had blood trickling down her legs, while glaring at Richard. Who was acting sheepish about things. Then trying to keep things off his recent actions, Richard brought up the dungeon,”

“You know other than the puzzle, The dungeon appears to present rewards and challenges consistent with an E rank dungeon, I’d say a challenger must be at least E rank to consider challenging this dungeon.”

“And the  Puzzle?” asked Daliah trying to keep her cool and not lash out at Richard.

“That one is challenging, like the ones you see in ancient dungeons but you can’t just put in random answers and take the hit. When I got the answer wrong earlier, the puzzle changed questions. Meaning in order to proceed you need someone smart enough to work out the answer and those damn pheromones make it difficult to concentrate or control yourself,”

“I know that, but that is no excuse for what you did!” yelled the other two in unison.

------Interlude------

Four days later, the group made their report to the adventurer's guild, where it quickly found its way to the Church of Light who was more than happy to have it. Even if the evaluators couldn’t reach the second-floor boss room. As for the group, it disbanded since both Daliah and Michael couldn’t trust the rogue anymore and Michael had developed a slight trauma regarding men.

“It seems, the guild has put out their evaluation. It seems the dungeon is good with puzzles, but the biggest problem would be the pheromones,” said one of the men at the headquarters of the Church of Light.

“Yes, but the gods will shield the righteous. We should send our priests to train our acolytes in resisting demonic influence there, and while they are at it they can map the dungeon and create a guide for solving those puzzles.”

“Yes, and as someone mentioned in the last meeting, those that fail will make good playthings for us. Go, organize the parties, so that we can set up, as soon as the guild starts building a dungeon town.”

“I’ll get right on it.”