Ritual

I awoke refreshed and full of energy, the throne was more comfortable than any bed I had ever slept on. Of course that didn't mean I wouldn't be trying my new bed as well, especially once I got some kind of harem going. As comfortable as the throne was it wasn't very roomy. I wasn't sure how long I had slept but my Dungeon vision showed me the sun was high up in the sky while it had been night before.

My Emination looked quite a bit more pregnant now, full term for a single child at least. The armor normally over her distended stomach could no longer contain it. Curious how much bigger she was going to get before the end of the day I used God's Eye to glean more information on our children. I had been trying to make the strongest female devils I could so getting succubi seemed odd, but then the sisters had said the present Demon King was of an old devil line of their creation so perhaps here devil and demon were the same thing? Being demons it would seem they would be born fully mature, that made sense for a magical race of corrupted sex fiends. No innocents when you're born to fuck, but that also meant my Emination would get very big indeed holding three full greater succubi in her womb even at her size. There had also been something about the mothers race limiting my offspring but greater succubi sounded plenty strong to me, maybe pumping so much power into my Emination made her a better broodmother than lesser mortal races? I didn't want to breed her again though with the first time having siphoned off some of her fighting abilities not knowing if it would happen again. Maybe I could figure out a way to unlock her set limit letting her grow stronger. She had a core of light for all the dark power I used in her creation, isn't the light soul I had my key to unlimited potential? Hmm what if I infused her with more soul energy, I'd be sure to capture some otherwise worthless wretches at some point to rip the souls out of. That certainly sounded like something dark magic could do.

My ruminations were interrupted by one of my imps bringing a deer of all things into my hall. Apparently it had been seeking grass in the entry hall, which was so delipidated that vegetation was growing between the flagstones, and the Dungeon had slammed down a wall trapping it inside and causing it to bolt further in. I hadn't told the Dungeon to trap animals, but I also hadn't told it not to and a deer was not a small thing so understandable I guess. Either way it had triggered a dart trap and the sleeping poison had made it sluggish and compliant so an imp had brought it here thinking it a subdued intruder, which in a way it was I guess. Well this solved the question of breakfast at least.

That was actually a good point. Food might become an issue, the imps didn't need to eat but a growing hunger told me that I did and there was my daughters to think of. I made a quick scan of the armory and found an idea. I summoned another 9 imps and had the 10 of them grab blow guns and a bevy of darts each then set them to target practice at one wall of the great hall. They turned out to be decent shots, which made sense being made for ranged combat and ambush predators at that, so I poisoned their darts with sleeping agents and paralytics and tasked them to monitor the outer building and hunt game as well as keep an eye out for intruders.

My Dungeon didn't have an actual kitchen at this point but the bedroom did have a large fireplace and even had a large cache of firewood stocked already. The deer seemed to be starting to get over its **** state so I obliterated its head with hellfire and standing from my throne took its body into the bedroom. This was my first time seeing it with my own eyes. Huge lavish bed that could hold three of me, so a whole host of smaller beings. Chairs and a side table in my size. A big plush carpet nearly filled the whole room. And there was the fireplace itself of course, and it had the sort of ironmongery that allowed a kettle to be swung out over the fire. I could probably rig that to work as a spit as well.

Looking down at the deer's remains I realized I had no clue how to clean and prepare it, and monster though I may now be didn't relish the idea of just eating it raw. I really needed to get some servants to take care of this kind of thing. Hmm servants, Eminations didn't have to be 10 foot tall engines of destruction. I could put less effort into just a handful of simple maids and a cook, right? I closed my eyes and pictured what I wanted putting some mana behind it but not really pushing too hard. I opened my eyes after a bit to see four small (hey five foot is small to me now, okay?) silver feminine figures dressed in stylized silver maid outfits and a fifth that was slightly taller at six foot dressed the same as the others. Using God's Eye to read them showed I had four lvl 1 maids and a lvl 3 cook. Guess I had really wanted that cook a lot.

I handed the deer carcass off to the cook and took a seat at the side table to watch her work. The maids scattered out into the great hall to start cleaning it, heh good luck with that. The cooks hands turned out to be like Swiss Army knives with blades folding out to start flensing the deer in expert fashion. Soon its hide was draped over the poker stand, not sure what to do about it, and the meat and bone had been separated from the offal. I used a bit of hellfire to clean up the waste as the cook placed the roast over a roaring fire. I hadn't even needed to light the fire as the cooks hands apparently included a flint and steel or some other kind of striker. Very useful thing being able to whip up tailor made robots.

The roast smelled delicious simple though it was and I devoured the whole thing, bones and all. The cook started preparing a leg joint for the fire next, made sense it would last longer cooked than sitting out raw. If I had more elemental magic I could try to rig up some kind of freezer but no such luck, maybe I could capture a Sorceress in the future. I could probably try for a Emination with magic but the idea of a mindless automaton slinging spells didn't seem like a good one to me.

I walked over to the library calling over one of the maids trying in vain to clean up the great hall and told her to bring me the other deer pieces as they were cooked, might as well eat up the whole thing while it was still warm and I had plenty of room even if the hunger was staved off for now. The library itself was quite large and the books on the shelves were sized to me, which was great. I hadn't relished the idea of accidently tearing apart tiny human sized books in my big hands while trying to read them. The shelves were separated by topic. One held a number of bestiaries, useful but not what I was looking for. Another held various histories of the land, boring. The third was paydirt, book after book on dark magic. That is what I was looking for. I took a massive tomb on rituals down and went back to the bedroom, intercepting the maid holding a leg joint and sat down at the table being sure to keep the meat grease away from the book. Hand empty and licked clean I flipped past chapters after chapter on established rituals and got to the section on theory, what I was thinking of didn't fit the ones listed exactly though some had come close and many incorporated bits I wanted. I had a fuck ton of mana and plenty of time on my hands so a ritual seemed just the thing. I wanted to set up a kind of curse on the region, one that would draw female adventurers in but convince men to pass on by while convincing them to keep the place a secret. One that would even reach out into the minds of nearby misogynists and plant the idea that bringing female "sacrifices" here, adult only of course, would increase their laughable masculinity. I knew curses of mind control but needed to weave that into a wide spread subtle net tied to the region. Something that spread slowly as it reached more minds or as I put more mana into it would be ideal. Probably the second so I had more control over its reach.

Tying a curse to an area was a well established way to increase its power so that went in. Leaving a curse open ended was a risk since it would fade if not fed but that was fine as I wanted to put more mana into it later to strengthen the effect so that went in as well. Subtle mind control was easier than direct and could build over time and being stronger at the source was the default so that was all good as well. Hmmm I could make it so male minds affected would reinforce the curse, that sounded good. Huh simps would be drawn in along with their "queens", ah well my succubi would need feeding more than just deer I supposed.

By the time I had a ritual hashed out the deer was gone and I was pleasantly full. I traced out a large circle centered on my throne placing fires at strategic locations keeping them lit with thin streams of mana. Then I sat in my throne and brought my tentacles up from under the floor for the first time. They were a varied lot from some fine whip like extensions to other tree trunk thick monstrosities with razor sharp bone blades embedded. Of course the majority held thin bone needles at their tips with venom sacs below, full of toxins that would cause all sorts of status effects from breast expansion to converting a living person into a still conscious latex onahole. I used my tentacles to fill the circle I had marked out with a mixture of a toxin that would leave one in a hypnotic stupor, my blood, and my semen. Then I drew the complex patterns needed within the circle with them. With everything prepared I once again drew on the deep well of my Pure Land and the now deeper well of my Dark Priest powers. Once more Carnachias added her own blessing to the mix, glad I wasn't boring her so far sticking in one place but she knew the limitations of the Seedbed and loved them still.

I felt the web of my curse spread out wide and take root and then pumped it as full of power as I could. Going all in on these things was risky, giving me nothing left to defend myself with magically, but the gains had been worth it so far. I had a bad ass guardian, and now a region influenced by my power. And by my flashing HUD more levels again it would seem, but I was exhausted by the effort and lay back for another nap first.