Chapter 54: First Dungeon Acquired

"Don't be sad, Aya," Minato patted Aya's hair.

Due to the lord beast's breath, her hair was also disheveled. Minato put her on his lap, then combed it while tending to her inner wounds.

That inner wound was due to the Lord Beast's words, "You are my spirit."

"But why would he lie like that? He scrutinized Husbando Overlord's rune, and he was right! Minato has the means to take care of hatred, so you are a potential threat to that unknown master! It didn't go mad without any reason!" Aya cried out.

Minato patted her hair, "You also haven't appeared in my world without reason."

This was a perfect response as Aya's heart calmed down.

She hugged her master and nodded within his nest.

To ensure Aya didn't think of anything weird, Minato added, "Just like Overlord Enemies have appeared in my world with a reason, you are the same. And if I have spirit somewhere else in my world, you will get someone similar to a sister, won't you? That's how it is."

"Thank you, Husbando Overlord!" Aya let out a few tears, which ended up soaking his clothes, then her eyes rose, and she faced her master with a big smile.

Minato's lips curved up into a smile as well, "Well. It was a fairly easy conquest! That's all due to my hard work."

"And dual cultivation too!" Aya nodded with her arms crossed.

Indeed, Minato's magic circles and his proficiency with hose rose up significantly due to his dual cultivation! His heart and will became sturdier, and Minato didn't fear wounds or beasts such as the dragon!

He smiled and patted her hair again, "I will continue to work hard."

Knowing the meaning of those words, Aya raised her eyebrows a few times, then strutted toward the floating orb.

That floating orb appeared after Minato destroyed the Lord Beast.

By taking that orb to his Overlord Pillar, Minato would subjugate the whole dungeon!

It was time to take it and change the elves' life!

"That process should last a few hours! I am sure everyone will be surprised with how Husbando Overlord subjugated the dungeon! While Minato absorbs the orb, I will take care of your wounds!" Aya said as she peeked at Minato's back.

A deep wound from Lord Beast's slash oozed out blood, and it was quite a life-threatening wound should one not take care of it.

Minato had elves' treasures for healing, so Aya would just need to apply those onto his wound.

He nodded at her, then said, "Take care of me. I will focus on the orb now!"

"Yes, Husbando Overlord!"

The duo went to work.

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"We can't find him... Has he died already?"

"Probably... There's a chance he went to the unexplored floor."

"If he is Cloud, he might've really gone there."

While exploring the dungeon's depths, Lord Shama's maids and a few dungeon raiders from special teams talked.

They were pretty deep into the floors.

Guided by the elves, they entered the dark forest floor, and their task was to take care of all monsters and hatred here.

Their order was to find Minato and guide him to the most challenging floor.

Those people weren't aware of the elves' ploy and information they had gathered about all dungeon raiders.

They deemed themselves smarter than the dungeon and its rules while dancing on its palm in reality.

Their journey in the dungeon lasted... a few days!

"Should we just head back? Let's plant a tree, get some reward and leave this place. I've had enough of those tree monsters!" One of the maids said, complaining about the lack of bath for a few days!

Her party agreed with her words.

They had just one seed, so everyone poured a little of their mana, then waited for the tree's growth.

Alas, the tree didn't even sprout!

"What's going on?"

"Why is nothing happening at all?"

"Are we... stuck here?"

Fear swept through all dungeon raiders as they realized that they had no way of leaving the dungeon. For many years, everyone left the dungeon in one way, and it was by planting the tree.

Without any other way available, their hearts sank in despair as they stared at the spot where the seed had been planted.

Meantime, even more dreadful changes appeared in the Ice Majestic Kingdom.

To be more precise, Ungrail City became silent for a second. Just a second as the news quickly swept through the whole city!

The shocking news was that the whole dungeon disappeared!

Lord Shama and his maids stood before the place where gates proudly used to be, "It has to be a joke... My elven maids... gone... Just like that? What happened?"

He kept whispering to himself in a barely audible tone, but maids around him heard those words well.

They had myriad thoughts running through their minds, but one prevailed.

"Someone snatched those elven maids, Lord Shama."

One of the maids was bold enough to say that thought aloud.

All maids agreed with her.

Lord Shama's knees weakened, and he dropped onto the ground... "My elven maids..."

That dungeon was the most lucrative business in Lord Shama's family, but all he thought about was elven maids!

He dreamed of those countless times.

And similarly to the dream, those maids just disappeared from his reach...

While the city owner cried, Raj hovered his eyes on the empty place... His knowledge was more abundant than all citizens, so the dungeon's disappearance shook his heart more than everyone.

He had a dreadful thought within himself, "Overlord... That's impossible..."

Minato's description was far from the Overlord.

Where was his overbearing aura?

Where was his ambition?

Why didn't that man seem like the Overlord?

Should someone extend his hands for Minato's women, Raj's questions would be answered! That would be when his 'overbearing aura' would come out.

It was Minato's possessiveness.

Ambition? So far, it was Yuna and Bei's father, but that certainly would change in the future.

The last question was entirely subjective as well!

Regardless of what everyone thought, Minato became the owner of the elven dungeon, and his world finally bloomed with the greenery!

All dungeon raiders that had entered the dungeon before his subjugation were in Minato's hands.