is this one of those situations where i should be completely still like when encountering a wild animal or should I attempt to show some type of dominance? This might be one of those circumstances where I was damned if I do or damned if I didn't .One things for sure the aura this beast gave off was massive , so you know i absolutely

  WASNT shitting myself... right... anyway

  maybe I should say something to the beast? If it can even understand human language that is .They were referencing it as a person so maybe I should as well .Staring back at the piercing sap colored yellow eyes I drew up my courage.

  "Hi there" I said trying to be as friendly and generic as possible without sounding soft.

  "My cell my rules." a very amazing womanly voice sounded out to me ..All my tension in the instant was alleviated. Stunning if i had to describe it in one word , especially when consider I was expecting something much more hoarse and nails on a chalkboardy.

  "of course of course" I said to not offend the mysterious women , Who knows maybe i would even get lucky. Raises eyebrows , ok you know I couldn't help myself. The figure walked up closer to me and it was still pitch black so i couldn't see her but from the sounds , I could tell she got up from what I assumed was a bed.

  Woah she was taller then me? That was weird , usually I'm the tallest person in my household, not that mom and dad where tall though .Being around Gabla , Zhil and generally short people must've given me the wrong impression or maybe she was just tall. Lets go with that for my wounded ego.

  She walked right up to me , stopping only when she was directly in front of me never breaking eye contact. She was sizing me up and honestly I gotta say I don't know if it was all the shenanigans i did with Gabla or just her sickly sweet/intimidating presence or or or there was a million things ,BUT! This situation had me feeling some type of way.

  Picking me up she easily threw me on to a surprisingly soft bed, I thought this was a prison not a daycare .Hearing a plop the girl sat next to me, she smelled good though in a musky kinda of way. I wouldn't blame her since this cell didn't seem to have a shower.

  "Damn right. So watcha in here for?"

  What was i in for? Basically nothing... maybe ... I was here really to find out what monsters were really like, I've been suffering from a moral dilemma that has been bothering me ever since i got into the dungeon .Though she doesn't need to know that how bout we just make something up.

  "Uhh well i came through the gate with my allies and the guards of this floor seized me almost immediately. I guess to them being human is simply enough to execute me, what about you?"

  Now lets pivot the conversation, ask her about herself and build a decent relationship maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

  "Well .... im somewhat of a legend around here. I've killed 3,257 aegaeus's and counting, I've tortured some people I've raped some people , kidnapped a few children , molested a few kids , set some things on fire , fucked some lesser animals , and engaged in some cannibalism when i was super drunk, trying to add more to the list though don't think I'll get the chance y'know execution and all."

  !!?? WHAT??

  ...

  ...

  i couldn't believe my ears

  what? she literally was a monster. Even if she was magically transferred into a cute bunny rabbit with that type of track record is near Mitler Level. So let me get this straight she was at mass murderer, rapist, cannibal , child molester, animal fucker ,and anarchists was she actually Satan.

  Her voices was angelic and her smell was honestly appealing but ,The contrast was so extreme .You can't put lipstick on a monstrosity . Rushing off the bed I hurried for the other said of the room , I knew it wouldn't help but i wanted to put as much distance between me and it as possible

  before i ended up a victim.

  "what?" IT echoed in a singsongy tone

  That had to be a rhetorical question

  "Your a villain" i said trying to keep my cool. Remember she was still stronger then you, don't blow this.

  " Am i ? say's who "

  Her nonchalantness was ticking me off, imaging the fate of one of her prey ,i blew my lid.

  "SAYS ME!"

  Oops, please don't punch me in the face.

  Appearing Infront of me in an instant she choose to grab me by the magical chains bestowed upon me .I felt my body lighten as i soared through the air returning to that familiar bed. Walking over slowly she put her chains around my neck and started to asphyxiate me. My neck was burning and so was my head, I felt like my eyes were going to pop out of them.

  "Who's boss" I heard in that sick tone , she was definitely getting off on this.

  If I had to die in this cell , then I had to die in this cell, and i refuse to die a bitch. I'm not going to give her the satisfaction on knowing she was scaring me , in fact this whole situation was confusing and scary ,but i had to be strong. Every few seconds she would let me breath, just to rip the air out of my lungs a few seconds later.

  Fuck this I got to fight back, but how? i was basically useless without Zhil and for a summoner I already had weak physical stats. Whatever I needed to do what I could, grabbing her by her neck which felt feathered , I tried to return the favor.

  "ahh" she leaned in just a little more

  don't tell me she was enjoying this. Keeping the chains around my neck she ascended my pelvis mounting me in a position like we were hugging. As if i was a old broken Tv she started slapping me though her aggression levels were tuned down , supposedly be replaced by lust.

  Was this horny jail?

  Now she was rubbing her whole body on me and she was confirmed to be a avian monster of some sort. I could feel the feathers grinding against me. I didn't have much time to think about it , because the sensation i was receiving was to pleasurable.

  She had some experience under her belt , since her hips were perfectly aligned with mine and moving in such a peculiar way .I almost let out a ecstasy filled moan. Her body was extremely luscious ,warm , and she was still looking me in the eyes. She had to be naked because even though she didn't have huge breast but she made sure I could feel her stiff nipples colliding with my chest. What she lacked in bust she made up for in ass.

  Instinctually and not purposefully of course I removed my hand from her neck and placed it directly on her soft feathered ass .I felt somewhat ashamed but really cant help myself this whole situation was just too much, I rarely ever got to feel women ,monster or not.

  "ah"

  "ahhh'

  "yes that's right

  She seem to say in reaction to the pleasure I was experience, I assumed it filled her with a type of pride.

  I didn't help that was she was shamelessly moaning in that lovely voice of hers. Pulling herself closer to me she gave of the illusion of this actually being a intimate situation. Her Honey region was gliding over my pants and i could feel the warmth. I hate to admit it but i was at my limit, my mind was telling me no but my body was telling me yes.

  ...

  I came , yup right there in my pants in front of my molester/rapist/worst monster in the world.

  now that i had to deal with post nut clarity, a still grinding bird , and cum filled pants. Waves of shame washed over my body .How could i let this monster treat me like this, she had absolutely no care for life.

  "Oh god what the fuck am I watching" a confused and mystified voice came from the door

  I was pretty sure that was the lieutenant's voice but at this point I wasn't sure of anything. That was enough to stop the assault but she didn't move, she could feel the cum in my pants and was relishing the small victory.

  " you criminals are mentally sick in the head , I just came to find out why was there so much noise and you guys are engaged in some horrible freak sex ritual."

  It was a horrible sex ritual indeed but it wasn't consensual in the slightest, p-p... perhaps in some ways i did enjoy it but that didn't mean anything! That's right what the fuck am i doing , get a grip man.

  "No! she's … she's the only one assaulting's me, aren't you a prison guard help me!" i pleaded

  "I guard the normal folk from people like you. In my book you're just as bad as she is so enjoy your karma." the L replied

  "what did I do?!" I said nearly ripping all my hair out

  I couldn't understand , I shouldn't have done anything to these people , why did they hate me so.

  Sneering the lieutenant responded "Your a D ranking raider close to D- no? I wonder how many of my kind you've killed to get there... both of you make me sick , have fun in hell"

  Saying that she close the door leaving me alone, afraid, and helpless. Even if i did call Zhila or Gabla they wouldn't make it in time, and that's if they even knew where i was .

  "well there goes your last hope, looks like she despises you more then i do."

  I accepted that i was completely at this predators mercy. I really was lucky was she feeling more horny then violent today, i shudder to think would could have been.

  Finally releasing her chains from my esophagus, she let me go but I was broken in a sense. I felt like a loser , A D-rank stuck in a dungeon with 9999 floors or more and i was powerless on the lower levels .I had no hope, no chance , nothing.

  Collapsing onto the bed where i was just victimized , i wanted to cry.

  As if being completely devoid of empathy or understanding she snuggled me big spoon style as if taking solace in the fact that i was with her. It was terrifying how little regard she showed for me. She was no friend, no enemy, but a demon.

  That's right a demon .I was always poor, always picked on, always forced the short end of the stick as life itself hated me. In reality i just wanted to be happy like everyone else and I wanted to start a family and make my parents proud. It feels like ever since i was born I was just worthless to people ,and it looks like I'm worthless to monsters as well. No one has ever saw me as a friend or was even around me unless i benefiting them. Even when i think of Gabla... i wonder if she would even care for me existence if i didn't hold the key to her freedom.

  "why did you do that?" i asked turning to face my abuser

  "Do what?"

  Her nonchalantness returned like the last few minutes didn't even happen .Lets ignore it and continue the question.

  ""you basically just sexually assaulted a stranger just now " i said

  After a few seconds the message finally registered with her "Because i wanted too?"

  …

  "Is that really all it took for you to do that to someone, don't you ever think about how they feel?"

  "Of course I do that's part of the reason I do it! You are mistaken to judge me by humans standards, you're in a monsters world now no one really gives a fuck how you feel bud. Strength and influence rule ."

  This time I could her some smugness in her voice , was that her version of an intelligent response? That didn't make any sense though if there was no morality here how the fuck does society operate, why are there prisons , wardens and prisoners.

  "That cant be true I mean you are in prison aren't you, there must be some commonly agreed upon morality on this floor . What about that lady who called us sick she must have something to say about your sense of morality"

  "Let me tell you a few secrets since you're my new toy. I did all the those that you find so despicable under her superior, that's right i used to be a Featherknight. No one cared about my actions until i joined the screechwing faction then all of a sudden i was charged with all those bogus charges. Also since you're a human I know you cant sense it but she was aroused as fuck!!! I bet she wanted to be me so bad"

  "what?"

  was she implying that that type of behavior is common place in this world? She was basically sentenced to death for betraying her order raewing , screechwing, whatever it was called. In some ways this death penalty sentencing is just as immoral as her actions ,not that she doesn't deserve it.

  "yeah , do you honestly believe she came to find out what the noise was about? You're not buff and reek of mana so you're probably some Brainiac sorcerer .So tell me do you really believe if i hadn't joined the screechwing faction and stayed a featherknight that i would be in jail ? everyone in this town is a thunderquill faction member meaning my crime is changing sides .No monster cares about life's other then their own and their relatives , you humans are dumb as hell for shoehorning your beliefs into other sentient creatures"

  "I-I-I still object to this way of thinking" I responded but what was there to object too? In my time of need no one has ever helped me. she was right , this world morals aren't the same .In reality i was trying to force her into a box of righteousness that simply didn't exist in this dungeon world. My lack of flexibility and experience was the problem just as much as everything else was.

  I am in HELL

  To survive this hero's journey i needed to change my way of thinking .Gabla and Zhil have been warning me this whole time.

  breaking my inner suffering she said " no one cares bud I thought it was evident, now get behind me and choke me i want to feel like a baby bird again."

  she wanted to be choked? In my right state of mind i would object but what did I even have to lose. Who cares right? I should just kill her.

  "how do you know I wont kill you?" I asked deadly serious

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  "haha I knew you weren't a saint , humans find it remarkably easy to kill whoever they dislike. And I don't know, that's what makes me excited, now make me feel like I'm dying"

  A certified psychopath.

  conceivably my sanity may actually be what is holding me back. I needed to take some rules out of their book and not be so humanitarian. If I were to be real with my self my morals are outdated and maladapted. I Refuse to die, and I Refuse to remain a fragment of a man. Even if I become a twisted horror of what I once was at least, I would still be alive.

  I needed to change

  I needed to let go.

  Getting behind her so I held the position of power i piled my chains around her neck and showed no mercy .I was trying to kill her, but i couldn't i just wasn't strong enough. She made sure to get closer to me, I guess even as sick as she was she didn't want to do this alone .Pitch black as it was i could still feel her hand movements, She was masturbating.

  My newly disposed of self crept back into me but i threw it right back away.

  I needed to change

  I needed to let go.

  taking I deep breath I ignored my conscious and began choking her harder. I didn't have to do to much as I felt her body spasm then lean into me.

  we laid there for a few minutes then she innocuously just went to sleep?

  my brain was hurting , wasn't her execution only days/weeks away? I know she liked the excitement of the unknown but this was a definite thing , how could she sleep so peacefully.

  "Don't you care about being executed?" i asked her.

  As if ticked off of me ruining the silence, she answered

  " Why would i"

  She just didn't care? I could believe her but after her behavior nothing seemed that far fetched

  "you don't care about your own death... monsters truly are different" I added

  I could tell when her glowing yellow eyes suddenly appeared she turned over to face me. Based on the movement of those eyes i could tell her expression which was like she was looking at something gleefully .She really has a way with ticking people off.

  "of course we care about our own death, but regardless if I'm executed now or drown later it makes no difference. I was always hedonistic but now in the face of mother dungeon I finally have the push I needed to embrace it"

  Mother dungeon isn't a term I've heard before, wasn't the dungeon lord that shoved that thing down my throat. pause. a dude? And what did she mean by drowning , i don't think I've even see a water source here.

  "Wha-What do you mean" i replied

  clasping my sides she said

  "The floor is going to be flooded in a few months. "

  Seeing my confused expression she continued

  "let me explain water from the rivers is infinite we are all aware that this is a dungeon controlled by the dungeon master. the Water level has always been rising but at a much slower pace , leaving everyone in a state of willful ignorance. Though no one knows why but a few weeks ago the water level has been rising about three times as fast, leading to the Thunderquill faction and ghostfeather faction waging a all out war on each other for sacred ground. Though if you ask me i think its the dungeons masters will and we're all going to drown to death. "

  So to sum things up a river somewhere has been rising, the factions of this district have been fighting for power, and she was a pessimist. Why didn't she just leave the floor- oh wait

  "Dungeon monsters can't leave the floor cant they" i asked

  "bingo, I guess you aren't so dumb "

  Ignoring that backhanded comment I posed the question "Is there no way to stop the water level from rising?"

  "Its impossible that's like trying to stop the wind from blowing "

  Keep the wind from blowing huh? People can actually do that though so what was the problem .Maybe the monsters on this floor was too weak, wait Im being stupid it was a metaphor. I thought she told me she was a something-knight .

  "You said earlier that you where a featherknight I'm going to make a wild guess and assume that you're strong"

  "one of the strongest" she said as she inched closer to my face. Reminder her of her power seem to get some type of neurotic response. This was unnerving but somethings you needed to be unnerved.Lets see if maybe , just maybe it was be to my advantage. I could call Zhil and he could start blasting but i really don't know how strong these guys are .If I use even half of the strength of the freaky Friday cell mate as a standard we are fucked.

  "then will you help me break out, of this prison" I proposed

  Yes, she just did some unredeemable things to me but I think I still needed her direct power right now for a clean escape .If i just fight everyone we'll practically be left without food in a place where we don't know where the exit is or anything about. If she helps me we both escape and i can use her to gain intel and supplies.

  "Nah do it yourself"

  At least that was the plan... well i wouldn't push if she wouldn't shove.

  "I see... ok"

  With that, all communication ceased. She seemed like she was sound asleep.

  Getting up from the bed I stood next to the wall .Well at first ,at a certain point , it was more like I was curled into a semi-circle .Holding my head i just couldn't help but think about all the cards life had dealt me. I wasn't strong, attractive, powerful, rich , you really couldn't even argue i had a good personality. The only thing I had ,that I took meaning in my life was my family and now there gone and I'm gone to die here. If I somehow miraculously escape this flood floor , I would just get killed in the actual thousands of floors. What was the point of struggling anymore. All my life I've been garbage and I've known it. Thinking I could make something of myself... what an idiot.

  The depression was setting in.

  Like waves going in and out I could feel pangs of sadness getting more intense

  Why was i so powerless asked myself

  "Indeed you are powerless"

  a thought that wasn't my own burst through my mind fog, but I was to delirious to comprehend that in the moment.

  Why was i so weak

  "indeed you are weak"

  "Why was I... so cursed" i asked myself as I finally broke. The tears crashed around my face but I made sure to not make a sound nor did I attempt to combat them. I was already beaten and abused , there was no need to attract further attention to myself. What was the point anyway I was screaming in the void.

  "Indeed you are cursed"

  "Because of what we are"

  "what we were born "

  "we are shunned from this wretched world"

  "I understand your plight child"

  "The fate of the forsaken"

  That intrusive thought kept making remarks

  was i hearing things?

  umm hello who exactly is talking to me . Don't tell me I've reached the point where I needed a straightjacket.

  "I am not a twisted delusion of yours"

  " I am a part of you now"

  replied the voice

  A part of me you say?, I should just ignore this and hopefully it'll go away. I didn't have the will power to deal with this right now.

  "poor neglected child. Try as you might I cannot go away, in fact if I could I would but as I mentioned before we are one"

  "We? I am one , you're just a voice in my head"

  When did this guy get into my head, did the prisoner bitch actually give me some sort of PTSD or was it -

  "Since I am you I can constantly hear your thoughts, I am the statue that you swallowed earlier. I'm sure you can put the pieces together we are fused now."

  The statue? When did i -

  "The dungeon lord, I doubt that is a memory that is easily forgettable" the voice took the liberty to answer the question before i even asked him.

  That intrusive - I didn't cope well with the fact that my thoughts are randomly always being read by some unknown entity. This thing was only here for a few seconds and it was already resembling a bad infestation. It can hear me now , cant it.

  "I can , and i take no offence."

  so if you can ready my thoughts then you know what I 'm going to say. What are you anyway , yes I get it you're the effigy from before but why are you alive. shouldn't you be just a , you know... statue? bn

  "mhh yes introductions, first of all my name is Eldritch. I was sealed in that statue many many eons ago. Truth be told I thought I was going to be in the repugnants descents treasury forever. Though through her hubris we have been gifted a chance, "

  "a cha-"

  "Yes a chance" he cut me off "I will give you my power " he stated matter of factly

  Don't cut me off this time! I thought , he pretty much knew what I was going to say but I still wanted to say it, I wouldn't make it a habit to start giving up my bodily autonomy

  "Why would I believe you and , lets say I did believe you then what's the catch"

  "Oh .. believe me. As for the price its simple really .After your death ,you will be removed from the cycle of reincarnation and your soul will become of my collection"

  so this guy... eldritch was it? wanted to give me power in exchange for my place in the reincarnation cycle? I didn't even know we reincarnated , how did i know that wasn't a pack of lie's, yeah right I'm done being made a fool of by this dungeon. I don't trust anything or anyone but myself.

  "That is a fair stance child, but if you don't believe me then let me show you!"

  "R U D A I" he sounded out in my head and my physical body collapsed.

  As if waking up from a spell I awoke in a completely different environment was in a cathedral of sorts it wasn't big in the slightest. It was was about 30 feet in diameter . In front of me there was a statue of a elderly man and to the side of me where decorated window pains of some religious figure. Considering I was just magically teleported here I got the notion that he might be telling some truth.

  "where is this place?"

  "This is my temple but other people know it as the forbidden synagogue .In the past it used to be infinite but this seal is draining my power and it has been getting smaller every millennia or so."

  so Eldritch was losing his power over time , I can assume that it meant something bad for him.

  "why do I care" I said mockingly , did he really think I would just support him

  "Naturally you shouldn't but in this case we have the same enemy"

  enemy? he must've meant the dungeon lord

  "precisely, you see I am a descent .Before life all descents where living together in the umbrero plane. It was far from peaceful but the concept of death didn't exist at least not before I came along. you see there was this pretty little blond dame named. What was she named again? oh that's right Evelyn, she was one of those girls who was too sweet for her own good. we really bonded , enough so that we had 3 children , Iri , Sylva, and Theno. One day i was feeling an extreme hunger, no matter what I ate it just wouldn't stop. Then little sylva came to greet me and i just knew she was the one I need.To eat that is '

  .... long story short

  Iri, Sylvana, Theno and Evelyn will always be with me. "

  This guy cannibalized his kids and wife? The fuck, there was no way i would ever work with -...

  mhhh .I stopped myself from thinking in that direction further, if I worked with him I would gain power, how much begs the question but a little was better then none. Perhaps what he did was horrendous but does that even matter at this point .morally standing up for people who are already dead might be a useless endeavor, and he most likely does pose some type of benefit to me. There is always the chance he will try to consume me as well but nothing ventured nothing gained. I'm already in a hell hole.

  "Smart choice child"

  . You know thinking about the situation i was in there really was no need to resist. I was talking a good talk earlier but what has being moral ever get me? I've been misled.

  "That's right child you have been taught an idiots ideology .All things exert power over each other , in a way all lesser creatures are trying to play god. Its pathetic really, oh I how I love watching a useless struggle. But training to attain power is a thought processes of the mortal races. Us Descents are the actual incarnations of power , all magic in this world comes from us.

  Sounds like a load of bullshit to me

  "Bullshit you say? fine let me ShoW YoU" I heard the last part in distorted whispers

  multiple black status screen appeared in my mind

  "was my race changing?"

  5, 4 ,3,

  "would i not be human anymore?"

  error, mutation

  Race change to chaos summoner

  5, 4, 3, 2,

  "I suppose this is good bye to my humanity"

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