Chapter 7

Surprised by the sudden appearance of the golems, the predator snarled and fiercely swung its deadly tail, smashing apart the leading golem's chest. Soil erupted out from its back and its body exploded as the mana in its body instantly went haywire. With a fierce growl the savage animal pounced at the remaining golems, slamming 2 on the ground with its heavy muscular paws, the weight and force of the slam was great and left the golems damaged. Another golem had its body crushed between the predators powerful jaws, soil and magic exploding together like a bursted water ballon. John mentally frowned at the loss of his golems as he saw all their mana flow into the animal. The remaining golems of Team C crowded around the animal, punching and body slamming the animal. A savage melee startet but the animal was able to use its strength and agility to break free from the gank party. This animal was very aggressive and didn't try to run at all, it feinted for awhile, constantly testing the golems defence before finding another opportunity to attack. With a quick dash, it slashed out with its claws, leaving deep gouges in a golem's body. The golem staggered backwards and fell down, its magical body unstable from the damage.

The reality of being defeated was starting to sink in and John woke up from his beastial lust. 2 golems destroyed and 3 in need of repairs, team C only had 5 functioning golems left... he really screwed up this time. Team A with his irregular golems and normal golems was still guarding his crystal room in the 5th floor and will never make it in time to reinforce Team C, Team B was still moving from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor and might not make it in time to help Team C. With little choice, John ordered the remaining golems in Team C to adopt a defensive stance and slowly retreat towards the staircase where Team B can reinforce them. The golems left behind their injured companions which the animal easily killed before chasing after them. John felt fustrated, he was feeding this animal exp because of his carelessness. The animal stalked his golems, feinting several times again before making another surprise attack. Just as John thought it was making another feint and turning around to retreat, its tail suddenly came swinging down, smashing into a golem from the side, flinging it back violently where it fell damaged and unstable on the ground, but still repairable if it could survive. Team B was quite close by now, John ordered his 4 golems left in team C to stay together around the injured golem while he did emergency repairs. The animal continued to prowl the perimeter of their small group, looking for more weak spots. Perhaps it noticed the golem recovering because it got impatient and made more reckless feints on the golems, as if rushing to provoke another mistake for it to exploit. This time John kept all 4 golems close together with their backs to each other and staying on the defensive.

The animal got impatient and pounced suddenly, grabbing a golem in its massive jaws and trying to bite it into two. However this time the golem had both its arms in a block and the animal was having some difficulty biting through his arms. The nearest two golems took this chance to land blows on the animal, their fist making thudding sounds as they landed blows on the animal's body. The last golem grabbed the mace like thing near the end of its tail and was promptly swung about roughly, however the golem stubbornly continued holding on, its extra weight slowing down the animal and giving his comrades the chance to keep punching the animal. The angry animal gathered its strength while trying to avoid the punches and smashed its tail violently against the wall, the impact cracking open the brave golem. John could, for a brief moment, see the insides of the golem which was quite interesting ... then the fleeting moment passed and the golem was gone with the wind, its magical body self detonating from instability, exploding soil all over the place. John was feeling upset as his creations were destroyed 1 after another by this rampaging predatory animal. By now the other golems in Team B had arrived and John ordered the remaining two golems to switch from punching to grappling, hugging the animal and trying to lock its legs with their arms. With its movements greatly restricted by the two golems, it couldn't run away and was soon surrounded by the golems from Team B. Its tail and legs were stepped on and kicked until broken. Its head and jaws was held down tightly to the ground and repeatedly punched by the golems until blood was flowing out of its ears and eyes.

John excitedly watched the life energy flowing out the animal and into the surrounding golems as the thuds of their punches hitting soft flesh made a steady background noise which sounded like music to him. If only the human part of John could see himself now... he would be horrified at the excitement and craving he is feeling towards bloody violence. The animal's snarls of defiance became whimpers of pain as the golems beat the life out of it and as the last vestiges of its life spilled out into his dungeon, a soul much like the other animals came out. For all its physical superiority, its soul was very normal and monster John felt slightly disappointed .….. he wanted to feel the pleasure and sensual high from eating souls again and quickly made sure both [Basic Lure] spells were deactivated and ordered his golems to guard his crystal room. After another battle of tug and war which he more easily won this time round, he felt the animal soul enter his crystal like a searing lance of hot pleasure, instantly experiencing the huge mental high he had been craving for. OHHHHHHHHHH John's mind faded into bliss....what followed was a joy ride of highs and lows, of peak orgasms and steady all encompassing addictive pleasure. As the animal's soul struggled for its very existence within his crystal body, John was being rewarded with even more ecstasy. After who knows how long, the euphoria was finally coming to an end. John also felt himself starting to change, he had the feeling that he was about to evolve into something stronger, he just need a little more soul food.....Coming down from his post ecstasy bliss, John allowed himself to relax and just soak in the blissful sensation of the sensations he just experienced, drifting in and out of a happy blissful contented state.

Hmm.....the only real loss this time was his 6 golems....he no longer knew which golems were the first few he created, they were all starting to look the same...was this what it felt like becoming a heartless dungeon lord ? Sigh.....the ecstasy he felt from absorbing souls troubled him even as it lifted him, John wondered where does earth john end and monster john begin ? perhaps if one day he forgot his family and friends from earth, only caring for killing and eating more souls , perhaps that will be the day only a monster remains in this dungeon. John made a mental resolution to himself, not to be addicted to the ecstasy from absorbing souls. However he still needed to eat more souls to evolve and get stronger, so how does he retain his humanity while also eating souls ? In the end John decided to limit his use of the lure spell to a fixed number of times per week. By controlling the number of times he ate to be the same as the number of times a human ate, that will be normal right ? his thinking is that humans also need to eat to survive so human John also needs to eat animals to live. Also there maybe dangers in this new world such as things that might attack him if they found his dungeon, so John needed to get stronger, its too dangerous to stay stagnant at his current level. Eating once or twice a week might be too little, didn't humans also need to eat 3 times a day ? Back on earth, a whole chicken could last him for 3 to 4 meals so him eating 1 animal a day sounded absolutely logical and perfectly fine from a moral point of view ... right ???? Try as he might, he couldn't deny the alien hunger inside of him, if you thought humans eating 3 meals a day was bad, just wait till you became a dungeon core. He had finished killing and eating an entire animal and he was already ready for more. John bitterly laughed at himself, just awhile ago he was planning for a nice dungeon town doing honest trading with merchants and humans living in it, but now John could feel his hunger, oh yes, his ever present hunger…..