Chapter 15

John made a grabbing motion with his mind and the goblin soul was pulled towards him. The soul gave out a surprised cry of fear and struggled to break free from his pull. However no matter how hard it struggled, it was unable to extract itself from the invisible force dragging it downwards, away from the promised afterlife, down deeper towards something terrifying that awaited him. The goblin soul prayed and cried out to his goblin god but only silence answered him as he was pulled unwillingly into the depths, where he felt a powerful being staring intensely at him, leaving him frightened and shivering. John stared at the frightened goblin soul, his every instincts just screaming for him to suck in the soul.....but can he really eat something like that? John hesitated for awhile, the goblin soul kept trying to run away and was obviously terrified.….

Just do it! It looks so delicious, how can he resist this burning desire to CONSUME... Your not human anymore John, so eating humanoid creatures is not something like eating your own species, there's nothing wrong eating them.... Nothing wrong at all.... John felt like he was pushing himself step by step closer to the abyss. Still feeling half reluctant, he nonetheless couldn't stop himself from slowly sucking in the terrified goblin soul into his crystal body. Even halfway into his crystal body, the goblin soul was still fighting him and desperately crying out for its god to save him. It was terrible. Terrible to be feeling something alive and moving wiggling about in your body. It was terribly.... delicious!. John felt a wave of joyous pleasure as the goblin soul was fully imprisoned inside his crystal body.

John could feel the goblin soul wiggling about his body, each vigorous movement bringing him a wave of new pleasure. AHhhh... What was there ever to doubt or hesitate about ?, he should have done this OOOH long ago. Mmmmh..... OOOOO..... AH....sensual pleasure invaded all his senses, like a bdsm mistress keeping her slave at the edge but never letting him cum, John floated along in a sea of constant throbbing Mmmm. After what felt like a long period of enjoyment, John gradually came back to reality as the goblin soul faded away.

OH NO..... What had he done...was this post orgasm guilt? If yes it was definitely on another level compared to the usual "oops i got to stop wanking so many times". He has to stop changing into a monster, he cannot lose his human side and become some strange monster crystal...After a round of guilty self scolding, John had to admit he felt stronger, his mana was recharged and felt stronger, vaguely felt he had a tiny bit more control over the mana. John tried to gather the mana again but he didn't notice any obvious difference, maybe its his imagination or he needed to eat more souls ?.

With his mana recharged, John created another 4 golems and sent them to carry the corpses of animals from the 2nd floor to the 1st section of the 6th floor. The golems he created after absorbing the goblin soul were totally normal just like the others. John wondered if he really was imagining being more powerful. Anyway after creating the 4 golems he was now low on mana again.….John briefly looked up at the 51 active goblin souls and a shocking thought flashed through his mind. No.... Not that....but he really needed the golems... Oh right! Talking about dead bodies, The goblin corpses still lay where they fell, blood drying up on the soil and thankfully he had no sense of smell. He would have to tidy up the scene later. For now he was more worried about another goblin invasion and just finding things to distract himself from temptation.

John checked the still sleeping snake. He top up its mana once more and this time he can feel the snake will be completing its transformation soon. Its scales were almost fully transformed and very lightly glowed with the color of his azure mana. The small horn on its head and the pattern of glowing green magical veins running throughout its body had already finished mutating and once its scales was completed, the snake should wake up. Maybe he can catch more animals again after he finish excavating and reinforcing the 7th to 9th floors, he will also need more level 1 golems as cannon fodder to distract the animal while he gather the dungeon mana to forcibly corrupt it. More golems....

John looked at the goblin souls again, there was really no choice, he needed the mana to mass produce golems now in case the damn goblins came back..... This wasn't him making up excuses or anything like that, those damn goblins really could come back again!.... He will just have to control himself to eat only as much as he needed to make enough golems. John half reluctantly (and deep down also half excitedly) dragged another unwilling goblin soul into his crystal body and felt himself once more sinking into the wonderful state of bliss, where endless pleasure overwhelmed him and he unknowingly lost abit more of his human self.

Afterwards, with the replenished mana, he created another 4 golems. Should he stop now? No he still needed more golems. Another desperately struggling soul was forcibly dragged into his crystal body where it was truly erased from this world and its soul energy absorbed. Another round of mind melting orgasmic joy. It all became a blur to John as he slid down the slippery slope to hell and entered a world of timeless pleasure. It felt so good forcing the struggling goblin souls inside him, keeping them in his crystal body and sucking out all their soul energy until they became nothing. Addicted and distracted, he kept on feeding on the goblin souls, ignoring their horrified faces and desperate pleas so that he can enjoy his mindless pleasure.

After an unknown number of souls.... John had lost count..... Along the way he had also stopped making any new golems.... John became gradually aware that something was becoming strange in his dungeon, he tried to ignore it but the strangeness kept growing stronger until finally, he reluctantly delayed feeding on the next goblin soul to investigate this strange feeling. The space around him was filled with golems, they were all standing there silently, eerily staring directly at him without moving, without doing anything, just row and row of golems staring at him with their eyes. That scared the shit out of him, didn't he give them orders?..... Or maybe he forgot to give orders to the past few batches.... But still, why are they all staring at him like this? What really frightened John was the vague hunger and violence he could sense behind his golem's mindless stares.. Also... He wasn't sure if his feeling this right, but the atmosphere of his entire dungeon seem to contain a certain hunger to it, for a moment he had the illusion of greedy hands reaching out from the runes on the walls, trying to grab any living creatures to tear them apart. It was as if the very floors and walls were crying out for fresh warm blood to be splashed on them, for hot blood to seep into them and be filled with the last moments of creatures dying in agony.

His entire dungeon seem to be hungry for death.... And then the illusion was gone just as suddenly as it appeared, his dungeon went back to normal again. John was confused and frightened.... Is this the result of eating souls and changing into a monster or just some weird guilty dream after waking up from his dreamlike state.... he took a long time to think about what he just experienced, somehow... it felt real, like this other bloodthirsty dungeon was actually him.....John mentally shivered, no! Maybe its just a side effect of eating too many goblin souls???. John told himself it wasn't too late to stop, his still a human ! His still John! This time it was only because of the possible goblin attack thats why he needed to protect himself with more golems and ended up eating so many goblin souls. Now he had made enough golems so he can stop eating !, he just have to control himself and he can go back to being normal again, yes!. John focused on the golems eerily staring at him and chased them all out of his chambers, go! Get out of here! Find the level 3s for jobs. Now alone again in his chambers, John spent a long time comforting himself before he finally felt better enough to continue this depressing new life as a alien dungeon heart.

Another thing that changed about his dungeon is the size, his domain had noticeably expanded in all directions, in fact he definitely felt stronger and more powerful then before. The mana in his dungeon also seemed to be more dense, more 'heavy' and not neutral like before. If the mana he had before was clear like clean spring water, then the mana in his dungeon now is like water mixed with abit of bloody madness. John tried to move the mana in his dungeon and was surprised to discover.... it was just as difficult to manipulate as before, wtf? Shouldn't he have level up or something similar by now?.