Food tastes its best when you know its background. You can only enjoy the true essence of a flavor when you understand why it was made to taste that way.

So I just couldn’t understand it.

"Your naga body is so smooth and sleek. Why throw away that female body and pretend to be a man?"

"...First, it was more convenient to be male as a dungeon owner. Second, if I became a woman, I figured you’d rape me."

Belial glared at me, biting her lip. I clapped my hands and welcomed her with open arms.

"Smart girl! Unlike female types who have to lay eggs, a male dungeon owner just has to cum and that’s it. You’re right, you’re absolutely right."

I ordered the orcs to pull on Belial’s restraints. The leather shackles at her ankles came off, but the cuffs on her wrists and neck, though loosened slightly, remained in place.

"Heh heh, so while your daughters are getting fucked by one man after another at the ranch, the mother was pretending to be the father and having sex with women?"

"What does it matter whether it’s father-daughter or mother-daughter when it comes to gender? Either way they’re being violated 24 hours a day, by humans and monsters alike, without distinction."

"...Well, you’re not wrong!" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

For those sent to the ranch, there was no distinction between male and female. If you had to take eight partners a day, then males and females alike had to handle eight partners each, equally.

"If anything, the women have a lower risk of dying."

The number of male prisoners who died of sexual exhaustion was considerable. Whether by their own choice or just how things ended up, men who had their seed drained had a much higher risk of dying if they were over-milked.

"Sure, whether it’s father-daughter or mother-daughter doesn’t matter much. But to me, it does."

I rushed forward and grabbed Belial’s lower body. Her sleek abdomen, which didn’t even have a belly button, curved into a perfect S-shape as her hips bent, and her snake scales flowed downward following the line of those hips.

"So the naga’s hole is... right here."

Squelch. I shivered at the cold sensation. It probably felt like fucking an onahole that had been left in the refrigerator.

"Ohh, a new flavor. Belial, you should have revealed you were a woman sooner. Then our relationship could have been different."

"E-eating me doesn’t mean violating me!"

Belial pointed at Lime, her whole body flushed red.

"I’m saying I’ll be eaten by this slime in place of my daughters, gaack?!"

"Maybe because she’s a snake, her pussy is really tough. It feels like I’m fucking scales. Ugh, sorry. Thinking about that bitch is killing my mood, I can’t cum."

It tasted good, but thinking about that bitch killed my appetite completely. Still, I couldn’t just throw away food I’d already started eating, so I gave one vigorous thrust. Belial’s head jerked back, and her vagina trembled and loosened up considerably.

"Sending her to climax once was enough. Belial, I understand your feelings."

Now that I’d properly tasted her once, it was Lime’s turn to taste. Lime wiped my cock clean with her hand, cleaning off the residue, and gave me a sweet smile.

Can I really eat her?

Lime asked teasingly. Maybe because Lime’s evolution was right around the corner, somehow her usual gurgling speech sounded clearer than ever today.

"Just one more bit of business before you eat."

I shoved my fingers into Belial’s pussy. The scale-like sensation was still creepy, but the way her vagina coiled around my fingers and cock like a constrictor wrapping its prey was an unusually stimulating sensation.

"Belial, I’ve changed my mind. I can’t just let a woman like you die. You will absolutely become my subordinate. Then your two daughters will be freed from the ranch."

"...You said... unh, you’d kill me?"

"No. If you join our legion, you’ll devote yourself to production work. You won’t be laying eggs like at the ranch. Maybe... working leather, or making clothes."

"..."

Belial hung her head. She stood at a crossroads, whether out of embarrassment from climaxing on my fingers digging through her insides, or from the decision of whether to swallow her pride and join my legion for her daughters’ sake.

"...This is absurd. Are you toying with me?"

"Toying? How?"

"You say you’ll kill me, but then welcome me as a subordinate. What kind of contradiction is that?"

"...Ohh, this is hot."

I don’t mean my cock got hard. I just got excited at the thought of teaching this clueless newbie a skill that exploits a loophole in the system.

"Listen carefully."

Blah blah. After hearing my explanation, Belial just panted heavily, stricken with shock.

"H-how could you do something like that? If Lord Solomon found out, he’d be outraged!"

"Solomon is a meritocrat. If using his own system makes legions stronger, and the Demon King’s Army stronger as a result, he’ll let you do anything. Heh heh, how about it? Want to give it a try?"

Belial becomes my subordinate.

My subordinates can be resurrected through Bond Summon even after dying.

Lime devours Belial.

I resurrect the dead Belial with a magic stone.

???

Profit!

"And besides, I crush a sharp newbie dungeon owner if they’re an enemy, but if they’re a subordinate, they’re worth raising. How about it? Will you become my subordinate, die, and then live again? If you do your job well..."

Squelch.

I pointed at the dungeon with one hand.

"I’ll give you a dungeon of your own. You climbed two rungs above your starting position, which shows you’ve got a pretty sharp head on you. Capable subordinates are always welcome. How about it? Belial, or rather, would you like to take a different name this time?"

"..."

Belial answered by clenching her pussy tight around me instead of speaking.

***

"So she’s a woman and a mother at the same time. I’ll never understand the hearts of demon women."

"Then do you understand the hearts of elven or human women?"

"I understand the hearts of women who go weak in the knees over my cock."

"Then do you know what I’m thinking right now?"

"Spouting nonsense again. You’re thinking, if you show how much you hate this now, I’ll cum in Lune one extra time later, so you have to put up with it?"

"...It’s not quite that bad. But if that’s what you think, could you tone it down a bit, please?"

"Why? What’s the problem?"

"Because you’re saying that with those two just standing right there, and the conversation isn’t moving forward."

Shaitan pointed at the two naga still bound by the orcs. Both had survived thanks to Belial’s sacrifice.

"What will you do with those two naga? Will you dispose of them?"

"Dispose, hmm... I was originally planning to give them to Lime."

I never in my wildest dreams expected Belial to throw a wrench in things. I briefly considered having all three mother-daughter naga live inside Lime, but mixing women who’d been worked over at the ranch with Lime might bring bad luck.

"Should I just eliminate the naga species entirely... ah."

A brilliant idea struck me.

"Let’s mix them."

"What?"

"Mix them with Lime. But not with Lime. With a slime. We’ll do synthesis."

At the word synthesis, the two naga flinched. They had been wiping off the magical fluids that had been sprayed on them for show, and now they looked up at me with genuinely terrified faces.

"S-synthesis?"

"Are we... going to die?"

"No, no. Your personalities will remain. The ones you’ll be mixed with are... these guys."

Gurgle.

I patted the heads of the two slime dragons that had approached me. They were indispensable to our dungeon, but Unit 1 and Unit 2 still needed agonizingly long stretches of patience before they could evolve into four-star.

"You two, become one with these guys."

It wasn’t a synthesis aimed at taking something away, like in Gremory’s case. Nor was it a synthesis where one became the main body and the others became stars, like with Andras.

[Monster Synthesis: Synthesizing Slime Dragon ★★★ and Naga ★★.]

[Expected Result: ????, ★★★☆, Lv.55/75 (New species!)]

When suitable individuals were combined, they could be reborn as an entirely new species. It wasn’t merely binding two creatures together, but giving birth to a new monster that perfectly fused the traits of both.

"Ahh, this is what they call Fusion Summon."

"Fusion..."

What kind of being it would become was unknown. But it definitely wouldn’t be a synthesis where one side was unilaterally devoured.

"You’ll gain the slime’s traits, and the slime dragon will gain your intellect. Even though it adds a ☆ instead of a ★, you’ll have the possibility of evolving to four-star."

"Four-star... us...?"

"Yes. Four-star."

A growing light began to fill the eyes of the two naga. Without losing themselves, by becoming one with the slime dragons, the path to evolving into four-star would open up to them.

"If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. Thanks to Belial offering up her body once, you two can just live at the ranch or somewhere on the outskirts of the legion."

"I’ll do it."

"I’ll do it."

The two sisters accepted becoming one with the slime dragons.

"You don’t know how this will turn out. It’s a new species. You might be reborn as something completely new."

"Even so..."

"If we can be reborn as something stronger...!"

"I see."

I really couldn’t understand demon sensibilities. After everything I’d put them through, the moment they got a chance to become stronger under me, they pounced on it like dogs.

"At least when it comes to the desire for strength, I shouldn’t judge them by human standards."

What they wanted, they had to obtain at any cost. I wondered if the demons’ hunger for power was similar to my own hunger for sex.

"All right. Then step onto the summoning circle."

The two naga swallowed hard and made their way onto the summoning circle on their own. Slime Dragon Unit 1 came forward first and coiled around the naga’s body.

"The synthesis is... oh my."

What unfolded on the summoning circle was shocking enough to draw out such a casual exclamation.

Squelch, squelch.

"...Mmh."

"...Wow."

They say even a fool learns something after enough time around it. Slime Dragon Unit 1 produced a protrusion and inserted it into the naga. The naga was startled at first, but soon flushed red and embraced Unit 1, twining her tongue with it.

"This isn’t synthesis, they’re actually becoming one."

The summoning facility itself began to shimmer as if blessing their union. Where the two slick snakes had merged together flesh to flesh, a new species was born, and I blessed her birth.

"Welcome, you who are born together with Ras."

[Notice: A new species, Slamia (★★★☆), has been born!]

"...I offer my greetings once more to my master."

The Slamia, newly born as my subordinate, had the form of a snake from the waist down and a human from the waist up. Whereas she had looked somewhat fish-person during her naga days, now her upper body was almost indistinguishable from a human’s.

What set her apart from a regular lamia was that her overall skin had the traits of a red slime. From head to hips she retained the form of a woman, but her plump breasts and her waist all had the texture of slime.

"I see. A lamia made entirely of slime. Definitely a new species. Do you have any special abilities?"

"This is possible..."

The Slamia grabbed one of her breasts, looking embarrassed. Familiar viscous fluid began oozing slowly from the nipple.

"Good heavens."

"I can extract bodily fluids containing aphrodisiac compounds the conventional way too, but I thought you might prefer this method, master..."

"Outstanding, Slamia!"

It wasn’t breast milk. She could release bodily fluids from any part of her upper body, not just her breasts. But all else being equal, breasts and tongue were better.

"With a species like this, I approve! Unit 2, you’re up!"

Slurp, slurrrp.

Unit 2 was already writhing with the other naga and climbing onto the summoning circle before I even said anything. Rainbow light shimmered again, celebrating the union of the two snakes.

[Slamia: ★★★☆. Lv.55/75.]

With a ☆ added, the maximum level also rose. Slime Dragons Unit 1 and Unit 2 had become monsters with intelligence.

"I ask you. Who are you?"

"We are your faithful servants, master."

"The two of us have been reborn as one. As entirely new beings."

"Indeed. Then prove that you are my faithful subordinates."

I dropped my pants. And the two Slamia, as if to prove that they had been sisters, pressed their faces together and each kissed half of my glans.

"That’s enough. You don’t need to lick."

I felt a piercing gaze at my back. There stood the day’s main character, Lime, smiling sweetly at me after finishing her feast.

"Lime is thorough about other slimes if nothing else."

My women rarely got jealous of each other across different species. But the moment I tried to add a new woman from the same species, they’d get jealous with uncanny instinct.

So, for slimes too, the only one for me from now on was Lime, and Lime alone.

"Lime, the oath of loyalty isn’t really necessary, is it?"

Gurgle.

"...Right, just this once. Just this once."

Lime raised a protrusion at her crotch shaped exactly like my cock, staging a protest. As if declaring that from now on, she would accept the slimes’ oaths of loyalty in my place.

"Fine, then up you go. All the conditions are met."

Reaching the designated level.

Devouring 10 individuals of different species.

And finally, devouring a female demon, Belial the naga.

"Belial is on the Bond Summon list, so there’s no reason to hesitate. All slimes, assemble! Behold!"

I announced to all the world the four-star evolution of my first subordinate, the sole survivor from the former Baal’s dungeon.

"The one and only leader of the slime species in our legion! The birth of the Slime Queen."

[Notice: Whoa, Lime’s condition is...?!]

Rainbow light began to burst forth from Lime’s body.