Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Simon was already familiar with the phenomenon and thus was not surprised when the space in front of him was torn open and a pitch black abyss like the one in the option just many many times bigger, appear in front of him.

Space shuddered like crazy and intense sparks started generating around the floor. This continued for a while until the whole dungeon started trembling and peculiar phenomena started appearing around the Ghastly Winding Forest.

The land for a few hundred kilometres around the tower, was in a state of turmoil as the monsters and the humans living in the tower town both felt a peculiar heaviness in the air.

"Did you feel that? is it an earthquake?" One of the adventurers who was just about to dive inside the dungeon asked his teammate.

"Yeah, I don't know for some reason my heart seems to be unsettled".

Such talks were going amongst all the adventurers inside or outside the dungeon. No matter who it was, whether humans or monsters both felt this weird chill in the air.

At the same moment inside the newly created floor, Simon was standing not very far away from the abyss as it rotated intensely. By now he was already used to the unusualness of the option and was prepared for anything and any result to come out of it.

Fortunately for him, this time he did not have to wait long for the spiralling abyss to halt and the being inside to come out.

KLACK… a foot wearing a black high heel came out of the abyss and landed on the dungeon floor. Following which, a creamy white leg wearing fishnet and a figure of a person appeared in front of his eyes.

The being that just appeared, was wearing a tailored maid outfit that accentuated her mesmerising figure beneath the armour she had. If one looked carefully, they would notice that the outfit and the armour she was wearing, seemed to be made of some high quality material.

It was not only the dress she was wearing that appalled one's eyes but even her beauty was so. Her pearly white skin, black supple hair that was casually bound by a hairpin and her eyes that seemed to be analysing everything around her in a composed way, gave her a unique intellectual look.

Coupled with the fact that her body had the right curves in the right areas, gave her even more destructiveness and charm. No matter who it was looking at her, they would no doubt have a nefarious thoughts appear in their minds and an urge to immediately pin the beauty and ravish her.

However, Simon was stunned for a whole different reason. As he looked at her, he couldn't help but have his eyes widen and his mind overwhelmed by the memories that flooded in.

That appearance and that presence, they was no doubt in his mind… the person that just appeared, was someone he created himself while he was working on the game Laplace in his previous life.

To be more specific, the woman was one of the Heroes that was meant to be summoned by the players from the [Heroes Altar] option of the menu. However, after the merge when the option itself disappeared, Simon assumed that he would never be able to see them, who knew that on his third try at using the bugged option, he would summon a character from the Heroes Altar.

At this instant, the eyes of the woman who was curiously analysing her surroundings, landed on Simon and the moment it did, they turned wide and melancholic with emotions. Just like how it was with Simon, she too seemed surprised but more so delighted to see him.

The surprise did not stop there, after the woman who was the first one to step outside, more and more figures came out of the abyss and landed in his dungeon with every one of them donned a similar battle maid outfit.

Five women with calamitous beauty stepped out from the abyss and observed their surroundings with their curious eyes. If it was anyone else, looking at this line up of women who each had their own unique points and beauty, they wouldn't be able to resist fantasising and wanting to possess them.

Simon would too, if his mind wasn't overwhelmed by the series of events that unfolded on his third attempt at summoning.

"Valkyries" Simon muttered looking at the five maids that are a part of the twelve heroes that he had set to be the companion of the players when adventuring inside the game. Never did he think that he would be meeting with the characters he had created inside a game, in real life.

CHIII… at this moment, the black abyss started becoming smaller and smaller and along with the shattered space, it completely disappeared.

The place descended into silence with the two sides eyeing each other. The stiffening silence lasted for a while before it was shattered by the woman who was the first one to come out from the abyss.

"Master?!" she said, her eyes had a genuine surprise and glee in them.

"HUH?!!!"…

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Inside one of the halls of the white palace, a group of women wearing maid clothes underneath their armour, could be seen seated on one side of the sofa while Simon, Irene , Ceilia and the [Helpers] were on the other.

"So you are saying that all of you are his creation and that makes him your master?" Irene asked clarifying things right from the start.

"Yes lady Irene, Master is the one who created us sisters and gave the moniker of 'Valkyrie'".

The woman who spoke up was the second eldest of all the sisters, her name was Annette. Incidentally, she was also the first one who came out of the abyss.

"I see, so what do you think?" Irene nodded her head and turned her question towards Simon.

"Indeed, they are my creations, all five of them. It's just that I didn't think they would recognise me" Simon stated. He was amazed when he found out that they recognised him after all, when he created them, they were just characters meant to be in the game.

Now that he was reincarnated in this world and that too with the menu he had created for his game, it came out as a surprise to him that the characters remembered him.

"What are you saying Master, there is no way we will forget you who created us with such love and care" The one who spoke now, was the youngest among them named Alice. She had short blonde hair, rubellite eyes and the charms of a young girl. Her smile was like blooming flowers and she radiated a youthful, carefree aura.

"Alice is right Master, your feeling was conveyed to all of us even though we were not in the same plane," Bea said, she was the third eldest amongst the sisters and came out from the abyss after Annette.

Just like the latter, she was a mature beauty radiating off a gentle yet sadistic aura.  Her hair was the colour of peach tied with a hair band on her head.

The other two sisters were Emma and Bianca who were both older than Alice. Emma was an odd beauty with droopy black hair, sleepy eyes and released a gloomy aura. She was anti-social and always avoided eye contact.

Contrary to her, Bianca was like a doll that hardly showed any emotions. She wore her beloved hat underneath her long brown hair designed by Simon.

Annette the second eldest, Bea, Emma, Bianca and Alice. Looking at all the five sisters, their appearance and how they acted, Simon had no doubt in his mind that they were the Valkyries he had created.

He was sure of it,  not only because they acted how he initially set them as but because he could feel a special bond between them and him. This kind of bond was like the one he had with the third guardian.

Just that in this case, the bond was formed as soon as they were summoned and without any initiation from him. It was also due to this bond that he could tell that the battle maids were absolutely loyal to him.

This factor was very important since it ensured that they won't be able to harm him or his dungeon in any way. The Valkyrie sisters were no longer simply characters from the game whose loyalty was already set to be with the players but actual living beings who can think and move for themselves.

They might no longer be bound by the setting and mechanics of the game.

For a Dungeon Master, it was very important to have subordinates who are loyal to him. The dungeon and the Dungeon Master are like one entity, in times of need or when in danger, they depend or rely on these very subordinates to defend the dungeon.

It can be said that the subordinates are like the pillar of the dungeon who hold it in place for them. That is why, the [Summon] option given to the Dungeon Master always summoned subordinates loyal to them.

Think of it as like a defensive mechanism of the dungeon to protect itself, the stronger the subordinates, the more difficult it is to conquer. One could even say that rank of the dungeon is directly or indirectly related to the number of subordinates the Dungeon Master has and their power levels.

That is why the [Summon] option is such an important function of the dungeon menu. Unfortunately for Simon, the merger of his two menus cost him both the [Heroes Altar] and the [Summon] function.

Or that's what he thought until he summoned the 'Valkyries' who were a part of the 'Twelve Heroes'.

After the option was bugged, he thought that the [Heroes Altar] had disappeared permanently. Who knew that it was still possible to summon the 'Twelve Heroes'.