Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!-Chapter 595 - 208: The Death of the Death Chosen One, Secret Sword and Kael’s Maid Squad (10K)_6

This displaced anticipation led to an unprecedented sense of loss.

It was in that moment that he suddenly had an epiphany and finally understood a truth, why, many times, when a top nation has a conflict with another top nation, do they always want a country like Shadow Country to cheer them on?

For a long time, he didn't understand why this was necessary. Wasn't this just creating enemies out of thin air?

Why couldn't they just refrain from getting involved with either side?

Until... after returning from a trip to the Silver Moon Forest, he seemed to grasp something in a moment of clarity.

The reason those great nations wanted these smaller countries to cheer for them was not only to have a bit of noise in their favor, but most importantly—

Countries like Shadow Country were only useful for this very purpose.

What made him even sadder was another point.

It wasn't that Shadow Country wanted to get involved. The only reason they had to take a stand each time was simply because...

Shadow Country had no choice.

Now, as Elanna's sword descended, he felt once again the powerlessness he had experienced back then.

Ah!

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It truly was a most unpleasant journey.

The biggest problem after broadening one's horizons is realizing that you, and even your country, are insignificant in the grand scope of the world.

You come to see that the whole world is not at all like what you imagined as a child, revolving solely around you.

And you, are merely one amongst the teeming masses.

It has always been so, it is so now, and it will continue to be so in the future.

The harsh reality that hit him, made him look at Elanna indifferently and snort as he said,

"Sometimes, I really envy people like you, born to such great power and with such an impressive family background!"

Elanna frowned and shook her head, saying, "I'm not from a powerful background or anything of the sort."

"Stop kidding, just your swordsmanship alone, it's the stuff of dreams even some of the greatest masters can never reach in their lifetime.

And your demeanor, it simply couldn't belong to someone born into a minor force.

Your every move, to the discerning eye, is saturated with the aura of top-tier power—one which only a young lady like you, who is right in the midst of it, could fail to notice."

Elanna shook her head again, "I am just an ordinary girl, the daughter of a border noble. Even my father was not born a noble.

For a long time, our family hid in various seaside regions, wandering, living on air, uncertain of the morrow, until my father took a gamble and, by his luck, earned the ennoblement of the country I belong to.

Essentially, I am still that ordinary little girl who lingered around the ports of many lands. There's no talk of a highborn origin."

As she was speaking this way, Hassaka suddenly came over and said,

"They are much weaker than we imagined. In the past, they might have stood a chance, but now... they are merely a group of professionals with a somewhat high challenge level.

Miss Elanna, how should we deal with these fellows? Their methods are not bad, but their foundation is even weaker than what I built up under my father's training.

Do we need to keep them and hand them over to the Lord for disposal?"

"I knew it..." the leader of the Infiltrator legion shook his head, "An entire brigade of maids acting as the Guard Team, what a lavish move... This is not something a minor force could cultivate."

Hassaka, dressed in a black and white maid outfit as her main attire, was flanked by many adult maids, including the Chief Maid, all in black and white uniforms.

A group of maids, who at the very least met the human aesthetic standard of 7 out of 10, strapped with daggers on their long, silk-stockinged legs, each equipped with a Gluttonous Slime, and even the overall professional level had already been raised to LV8.

The leader, the Chief Maid, had even rapidly attained LV12, thanks to her previous accumulation.

Of course, one of the reasons was that as a member of the Black Cat Clan, she was a rare cat not so frisky and prone to troublemaking.

Without such temperament, she wouldn't have been able to sit in the position of Chief Maid.

Moreover, she had received Protection from the Shadow Warrior, and after organizing several mammoth "team-building activities" for maid crews to clean up Monsters, she quickly surged past that threshold.

Well... as for why Kael hadn't given the Protection of the Shadow Warrior to Hassaka, that was another matter altogether.

As to why there was only a maid brigade and no male servant brigade, it wasn't because Kael had become arrogant after arriving in the Otherworld, but simply because the males responsible for the Lord Mansion were not, in the strict sense, called servants.

They were either Rangers under the service of Willfo, or old Rangers who had retired and, out of sheer idleness, chose to join the Lord Mansion's staff.

Strictly speaking, they all belonged to the Rangers' management.

So the elements composing the maids within the Lord Mansion started to become more complex.

At the moment, the number of maids who need to sort out the Lord Mansion alongside the Rangers has surpassed 100.

Eighty percent of them came from the Black Cat Clan, Snow Wolf Clan, or even some Kemonomimi tribes barely existing with sporadic members left.

Only twenty percent came from domestic maidservants and female slaves purchased from the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.

Well... Kael indeed gave a thumbs-up to the Chamber of Commerce for that later.

Setting aside the questions of morality and conservatism, most nations on the Shenhua Continent couldn't eradicate the existence of slavery due to the presence of the Dungeon.

Even Kael, upon confirming some species couldn't be utilized for his own benefit, had no option but to dispatch them like Magic Beasts, or exile them.

To insist on playing hero against such scenes, even actively striking out, would be a fool's errand.

However, even among so many maids, only a few could be granted a Gluttonous Slime.

Maids who hadn't been tested and couldn't gain the trust of the Lord Mansion would never receive such an item.

Lady Lin Hua, the Chief Maid, with a flash of dissatisfaction in her eyes, raised her voice slightly,

"Don't measure our master's status with your abilities and wisdom. You know far too little."