Chapter 23.1 - Lucifer’s Warfare Plan Part 1 (1/2)

Ximengsi Continent’s southern region, outside Steinbeck Fief in the vicinity of Lawrence River

Clyde and Light Church’s two saintesses, “Punishment Saintess” Tiffany and “Radiance Saintess” Maria,” met Lucifer who waited for them at the bank. Lucifer had an unsophisticated expression. However, as if she had used some kind of perception obstructing magic, Tiffany and Maria were unable to detect that this Lolita was one of the old enemies of Light Church.

Under Lucifer’s direction, Clyde’s carriage crossed the floating bridge to arrive at the center of Steinbeck Fief, Stanley City. During the past few days of Clyde’s absence, Steinbeck Fief had undergone no big changes. The demonic creatures lingering about the fief’s periphery had already returned to the place from which they had originally been summoned from through Lucifer’s evil magic. Now, the security of the fief had significantly improved.

However, there were still no refugees willing to come and settle here. Although Princess Saras had set out very favorable migration conditions, Steinbeck Fief’s terrifying reputation had spread for a long time, and no one dared to risk living here. As for the mother country, Adrian Empire, they had never done anything from the start. After handing Steinbeck Fief to Clyde’s party, they hadn’t even investigated the new Suzerain. In any case, they didn’t expect this barren land to bring them any benefits. It was enough so long as someone else took it over and removed this embarrassment from the empire’s annals.

On the surface, Stanley City was lawless because there were no guards responsible for defending the city. Naturally, this was just a superficial illusion. Lucifer’s bloodkin familiars continuously protected the city from the dark. Before Clyde had returned, many groups of bandits who had attempted to plunder the city had left their bones at the periphery of Stanley City. After being targeted by bloodkin familiars, not even their corpses could be left to their descendants.

Tiffany and Maria looked somewhat cautious. Although they didn’t see any guards, the odor of blood surrounded Stanley City. Many a grand fight must have occurred here. Just because they couldn’t see any corpses didn’t mean that nothing had happened. However, Steinbeck Fief didn’t have any residents, so had those bandit groups been killed by magical beasts? Puzzling this out, the two saintesses warily followed Clyde inside the palace.

Within, Princess Saras and Princess Natalie hosted a banquet to receive the visiting Light Church saintesses, Tiffany and Maria. Witch Ista and Princess Sigrid didn’t attend this banquet in order to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings since they couldn’t hide their aura, unlike how Lucifer could.

Light Church had always held neutral position. They didn’t care about the system a nation followed. Since the kingdoms of Princess Saras and Princess Natalie had been mediocre kingdoms, they had not been the focus of Light Church’s intelligence. Since this was the first time Tiffany and Maria had heard of them, they didn’t know of their unfortunate pasts.

What made Clyde relieved was that Light Church’s saintesses had no detest for slavery. They were just a little curious, nothing more because at present, those naked palace maids were the only residents of Steinbeck Fief. The two saintesses were curious because these maids’ wicked erotic states were normally something only a male Suzerain would like.

According to the application data they had seen, Clyde was not the Suzerain. The Suzerain was Princess Saras. A female Suzerain wouldn’t have this kind of strange hobby. Generally, only male Suzerains made maids wear nothing. Tiffany and Maria looked at Princess Saras with probing gazes. No matter how they watched this blonde beauty, she didn’t resemble a female Suzerain that liked girls. Then again, looks could be deceiving.

Those beautiful maids all had backgrounds as adventurers and mercenaries. They had significant combat power. If one looked past their current bare states, a perceptive observer might realize that they could beat down many thugs bare-handed. They were different from normal slaves who rarely had such a high combat power. After all, if their combat power were high, they would easily rebel. Thus, most masters didn’t like slaves with high combat power.

“Tiffany, Maria, you are welcome to build a church here. Our fief will completely bear the funds. As for workers, they cannot be recruited so quickly. I hope you two can wait.”