"How stupid I am."
He complained because Nocturne's head should have been an advantage for them to threaten Remiol into leaving his chamber.
Hwa, seeing her stressed husband, tried to calm him down by offering him some prepared tea.
"Have a drink... this tea will help relieve your stress."
He took the tea and drank a little. The soothing aroma and the warm liquid flowing down his throat gave him a refreshed feeling.
"Ahhhhh... It feels better when my wife prepares tea in the morning."
Hwa then took out a piece of paper, and on it were pictures of three women with different faces.
"What is this?" he asked.
Hwa answered her husband's question.
"These are candidates for your personal maid, after the previous one ran away from her responsibilities. We still don't know where she went..."
He put on an innocent face, though he actually knew why she ran away—and it was because of him that she fled from her job.
He looked at the paper, which listed three strong candidates—all suggested by Sukatsu. But among the three, the one that caught his interest the most was The Sage One.
The Sage
Name: Lieze
Origin: Wustia Kingdom (This country)
Power: Magic
Weakness: Without her staff, she cannot use her full power.
Status: Single
And the reason most women in this world are strong is that men here only see them as objects—either slaves to satisfy their desires or tools to bear the next generation.
Without love, this world is unjust to women—unlike Earth, where love holds more power than a man's strength.
They have to survive on their own because strength is everything in this world. And according to this world's rules, anyone who rebels against the Angels is considered an enemy of the world.
Without hesitation, he immediately chose the Sage.
"This one—I think she'll be useful. At 35 years old with 10 years of experience, she can do the job better."
Hwa looked at the candidate her husband had pointed at and promptly called someone in.
"Please come in, Lieze."
The office door opened, revealing a woman in a maid outfit with long brown hair walking inside.
He glanced at Hwa with a shocked expression and whispered into her ear:
"Why is this so fast, dear?"
Hwa responded to her husband's question:
"Everyone who wants to work for you is from this village… Did you expect someone from far away to come?"
Fyrel suddenly remembered something and knocked his forehead, feeling like he was getting dumber because he couldn't even think of something this simple.
The new maid, Lieze, bowed her head and body slightly toward Hwa and Fyrel.
"Thank you for choosing me."
However, the reason he chose a Sage as his maid wasn't just for that—there was another purpose he wanted to test.
"Hey, Lieze, can all Sages freely use magic staffs as their power source?"
Lieze humbly replied,
"Yes, Master… If you don't mind, allow me to explain further. The longer a Sage keeps their magic staff, the stronger their power becomes. Because of that, a Sage must have a mentor who guides them and passes down their staff."
He immediately understood what Lieze was implying, but there was something strange about her. She didn't have any magic staff with her, and a Sage would never lose or abandon their staff so easily. There was only one possibility.
"Where is your staff, Lieze?" he asked.
"It was broken in two because I lost a battle against another Sage. I didn't recognize them, but I'm certain their staff had a lozenge-shaped head."
He smiled upon hearing the reason from his maid's mouth.
"If I give you a magic staff, will you serve me until you die, Lieze?"
Without hesitation, Lieze immediately answered.
"Yes, I will—and I will forge a path of master and slave with you."
"Slave, you say?"
In his mind, vivid images flashed—Lieze as his slave, and him doing something rather perverted to her.
"Kyaaa~! Master, I'm sorry! I'll never do that again!"
With a mask covering his eyes, Fyrel struck her butt with a cane.
"This is your punishment for disobeying my orders…" His perverted laugh echoed—"Hahahaha!"
Suddenly, the scene vanished from Fyrel's mind, and a sharp pain shot through his head, as if something had slammed into it hard.
"Ouch…" He rubbed his head, groaning.
He glanced sideways at Hwa, who was standing beside him, glaring at him with a terrifying gaze.
"Hhurm!.. Hurmmm! I'll never let you be a slave. I just wanted to give you a gift as my personal maid"
He then grabbed the diamond sphere on his necklace and chanted:
"Melior Luminiel ve mene Losthiel."
From the diamond emerged a staff with a lozenge-shaped head—the very staff that once belonged to the Angel of Nocturne, whom he had defeated before.
The staff flew straight toward Lieze, and she caught it. She looked shocked, as if she recognized it. The memory of her defeat at the hands of its previous owner still burned as unresolved vengeance in her heart.
He noticed the situation growing tense, and she also looked as though she disliked holding that thing—but it was her only choice, or her title as a Sage would be wasted.
"Can you show me the power you have? And don't tell me where I got that stuff… just do as I say."
Reluctantly, she complied. Calmly, she closed her eyes, and her lips began to chant something.
"Elythar'vael, yth'mir revanar Nyxar!
Si luminor doriel, meliorun yth'vael!"
(By the Goddess, I banish darkness!
If light seeks me, let it flow through my being!)
Suddenly, the staff hovered in place inside the room, emitting a bluish glow—but nothing else happened.
"It's not working?" He was puzzled.
But then, everything in the room began to tremble—slowly at first, then growing more violent. Lieze's eyes snapped open, now glowing white, and she began to float inch by inch.
Outside, chaos erupted. In the sky. A massive crescent moon sigil (stretching 1 kilometer wide) dominated the heavens, its edges lined with lozenge-shaped runes . swallowed the land as lightning lashed down.
Even the diamond-shaped pendant Fyrel wore moved on its own, as if something inside was thrashing violently. Roof tiles from village houses and leaves from trees were ripped away, swirling upward as though the circle was sucking them into the sky.
"STOP!!!!"