Two Maids

Since their master was remaining safe within the residence, protected not only by the protective measures of his own home, but by the great walls and arrays of the Elt clan as a whole, his two personal maids and bodyguards didn’t have much to do in the way of proper work.

As such, most of their time was spent training. Especially for Fenglin, who had become the owner of both the Primordial Yang Emperor Physique and the Primordial Yin Empress Physique. Servin had successfully created a comparable technique for the Primordial Yin that had manifested within Fenglin as a result of her willful submission to Anoteros.

Servin had made it clear that the two techniques and resulting physiques that would be acquired by mastering them completely could eventually be merged together, but it wasn’t something Fenglin would be able to accomplish in a short amount of time.

Just like how Xiaolie wouldn’t become a true master of Weapon Encyclopedia overnight. They were exceptional women with rare traits and attributes that made them stand far above the masses, but it took actual effort and talent to be able to use their gifts to the best possible level.

Naturally, their total devotion to their master made it so that they were relentlessly pursuing excellence, but not just to be able to perform their professional duties to a greater extent... It didn’t matter if Anoteros remained stronger than them. To them, a man of his status and prestige shouldn’t have to bother himself with ants.

Most of all, they needed to be as strong and competent as possible for when the time came when he would grace them with his seed. Their duty also extended to using their innate and unique gifts to bear offspring for their master. To give him descendants of great power. To give him descendants that would be useful to him.

If he wanted them to, they would gladly become breeding mares for his sake, but they knew all too well that Anoteros wasn’t the sort to waste precious individuals on a single task like this. Their strength would be used in all possible domains, so that they could be polished and made into the best possible version of themselves.

“By the way, Fenglin… You aren’t a transmigrator, are you?”

“A what?”

“Like, you weren’t isekai'd or anything, right?”

“I… I don’t know what that word means”

“Then you weren’t, so it means that the Master’s targets aren’t necessarily transmigrators. This greatly expands the possibilities of what we could encounter in the future…”

Xiaolie rubbed her chin, all the while Fenglin was left confused, as she didn’t have any clue what her fellow was talking about.

“As a fellow crestbearer, I can tell you about it, but you must keep it to yourself. The only reason I myself came to learn about some of Master’s objectives was due to knowledge I held in the first place…”

“...You see, I am what is usually called an ‘Otherworlder’. I took possession of this body, and at first, I thought that I had been sucked into a fictional world, as ‘Xiao’ was the protagonist of a story I had been reading quite extensively”

Xiaolie scratched her neck.

“As it turns out, this world is home to ‘scripts’. Stories woven into the fabric of fate, if you will. The sequence of events is controlled and predetermined, but Master was always aware of their existence and is working to shatter them”

“He broke my script and blessed me, just like how he broke your script and blessed you. You and I are basically cliché protagonists of some Xianxia, Wuxia, or whatever stories. That is why we are somehow so overly powerful for seemingly no particular reason. If not for the script, this body would have had the potential of a great scion, but probably not the ungodly cultivation speed that I have”

“Another benefit of being the main character of a script is that as long as the script hasn’t been completely derailed in one way or another, we are pretty much unkillable, and if the script is in a good state, then it is hardly if we can even lose”

Fenglin rubbed her chin, beads of sweat still rolling down her muscular body as she had been training intensely before Xiaolie decided to start explaining all of this.

“Oh, is that why, during my first encounter with Master, I was only a bit roughed up?”

“Exactly, your script was basically in perfect health, so harming you too badly was simply impossible”

The two maids stared at one another, with Fenglin breaking the momentary silence first.

“Those are the sort of opponents Master will have to deal with?”

“For the most part, yes”

“That is quite worrying, isn’t it? I mean, if I understand correctly, then Master acted quickly against me, but what if someone like us was allowed to grow? What if there is a ‘protagonist’ who has been following their script for years already?”

Xiaolie nodded.

“That’s what I am most worried about. Master is incredibly powerful and has tricks of his own, but script holders are just completely broken and overpowered. I am also worried that as Master grows in notoriety, new scripts will form with him as the main villain, or that existing scripts will adapt to his anomalous presence and designate him as a great villain to be taken down”

Xiaolie frowned as she dug into her memories.

“Since I was brought with the perspective that this world was a novel, then it is safe to say that what I considered fiction can be absolute reality here. Novels and whatever with ridiculous premises that make the main character unbeatable from the get-go could very well become obstacles that we need to clear, and with the script protection, we can’t just pick them up at the start and kill them”

Fenglin smiled wryly.

“I am sure Master would like to do with those protagonists as he has done with us, too. They will be valuable just like we are valuable, no? I understand better why he was so merciful and showed me the light instead of simply slaying me for my insolence. My value outweighed my poor character”

The two maids nodded at the same time.

“For now, Master is staying at home to avoid assassins, but once he starts acting in Journomanp, I am afraid that he’ll be running into a bunch of scripts. So we must prepare”

“Indeed. Do tell me about those fictions you read about! Maybe we can learn about future enemies ahead of time thanks to those!”

“Well, one kind that I worry about is the ones who possess an existing person, much like myself. Since the possession can happen at any time and is often impossible to detect, we could end up with a script amongst us in the future…”

The two personal maids of Anoteros plotted for the convenience of their beloved master…