Chapter 1005 – 1005. Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into A Noble Family
The world of [Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated into a Noble Family] was in the midst of war.
A great war that started in the north and spread throughout the continent.
It was something that happened in the original story, but it didn’t flow exactly as it did in the original.
Originally, Princess Eileen of the Rapelli Kingdom seized an opportunity amidst the crisis and started a civil war. She reorganized some of the useless, unnecessary, and incompetent nobles, became queen, and ruled the Rapelli Kingdom.
The downfall of Prince Aiden was inevitable. That is, if I hadn’t been behind him.
‘The Helbrit Duchy was behind Prince Aiden.’
Perhaps in the original story, the Helbrit Duchy was annihilated by the Dark Emperor around this time. The Dark Emperor was Yuria’s alias. She revealed her presence by annihilating a duchy.
‘They seem to be calling the current Yuria the Dark Emperor… but few people know her true identity.’
Yuria was currently my maid. Moreover, she was a maid who had lost her memories due to the trials of an artifact. She needed to reach the master level again to regain her memories, and she was still training hard.
After a brief moment of thought, I raised my head and shifted my gaze to the map hanging on one side of the office. It was a map of the entire continent. Various colored lines and symbols were marked on the map. Two women were sitting with me.
One was Scarlett Bunclow. A woman with short crimson hair and sharp eyes. Her crimson eyes were like well-honed blades. Originally under Kyle’s command, she was staring at the map in her officer’s uniform. She was a general leading the soldiers under my command.
The other was Melissa, a maid. She was also the leader of the AM unit. She was stroking her long, dark blue hair as she looked at the map. She was serious, unlike her usual playful attitude.
Melissa and Scarlett. Aside from Yuria, they were the most tactically capable women in the mansion.
“The Rapelli Kingdom is winning. They are steadily expanding their territory. The war is not over yet, but it is predicted that the territory of the Rapelli Kingdom will more than double after the war ends.”
Scarlett said. The situation was better than in the original story. It wasn’t strange. The Rapelli Kingdom had the protagonist, Kyle, and me.
Moreover, for some reason, Kyle was performing even better than in the original story. He was stepping forward, cutting down enemies, and expanding territory. Kyle was already being called a hero of the Rapelli Kingdom. Princess Eileen must have been pulling strings behind the scenes.
“So, what should we do?”
“You don’t have to do anything. My lord, you are supporting various nobles with money. Everyone knows your contributions, so even if the war ends like this, there will be no complaints or reprimands.”
Scarlett said. I turned my gaze to the side.
“If that’s what my lord wants, then so be it. But isn’t my lord’s goal to become Count Pruker? If you do nothing like this, the right to be the master of the count’s family will be taken by Kyle Pruker.”
Kyle was accumulating achievements like crazy. Almost every week, news of his new victories would arrive. Perhaps Kyle was the closest to becoming Count Pruker right now.
“My lord. You don’t necessarily need to aim for the Count Pruker title. If you wish, you can obtain a marquis title or higher. Considering your influence, even a duke wouldn’t be able to ignore you.”
Scarlett was right.
I had been influencing the Rapelli Kingdom for a long time. I brought in money through the Korea Trading Company, and Yuria reinvested that money in various places. Moreover, just before the war broke out, I invested in various nobles and knights based on Yuria’s advice. And more than 80% of them hit the jackpot. A so-called moonshot.
‘Yuria says she used her knowledge from the original story to invest… but I still don’t know what’s what.’
Anyway, thanks to that, I had gained influence beyond that of a great noble.
The stakes had become so high that I no longer coveted the Pruker family title.
“This is a matter of my pride. Being pushed back in the succession battle by someone like Kyle? Just imagining it makes me feel disgusted.”
“I thought so. Our lord’s personality is filthy, after all.”
Melissa said with a smirk.
What an impudent maid. To dare say my personality is filthy right in front of my face. How audacious. I lifted Melissa’s skirt and put my hand inside. I plunged my hand between her thighs.
“Eek!”
Melissa let out a shrill cry. She was a woman who mostly went without panties in the mansion because they were cumbersome.
After poking her vagina a few times with my fingers, I pulled my hand out. Melissa was breathing heavily, slumped over the desk, and my hand was covered in a clear liquid.
“My lord.”
Scarlett called me. She didn’t react to the series of actions. She didn’t even raise an eyebrow.
“If my lord’s goal is to inherit the Pruker title… you need a greater achievement.”
Scarlett got up from her seat and approached the map. She pointed to one of the kingdoms located north of the Rapelli Kingdom.
“We must aim for the north. We will conquer the Bishul Kingdom in the north in your name, my lord.”
I tilted my head. In this world, the further north you go, the more barren it becomes, and the further south you go, the more prosperous it becomes.
“Wouldn’t it be better to conquer the southern kingdoms? There’s more to gain there.”
Kyle was also advancing south. Moreover, considering logistics, advancing south would be easier than advancing north.
“Kyle Pruker is currently on a winning streak, but he will soon be stopped.”
“…The Cobalt Kingdom.”
It was Melissa’s voice. She was fixing her disheveled hair as she stared at the map. The Cobalt Kingdom in the center of the continent was a country that was also on a winning streak, like the Rapelli Kingdom. And the Cobalt Kingdom was Melissa’s hometown. Her Argen family was a prestigious ducal family in the Cobalt Kingdom.
“My lord. The Cobalt Kingdom has changed. Doolibard, who was the crown prince, has returned, succeeded to the throne, and is advancing north with repeated victories. Perhaps his goal is the Rapelli Kingdom.”
“Is he targeting you?”
“……I don’t know. Is Doolibard that obsessed with me?”
“It could be me he’s targeting, not you.”
I had sex with Melissa, his fiancée, in front of Doolibard. Even now, the look of despair on Doolibard’s face at that time still thrills me. Doolibard has enough motive to kill me.
“My lord. We must make a decision quickly. We must strike the Bishul Kingdom now while we have the momentum.”
Scarlett said seriously. I nodded.
“Okay. I grant permission to advance.”
“We need 30,000 soldiers and the power of the Golden Rose Knights.”
That was most of the military power I currently possessed. In particular, the Golden Rose Knights were a female knight order led by the aura master Floy, and rumors were circulating that they were one of the best knight orders in the kingdom.
“I grant that too. When will the troops depart?”
“We will depart as soon as the preparations are complete. We are aiming for three days, but the preparations will be completed within a week at the latest.”
“But how are you going to handle supplies?”
This world wasn’t a game. You can’t just create soldiers like units in a game and leave them alone. To use them as proper soldiers, you have to equip them and feed them. The military is a money-eating hippo.
“Isn’t my lord here? If you move yourself, my lord, there’s no need to worry about supplies.”
“Geez. Aren’t you overworking your lord too much?”
“It’s necessary. And occasionally, please show yourself on the battlefield. It will help boost morale and increase your reputation.”
“Well, okay. It’s not a difficult task.”
I had a convenient space-movement scroll.
“We’ll need a lot of budget.”
I muttered quietly. I wasn’t worried. With my current wealth, I could more than handle it. I had taken full advantage of the war boom. Even now, I was secretly selling war supplies to other countries and raking in money. And more than half of my soldiers were slave soldiers. There were no labor costs.
“My lord. Speaking of the budget, we need to increase the budget used for the mansion.”
“Didn’t we increase the mansion’s management budget by 20% about two weeks ago?”
“That was then, and this is now.”
“Are you short on people?”
“It’s the opposite. There are too many maids. Do you know how many maids have increased in the past week?”
“……”
I closed my mouth. Because I didn’t know.
“94. The number of maids is increasing by 100 every week. Do I need to explain how crazy this is? To put it simply, 20 maids are cleaning the first-floor hallway. It doesn’t even take 15 minutes to clean the first-floor hallway. And that’s the end of the maids’ work for the day. There are currently 1,751 maids in this mansion.”
I didn’t know there were that many. Of course, all 1,751 were beauties. All the maids working in my mansion were beauties who had passed a certain standard. If they weren’t beautiful, they couldn’t become maids.
‘Were there that many? Well, I have been breaking the virginity of 30 girls every night these days.’
This was also an effect of the war.
Due to the ravages of war, many women were being sold as slaves. Some of them were from noble families. As originally planned, I bought all the beauties who were sold as slaves.
‘I’ve also conquered villages with beauties and made them slaves, haven’t I?’
I currently had a total of 8 slave villages. I was also selecting beauties from there to be maids in the mansion.
“Okay. I’ll cut the budget by another 30%.”
“The budget has increased by 30%. That’s good. But my lord also knows that this isn’t a fundamental solution, right?”
“Hmm….”
“The food problem is fine because of my lord’s abilities, and there are also mysterious items like Hebil’s stimulant that can be harvested at once. The most serious problem is housing. There are no empty rooms in the mansion right now. The new maids are living in tents. They don’t have any complaints because the treatment is so good… but complaints will come out someday.”
“My precious maids are living in tents? I’ll have the dwarf slave bastards expand the mansion right away.”
“I’ve already ordered them to do so. But that’s not a solution either. The best thing to do is to stop hiring maids here….”
I put on a strict, solemn, and serious expression.
“Impossible.”
“I thought so. So, here’s my proposal. To manage the numerous maids, we need a stronger and more reliable system. Education for new maids is also essential. So, how about establishing a maid academy?”
“A maid academy? Just hearing it makes my dick throb. Okay. Let’s make it.”
“…Even so, shouldn’t you at least think about it?”
“The good is good. Where should we build the maid academy? Behind the mansion?”
“No, an academy is a place of learning. It’s better to be far away from the mansion. So, I’d like to choose one of the islands my lord owns and build the maid academy there.”
Among the things I got from raiding the pirate alliance, there were islands. Most of them were left unattended.
“Lyraisse Island would be good.”
Lyraisse Island was the island where my villa was located. It was the most beautiful island among the islands I owned, resembling the Maldives. I still use it occasionally.
“…Lyraisse Island is quite large among the islands, so it’s suitable, but isn’t that where your villa is located, my lord?”
“We can use it as a villa and a maid academy.”
“Okay. Then I’ll proceed with that in mind. If we use the dwarves and slaves… we can complete the academy building within a month. The head of the maid academy… Fatima would be good.”
“Fatima is a given.”
Fatima was one of the maids I bought from the slave market. She was one of the veterans. She was married at the time and was in charge of teaching the young maids. Her teaching skills were reliable.
‘She’s at an age where she’s starting to think about retirement.’
Fatima looked young because she took good care of herself, but the wrinkles on her face couldn’t be hidden. I’m not Seong Ji-gon, so I don’t like old women. But it’s a waste to let go of my maid. If she becomes the head of the academy, the retirement problem will also be solved.
‘I should start thinking about the maids’ retirement.’
Of course, it’s retirement from my mansion. Once they become maids, they are my maids until they die.
‘If I create not only a maid academy but also a maid hospital, a maid childcare center, etc., they can live comfortably even after retiring from my mansion.’
After roughly organizing my thoughts, I got up from my seat.
“Okay, that’s the end of the meeting. Let’s work. Work.”
Scarlett and Melissa got up from their seats. Scarlett bowed and left right away, and Melissa pouted.
“My lord says that so easily when you don’t even work.”
“How dare you be so impudent!”
Slap!
Melissa, who had been hit on the butt, sighed and went outside.
Before going outside, I looked at the map.
Some countries were weaker than expected, and some were stronger than expected.
‘The Demon Society must be involved.’
The great war seemed like it would be longer than in the original story.
