The Princess Is Trained as a Slave. 71

Chapter 71 – Part 2: The Elf Princess’s Wrong Choice (1)

In a dark forest, a man with a face full of worry was sitting in a castle in the forest.

Pointy ears, light skin. He was Hyades, the king of a race commonly called elves.

Hyades lived a long life because of the worries that piled up day by day, and even though he was an elf who aged slowly, his face was noticeably wrinkled.

As expected, the elves were currently on the verge of extinction.

The extinction of a race did not happen easily.

Originally, elves did not often go out of the forest. Because of that, there wasn’t much friction with other races.

However, the whole incident started from friction with the orcs.

Ten years ago, an Orc warrior entered the Elven forest.

The reason was unknown. Was it just to check the situation before the war, or was it just a shipwreck?

The exact reason was not known at this time.

But after that, it was clear that we could no longer go back to the way things were.

Soon after entering the forest, the orc encountered the elves who were in charge of security.

Of course, the elves had no choice but to attack when they saw the orcs, who were so tall and large that they seemed to be two or three heads taller than themselves.

It was an inevitable choice because he didn’t have a very friendly relationship with the orcs to begin with, and the orcs were fully armed.

Wouldn’t it be better if we succeeded in killing him altogether?

The orcs who were attacked at the time barely managed to survive.

And after that, the Orcs led all their forces and started a war against the Elves.

The reason was, ‘Insolent ears touched an Orc warrior.’

It was nothing more, nothing less.

Afterward, the elves did not achieve very good results in the war against the orcs.

Elves have lived in hiding in the forest and trained primarily for defense. Of course, they were not used to large-scale wars, and as time went by, the situation became more unfavorable.

As the elves in the south and west suffered, it was thought that there was no future for the elves.

But that was then. The princess of the elves, Natasha, came up with a plan.

“Chief, there are humans outside the forest. I will work with Oberon to ask for help from the humans.”

Oberon was the princess’s husband. The two had just gotten married.

Nevertheless, he was saying that he would visit humans for the future of the elves.

Although no one had told her to do so, it could be seen as the mindset of a true princess who thinks about the future of her race.

Hyades was full of worries.

Considering the future, it was right for the princess to go ask humans for help. If that wasn’t the case right away, the extinction of the elves was a given.

However, a fundamental question arose whether humans can be trusted.

“… Natasha, humans are the ones who don’t know what they may be hiding inside. Is that really the only way?”

In fact, it wasn’t a method that appealed to Natasha that much.

To those who had not ventured out of the forest for decades, even hundreds of years, humans were nothing but barbaric creatures.

It just meant that they were asking for all kinds of help to learn the magic they were using.

I wondered how much help those people would be, but I thought that even a little help was better than no help.

This was the same opinion as most of the elf elders.

“… If that’s what the princess wants, I can’t help it. May the Tree of Life bless you.”

The only thing the chief could say was to ask for blessings from the Tree of Life.

So Natasha and her husband Oberon set out on a journey to reach the human nation.

When they left, all the elves came out to the entrance of the forest to see them off.

“Please come back healthy, Natasha!”

“Princess, you are the hope of our elves!”

Leaving behind the enthusiastic cheering, Natasha and Oberon got into the carriage.

The inside of the carriage was quite cramped as the journey was quite long. But the two endured it through their love for each other.

“… Oberon, I’m sorry. I really want to spend the first night with you, but I can’t help it because I’m the princess of the elves.”

“It’s okay, Natasha. Wherever we are, if we’re together, we’ll be happy forever. So right now, it’s right to think about the future of our people.”

“Oberon…”

At this moment, Natasha felt truly fortunate that her husband had a kind personality like her Oberon.

They were able to endure this situation because they had each other. This was the princess couple heading to the human kingdom ‘Aman’.

They just hoped that there were people in Aman who could help them.

***

Aman, the kingdom of humans.

A few decades ago, Aman fought a fairly large war. After swallowing and unifying all the surrounding kingdoms, Aman became the only empire.

Aman, which came to possess a vast territory unprecedented in human history, began to develop rapidly.

In the background, there were abundant materials and land, but the role of the emperor, who carried out politics brilliantly, could not be overlooked.

It is safe to say that Aman’s emperor ‘Royer’ was the most outstanding emperor in history.

He developed Aman in all aspects of economy, agriculture, and commerce. However, even this outstanding emperor had one problem.

It was that the surrounding maids were too weak.

It was like that right now.

Whisk.

In a room filled with numerous torture devices, there was Emperor Royer, wearing nothing except underwear, and a woman lying on the floor.

Her womanly body was full of her scars, like all sorts of red lines.

She didn’t just suffer her injuries. The woman was panting and grimacing her face.

“Such a weak bitch.”

Royer kicked the woman once as she lay sprawled on the floor and walked out of the room. As Royer came out, the soldier wearing armor guarding the front of the room immediately lowered his head.

“It’s okay to say hello. Just put away what’s inside.”

It was clear that the person being cleaned up would probably be a maid. Even when told to clean up people, the soldier silently followed the instructions.

I had seen this kind of scene so often while working as Royer’s guard that I was not particularly impressed by it anymore.

Originally, an outstanding monarch had a dark side.

The guards were confident that they could secretly hide this dark side of the emperor who made Aman so rich.

That was what he had to do, and even if he didn’t do it, it was what others would do.

“… By the way, this is the 7th time already.”

Royer harassed and abused his maids to the extreme.

But there was no way her maid, who was neither a knight nor a warrior, could endure such abuse for long.

Most of them could not hold out for long and died. Even if they survived, most of them committed suicide.

Of course, it was not difficult at all to supply her maids in this vast empire.

The guards had to travel around the capital in silence to find a maid who suited her tastes.

Royer, who returned to the throne of the imperial palace, could not hide his bored feelings.

The ceiling of the room where the throne was placed was painted with a picture that I had seen since I was a child.

〈Roman and bitch.〉

It is said that the person who was his great-grandfather destroyed and absorbed all the surrounding kingdoms with great resourcefulness.

The picture he was looking at now was a picture of a woman who was later taken prisoner in Aman.

I heard that she was the princess of a fallen country.

Perhaps her name was ‘Princess Stella of Laos’?

Anyway, it wasn’t that important. What is important is that the protagonist of the painting, Emperor Roman, succeeded in degrading and selling off his princess named Stella to a bitch-like position.

She wanted to do that since she was young.

But before that process could even take place, the women died.

The maids were very weak. However, it was not possible to do so by bringing in the daughters of nobles.

As the empire grew, the power of the nobles also became powerful.

“Just because she’s the daughter of a nobleman doesn’t mean she has a strong body.”

It was clear that the only ones with strong bodies were the knights.

However, it was not possible to bring in the female knights of the Knights who were struggling to secure territory right away.

Even if they were brought in, reducing them to slavery was the same as being impossible.

No matter how much the emperor has the power to make flying birds fall.

Royer didn’t like the current situation.

He even imagined some new stimulation, perhaps bringing in things other than humans as slaves.

However, I soon realized that it was impossible and had to give up the idea.

“Elves who are similar to humans never come out of the forest.”

However, she couldn’t catch the orc. The Orc woman didn’t even want to imagine.

At that time, a servant came running urgently. She was so desperate that she seemed to have forgotten the courtesy of meeting the emperor.

“Your Majesty, you need to come out quickly.”

“Come out?”