After the slave owners went bankrupt, they all wanted to keep me as a mistress.

"Live well here. Consider this cloak a gift from me to you."

"Oh, right... when you leave, please close the door for me."

Adele reached out and wrapped her velvet cloak tighter around herself.

A cold wind blew from behind, but my body no longer felt cold.

A strange feeling welled up inside me.

Humans... cannot be trusted easily.

Although reason kept reminding her, her body felt unusually warm.

"I understand, Master."

Adele lowered her head, slowly retreated towards the door, and closed it behind her.

As soon as I turned around, I saw the voluptuous, silver-haired elf girl leaning against the doorway, seemingly holding a steaming cup of tea in her hand.

"It's over? Master was pretty quick."

Adele had intended to leave immediately, but upon hearing Vera's words, she couldn't help but retort.

"...Master, he's not the kind of person you're describing."

"?"

Vera raised an eyebrow.

What's up with this new guy?

So you're already speaking up for your master?

She gave a soft hum, not refuting Adele's words, but just stared at Adele's velvet cloak and pursed her lips.

The original owner didn't give this cloak to her; instead, she gave it to the newcomer...

She really is a vixen, utterly spineless, already trying to seduce her master, unlike her noble and virtuous self...

As Vera pondered this, she waited until Adele's figure had completely disappeared before taking a steaming cup of black tea to the next room and gently knocking on the door.

Inside the room, Mu Qiu calmly put down his teacup.

This tea... has absolutely no flavor.

—After all, there was neither tea nor water in the teacup.

He picked up the teacup just now because he thought it would make him look more sophisticated.

In front of the new slaves, it is still necessary to leave them with the image of an unfathomable master.

Vera... is an exception.

After all, before he had enough slaves around him, he needed someone to protect him at all times. As an elf, Vera's race stood at the top of the social hierarchy, and she was certainly much older than the other slaves...

Moreover, Vera's risk of betrayal has decreased the fastest, and is now "almost zero," indicating that she is more grateful to him than to him.

Thinking about it this way, Mu Qiu suddenly felt that letting Vera escape too early might not be a good thing.

After all, she still had ten million gold coins left to spend, so she couldn't leave yet.

Fortunately, she only took a day off. Right now, she should just be preparing her escape plan. When she's actually ready to escape, I can deliberately keep her there for a while, and then... help her escape.

Sheng Mien, fight against Mien.

The better I treat them now, the more easily I can undo the favors I've shown them when they're free. They might even think that not killing me is already repaying my kindness.

"That's just human nature—"

Mu Qiu smiled slightly.

Can't we trust the wisdom of our ancestors who have lived for thousands of years?

Once they achieve success and fame, perhaps they will still regard him, their former master, as a disgrace?

But it doesn't matter, what he wants is not their returns, but the loss of everything he invested in them that went down the drain!

Once he goes bankrupt, the amount of his losses will be returned a hundredfold, helping him exchange for immortality and the magic of another world to return to Earth and become a super-homelander who is immortal on Earth!

Those days... weren't they much more pleasant than this other world, a place with both gods and demons?

Mu Qiu glanced at his current system funds, which amounted to 9,931,700 gold coins.

The system covered all the compensation owed to the innkeeper, and the manor was acquired for free.

After receiving one million system funds from the roulette wheel, his system funds increased from 889 million to 989 million gold coins. Later, when he resisted Adele's mental attack, the system compensated him with another 100,000 gold coins. Although he spent 50,000 gold coins to buy slaves and storage rings, and his salary also amounted to nearly 10,000 gold coins, he ended up with 40,000 gold coins left over...

"I need to figure out a way to spend this money. I've already spent so much, how come I still have over 9.9 million gold coins?"

—Knock knock.

Just as Mu Qiu was pondering these things, there was a knock on the door.

Immediately afterwards, Vera's clear voice came from the corridor.

"Master, are you asleep?"

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Chapter 47 Maid Outfit: Although it's called a maid outfit, wearing it actually allows the wearer to control their master.

"That's... Vera's voice?"

Mu Qiu's heart stirred, and he said, "Come in."

As soon as she finished speaking, Vera gently pushed open the door and walked in.

Mu Qiu turned to look at her, his gaze falling on her.

Vera was dressed in a brand-new black and white maid outfit. The tight black sash accentuated her slender waist and her suddenly rising and falling full breasts. The pure white ruffled apron was spotless and lay flat on the black knee-length skirt.

As she slowly walked into the house, her skirt swayed slightly, revealing a section of her slender calves encased in white stockings.

"This maid outfit suits you quite well."

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow slightly.

After returning to the manor, he casually exchanged some everyday clothes from the system shop and gave them to Adele to distribute. He also exchanged a few mage robes for Vera and secretly slipped a maid outfit into the middle of them.

He had assumed Vera wouldn't wear it, since he considered her his bodyguard.

I didn't expect her to adapt to being an elf bodyguard outside and an elf maid at home so quickly.

"My master seems quite surprised. Does he think I won't wear this outfit?"

Vera stopped when she was about three or four meters away from Mu Qiu, staring at him behind the square table with a slightly disgusted expression.

"I didn't say you had to wear this outfit!"

Mu Qiu immediately retorted.

He had stuffed the maid outfit inside several of his everyday mage robes. He wouldn't say anything if Vera didn't want to wear it, but he would be a little disappointed.

—Who wouldn't want to see a haughty elf girl wearing a maid outfit looking at them with disdain?

It's just that this elf's thoughts are too lewd and not pure at all. What should be a more exciting thing is that Mu Qiu always feels that it would be a bit less interesting if Vera did it.

"When you hand this garment over to someone, isn't the point to see them wear it?"

Vera gave a soft hum and walked unhurriedly to Mu Qiu, setting down the steaming cup of black tea in her hand.

Hmph, she knew it, her master really did have this kind of taste.

Although maid outfits are supposed to be worn by maids, wearing them actually allows the wearer to control their master.

—From the moment she entered the house until now, the master's gaze has been fixed on her without ever leaving her, and that lewd thing is greeting her with great enthusiasm.

"Well—it wasn't specially brewed for Master. I just made a cup of tea because there was some tea in the room, and then gave the rest to Master to deal with."

Mu Qiu's lips twitched.

"Why are you suddenly acting so arrogant? You seem really strange tonight! You didn't add anything suspicious to it, did you?!"

Vera tensed slightly, but fortunately she had practiced in front of the mirror several times beforehand, so she didn't show any flaws on her face. She just snorted softly, "Tch—I'll take it if you don't want it."

"Who said I don't want it?"

Mu Qiu quickly grabbed the handle of the teacup, not giving Vera a chance to take it back.

It's rare for this lewd elf, whose mind is full of lewd thoughts, to think of serving him properly in the way a normal maid serves her master. If I refuse, she might start thinking in lewd directions again in the future.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't we do a thorough cleaning of the manor?"

Mu Qiu suddenly thought of something.

Although the manor was just completed, the innkeeper had already put in things like furniture and tea bags, just waiting for the renovations to be finished so he could move in and hire servants.

"You shouldn't be asking me about this, should you?" Vera rolled her eyes coquettishly. "You're the master here, aren't you? No master would ask a slave's opinion when making a decision, would they?"

“That’s true… but I didn’t treat you like a slave, did I? And as you’ve probably noticed, I’m just very rich, not a real nobleman.”

Mu Qiu shook his head, picked up his teacup, and took a small sip.

Ouch, it's a little too hot to drink. It must have been brewed not long ago. Sure enough, the claim that he didn't finish the remaining black tea was a lie. It was clearly black tea that was specially brewed for him.

"I may not know as much as you, an elf, in some common sense matters, and I also need your help in managing the manor."

"Stop babbling! What kind of master asks a slave for help?! Give me proper orders, you filthy master!"

Vera felt a little guilty thinking about how much her master relied on her, yet she had added some magic potion to his tea. She plopped down in the chair next to Mu Qiu and said, "Master, didn't you want to learn magic? I think that at your age, it would be better to find a more effective way to learn magic from me."

"Oh? Can magic be learned quickly?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow, looking somewhat surprised.

“Of course you can.” Vera answered without hesitation: “Only physical training requires daily tempering. In the world of mages, there is a view that magic can only progress when ordinary people can also possess the power of magic and cast more powerful spells.”

"Some mages delve into how to lower the barrier to entry for spells, making them easier to remember; some blacksmiths add materials for memorizing magic when forging wands and grimoires; and masters of potion-making research even explore how to enable ordinary people to become powerful mages..."

"As long as you are rich enough, it's not impossible to become a legend in a single day, you know? The emperor of the Orion Empire was just a mediocre person with no magical talent, but even such a good-for-nothing could easily become a seventh-tier legendary mage."

"Even the emperor of an empire can only reach the seventh rank by using magic potions. It's too expensive to become stronger by relying on magic potions!"

Mu Qiu couldn't help but complain.

As he spoke, he felt a little thirsty, so he picked up his teacup and took a few sips.

“That’s because the empire’s finances can’t be entirely spent on one emperor.” Vera shook her head. “Whether it’s the kings of your human kingdoms or the emperors of the empires, they often change every ten or twenty years. It’s very rare for someone to live for more than a hundred years.”

"If every emperor had to use magic potions to reach the eighth or ninth tier, even a wealthy country like the Orion Empire couldn't afford it."

"Even the legendary Star Council and the Truth Association only provide this level of potion support to legendary heroes and their companions. Anything beyond that depends on the efforts of the hero's team."

"So, there are actually beings like heroes in this world?"

Mu Qiu looked surprised, his brows furrowed slightly, and he felt a little dizzy and hot.

He rubbed his slightly burning forehead and looked at the silver-haired elf beside him:

"Vera, I think I have a fever. Do you know healing and purification spells? Please use them on me."

Chapter 48 The maid outfit isn't for the maids, but for the master to increase attack speed!

As night deepened, the air in the room became increasingly hot and sticky.

Mu Qiu felt a strange fire burning up from deep within his body, his head began to spin, and his vision became blurry.

"It has a fever? Is it because the owner opened the window and let it blow on it?"

Vera blinked her beautiful eyes and saw Mu Qiu's flushed cheeks and slightly rapid breathing. She couldn't help but twist her body slightly, her thighs unconsciously rubbing together and tightening.

This reaction... the potion she secretly added to the black tea actually worked on her master?

The contract was not triggered!