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

at this time--

"Boom boom boom!"

A series of urgent and slightly flustered knocks sounded on the door.

"come in."

No sooner had Mu Qiu finished speaking than the door was suddenly pushed open.

Luna burst in like a whirlwind, clutching a crumpled piece of paper tightly in her hand. Her cat ears were taut and tense as she exclaimed, "Master! Something terrible has happened outside, meow!"

Mu Qiu frowned slightly.

"what happened?"

Luna jogged over, waving a piece of paper and shouting, "Outside! There are so many of these cat stickers outside! Is there going to be a war here, cat?!"

"fight?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow slightly, reached out and took the crumpled piece of paper Luna handed him. It seemed to have the word "wanted" written on it.

Almost at the same moment Luna burst through the door, Lilith, who was sitting at the foot of the bed, narrowed her eyes slightly, and her figure vanished silently into thin air as if she had never been there.

Luna's intrusion startled the people in the bathroom, and the sound of water inside stopped abruptly.

A moment later, the bathroom door clicked open.

Vera came out wearing a white bath towel and barefoot.

Her wet, silver hair clung to her smooth skin and delicate collarbone, and the rising steam gave her fair cheeks an alluring blush.

The large bath towel could barely cover her voluptuous key areas, revealing the two hemispheres on both sides. Most of her long, straight, beautiful legs were exposed to the air, still with some water droplets hanging on them, which looked particularly dazzling in the light coming through the window.

"What's all the noise about... huh?"

She had barely begun to complain when her gaze fell upon the flustered Luna.

Luna, who was about to continue reporting to Mu Qiu, turned around and happened to see Vera, who was only wrapped in a bath towel.

"Meow--?!!"

Luna's eyes widened instantly, and the cat froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

"Vera, Vera has already played a shooting game with Master, meow?!"

"Shooting Girl Game?"

Vera tilted her head, a smile suddenly curving her lips. She raised her chin slightly and glanced at Mu Qiu with a look of disdain: "Yeah, that filthy master made a mess everywhere, forcing me to clean it all up properly."

Mu Qiu glared at her: "You clearly said you were going to rinse your mouth at the beginning!"

"Meow, meow, the shooting game with Master..."

Luna seemed to have thought of something, and her face flushed red at a visible speed, as if steam was about to rise from the top of her head.

After a while, she hesitated before looking at Mu Qiu, secretly extending five fingers to indicate a number, then extending two zeros in succession. After thinking for a moment, she extended another zero and then showed an expectant expression.

"Luna, when did you learn sign language?"

Luna got a little anxious: "Luna isn't mute, meow! She's... she's asking about her master's reward, meow! There should be a reward for playing shooting games, meow!"

Mu Qiu was taken aback for a moment before he understood what Luna meant: "You mean you have to pay five thousand gold coins to play the shooting game?"

"That's right, meow!"

Luna happily raised her little paws while wagging her tail back and forth, as if trying to show off her charm.

"Luna doesn't hate Master, meow! If Master gives me gold coins, Luna can play a cat-themed shooting game together, meow!"

"Five thousand gold coins? Of course."

Luna was about to nod happily when she heard Mu Qiu's next sentence.

"But you paid me five thousand gold coins."

"Meow?!"

Upon hearing this, Luna's eyes widened, and she instantly took several steps back, hurriedly waving her hands:

"Luna doesn't play shooting games, meow! Luna is a rich cat who doesn't play games, meow! Anyone who plays shooting games with their owner is a bad cat...meow?!"

As soon as Luna finished speaking, she saw a stream of water shoot from Vera's fingertips and splash onto her little face.

"A maid who randomly barges into her master's room is no good cat."

"Luna didn't just wander in, meow! Luna found a piece of paper outside, meow!"

As Luna spoke, she pointed to the crumpled piece of paper in Mu Qiu's hand.

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Vera also went over to join in.

Mu Qiu unfolded the paper in his hand, and there were three large words "Wanted" written in red ink on it, with a few lines of smaller text below.

"A witch's wanted poster?"

Vera saw the contents of the wanted poster and gave a knowing look.

"The empire has begun issuing bounties for witches within its borders. The reward is quite high; capturing a witch alive can be exchanged for ten thousand to one million gold coins at the temple..."

"A dead witch is worthless?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow.

"Of course it's worthless."

Vera seemed to understand the Empire's ways well, and said casually, "If the witch's corpse can be exchanged for money, then the bounty that the Empire and the Temple would have to pay would be too high. Moreover, this could lead to situations where innocent people are killed and others claim credit for their crimes. Very few people can capture a witch alive, and even if they do, the Temple will only give a bounty of 10,000 gold coins. The 1 million gold coins are just for show, not for anyone to claim."

"It doesn't take too many gold coins to motivate mercenary groups, slave-hunting groups, and adventurers. This is a sure-fire way for the empire to make money."

"She's clearly an elf, yet she seems to know a lot about humans."

"That's what all the teachers say."

Vera had never actually witnessed a witch hunt; she had only heard about it from her teachers at the academy.

"We don't need to concern ourselves with witches. We don't need to protect them or provoke them. If we see them, we should just pretend we never saw them."

Mu Qiu nodded slightly, picked up the four bottles of magic potions from the bedside table, and handed them to Vera.

"Vera, these potions are for you. If you have any left over after breaking through to the Orichalcum rank, give them to Adele."

Luna shouted from the side, "Master, what about mine!"

"If there's any left over after Adele finishes using it, the last extra bottle is yours."

"Waaaaah... Luna can only eat Adele's leftovers now, meow! Luna is supposed to be the boss, meow..."

Luna looked sullen, her cat ears drooping. That appearance made Mu Qiu suddenly have a hallucination of some kind of orange cat called "Mao Die".

Vera didn't stand on ceremony. Having already made this place her home, she readily accepted the potion Mu Qiu offered, not forgetting to tease him: "Master, are you so eager to fill my little belly with this sticky potion again?"

Mu Qiu waved his hand and said seriously, "After you break through, we'll be going to a big city."

"Big cities?"

Vera brushed a strand of silver-white hair from her forehead, her pointed ears twitched, and she abandoned her joking mood: "Which city?"

"The City of Flowers, or the City of Earth."

Mu Qiu said in a deep voice, "I'll ask Ms. Melinda for her opinion later. She's over 1,800 years old and should have been to both cities."

As he spoke, he looked at Luna, seeing this as a perfect opportunity for them to escape.

Mu Qiu plans to leave a large sum of money in the manor.

If Luna and the others escape, he will suffer a huge loss. If they don't want to run away, Mu Qiu can accept it, since he always needs some maids around him.

Anyway, given Luna's advanced age, staying by his side wouldn't make her any money for him in the future; she would only help him continue to lose money!

"We won't be back for at least a week, so Luna, you and Adele will stay at the manor and take good care of the property for me."

Chapter 84 Is Luna a cat-eater or a greedy cat? Of course, she's a greedy cat!

"Are you going to the City of Flowers or the City of Earth?"

Sitting on the sofa, Melinda discreetly moved the comic book beside her behind her round and pert buttocks. Her mentor, Miss Vera, had recently lent her quite a few comic books about humans and elves, which she had become somewhat addicted to.

"Yes, Ms. Melinda, we've heard you have a wealth of experience, so we'd like to ask for your opinion."

Mu Qiu nodded. Vera, who was next to him, brought over a cup of black tea. He was about to pick it up when he saw that it was black tea, and he paused for a moment.

This should be regular black tea, right?

Mu Qiu picked up the black tea, took a sip, and the familiar slightly bitter and sweet aftertaste made him nod involuntarily.

Yes, it's unadulterated black tea.

Melinda smiled modestly, her snow-white, plump thighs slightly pressed together, and her back straightened a bit: "You flatter me, Mr. Mu Qiu. I've only just turned eighteen this year, and I'm not as experienced as you imagine."

As she spoke, she gave a thoughtful look, as if she were recalling something.

“I’ve been to these places before, so I know these two cities quite well.”

"I wonder what Mr. Muqiu intends to do in these two places?"

Mu Qiu glanced at Vera and said, "Miss Melinda, to be honest, not long ago, my maids were attacked by a group of gold thieves. Fortunately, those foolish thieves were believers in the goddess of wealth and underestimated their wealth, which is why my maids wiped them out in one fell swoop. But I am worried that there may be others who have their eyes on my manor."

"I am prepared to spare no expense to arm my maids as much as possible and enrich their means of defense."

Melinda's lips twitched slightly.

Are you willing to spend all your money to arm your slaves?

She recognizes every single word in the sentence, so why can't she understand it when they're put together?

She wanted to remind the other party that slave contracts are not omnipotent; the stronger the slave, the weaker the binding effect of the contract.

Moreover, high-level professionals have ways to indirectly circumvent some clauses in the contract. Even epic families and legendary families will at most train fighters from the peak of the fifth rank to the early stage of the sixth rank.

Once one achieves legendary status, the legendary rank within them can shatter any slave contract, granting them complete freedom.

There are only two ways to sign a slave contract with a legendary or higher-ranking professional: one is the Abyss Slave Contract created by the legendary Demon King, and the other is to sign a new slave contract after the other party becomes a legendary professional.

But if the opponent goes further and achieves epic status, they can still shatter the slave contract once again...

Attempting to control a professional of legendary status or higher using a slave contract is an extremely dangerous thing.

Therefore, no one would train slaves of the seventh rank or higher.

She could already sense the aura of Vera, who had just broken through to the Orichalcum level. With her Moon Elf bloodline and the immense medicinal power within her, she would soon take another step forward and break through to the mid-Orichalcum level.

As slaves, this level of training was essentially the limit.

But then Melinda thought again, wait a minute, Vera is an elf, why would she remind this human of such a thing?

Moreover, this human is currently only at the early stage of the Gold Realm, and is still a little short of the middle stage. Miss Vera is a whole major level higher than him. If she wanted to break the slave contract, wouldn't she have done so long ago?

So that's why they wanted to please their "master".

Melinda dismissed the idea of ​​reminding the other party and said, "There are five main ways to become stronger in a short period of time and to have more defensive means."

Five?

Mu Qiu sat up straight, listening attentively.

Melinda cleared her throat and held up five fingers.

"Potions, equipment, spell scrolls, rune enchantments, and alchemical artifacts!"

"The potion-making technology of the Orion Empire is among the best on this continent. Although it is relatively backward in terms of potions from the Age of Gods and ancient potions, it has always been far ahead in terms of potions from the near ancient and modern times."

"Both the City of Flowers and the City of Earth have branches of the Water of Life and other top-tier chain merchants. There is not much difference between the two. The potions you can buy in either city should be pretty much the same."

"As for equipment, the Orion Empire is not good at forging equipment. There are only a handful of blacksmiths of legendary rank or above. Many excellent pieces of equipment are imported from the hill dwarves or are simply produced in dungeons."

Mu Qiu remembered that the Crimson Thorn Adventurer Group seemed to have made a special trip to the kingdoms of the mountains in order to get a legendary weapon for their leader.

Thinking of the leader of the Crimson Thorn Adventurer's Guild, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "What about the Mountain Dwarves?"