NOVEL NEXT Chapter 38: Why Come Back?
"Reina, I'm giving you a chance."
"Come here, lick my boots."
"I could at least give Sivis a swift death, kill him directly! Instead of turning him into a Blood Servant like the others!"
Flora said with an air of amusement, as if she could already see Reina breaking down, sobbing at her feet in desperation.
But unfortunately...
Their performance was completely ignored.
"Sivis!" Reina didn't call him "Master," but instead spoke his name directly, her voice full of shock and anxiety.
"Are you crazy? Why did you come back?" Her voice trembled, and her lips moved several times before she managed to force out a possible reason. "No matter how precious the resources in the family are, with your abilities, wouldn't it be easy to just retrieve them again? Why risk your life for these things?"
"Didn't you feel the Blood Servant power on me? What are you trying to do? I've worked so hard to make the decision to sacrifice myself!" The girl spoke, tears streaming down her face.
The last remaining bit of life in her was now fully awakened. She swayed violently, and before she could scold her master any more, she collapsed to the ground, unable to hold herself up.
The Church had long spread propaganda to prevent anyone from willingly accepting the Blood Clan's power—
They claimed that those infected and turned into Blood Servants would, even if they died, have their souls condemned to hell forever.
Reina had overcome immense mental pressure to choose to burn herself out, creating a sliver of hope for Sivis to escape.
Now, she felt completely wronged.
"I've paid such a great price, and yet you're wasting this hard-won chance at life... Why?!"
The girl was filled with frustration.
She couldn't see any joy in the idea of facing death alongside her beloved master after he returned.
Reina felt like nothing more than a lowly maid, and the best possible outcome should have been to sacrifice her life to help Sivis escape, so he would always remember her. That alone would have been enough.
It already felt like a distant dream.
Why was everything shattered now?
And the one who shattered it all was Sivis himself.
Just as the girl reached the peak of her breakdown, she heard her master's voice, warm and bright, breaking through the despair. "I came back to save you, of course."
At that moment, a faint smile appeared on Sivis' face. As a seasoned player of Gandaniar, he could tell that Reina, after being infected by the Blood Servant, had tied a cloth around her arm to slow the spread of the toxin.
She still had consciousness. The transformation into a Blood Servant would take a few more minutes to fully complete, but that meant he had arrived in time!
With the pure holy light power he had gained from Holy Swordsmanship, Sivis could stabilize Reina's transformation process. Then, by performing the Guardian Creation Ritual, he could completely solve the problem with the little maid.
His momentary relaxation caused a smile to appear on his face. To Reina, that smile felt incredibly warm and bright.
The girl's body felt cold all over, but as she stared at Sivis' smile, she froze.
The anger in her heart, like the last remnants of winter snow, instantly melted under the warmth of the sunlight.
Reina's body went limp, and she stood there in a daze, her gaze unfocused.
She couldn't believe what she was hearing. The scene before her seemed as if the most unrealistic fantasy deep within her heart had come true.
Reina was naturally a thoughtful and sensitive young girl. She had read many romance stories and often imagined, in situations like this, how her master Sivis would appear like a hero, rescuing her from certain doom.
However, the girl knew full well that this was too unrealistic and shouldn't come true!
By coming to her rescue, Sivis had placed himself in a highly dangerous situation.
Reina had steeled herself and willingly allowed herself to be infected as a Blood Servant, hoping to prevent Sivis from coming to save her.
But now…
Her sacrifice was in vain.
Now…
Reina found it difficult to suppress the waves of happiness rising in her heart, and a smile unconsciously spread across her face.
She had finally confirmed it.
She wasn't just some disposable maid; she was the most important person to her master!
Even if she had to die now…
She was satisfied!
Sivis, on the other hand, maintained a calm and composed demeanor.
He knew well that once he returned to the family stronghold and saw Reina, he was certain he could ensure the little maid would be healed.
Moreover, he had been steadily growing stronger due to the constant reinforcement of his supernatural dark power. It seemed that the young men he had recruited to help spread the word about his desire to bring in more residents had been doing their job.
Sivis had reached the Ninth Tier of Bronze and was still growing stronger, enough to easily crush Conning, Flora, and the other Blood Servants transformed by the family. He felt light-hearted and at ease.
As for the fact that the entire family had fallen under the ravages of the Blood Servants, he couldn't care less.
Sivis had long since considered leaving the family to seek other opportunities.
No one in the Daister family was close to him.
Especially after he started his factory and began making profits, a huge rift had formed between him and the family over the issue of how to treat the workers.
The Daister family thought it was already generous enough to provide food for the workers, and yet they still dared to demand wages. Sivis, however, firmly believed that even small workshops had to reduce labor costs as much as possible but couldn't reduce them to zero, as that would affect work efficiency!
The result was that the family members tried every possible way to ostracize Sivis and force him to give up control of the factory.
After Sivis became a Monster Lord, the factory was indeed taken over by the family.
That wasn't enough. Conning and Flora were now eyeing the resources he had accumulated before.
Sivis could guess that the family patriarch, Dailon, must have tacitly approved of the pressure on Reina, while other family members were opposed.
In the face of such family members, anyone born and raised in this world would have applauded the scene before them.
As a transmigrator, Sivis had a relatively normal worldview, and he could only lament in his heart: "Many of them didn't deserve to become Blood Servants."
"But... they got what was coming to them!"
After that, there were no more unnecessary regrets.
At this moment, a rather bizarre scene unfolded.
To outsiders, it was clear that Sivis and Reina were in a dire situation.
The bond between them, the master and maid, was deep, yet surrounding them were numerous Blood Servants, each at least Bronze Tier 5, most of them around Bronze Tier 6, all watching with intense hunger.
The monsters slightly opened their mouths, showing their sharp fangs.
Especially Conning and Flora, the two high-ranking Blood Servants who retained their consciousness, were glaring at them with immense malice.
For someone with a fragile mind, seeing this scene might make them cry in fear.
Yet, in the eyes of Conning and Flora, the display of emotions from this master and servant pair only served to infuriate them.
One of them, looking quite relaxed and in a good mood, was Sivis.
The other, Reina, who should have been showing a face full of despair, instead wore a look of happiness.
"Good! Good! Good!"
"I want to see how long you two can keep gloating!!"
In an instant, Conning and Flora's faces twisted with rage.
They let out sharp, ear-piercing howls!
At their command, countless Blood Servants locked their sights on Sivis, charging forward like a pack of hungry beasts, quickly forming an overwhelming pressure around him.
Many of the Blood Servants bared their fangs, snarling, as if they were ready to tear Sivis apart the moment they reached him.
Numerous Blood Servants, hidden in every corner of the Daister family stronghold, surged forward from all directions.
In the blink of an eye, Sivis was locked in the gaze of at least dozens of malicious eyes.
To anyone looking, it seemed as though he had fallen into an inescapable trap, with no chance of escaping alive.
Even though Sivis was powerful, the Blood Servants kept coming, and as soon as one of them touched him, the battle would be decided instantly.
"Master, no..." Reina, who had been immersed in happiness, suddenly changed her expression to one of pure terror.
She was still the same girl who valued Sivis' life more than her own.
At this moment, she gathered all her remaining strength, trying to stand up despite her weak and exhausted body.
But then...
Thud!
She collapsed again, powerless to stop what was happening. She could only watch, helplessly, as the Blood Servants closed in on Sivis, as though they were about to tear her master apart at any second.
Seeing this, Sivis furrowed his brows and quickly moved toward Reina.
At the sight, Conning and Flora's expressions softened a little. "This is it, this is what we wanted to see!"
They were about to mock him, but suddenly, they realized something was wrong—Sivis was still coming toward them??
Why... how dare he??
"Sivis, if you want to die with your maid..."
"We can arrange that for you, but you have to..."
Conning was about to sneer, but then he noticed something that made him stop in his tracks...
Sivis was completely ignoring them!
He was moving forward!
Instantly…
The malicious expressions on Conning and Flora's faces vanished, and they were left staring in disbelief, their faces twitching.
You... What are you doing??
You're about to die, and you still want to put on a show??
Sivis, don't you realize it's not the same anymore??
Now…
Your life is in our hands!
Furious, the two of them screeched!
At that moment, the Blood Servants sprang into action!
They charged toward Sivis!
But...
Why was Sivis still standing there, unmoving?
In the blink of an eye, Conning and Flora saw something strange and, without time to think it through, wondered if perhaps they had overestimated Sivis' strength.
The way he had instantly killed the Bronze Tier 7 assassin earlier—perhaps he had used some special technique, and his actual strength wasn't as great as they thought.
If he was just a Bronze Tier 4 mage, then against so many Blood Servants, he wouldn't even have time to cast a spell.
On the other side, Reina, seeing what was happening, struggled to rise, her eyes blank and her mind a void.
"No... Master, you can't die, you can't be hurt!" The girl's empty gaze seemed to reflect an image of Sivis being torn apart, infected, and consumed.