After satisfying Aezel, Lawrend rested for an hour and continued. Just like that, he managed to satisfy all of his maids.

[AN: I know, I know. Grape, Amene, and Valentina haven’t gotten a chapter of their own. I will release them in the future. R18 chapters will be sparse for the next few arcs or so. I will write them then because it is kind of suffocating writing so many R18 chapters in one go.]

It was already nighttime by the time Lawrend finished. He ate dinner with them and bid his farewell. He would spend this next journey with Ember while the others would be taking care of his children.

He regretted getting children so early. If he doesn’t have them, he might’ve been able to take them with him. Unfortunately, it’s impossible because they might get hurt in the war with the Blumin Empire.

They were also much safer here. They could easily run away because they were far away from their enemies.

“Your Majesty, youth is good and all. Please don’t forget to improve your magic,” Otor humbly said.

“No need for you to worry about me. I simply love my maids,” Lawrend answered.

It was hard for it to be a secret that he had sex with all of his maids, especially when Aezel walked around the castle with liquid falling down her legs. The curious royal guards investigated and found out about it.

Lawrend didn’t really care about it. That was why he allowed them to learn about it.

“Maids, huh. Obedience and taking care of all your mundane problems. I can understand where you are coming from,” Otor replied while in thought.

Otor could see why Lawrend loved them. But Otor also understood that he would never do what Lawrend was doing. Maids were lowly servants. Their status was well below that of ordinary people.

Otor heard that Lawrend wanted to marry them. It astounded him. Geniuses were really eccentric. They have unique things about them.

Marrying a maid would lower someone’s status to the ground. But Lawrend was an exception. He didn’t care about what other people thought about him. He simply went ahead with it and declared his intention to marry them.

No one dared to question him because of his strength and talents. At his level and future, he could make his own rules. After thinking this much, Otor gained more respect for him.

“Come. Let’s all meet the army before we depart,” Lawrend said.

The four of them exited the royal palace to the royal garden. There was a big army numbering ten thousand in a formation.

They were all mages, consisting of most of the mages in the capital city. Lawrend’s promise to teach them gathered them all here. They yearned for the day to fight on a big stage.

Their future would certainly be very bright with such a powerful force never tapped before.

The ten thousand strong army was composed of High Mages and Arch Mages. Their auras weren’t one as what you would expect from an army. It was scattered without forming a singular, powerful aura.

“Hmmm… They need a lot of work to show their full potential,” Julianne said as she scanned them.

“Indeed. But with His Majesty here, I doubt it will take long,” Gregory responded.

He glanced at Lawrend and looked at the changes in his facial expression.

Lawrend calmly nodded his head. He was confident in his abilities to form a powerful mage army. His soul was more powerful than before. His calculative ability wasn’t something to be taken lightly.

“Verkoli, where are the Lightning Arch Mages?” Lawrend asked.

“Walk forward!” Verkoli shouted to the army.

Ten people walked forward. They were the Lightning Arch Mages. There were a lot of Lightning High Mages, but it was very hard for them to improve. Lightning was very hard to encounter.

Thus, it was very hard for them to understand its mysteries. It wasn’t like the other more popular elements where they could encounter them by looking around.

Most of the Lightning mages either left to find a place filled with thunder or a school that solely focused on lightning. Verkoli was one of the exceptions to this.

He understood a lot of the mysteries of Lightning magic on his own and became a Grand Mage. It was a miracle, and it was also a curse for him. It would be impossible for him to improve further.

He would forever stay as a Grand Mage.

The thing that changed that was Lawrend’s spells. It opened Verkoli’s eyes to more mysteries of the Lightning that he could never understand before.

He was grateful to him for showing him the way. Otherwise, it would have required immense luck for him to have an epiphany and become an Earth Mage. Not to mention, the Undrasil Kingdom never produced an Earth Mage before.

“Interesting. The ten of you will be the pillar of this army in the future. Different elements forming an army isn’t a bad thing at all,” Lawrend commented.

The ten Arch Mages excitedly bowed their heads. They were all eager for him to teach them. It would accelerate their path to the peak of magic, giving them more time to improve even further in the future.

“Correct. We in the Trunden Empire have exceptional abilities in working together. It was all thanks to the harsh desert environment we lived in. Mages had to work hard together, or they won’t be able to hunt food to eat,” Julianne added.

“I will be leading all of you to the Blumin Empire. We will attack them and show them that the Undrasil Kingdom was not easily bullied! It is finally time for us to rise from the depths and show the whole Primitus Continent that we are people that could also stand at the top!” Lawrend declared.

His voice resonated with the hearts of the mages. These words alone earned him their respect and loyalty. Who wouldn’t want an ambitious and powerful leader that could lead them to greatness?