Chapter 125 - Go And Get Young Master Watson
The day passed quickly.
The next morning, the Demoness Bandit Gang leaders woke up early and stood outside the mansion; they were ready to welcome Capella’s test.
“Let me introduce you. That young lady is Wendy. She is the second most outstanding maid in the mansion after me. She is also the other head housemaid in the castle. If you have any questions, you can ask her.”
Capella pointed at a pretty girl with emerald green hair beside her.
Wendy curled her lips in displeasure and corrected her. “Sister Capella, why am I the second most outstanding maid? Is that what Young Master Watson said?”
She and Capella were both head housemaids. Each of them was responsible for leading a group of maids. There was a monthly competition—whomever’s employee performed better would receive additional rewards. Wendy did not care about the rewards. She just wanted Watson to think highly of her.
She had been the only head housemaid in the castle. When Watson decided to let Capella be the head housemaid, she had asked Watson if he was dissatisfied with her or if she had done something wrong. Watson told her that she had done well, but every position needed some competition.
Competitiveness was the source of human progress. Just like the Captain and Vice-captain of the guards in Blackmoon Castle—if the Vice-captain wanted to become the Captain, then he had to become more outstanding. If the Captain did not want to be replaced, then he had to work twice as hard.
Even though Wendy did not quite understand what Watson meant, she still felt that the young man was very powerful. She did not know how Watson, who was about the same age as her, knew so much.
“Hello, Miss Wendy.”
After Capella finished her introduction, the five Demoness Bandit Gang leaders nodded at her. Greed asked, “Chief Capella, may I ask what we are going to do now?”
Her face was full of fighting spirit. She held an ancient gold coin in her right hand and rubbed it gently.
She could not wait to show off her ability so that the people of Blackmoon Castle could see her competence.
“I’ll assign you a task! You, you, and you—go and clean the branches and weeds in the courtyard. Remember, the courtyard is the front of a nobleman, which reflects the taste of the noble master. If he can’t even manage his courtyard, then the guests won’t be in the mood to enter the manor.”
Capella tapped on Greed, Envy, and Lust and told them to take charge of the courtyard. As for Wrath and Sloth, she said, “You two can stay behind and clean the rooms. A qualified noble must have not only a luxurious and elegant courtyard but also a spotless room, even if those rooms are not occupied.”
“We understand.”
The Demoness Bandit Gang leaders looked at each other. Then, they spread the combat aura wings on their backs and went straight to the place that Capella had directed.
In a flowerbed in the courtyard.
“This the place we need to trim?”
The young girl looked around her and realized that the flowerbed stretched for several kilometers and surrounded the entire castle. Even though it was called a flowerbed, it was planted with many valuable medicinal herbs. There was also a spacious wheat field outside the flowerbed—crystal-like wheat swayed in the wind in that field. It was almost ready for harvest.
People dressed like farmers could be seen combing the wheat field. A few maids were also there; they held huge scissors as they tended to the medicinal herbs on the flowerbed.
The air was filled with the unique fragrance of plants—its scent made people feel as if their combat aura was circulating at a faster speed. Cultivation in that courtyard was at least three times faster than cultivation in the outside world.
“Look at the variety of that wheat—it seems to be bronze-tier. I’ve heard that that color of wheat can only be found in the north. It’s very rare in the kingdom. I did not expect they would have so many here! There are also those medicinal herbs in the garden. Bronze-tier medicinal herbs such as the sunflower can increase one’s strength and fire-elemental combat aura’s power, the silver-tier Moonlight Demonic Grass, and look over there; I think that’s a gold-tier Seven Treasures Glazed Ginseng. Blackmoon Castle is really rich!”
Lust sighed.
If she had not experienced Sven’s ridicule yesterday, her mental endurance would have been much stronger. Otherwise, she would have cried out in surprise and treated the room that she thought was gorgeous as a storeroom. It did not seem like it was difficult to understand why they cultivated the precious medicinal herbs.
“The flowerbeds in Blackmoon Castle are divided into twelve regions. Each region cultivates different quality medicinal herbs. The quality of the medicinal herbs in region one is the worst! You are now in region one. Even if you cut and destroy the medicinal herbs here, we won’t lose much money.”
Capella’s voice echoed from afar.
So many precious medicinal herbs, but it was the worst grade?
The Demoness Bandit Gang leaders fell into silence; they were a little surprised again.
“How could a silver-tier elite do such a stupid thing like destroying the medicinal herbs? Not only will I not destroy it, but I will also let them grow better.”
Greed walked to the flowerbed closest to her and threw the coin in her hand onto it. She let the coin disappear and turned into a golden light that covered the crops; it made the medicinal herbs that were already growing strong grow even bigger.
She was great at buffing her teammates, so it was not difficult for her to speed up the ripening process of the crops.
Meanwhile, in the direction of Sloth and Wrath.
Wendy was responsible for keeping an eye on them from the outside. Capella had already brought them to the castle hall.
As she pointed at the hall that occupied hundreds of meters in front of them, Capella looked at the sky outside and said, “You guys are in charge of that area. I’ll only give you half an hour. I’ll come and check on you in half an hour.”
“It won’t take half an hour. It’ll be done in a few minutes.” Anger snorted as her body suddenly grew from a meter to a three-meter tall giant. She pressed her palm against the floor and waved it forward—the dust on the ground was swept away by the strong wind and floated out of the window.
Sloth also followed her movements and hovered in mid-air. Invisible combat aura arms stretched out from her back, and her palms turned into the shape of a broom and a mop. She swept the walls and the ceiling and began to clean up.
Most of their abilities came from the Great Sin Mask, but that did not mean they were useless without the mask. In fact, the Demoness Bandit Gang had a complete set of cultivation methods, which were copied from the Great Sin Mask. However, only the Demoness Bandit Gang leaders were qualified to cultivate it, and they could still use it even without the mask.
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Half an hour later, the people on both sides of the tasks finished the test and returned to Capella; their faces brimmed with confidence.
They felt that they had done very well. The work that usually took a few hours for the maids to complete was completed in a few minutes, and they did it even better.
“Wendy, how do you think those people are doing?”
Capella’s expression was calm. She did not announce the test results but turned around to ask Wendy, who had followed her into the room.
“I think—” Wendy hesitated and shook her head. “They can’t do it.”
As soon as her voice fell, the expressions of those Demoness Bandit Gang leaders changed. They were about to ask why she said that when they heard Capella’s cold snort.
“You guys are really the worst batch of maids that I’ve ever taught! Your name is Lust, right? I told you to trim the branches, but I did not tell you to seduce the servants in the manor. And you Greed. Why did you go and ripen the medicinal herbs? The Young Master had carefully cultivated those herbs. The growth period for those herbs has already been calculated. If you ripen them recklessly, it will mess up Young Master’s plans.”
“Yes, your name may be Wrath. I told you to clean the room, but I did not tell you to ruin it. You left several big handprints on the expensive furniture in the room. If the floor were not hard enough, I think it would have collapsed under your feet! Finally, you, Sloth. Most people are like their names, and you’re the same. You’re really lazy. You’ve only been working for a while, and you’re already sleeping on the floor. I’m a bit jealous that your performance is not that bad. In short, all of you are not qualified to be a maid. Before you learn what I taught you, no one is allowed to eat.”
“What? Why do you blame me for my charm?”
The young girl refuted righteously and passionately. “There are many servants here who take advantage of my working hours to strike up a conversation with me. What can I do?”
“You really can’t see a good deed.” Greed said, “It’s very tiring for me to help with the ripening of the medicinal herbs. The quality of those medicinal herbs had been increasing by at least one or two levels. For the same medicinal herb that has gone from ordinary bronze-tier to fine bronze-tier, its value may be twice as high. Do you understand that?”
“Our cleaning speed is a hundred times faster than the maids here. Why are you still not satisfied? Even if I were to break the furniture accidentally, you can’t blame me for that. You can only blame the quality of the furniture in Blackmoon Castle—they’re too inferior.”
Besides Envy, who had stayed silent, the other Demoness Bandit Gang leaders presented their arguments loudly.
They had worked very hard, so why could they not eat? Did Capella deliberately make things difficult for them because they were bandits?
They could not tolerate that.
“Sister Capella, what do we do now?” Wendy looked a little afraid when she saw how arrogant those women had looked.
Capella was livid. She waved her hand and said, “Go and get Young Master Watson here!”