Suddenly, Garret heard a knock on the door, breaking his meditation.

“Come in,” Garret said.

When the door opened, the former Great General stood up and walked up to Lux with an anxious expression on his face.

“Did you succeed?” Garret asked. “Did you rescue my family?”

Lux nodded. “I did. I also brought all of your servants and retainers with me.”

The Half-Elf lightly patted the three Baby Slimes that were sleeping on his head and shoulders, waking them up from their slumber.

“Mmm… Pa?” Eiko sleepily opened her eyes.

“Eiko, release Leah and the others,” Lux ordered.

Eiko yawned for a bit before nodding her head.

The three Baby Slimes then simultaneously opened their mouths wide and spit out the people that they had stored inside their bodies.

Sarah was the first to recover and looked around her. When her gaze landed on the white-haired man who was looking at her with love and affection, she immediately cried out and ran to him with open arms.

The next ones to regain their consciousness were Alexa, Emily, and Leah. At first, they were confused as to who their mother was hugging.

However, after taking a good look at the white-haired man, they noticed that his face looked very familiar to them.

“Papa?” Leah asked as she anxiously walked towards her mother and father. “Is that you?”

“It is me, sweetheart,” Garret replied as he reached out to pat her daughter’s head. “It is me.”

Leah then joined her Mama and hugged Garret.

“Papa, what happened to your hair?” Leah asked like the innocent child that she was. “Why do you look a bit older?”

“It’s a long story, but I will definitely tell you later,” Garret replied before shifting his gaze to his other two daughters, who were looking at him with teary eyes. “Alexa, Emily, I missed the two of you very much.”

“Father,” Alexa muttered as she walked towards her father to give him a hug as well.

But, before she could do that, Emily ran past her and hugged her Papa while crying out loud.

“Father, is it true that Uncle Ronan tried to harm our family?” Emily asked. “Did he really try to hurt Mother?”

Garret didn’t reply right away. Instead, he glanced at Lux, asking him with his eyes if his worst fears became a reality.

Since he didn’t know what happened in the Haca Dynasty, he couldn’t answer her daughter’s question based on his assumption.

Lux nodded and confirmed his suspicions. Only after getting the Half-Elf’s confirmation did Garret’s eyes turn slightly cold, making everyone in the room feel as if he had returned to the peak of his strength.

“Yes, Emily,” Garret replied. “He has loved your mother for many years. I had a feeling that he would definitely make his move after assuming that I was dead, so I asked Lux to bring all of you out of the Capital and reunite with me here in the Wanid Kingdom.”

“What your father said is true, Emily,” Sarah commented. “When he and I talked in private, he tried to take advantage of me. Fortunately, Lux was there to help. If he wasn’t there I would have been…”

Sarah wasn’t able to finish whatever she was going to say. The mere thought of what almost happened made her shudder in disgust.

She had known that Ronan had feelings for her because he and Garret had confessed to her at almost the same time.

Back then, she had chosen Garret instead of Ronan because she could faintly sense the dangerous possessive desire that hid in the Vanguard Commander’s kind smile.

Garret made her feel safe and loved, while Ronan made her feel anxious. Because of this, the decision to marry Garret was very easy to make.

Emily had always been spoiled by her Uncle Ronan, so in her heart, she thought that he was a good person. But after hearing what the evil man tried to do to her mother, all the good feelings she had for him disappeared completely.

The Maids and Retainers, who heard this revelation, all felt disgust and anger towards the person that they believed to be the Ousborne Family’s strongest ally.

Never in their wildest dreams did they think that the second person they looked up to aside from Great General Garret turned out to be a madman who would lust over his best friend’s wife and daughters.

“I’m sorry. Because of me, your peaceful lives have been turned upside down,” Garret said to his family and to his retainers.

“My loyalty will always be to the Ousborne Family,” one of the retainers said. “Wherever you go Master, I will follow.”

“I feel the same way,” the Head Maid, Marie, said with determination. “Wherever Lady Sarah goes, I will definitely be there to support her.”

“We shall stay with you, Great General. We are yours to command!”

The Maids and Servants made their determination known, which made Garret and Sarah feel very blessed to have them accompany them as they started their lives all over again.

“Everyone, please listen to me first,” Garret said as he looked at the Half-Elf who had made his life a living Hell, yet also contrarily helped him regain his piece of Heaven in the world of Elysium.

“I am no longer the Great General of the Haca Dynasty,” Garret stated. “All of that is in the past. Right now, I have made an oath to serve a different Master.”

Sarah, Alexa, Emily, Leah, the Maids, as well as the other Retainers, all looked at the red-headed teenager, whom Garret had chosen to serve.

“His name is Lux Von Kaizer,” Garret said before shifting his gaze to the Maids and his Retainers. “He is my new Master and Lord. Everyone, I hope that you will serve him as loyally as you had served me in the past.

“Don’t judge him because he looks young. If not for him, my Campaign against the Blackrock Clan wouldn’t have failed. He is someone I believe is worth serving, and I’m sure that all of you will feel the same way as I do once you get to know him better.”

In front of everyone, Garret knelt like a Knight would do to pay homage to their Lord.

“I have broken my oath once to my King by asking my enemy to spare the lives of my soldiers, as well as to save my family,” Garret stated. “So, I will not make an oath to you. Instead, I will prove my loyalty through actions, which is what is expected from a Knight who has pledged his life to his Sovereign.”

Before Lux could even reply to Garret’s words, he heard several notification sounds in his head, making his eyes widen in shock as several rows of text appeared in front of him.

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< A Knight who had lost his honor had pledged his life to serve you. >

< From this moment onwards, Garret Ousbrone will become part of your Necromancer Covenant. >

< The Covenant doesn’t differentiate between the living and the dead. All of those who wish to sincerely serve Lux Von Kaizer with all of their hearts have the potential to become a member of his Covenant. >

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< The Hidden Quest, Saving The Blackrock Clan, has been completed! >

< Everyone that participated in the war will gain rewards depending on the contribution they have made. >

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< The Hidden Quest, Destroying a Castle, has been completed! >

< Everyone that participated in the war will gain rewards depending on the contribution they have made. >

(E/N: Bwahahahahaha)

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< The Hidden Quest, Praise the Sun, has been completed! >

< Everyone that participated in the war will gain rewards depending on the contribution they have made. >

(E/N: I’m dying! Kekeke)

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Rows upon rows of texts appeared in front of Lux Von Kaizer, stating the rewards that he had received from the quests that had been completed. At the very bottom of the list, a notification with glowing gold letters caught his eyes, which made the Half-Elf wonder if he was dreaming or not.

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< Lux Von Kaizer had reached the limit of the Initiate Rank. You are strongly advised to visit a Temple in order to receive a quest that would allow you to become a Ranker. >

– The Ranker quest can be taken at any given time.

– You cannot gain any more stat points than the current limit. Every other Free Stat Point you receive will automatically be converted into Gold Coins.

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For a long time, Lux stood rooted in place as he tried to digest everything that was currently in his sight. Garret, looked at his new Master with an awkward expression on his face because the latter was looking blankly at him with his mouth agape. He couldn’t help but wonder if what he did made the Half-Elf’s brain stop working.