The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss

Chapter 12: Allegiance

I walk through the beautiful corridors, they are so detailed that I can call them a work of art, even a museum falls short of the beauty of this castle.

The dark tone on the outside is different from the lighter tone inside, although there is still a gothic theme on the inside, this theme is lighter, which makes the view comfortable.

I see as I walk through the corridors that there are many servants.

”Elena, didnʼt you say we didnʼt have many servants by culture?”

”Yes, but Your Majesty cannot have too few servants in your castle, and it takes many people to keep the castle running, it is also important to always have servants to attend to Your Majesty.”

”Which rooms do you consider most important in the castle?”

”It would be the rooms in the order: Your Majestyʼs bedroom, the Throne Room, the Treasury, and the Meeting Room.”

”...Do we have a Treasury room?”

”Yes, Your Majesty, it currently has a large number of items, accessories, weapons, and precious minerals, as well as a large amount of money and gold.”

”But I donʼt have any of that...” Technically, Iʼm kind of poor since everything I have comes from things Iʼm gaining, mainly things that Elena gives me.

”Everything I have is Yours, naturally the mansionʼs treasury also belongs to Your Majesty, and we also obtained some things from dungeons, assassinations, robberies, looting, and other things we did in human cities.”

”Since I didnʼt have much to spend, I ended up accumulating a lot to the point where it had no use, many noble demons also have a vast accumulated treasury that they donʼt use.”

”How do you manage to accumulate so much?” Now Iʼm doubtful, I didnʼt see the treasury, but itʼs obvious that the amount of things there is absurdly large, I say this considering that Elena said she accumulated enough to have no more use, the same Elena said that this huge castle is small.

”Many noble demons simply accumulate because they have nothing to spend it on, unlike humans who waste their money on futile attempts to show off in their insignificant lives.”

”In demons, especially nobles, we have a high life expectancy, so naturally everything we obtain we keep, and over decades, centuries, and millennia, these treasures tend to only increase.”

So they donʼt spend much, and the money just keeps increasing, so during all that time itʼs obvious why it just keeps increasing.

”So what about servantʼs pay?”

”I donʼt understand?”

”...You donʼt pay the servants? How do they accept staying?”

”I think Your Majesty is considering what youʼve learned from books about human culture, the servants actually see this as a great opportunity to change their lives.”

”No matter how bad a master is to his servants, he still offers protection from the outside world, demons are very competitive and destructive, naturally based on the law of the strongest.”

”Thatʼs why weaker demons tend to have difficult lives, to the point where being tortured in the mansion of a noble is sometimes better than living on the streets, and the greater the prestige of the demon, the more honored the servant is.”

”Servants donʼt need money, because everything they need and want is given to them by their master, usually when they want something, it is passed on to the head maid, and if approved, what they want is bought.”

”So demons donʼt have laws?” Now going out on the street seems super dangerous, not that I would be under threat, but it doesnʼt change the fact that the streets seem to have this aspect of danger.

”We have laws, but they are much more lenient based on the hierarchy, for example, if a noble demon decided to capture another demon from the street and use him as a lab rat, there would be no problem as long as he didnʼt exceed the limits by capturing a large amount.”

What Elena says makes me think that the demonic society is extremely chaotic, but if it still exists, it means that somehow they really manage to make this ideology work.

”In the future, we will give Your Majesty classes on our culture.”

”Wait, since you said the society functions with the law of the strongest, that means even if I kill other demons or even noble demons, nothing will happen to me?”

”Correct, Your Majesty is our king, the absolute top of the demons, for most demons it would be an honor if Your Majesty decided to spend your time to kill them personally.”