"Because they have to form a formation.", Miss. Klein explained. "To be honest a lot of things aren"t as comfortable here as back home. Things here are solved with a formation instead of crystal technology. That"s because n.o.body who can cultivate would want to waste their time on such stuff."When she said the last sentence there was understanding as well as sadness in her voice. It seemed like she understood this way of thinking but wasn"t all that happy about it. Or she had experienced something bad because of it.
The two guys were surprised. They had expected that with their power, the cultivators in this realm would be able to drastically improve the living standard. But now they had to find out that it was even lower than in their lower realm.
"Then the reason that everything seems so primitive is...", Ivan started the sentence but didn"t finish it.
"Correct. Here the cultivators don"t care about the commoners. The difference is too large and with their long life spans, they will soon lose contact with the mortal world. So why would they waste time on them? They think their time is better used to improve themselves."
"Wow, this sounds sad."
"Well. To be honest it is also to the benefit of the commoners, or mortals as we call them. You know, even a low ranked cultivator can easily kill hundreds if not thousands of them. In cultivator"s eyes, mortals are nothing more than ants and in the best case a source of new cultivators and resources. So if they aren"t interested in mortals that not only means that they don"t do anything for them but also don"t mess with them."
Meanwhile, they had reached the smaller palaces. They followed their teacher into one of them which had a sign with her name besides its entry. They were greeted by a couple of young women wearing maid uniforms waiting for them.
"Welcome home Master.", they greeted Miss. Klein.
"h.e.l.lo.", she greeted back and waved at them to relax. After the young women had greeted her, a few older ones appeared. They greeted Miss. Klein with a lot more familiarity. Especially one of them.
"What do you think, Master?", she asked. While hugging Miss. Klein. Her actions stood in stark contrast to the way she addressed Miss. Klein.
"h.e.l.lo, Grandma Si", Miss. Klein greeted her. From the address, it was clear that she too felt close to her.
After letting go, she then introduced the other two, "These are my disciples Serge and Ivan. Make sure that they are comfortable and have someone explain everything."
It seemed like she didn"t want to go through the ha.s.sle of explaining the daily stuff to them.
She then turned towards them, "The next three days you can just go around and explore. After that, I will do a special training session until the meeting begins."
She then turned around, "Ah. I"m going to take a long bath. There is nothing better after traveling than taking a bath. I recommend you"ll do so as well."
With these words she left, leaving behind Serge, Ivan, Grandma Si, and the other maids.
Both Serge and Ivan turned towards Grandma Si, fully knowing that she would be responsible for them now.
Grandma Si smiled at them. "It is great to see Master taking in disciples.", she first said before introducing herself in detail, "You can call me Grandma Si and I work as the current housekeeper for Master Klein."
"Clara, Tellia", she then called out two names.
In response two of the young maids came forward and bowed.
"The two of you will serve the Master"s disciples as personal maids, so make sure to take care of all their needs."
"Yes, madam", they called out and once again bowed towards Serge and Ivan.
With just a short look they seemed to have decided on who took care of whom as they both stepped further towards one of them until the stood directly in front of them.
"h.e.l.lo, Master. I"m Clara and I"ll be your personal maid from now on.", the girl in front of Ivan introduced herself. The other girl also introduced herself to Serge who looked confused. This was the first time he had to interact with servants and he didn"t know how to react.
Grandma Si first nodded in satisfaction when she saw how the two maids she had trained managed to select their master without any problem. Then when she saw how Serge looked nervously he couldn"t help but grin.
"Don"t worry if you don"t know how to handle servants. You will get used to it soon.", she told him. "Just follow her to the room and if she offers you something then decide if you want to do it or not. Don"t hesitate to impose your will."
"Impose my will?", Serge asked confused.
"Yes.", she nodded, "I guess you don"t have any experience with servants so you might not know what it means to have a personal maid. Basically she will take care of all your needs and I mean all of them, so you basically can"t do anything wrong."
"Oh.", Serge still felt uncomfortable and didn"t really know what to do.
Ivan wasn"t much better. He hadn"t had much experience with servants either. In fact, the only ones he had met before were Madam Tanner and Susan, both of whom couldn"t really be called cla.s.sic servants like the maids here.
The maids seemed to know what they felt so both of them took steps to make it easier for them. "Master, how about I show you to your room, and after that, I"ll prepare the bath for you to relax from the long journey.", both of them offered.
Serge and Ivan were glad for them to take the initiative, so they both nodded gladly.
Clara led him to a large room which contained a large bed, table, and seating area. One of the walls consisted completely of gla.s.s and opened to a small interior garden, which was beautiful and well cared for. It seemed to be the only room leading to the garden and there was a gla.s.s door providing access to it.
The room only had three other doors. One was the door they had entered through while one was the door towards the bathroom. The last one was much more modest and seemed to nearly vanish in the wall texture. If one didn"t look at it nearly seemed to vanish.
"Master, this will be your personal room from now on.", Clara introduced. "The garden is for your personal usage. You can relax in it and there is also an area reserved to growing herbs. If you spend sect contributions you can also have someone upgrade the s.p.a.ce formations, increasing their size."
"Their size can be increased?", he asked in astonishment. Sure back home in the alliance they also used s.p.a.ce manipulation but it wasn"t that extravagant that they would do so for personal rooms.
"Of course. But it will cost quite a lot.", Clara told him. Although she didn"t directly say it, she still managed to inform him that he would be unable to pay for it anytime soon.
He nodded and she continued with the introduction, "Behind this door is the bathroom.", she pointed at the door which he had already guessed would lead to the bathroom.
"And this is the door to my room.", she then pointed at the last inconspicuous door.
He curiously asked, "Can I take a look?"
"Of, course.", Clara responded, "Remember, I"m your personal maid so everything that I use is technically yours. The same with my body.", she calmly said these words. There was even pride in her voice and eyes when she said them.
"Huh?", he was surprised. He had thought that she was just responsible for serving him. Now it seemed more like she was a slave.
"A personal maid is someone who devotes everything for their master and takes care of all the his needs. In exchange, she will be taken care of and also gains a certain status. For example, now that I"m serving you, my status in this palace is just below Madam Si and whoever becomes Master Klein"s personal maid.", she explained.
"Being a personal maid is a symbol of status for us servants. And it is also the highest we can reach in the sect since we can"t cultivate."
"So it is only about status?"
"Of course not. Just like everything else, there are also benefits.", she smiled at him. "The higher a servant ranking the better the benefits. For example, now that I have become your personal servant I have gotten my own room and I will also get some special pills."
"I thought you can"t cultivate."
"I can"t but there are many types of pills that aren"t for cultivations. For example, a popular pill for servants is these that keep the body young which also allows us to live longer. Besides although I can"t, my sister can and although she hasn"t entered the sect yet, I can get pills for her with my servant points.", Clara patiently explained.
It seemed that just like disciples who could earn Sect Contributions, the servants too could earn points and exchange them for good for either themselves or their family members.