Reincarnated Maid is About To Be Captured by All Players

What is the longest-lived race on Lemoria Continent?

The answer isn't absolutely unified.

Among races that players can portray, it's the elven species, though no player can enjoy the elves' longevity trait.

Undead species can also be considered long-lived in terms of racial characteristics, but no one wants to become undead.

Other than those are creatures whose populations aren't as large as the main races. The most representative are dragons. It's said the ancient dragon kings who witnessed the [Demon Lord] still live in this world.

Phoenix is also a long-lived race, but their lives strictly speaking have a [Nirvana] step, making it quite debatable whether they count as immortal species.

Then, there's a special group on the continent whose race is difficult to discern, yet they possess youthful appearances and have experienced Lemoria Continent's changes since the [Demon Lord]'s sealing.

The world calls them witches, their ageless, deathless appearances inspiring fear.

Outwardly, there's no significant difference from young human women. The only distinction is special markings on their bodies. They dislike noisy cities and despise communicating with any race, thus choosing solitary, secluded lives.

Early on, the Church suspected witches were mixed-blood offspring of the [Demon Lord]'s blood and humans. Later, the exceptionally well-behaved witches were gradually considered by the Church as not worth specifically targeting. Otherwise, how could Anna's identity as a witch's daughter allow her to live peacefully? In any case, information about witches is extremely scarce, and there are almost no quests involving witches.

In Enrique's memory, when Anastasia's character background was made public, the "witch's daughter" in her background information was the most widespread appearance of witches in the general player community's view. At that time, some players even posted asking what witches were, showing witches' thin presence.

Originally, Enrique wasn't particularly focused on game lore, but due to certain factors, Enrique hoped to find witches.

Unfortunately, when Anna's character background was released, some lore enthusiasts once thought officials were starting to fill the big plot hole of witches, but afterward there was no other news about witches.

What are other players' reasons for pursuing Anna? Nothing more than beauty. However, Enrique's core reason was that she's the most likely medium for contacting witches.

Legend says witches dwell in the unreachable [Hidden Realm], a place full of mysteries without precise coordinates that cannot be found no matter how much manpower is deployed.

Anastasia might be able to find the entrance to the [Hidden Realm].

In the reception hall of Ende Barony's castle, Enrique took a sip of the red tea served by a maid.

Although Ende Barony's temporary lord, Christiana, holds audiences with adventurers in the afternoon, his status as Grand Councilman of the Watertown Merchant Association was sufficient as a key to entry.

Even Christiana's father, Count Montefeltro himself, upon learning that the second-in-command of the Kingdom of Michel's largest adventurer merchant association had personally come calling, would surely appear in person.

Sure enough, within five minutes of waiting, the chestnut-haired beautiful girl arrived at the reception hall.

"Pleased to meet you, honorable Lady Christiana Montefeltro."

Enrique set down his teacup and said with a smile.

"I am Grand Councilman Enrique of the Watertown Merchant Association."

"...Pleased to meet you. What an unusual visitor."

Christiana nodded in return. Enrique's charm value wasn't low. His proper attire and remarkable speech were both positive points. If not for Anna's morning warning, Christiana absolutely wouldn't display a cold expression toward such a man.

Despite this, Enrique still elegantly praised Christiana's beauty. Christiana had to remind herself internally to strengthen her vigilance.

"It seems Mr. Enrique's tongue is skilled at pleasing ladies, but let's end the pleasantries here. Mr. Enrique's purpose in visiting Ende, I imagine it's certainly not for bandit subjugation, such trivial tasks that wouldn't warrant Mr. Enrique making the trip personally?"

"Since Lady Christiana is so direct, I'll be frank about my request as well. I hope Lady Christiana will show mercy and allow me to meet... Anastasia."

Christiana's expression didn't change.

"Mr. Enrique, what do you mean by this?"

"From what I understand, Anastasia, the accomplice of the criminal Amaryllis whom Duke Borgia recently put a bounty on, is temporarily staying within Lady Christiana's territory."

"Oh... what remarkable rumors. Mr. Enrique's words implicate the Watertown Merchant Association's reputation. Is it really wise to believe groundless gossip?"

"This isn't gossip. An adventurer who comprehends heaven's will calculated Anastasia's location through the arrangement of stars."

Enrique used his financial power to monopolize information sources. Currently, no one knows Enrique's true purpose for coming to Ende. With all attention in Duke Obi's territory focused on searching for Amaryllis, no one would care about Enrique's movements.

Christiana showed no retreat on this matter.

"[Astrology]? If mere words from such charlatans qualify for suspecting or even searching noble territories, nobles would lose all face."

Unless it's Lv. Max Astrology, even astrologers themselves can't determine the accuracy of astrological predictions, only estimate based on the probabilities described in skill descriptions.

However, Enrique had conducted investigations. In the few days before Anastasia opened her affection system, Christiana had multiple contacts with Anna, so Enrique was certain that Ende Barony had the highest probability of hiding Anna. Read complete versıon only at novel(ꜰ)ire.net

"You misunderstand, Lady Christiana. I actually... came to help Anastasia escape her predicament."