Chapter 44: Servant Cedric (10). Image Rehabilitation: Territory Edition
When word spread that Claudia had driven out the acting lord and taken over the manor, the citizens of Eched were united in a single response—sheer terror.
“Claudia? You mean that notorious villainess?”
“I heard she beat her servants for the slightest mistake and hurled insults constantly. No one lasted a full year under her.”
“She never even left her villa before. What’s she doing getting involved with governing?”
“Maybe she’s going to jack up taxes and squeeze every last coin out of us!”
“Or feed unruly citizens to her magical beasts!”
“Hey, hey! Keep your voices down! What if someone hears you?”
Claudia’s name was infamous in Eched.
Though she’d never wreaked havoc throughout the territory herself, the servants who’d fled her mansion in terror had spread horror stories far and wide.
As with all rumors, half were exaggerated or distorted—but the other half were firsthand accounts, making it hard to call them baseless.
So the citizens trembled, wondering what kind of hell Claudia was about to unleash.
And yet... Claudia utterly ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) betrayed those expectations—in the best possible way.