Combat Maid Harem

“Just be patient. It will be your time one day,” Lawrend replied.

“I understand, Master,” Ella replied.

“I will check on the others,” Lawrend said and left the room.

And so, Lawrend entered each of his maid’s rooms and confirmed that they liked their new rooms. He was happy that they were happy, and he headed to his own room.

Once Lawrend was inside, he was greeted by a huge space with a grandiose bed in the center. It was red and had gold on some parts. It was tamer compared to the bed he slept in the brave minister’s mansion.

“Nice.”

Lawrend was satisfied and sat on his bed. He crossed his legs together and closed his eyes.

It was finally time for him to improve his soul magic. He would try to find out if the world could actually take away his magic or not.

Lawrend entered inside his mind and looked down at his soul body. It was the same as before because he had already fixed the damage caused by the Goddess.

“Goddess, I will fight back,” Lawrend said to himself.

He flipped his hands over, with his palms facing up. A ring of elements appeared in front of him. It was facing forward with the various colors flashing about in a slow rotation.

In the center was a distorted image. It was similar to a phenomenon caused by gravitational lensing where giant heavenly objects distort light. This effect was caused by his space magic.

“I need to connect them somehow,” Lawrend muttered.

“Master, do you want my help?” Valentina said as she appeared to his right.

She wore her maid uniform and looked as beautiful as ever with her chestnut-colored hair.

“Tell me everything you know about plant magic,” Lawrend replied.

“Sure thing, Master.”

Valentina discussed her high understanding of plant magic with Lawrend. He listened intently and asked her questions on parts he couldn’t understand well. After several hours of back and forth, he understood the majority of her knowledge in plant magic.

It was fast because this discussion happened inside his mind. If it was outside, opening her mouth would extend this discussion to several days. And not only that, but it was also accelerated because Lawrend understood a lot about magic already.

There were major differences in magic because of their different properties, but Lawrend could tell the connection between them because he had three elements in his fleshly body.

“Impressive. You made me understand more too, Master,” Valentina said with a surprised smile on her face.

Lawrend humbled her by demonstrating his monstrous learning capabilities to her. Well, it was all thanks to his powerful soul. It would’ve taken him a lot longer if this was in his previous life.

“Your explanations were straight to the point. It helped a lot,” Lawrend earnestly replied.

A good teacher will sow a good student. Lawrend understood this fact very clearly. He wasn’t conceited to think the results were only because of his effort.

“Thank you. My mind feels clearer after you collected my soul shards together and even better once I improved in my soul magic. It was like I was opening my eyes to the deep mysteries of magic,” Valentina replied with an intoxicated look on her face.

As someone who had reached Heaven Mage before, she was very interested in magic. Something like soul magic was very fascinating for her.

“‘Opening your eyes to the deep mysteries of magic’… Maybe that was why the Goddess tried to stop me,” Lawrend said.

“I feel like that was the case too, Master. She’s evil beyond our imagination,” Valentina said with deep, seething anger hidden within her calm voice.

Her hatred was fueled by the fall of her civilization caused by the Goddess. It was her lifelong goal to take revenge. It was one of Lawrend’s promises to her.

“Okay. Let’s stop talking about her. I will practice my soul magic more,” Lawrend replied.

“Yes, Master. I will watch your surroundings while you do so,” Valentina replied, and she disappeared from within his mind.

Lawrend stared at the empty blank space inside his body. He took a deep breath even though there was no need. Nevertheless, it calmed him down. It was time for him to get serious.

“Space magic as the base. Earth magic held in space. Water held by the earth. Plants grown with earth, water, and light. Fire fed by plants. Wrong…”

Lawrend tried to connect the elements together, but the sequence wasn’t right. He stopped and thought about the uniqueness of each element once more.

​ A few days passed without Lawrend realizing it. Valentina informed his maids when they entered his room with worry. His maids didn’t want a repeat of what happened last time.

These few days had been peaceful for Lawrend. He tried dozens, if not hundreds, of unique sequences of the elements. Some of them were weird and uncommon, but he still tried for the sake of it.

For example, he tried using space to make his plant magic stronger. Naturally, it didn’t work. But the more he did this type of weird stuff, the more he understood the difference between the elements.

Soon, he was able to connect water and wind together. It was a great success for him.

Winds exist because of a difference in pressure between two locations. And pressure exists because of the water vapor in the air when it expands. It was a hard to understand concept, but Lawrend remembered a fragment of his memory when he was still in school.

It was the water cycle, and it gave Lawrend a huge lead.

“Fire too..!”

Heat makes water evaporate, and the hot air rises to the sky as the sunlight heats up the earth. This then pulled the cold air from the surroundings and created wind.

The more Lawrend thought about it in this way, the more amazed he was at the connections of the various elements.

“And Lightning!”

When water evaporates, it creates a difference in electrical charges between the ground and the clouds. This would then be released in a single lightning bolt.