[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi":3,"chapter-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-128":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Lady's Butler: I Reincarnated To Serve The Villainess",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},725509,965,"Chapter 128: A Kingdom At The End Of The World","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-128",128,"\u003Cp>Clearing the village didn’t take long, after all. Even though corruption had taken over, the corrupted humans kept fighting it from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanting nothing more than to be free of the torture of being trapped in their own minds by the corruption, they gladly welcomed their deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither Adrian nor Marion felt particularly remorseful, as they continued forward, towards the kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon enough, a massive wall came into view, on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian observed that it stretched almost endlessly in both directions similar to the one at the frontier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze swept across the walls, spotting the entrances and visible patrol routes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They adapted quickly,\" he finally said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They had no choice,\" Marion replied with a light shrug, \"either build something like this... or get eaten by whatever is out here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Though, they’re just being a bunch of cowards hiding in the pit they dug, waiting for the inevitable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tone was casual, but his eyes lingered on the city longer than necessary and Adrian immediately noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve been here before,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\" Marion tilted his head slightly before chuckling, \"Of course I have. I told you, didn’t I? I was part of the group that discovered this place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not what I meant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marion went quiet for a brief moment, then he let out an easy smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sharp,\" he said, \"yeah... I’ve been back a few times.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on,\" he quickly switched the topic and pointed towards the opposite direction, \"no point standing around. We’ll head to the east gate, it’s less crowded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian continued following, but he had basically confirmed his thoughts... The man before him was hiding something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then again, he saw no reason to find out, after all, they’d part ways the moment he found his lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint shadow, thin as a thread, clung to Marion’s heel, something even the man himself didn’t seem to notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer they got, the more the scale of the wall became apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up close, the wall was both massive and oppressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark stone was stacked upon dark stone, reinforced with what looked like bones from monsters and hardened black resin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strangely though, although Adrian could see large amounts of corrupted mana coming from the wall, it seemed to be reinforcing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cool right?\" Marion muttered with a smile, \"They figured out how to make use of the mana that was corrupting them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, after all, they had a genius amongst them while building this, so the result was to be expected.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the way he said that, it became clear enough that he was talking about himself which Adrian quickly figured out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave no response so Marion had no choice but to continue forward, and soon enough, they reached the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guards standing there had on armor that seemed to have been worn a few too many times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no weapons in hand, but Adrian could tell that they could handle themselves without them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From their mana, he figured that they ranged from B to A ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strangely though, for people that had been in this dungeon for five years, the corrupted mana coming from the was minuscule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Adrian thought it was due to whatever filtration system Marion was talking about, but that thought was discarded when he looked at the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a small frown on his face as he muttered to himself, \"That’s strange, I could’ve sworn they had a lot more corrupted mana within them the last time I was here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah, something else must’ve happened to cleanse them of their corruption and there was only one person Adrian knew was capable of such.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Halt,\" one of the guards suddenly noticed the two approaching, \"state your purpose.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian silently observed the guard with his glasses for a while, trying to search for even the smallest sign of that mana to confirm his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And soon enough, he spotted the littlest bit of it, so he looked back at the guard’s face and calmly responded, \"We’re passing through.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard’s eyes narrowed slightly before his gaze turned toward Marion and he immediately recognized him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss me?\" Marion replied casually, raising a hand in greeting, \"though I must say, you look a lot better than the last time I was here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard neither returned the greeting, nor did he respond to the man’s obvious curiosity, after all, his saying anything would just lead to trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re here to cause trouble—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m here to leave, actually,\" Marion cut him off with a shrug, \"just escorting a guest to your lovely city.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard was silent for a while before turning back to Adrian and calmly observing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You seem new here,\" he said in a tone that wasn’t one of questioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah,\" Adrian nodded, \"I entered a few hours ago... Or maybe it could’ve been an entire day, I’m not quite sure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A day,\" the guard seemed to be in deep thought as he muttered to himself, \"although the timing seems a bit off.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you, by any chance searching for the Saintess,\" he finally asked looking at Adrian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Adrian answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then the Red dragon or maybe the Lightbringer?\" The guard guessed again causing Adrian to look at him with a blank expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell was with that nickname?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew exactly who was being referred to as the Red Dragon, but what had the idiot done in just a few hours to earn himself the nickname?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m searching for my lady,\" he finally said, \"a woman with beautiful white hair, beautiful blue eyes, and a beauty you’d only see once in a lifetime.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard awkwardly looked at him before turning to Marion who just shrugged in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard wasn’t the one who was describing the lady, but he was getting second-hand embarrassment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he cleared his throat and tried thinking of whom the man before him was describing before he finally recalled someone with such features.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, you mean the Ice Empress,\" he spoke up, and he couldn’t help but agree with this man, she truly was a once-in-a-lifetime beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why even their king coveted her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Ice Empress huh?’ Adrian repeated the name in his head with a small smile on his face before nodding, \"That’s her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see,\" the guard nodded before turning around and ordering, \"open the gates.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment after, the massive gates let out a groan as they were pulled open, revealing what lay beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian and Marion walked through the gates and into the city leaving the guard who was looking at their retreating backs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they were fully inside, Marion turned to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome,\" he said softly, his tone strangely unreadable now, \"to the kingdom at the end of the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1140,"2026-06-02T10:56:10.487Z",1,"novelbin.me","aa34b68db5ffcb2aa40cf530f871334f0973474acf53acd45ad7a8ad591605bb","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-129","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-127",146,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-cover.jpg"]