A couple of days later, after Nadia's enslavement, Zarba and his group had continued to travel day and night without stopping until they eventually decided to take a break at the first patch of dry land that they came across after they finally managed to leave the marshland behind them.
Right now they are halfway through the province of Croma to the province of Zenobia in the west. Their travel speed would have been faster if they didn't have to avoid most of the roads that go through towns and villages along the way, which can't be helped since Zarba wants to avoid unnecessary trouble as much as possible after their exposure in the Riverylove.
"Ah, finally some dry land…" Zarba sighed with some relief as he walked down the carriage in a brown linen tunic, black trousers with leather belts, and brown leather boots, with Xin in her usual black gothic dress and brown leather boots following closely behind him with a yawn, and lastly there's Nadia, who was dressed in her bikini armor with most of its armor pieces removed, leaving her quite underdressed as she walked down from the carriage with shame since there are some hickeys visible around her neck, chest, stomach, back, and some unspeakable places, as her disciplinary has gotten even more perverted in these past few days.
She really wants to strangle the two perverts who did the unspeakable this and that to her whenever they pleased in the carriage. She can't even say that she is still pure anymore, despite her virginity still being untouched by them.
'That bastard even made me beg…!' Nadia felt her cheeks turn pink as she remembered how Zarba went down under her…
"I guess this is a good time to summon a new unit, huh?" Clueless about the muscular woman's thoughts, Zarba said as he looked around the clearing that they are currently stopping by to rest from a long ride, as it's also an appropriate time for him to summon the professional maid unit that he recently got to see what she might look like and how skilled she might be.
"Now I'm curious, what did you receive this time, my husband?" Hearing him, Xin became curious as she asked him what new summon he got while walking up next to Zarba before she also looked around the place where the Zar-Bros were now clearing the area and making camp for them.
"Well, this time it is a support unit, you could say." Zarba turned to the beautiful half-elf next to him with a smile. "Our quality of life is going to go up a lot with this unit."
Then, with a dramatic finger snap, Zarba immediately summoned his new summon unit out to the world as the Professional Maid suddenly popped up into existence in her unique blue and white maid uniform with a white headdress on top of her bald head and black pump shoes, with her skin pure white and featureless, just like a mannequin.
The summoned maid was standing straight with her hands placed on her stomach while she waited for Zarba's command silently, just like the other summoned units. The maid is around one hundred seventy centimeters tall and has quite a large pair of breasts on her chest.
"Why does it have those…?" Xin questions with narrowed eyes, as the summon has quite an unnecessarily large pair of breasts on its chest for some reason. She gives Zarba a look before she walks towards the summoned maid and starts to circle around her with judgmental eyes.
"Uh… aesthetic purpose perhaps?" Zarba chuckled, as he also wasn't sure why, but he wasn't going to complain, though. The most important thing to him is now there's a maid that could take care of the chores for them. No more personally cooking, cleaning, or doing laundry by themselves, as they could just leave all of them to the maid!
"Tsk, why you…!" Xin clicked her tongue in annoyance after she suddenly groped the summon's breasts and found them to be unnecessarily soft, just like real ones. She inevitably thinks about her own modest breasts in comparison to the lumps of… whatever these are made of and becomes even more annoyed as she gropes them more roughly, while Zarba just smiles wryly at Xin, who was molesting his summoned maid. He will have to try touching them when the half-elf is not looking, it seems…
On the other hand, Nadia is ignoring the two antics and glancing around with sharp eyes as she looks for an escape route. Her intent to run away is clear as day.
She then spots her greatsword on the back of one of the horses and immediately walks towards it with some hope, and when she grabs her blade, she feels some small relief, but it is short-lived as her body refuses to follow her will to use her greatsword to shallowly cut the magic tattoo on her neck just like Xin explained to her the effect of the enslavement magic tattoo. She now knows for sure that she can't do something about this magic tattoo by herself…
"Damn it…" Nadia bit her lower lip in frustration, as she didn't even try to make a run for it after that since she doubted she actually could…
As the Zar-Bros finished making camp, with the bonfire being lit along with the red and white checker-pattern picnic blankets that were placed around it, Zarba then commanded the Zar-Bros mentally to go stand guard around the campsite before he turned to the summoned maid, who was now being harassed by the half-elf, who was lifting the maid's skirt up as she stared at the maid's bold black lace panties with pursed lips.
"Oh my, what a bold choice of panties. Are you trying to tempt your master with this?" Xin questions with a rising eyebrow at the silent summoned maid before she tries to pull down the maid's panties for some reason…
"Hey, hey, what are you doing…?" Zarba decided to intervene as he went behind the unruly half-elf and made her stop by picking her up like a baby.
"Ahh—put me down~!" Xin protested while kicking her legs playfully as Zarba carried her away from the poor summoned maid, leaving her to stand motionless with her skirt still slightly wrinkled from Xin's unreasonable action.
"Hmph, I'm just inspecting your new summon a little bit," she made a half-hearted excuse with a pout, though her slightly droopy eyes lingered on the summoned maid's chest with a bit of envy.
"You go do the laundry. All the necessary items are also inside the carriage." Zarba ignored Xin's protest and addressed the maid, who immediately straightened her skirt and walked toward the carriage with professional grace. Her bald, featureless head tilted slightly as she assessed the pile of used clothes in the baskets inside—including Nadia's mud-stained armor pieces and the suspiciously damp blankets.
The summoned maid then went to the basket as her hands moved with dexterity, already sorting fabrics by color and stain type despite lacking eyeballs.
Zarba then summoned three more maids and commanded them to prepare lunch using the supplies stored in the carriage. The three graceful figures then moved with high efficiency—one skinning the swarm rabbits Zar-Bros had hunted today, another peeling fruits, while the third arranged cooking utensils and white plates near the bonfire. Their identical forms made quite an orderly scene as they worked with grace and masterfully prepared their lunch.
Nadia watched them from a distance away with curiosity as she saw the summoned constructs work together with perfect coordination; it's quite fascinating to watch. She wondered how Zarba managed to summon them out of thin air with no visible strain from doing so whatsoever.
After lunch is ready, Zarba sits on the picnic blanket next to Xin, who leans against his shoulder while nibbling roasted rabbit meat with a fork in her hand as she grumbles that it is good but lacking love, unlike her husband's cooking. The summoned maids don't care about Xin's comment as they attend to them silently—plates arranged with food, utensils neatly placed on each plate, and cups ready to serve.
On the other hand, Nadia refuses to eat at first, as she is still upset that they made a mess out of her body. She stubbornly crouched by a tree stump with her arms crossed over her chest. But then her stomach growls loud enough to startle a nearby bird, making Zarba chuckle and Xin giggle at her.
"Don't be so childish and come here~," Xin said in a singsong tone, making the tattoo pulse faintly around Nadia's neck. Against her wish, the bikini warrior finds her body marching stiffly to the blanket, seething and embarrassed as her hands obediently pick up a plate.
Zarba enjoyed the lunch with the two women as they ate and made fun of Nadia until they finished. The professional maid units then moved in like the professionals that they are—clearing plates, wiping spills before they stained, and brewing tea with leaves Xin had brought during their stay at the Riverylove.
The summoned maids' graceful but inhumanly precise demeanor made Nadia, who kept glancing at them, feel quite put off by them while she chewed on the apple in her hand.
"Such strange magic puppets," she muttered under her breath, as her body remained obediently seated next to Zarba. Xin, glancing at the muscular woman, merely smirked mysteriously before she leaned closer to whisper something in Zarba's ear that made him chuckle as he glanced at the muscular woman next to him as well.
That doesn't escape Nadia's notice, however, as she knew that they are definitely planning something bad that they are going to do to her later.
'Damn it!' She swore in her mind with a blush...