Soran's servants!

Chaos spread quickly.

Fights immediately erupted all around Gurumba Arena. The demon goblins could no longer salvage the situation; without their Demon Lord's leadership, their own ranks had descended into disarray. The dramatic changes came so swiftly that, by the time Soran withdrew from the chaotic battlefield and returned to Magma Tavern, another scene unfolded before him.

"Master!"

The succubus proprietress, with her bewitching face and the marks of a slave collar on her fair neck, lit up the instant she saw Soran. She hurried over and prostrated herself at his feet, lowering her head to kiss his toes as she spoke urgently. "Mighty Headhunter Soran!"

"Your humble Renaliss wishes to serve you as her master! With the River Styx as my witness, I pledge everything I have to you!"

"Please allow me to become your servant, along with these girls."

Behind the graceful, alluring proprietress, five succubus tavern maids also knelt and kissed Soran's toes, swearing in the name of the River Styx to serve him as their master. But the proprietress had slipped a little trick into her wording: she had originally been a slave, yet in swearing to serve Soran, she had made herself a servant.

Servants and slaves were two very different things!

A clever succubus.

In The Abyss, succubi were valuable commodities. At the very least, these succubus slaves were assets worth fighting over for any high-tier demon. The chaos outside had already allowed the clever proprietress to piece everything together. Under these circumstances, succubi without sufficient strength could hardly protect themselves. Only a powerful master could keep them safe. Soran, who had been staying at Magma Tavern all this time, was naturally one of her candidates. Besides, only yesterday, Demon Lord Miamide Disaster Coin had tried to force him into a trade for a