The correct way to open the magical girl

"Of course! It's getting late, you should go back and rest first. Don't tell anyone else about this for now." Li Xuan said while rubbing her head.

"Well! Xiaorou won't tell anyone!" Xu Rou ran back to the dormitory happily. Judging from her appearance, she probably won't be able to sleep tonight.

The next morning, Li Xuan gathered the witches and several monster girls who had made contributions together to discuss the aftermath.

Although Hanukaki has been defeated, there is still a lot to do next:

The hundreds of thousands of monsters and thousands of humans stranded in the illusory evil land need to consider their whereabouts, the four magical girls who have not yet fallen into evil need to be dealt with, and the power structure and resources of the Lost Land need to be redistributed.

Of course, there is one very important thing: Ishigaki Chihime has not been caught yet, and Li Sijie, who is hiding behind her and causing trouble, has not even shown up.

Li Xuan weighed the priorities and discussed with the witches, and decided to make arrangements for the humans stranded in the arena first: after all, humans are not monsters, they need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and it is very expensive to keep them in the illusory evil land, and staying in such a dark place is not a long-term solution.

"Filia, how many humans were captured this time?" Li Xuan asked.

"More than 4,000, less than 5,000."

"Less than 5,000, which is about the level of a small town... How about reclaiming an area in the Lost Land specifically for them to live in?" Li Xuan asked.

“Finding a suitable place for farming is not difficult, but safety is a concern…”

"I think Perol and the little fox will ensure your safety. After all, you two like to eat the vegetables they grow, right?" Li Xuan turned and looked at the two of them.

"I really want to eat it!" The eyes of the two distinguished war generals lit up. If they had known that humans could produce those delicious "green leaves" from the ground, they would have probably marked out a piece of land for humans to grow them specifically.

"My plan is to build a black crystal research institute in the human settlement. Tang Xi will select some smart humans to serve as assistants. Black crystal is useless to humans, so there will be no behavior of embezzlement. The settlement must be completely isolated from the outside world to prevent monsters from harming humans and to prevent humans from escaping." Li Xuan said.

"Master, let's draw a line at the border between the Spider Tribe and the Fox Tribe. This place is deep inland, which makes it easy to protect and isolate. There are also several crystal mines around it, so transportation is also convenient." Wang Li took out a map and suggested.

"That's right, let's do as the little fox said - the next issue is the monsters returning to the Lost Land. The monsters can't stay here forever, but the forces in the Lost Land have been reshuffled, so it is necessary to consider rebuilding a management system." Li Xuan said, his eyes fell on the monster girls.

As captives, Reija and Perol were obviously not qualified to attend the meeting, so the matter fell on the warmasters of the spider, wolf and fox tribes.

"Needless to say? Although we conquered the Lost Land, without the benefactor's arrangement, we would not have been able to defeat the S-rank magical girl. Therefore, the benefactor should be crowned as the war commander among war commanders, the king among kings, and rule this land forever." Peroxia said without hesitation.

"The master originally crowned the 'King of Black' once, but at that time it was just a whim of a few witches, and it was a bit like playing house. This time the master won a big victory, and our power has grown a lot, so it's not too much to have a formal coronation!" Wu Yan said excitedly.

The witches also responded to Wu Yan's call. Seeing that both sides agreed, Li Xuan did not try to be humble like "You really made me suffer!" and immediately asked Wang Li to make a crown and hold a coronation ceremony to celebrate the victory.

After this matter was finalized, Li Xuan took the map of the Lost Land and projected it into the air using a hunting radar for everyone to see.

"Although I was crowned the King of the Lost Land, this land is not our final destination, and I will not stay here forever. So I considered that we still need to rebuild a management structure - of course, it cannot be as loose as before. The Lost Land must have a strong central organization to fully mobilize the power here." Li Xuan said seriously.

"Master, do you mean to abolish the original territories divided by race?" Wang Li asked.

"That's right, little fox. Besides the three of you, how many Warmasters are left in the Lost Lands?"

"The Minotaur King switched sides and became our ally; the Centaur King is still alive and is now our prisoner. The Mad Axe King is dead, and most of their people have been killed. Their territory can be crossed out from the map." Wang Li replied.

Chapter 395 Coronation Ceremony

"Okay, I've got some idea in mind. I'll announce it at the coronation ceremony. Please ask Qimo and Miss Lilika to assist with the specific arrangements," Li Xuan announced.

After three days of preparation, the human reservation had been marked out. Perosha stationed loyal wolf troops around the area, strictly forbidding any other monsters from approaching. The witches also opened the portal, gradually teleporting humans and monsters through.

The relocation work took about a week, and the coronation ceremony officially began the next day when the last monster returned to the Lost Land.

In addition to the original seven major tribes, the Lost Lands actually had many smaller races of monsters. Under Wang Li's arrangement, each race sent a delegation to attend the meeting, and the human side also symbolically sent a few representatives to participate in the ceremony under the escort of wolf guards.

In the end, there were thousands of monsters participating in the coronation ceremony. In order to please the new king, most tribes sent gifts that they could afford, most of which were magic props made by Black Crystal.

Although these were of little use to Li Xuan, they were still a token of his appreciation. Li Xuan instructed Lilika's men to prepare gifts and take out the stored food and vegetables to entertain the guests as a token of his gratitude.

Two hours before the coronation ceremony officially began, Wang Li suddenly found Li Xuan in a panic and said that someone had placed a dress on the pre-prepared throne. Despite the tight security, no guard noticed anyone coming in, and a subsequent search was able to find out who placed the dress there.

Li Xuan curiously went to the throne to take a look. It was a formal dress that looked quite impressive. At first glance, it resembled the imperial robe, but the design had been modified to resemble modern clothing. The base was also black, and the embroidery depicted a black dragon gnawing at a tree. Upon closer inspection, it seemed somewhat terrifying.

Li Xuan touched the robe of the dress. The fabric felt very good, the lining was made of a very close-fitting and comfortable material, and the embroidery was also very delicate.

"This is a gift from Li Sijie. She knows about my coronation." Li Xuan asserted.

"Is this the evil woman who hung me up? Master, you must be careful. This must be her conspiracy. You must not wear this dress." Wang Li said worriedly.

"This is a gift she specially gave me. How can I let this kindness go to waste?" Li Xuan smiled and put on the clothes nonchalantly - as expected, it fits him very well. Maybe Li Sijie secretly measured her own size when they were in close contact.

"Keep the robe and put it on me during the coronation. Also, increase vigilance and arrest suspicious people on the spot." Li Xuan ordered.

Two hours later, Li Xuan was crowned king amidst a roar of applause. Perosha held the crown, and Wang Li carried the black robe, which he put on. Seeing the two great commanders of the Lost Lands show such respect to him, some representatives who didn't know Li Xuan yet finally understood his status.

"Congratulations on the coronation of the new king! The world belongs to the Black King!" Tang Xi shouted enthusiastically.

"Congratulations on the coronation of the new king! The world belongs to the Black King!" The monster representatives and witches also shouted in unison.

The witch band played an exciting piece of music at the right time. Li Xuan walked to the front of the stage, arms open, accepting the cheers of the crowd. After the music subsided slightly, Li Xuan called the commanders of all the monsters to the throne and divided the war generals according to the agreed plan.

"Everyone, now that I am the king, I must establish a cabinet to help rule the Lost Land. Next, I will announce the list of cabinet members. Those whose names are called, please come forward to be appointed!" After Li Xuan finished speaking, Qi Mo handed him the list that had been prepared in advance.

Although they didn't know what the cabinet meant, the monsters could tell that the power in the Lost Land was going to be reshuffled. The previous situation of many kings coexisting had completely become history, and this so-called "cabinet" was the actual ruler.

"Perosha, you have made great contributions in the battle against the S-class magical girls. I appoint you as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. In the Lost Land, you are second only to the emperor and above everyone else. When I am not around, all matters, big or small, will be decided by you." Li Xuan announced.

"Thank you, Lord Black King, for your grace~" Perosha knelt on one knee, and Lilika, who was standing beside her, immediately handed her a black crystal slate engraved with her name and position.

The monsters were in an uproar. To be the representatives, they were naturally leaders within their respective tribes, possessing high intelligence. They could hear Li Xuan giving Perosha an extremely high status. It could even be said that he had simply handed over the rule of the Lost Land to her, leaving Li Xuan as a hands-off manager, not caring about the actual affairs.

"Tauren Warmaster! Although you fought against the coalition forces, in consideration of your final surrender, I appoint you as a cabinet minister to assist Perosha in managing the Lost Lands..."

Li Xuan then took out twelve stone tablets and appointed twelve cabinet ministers. The Minotaur tribe naturally had to take a seat, and to allow Perosha to more easily check and balance the Minotaur tribe, Li Xuan also appointed a minister to the Centaur tribe.

In addition, the wolf tribe got two seats, the fox tribe got five seats, and the snake tribe got one seat because of its large population. The last two seats were given to two smaller races to represent those miscellaneous small races.

This division of seats was the result of numerous discussions between Li Xuan and the three warlords. Because Wang Li wanted to follow Li Xuan, the Fox Clan was given five seats as compensation. The Wolf and Fox Clan combined held seven seats, already occupying the majority of the cabinet.

As long as these two tribes stood on Peroxia's side, her ruling position would be unshakable. On the other hand, even considering the five important cabinet seats, Peroxia had to take good care of the fox tribe left by Wang Li.

The cabinet assignments have been finalized, and Li Xuan also announced the matter of the Black Crystal Research Institute. The institute has a transcendent and independent status, and the entire Lost Land has the obligation to cooperate with the research work. The resident director is temporarily appointed as Tang Xi - leaving some witches here is also a form of supervision and checks and balances on Perosha.

After these arrangements were announced, the coronation ceremony officially ended, and it was time for a closed-door meeting.

Looking at the team of hundreds of witches and three monster girls, Li Xuan felt that he was no longer that small team with less than two digits in population, and it was urgent to come up with a feasible management system.

"Our team has grown bigger now. If we are still as disorganized as before, there might be some chaos. So I plan to set up a maid system." Li Xuan said with his chin resting on his hands, posing in the classic posture of Ikari Gendō.

"But except for me, no one has been a professional maid, right?" Tan Xiang asked.

"The maids here are not the kind who clean and cook. Maids are warriors, and maid uniforms are combat uniforms." Speaking of maid uniforms, Li Xuan suddenly became excited.

Chapter 396 Maid System

"So the definition of a maid is actually equivalent to our official member. It's reasonable for you to call me Master as a maid." Li Xuan said, taking out the sketch he had drawn and projecting it onto the wall using the hunting radar:

"As you can see, I have temporarily divided the job levels into three levels: the lowest level is the ordinary maid, and the witches and monster girls who have just come in are at this level; the next is the senior maid, who can be appointed by people with certain contributions and qualifications, and can manage ordinary maids in the matters they are responsible for; the highest level is the head maid, who has the power to manage senior maids. Of course, the position of head maid is vacant for the time being, and the decision will be made based on your performance in the future." Li Xuan said.

The witches listened intently, their future positions with Li Xuan at stake. If they could achieve the highest rank, head maid, they would have more opportunities to get closer to Li Xuan. Furthermore, as their business expanded, these positions would surely bring them greater power and benefits in the future.

"Next, I will announce the first batch of senior maids: Xu Rou, Wu Yan, Bing Rui, Fei Liya, Yao, Black Cat, Sha Luoye, Peroxia, Qi Mo, Tan Xiang, Li Lika, Luo Nai, Tang Xi, Wang Li, Ruoye Xingbai."

While Li Xuan was dictating, he asked Lonai to distribute a small black crystal nameplate and a customized maid.

"These clothes were made by me personally, and the words on the nameplate were also written by me and engraved by Miss Wang Li. It is a symbol of being a senior member and also a reward for this military achievement." Li Xuan said with a smile.

The witches happily hugged their reward badges and clothes. They had originally worried about being left out after recruiting over ninety witches at once, but when they saw their names on the list of senior maids, they felt relieved. However, seeing that the position of head maid was still vacant, they couldn't help but feel a little itchy.

"In addition, I would like to announce another decision: the two monster girls, Miss Ruoye Xingbai and Miss Wang Li, will reside permanently in the Evil Land of Falsehood. Please live in harmony with each other and take good care of the two newcomers." Li Xuan continued.

Xingbai, who had been attending the meeting from within a spider puppet, breathed a sigh of relief. She was nominally a captive, and therefore worried about her fate. However, Li Xuan relied heavily on her abilities, and since she had made significant contributions in the war against the S-rank magical girls, he didn't treat her any differently.

After appointing the senior maids, Li Xuan selected a group of monster maids with outstanding looks and abilities from the maid corps and sent them to the Evil Land of Falsehood to work together with the newly joined witches.

Among them, the fox maids are the largest in number, accounting for almost half of the total number of monster girls - this is because the fox maids' service is the most considerate, and it also prevents Wang Li from feeling lonely here.

After making these arrangements, Li Xuan dismissed the meeting and took a few witches to inspect the newly built Black Crystal Research Institute.

The Black Crystal Research Institute is located in the center of the human settlement. The humans who have just arrived here have almost nothing, and all kinds of supplies are placed on the ground, but their faces are filled with happy smiles. Some people are busy building simple houses, while others are turning the soil with makeshift farm tools.

Li Xuan's arrival was warmly welcomed by humans. After asking, Li Xuan found out that it was Lilika who distributed the purchased supplies to them. Although to Li Xuan they were just rice, flour, grain, oil and some instant foods, they were delicacies that these humans who were born in the false and evil land had never eaten before.

Just being able to eat refined rice and white flour every day is enough to make them grateful to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan responded to the humans' welcome when he suddenly heard a prompt from the hunting radar:

[Magical girl detected nearby]

[Distance: 995 meters]

[Detailed information can be displayed after visual lock]

"Magical girl?" Li Xuan was stunned. He should have captured all the magical girls in the Lost Land. How could there still be magical girls in this place?

He followed the scent out of curiosity and found the three Kurokawa sisters cooking in a newly built shed.

Thanks to eating more oily food, the three sisters were no longer as skinny as before, and each of them became a beautiful young woman full of vitality. Although they were still pitifully thin in Li Xuan's eyes, they were already quite pretty.

"Master! You are here~ Thanks to you, we can have such a paradise where we can live freely." When Kurokawa Ai saw Li Xuan, she hurriedly put down the work in her hands and came over.

Just as Li Xuan was about to speak, the system issued a prompt:

[Magical girl locked]

[Name: Kurokawa Ai]

[Magic Level: C]

[Type: Combat System]

【Height: 154cm】

[CUP rank: B]

"Kurokawa, you have become a magical girl?" Li Xuan said in surprise.

Without waiting for Heichuan to answer, Yao behind Li Xuan spoke:

"Let me explain: Before the war, I assigned several wolf guards to protect them. Unexpectedly, some monsters coveted these humans and gathered to attack the vegetable garden. The wolf guards were outnumbered and couldn't stop them. Seeing that his family was about to be harmed, Kurokawa suddenly gained the power of a magical girl and used his transformation to protect his family."

"Interesting, but it's a pity that I didn't get to see Miss Kurokawa's transformation in person." Li Xuan stared at Kurokawa for a while and said, "Miss Kurokawa, are you willing to continue to be my maid?"

"Of course I do. Everything I have is given by my master. It is my honor to be your maid." Kurokawa Ai said without hesitation.

Li Xuan nodded. Although Kurokawa Ai is a magical girl, she doesn't seem to be hostile to a monster like him. It seems that the hostility of magical girls towards monsters is not determined from the beginning, but ultimately depends on their experience and cognition.

"Very good, Yao, when we go back, we will send these three sisters to the evil land of falsehood and grant them the status of maids." Li Xuan said, stroking Heichuan's head.

At this moment, Tang Xi suddenly sent a message through the consciousness channel: "Master! Miss Wang Li is here. She is anxious to see you and has something to report."

"Open the portal and let her come over."

Not long after, Wang Li jumped out of a pitch-black portal. As soon as she saw Li Xuan, she said in a panic, "Oh no, benefactor, I lost my sword!"

Li Xuan looked at Wang Li's waist: there was only an empty scabbard, and the sword that could cut gold and jade was nowhere to be seen.

"Sit down and tell me slowly, what happened?" Li Xuan asked.

Wang Li sat on a couch made of wooden boards, panting, and said, "I never leave my sword, but recently I have been trying to forge various materials in order to make weapons for my benefactor. The sword is placed next to me when I work, and there are maids guarding it, so there are absolutely no outsiders.

But after I forged a sample, I turned around and found that the sword was missing. The maid who was looking at the sword was tied to the scabbard. I untied her and asked her about it, but she said that she had been staring at the sword and didn't know why it was suddenly tied up.

Chapter 397: Long-lost Greetings

"Is it professional?" Li Xuan asked.

"Very professional, looks cool, and the body lines are very prominent." Wang Li replied.

"Needless to say, it's the same guy who kidnapped you. Didn't she leave any other information at the scene?"

"No, after the incident, I hurried to find Perosha and found that her knife was also lost. That guy doesn't usually carry a knife, so I don't know when it was lost. I asked other warlords, and they all said that since the gathering in Thunder Bluff, the token of their tribe was lost in the chaos." Wang Li continued.

Li Xuan remembered that when he went to capture Ruo Ye Xingbai, she also planned to take something out of the space warehouse, but she didn't find it. Now she thinks that maybe her token had been lost at that time.

"Master, that woman is obviously collecting the tokens of the seven war generals. I think she has big plans, so we must be on guard!" Wang Li said worriedly.

"What is this guy doing again... Little fox, are there any special features of these tokens besides the performance of the weapons themselves and their symbolic meaning?" Li Xuan asked, rubbing his head.

"I don't know. After the Lost Land was isolated from the outside world, many things became unclear. I was still young at that time, and my father didn't tell me anything. Perosha's grandmother may know something, but she has passed away." Wang Li replied.

"Speaking of old friends - isn't there an older one?" Li Xuan said, contacting Lilika who was staying in the illusory evil land, and asked her to send Ruoye Xingbai who was trying to build a network over.

"Miss Xingbai, how much do you know about the War Marshal's token?" Li Xuan asked straight to the point.

"This is a complicated story. We have to start from before the Lost Land was isolated." Xingbai said while sticking his head out of the spider puppet.

"Could you please be as brief as possible?"

"Of course, I don't like to be long-winded. To put it simply: a great war broke out here thirty years ago. The cause was the discovery of a powerful monster's egg. The magical girls wanted to destroy it, while the monsters wanted to protect it. The war was extremely bloody, with heavy casualties on both sides. The Lost Land was turned into ruins at that time, and nearly two-thirds of the population also died in the war." Xingbai narrated.

"It turns out the battle was so brutal! My father told me it was very vague, and I thought it was just an ordinary war!" Wang Li said in surprise.

"The main force fighting against the magical girls at the time was the wolf tribe. They called on many friends to help, including Miss Wang Li's fox tribe. As a local native, I naturally participated in the war."