Gathering Wives with a System

Even so, none of them had voiced a single complaint since he arrived, and they continued carrying out their duties with their usual professionalism.

”It’s no problem, Master. The children are listening to us nicely,” Celeste said with her calm expression still intact.

Isaac nodded as he looked at her face more carefully. The dark circles beneath her eyes made it obvious she was stretching the truth, but he also understood why she answered that way.

Saying the work was too difficult would be the same as admitting they weren’t capable of handling the task, and Celeste would never willingly say something like that. Knowing this, Isaac simply let the matter rest.

”Master,” Celeste called after a brief silence. Isaac turned toward her and waited for her to continue.

”Yes?” he asked.

”Could you provide us with some more rations? The food we have won’t last much longer.” Celeste said carefully.

Isaac frowned slightly, confused by the request. Without another word, Celeste handed him a neatly organized report containing the current food stock inside the mansion along with the amount consumed since the Happy Bunnies had appeared. He lowered his eyes to the document and began reading through the numbers.

A moment later, Isaac was completely stunned. The Happy Bunnies had consumed nearly half of everything his farms produced in a single day, and that figure was far more shocking than he had expected. His farms were enormous, and with his farming abilities, the amount of food he harvested every day was already considered outrageous by normal standards.

He slowly massaged his brows before looking back at Celeste.

”I’ll have Selene transfer all the spare food from our warehouse over here,” he said after thinking for a moment. ”Do you think they’ll continue eating this much, or are they only consuming so much because they’re rapidly growing into the strength expected of their rank?”

”Normally, it would be the former. But I’m honestly not sure in their case. We’re still observing them, so I can’t say with confidence whether their appetite will stabilize or remain at this level,” Celeste replied.

Isaac nodded thoughtfully as he considered her answer. A food shortage would be disastrous for most Lords, but his situation was different. His greatest strength had always been farming, and with the vast amount of land inside the Soulbind Pendant, increasing food production was much easier than limiting the number of Happy Bunnies.

The more he thought about it, the clearer his decision became. An army of Overlord-ranked Happy Bunnies was simply too valuable to give up because of food consumption alone. If feeding them required expanding his farms several times over, then that was exactly what he would do.

After making up his mind, Isaac sent several of his clones deeper into the Soulbind Pendant to begin cultivating new farmland immediately. With enough ’workers’ and enough land, increasing production was only a matter of time.

Once that matter had been settled, Isaac returned to the mansion and took a seat in the living room. Through his clones, he called all of his wives to gather for a meeting. Unsurprisingly, one person failed to appear.

Celia was nowhere to be seen. Isaac smiled coldly, knowing why the devil was missing. That chaos gremlin had clearly figured out he knew she was responsible for spreading rumors about his cooking, so she had wisely decided to stay out of his sight for the time being.

A few minutes later, the others entered the living room one after another. Selene arrived while wiping her damp hair with a towel, suggesting she had only recently finished bathing. She looked around briefly before turning her attention toward Isaac.

”Isaac, you called us?” she asked.

”Yes. I wanted to discuss the rewards I received from the Conqueror Trial. Since I’m planning to distribute them among all of you, I think we should decide together who gets what,” Isaac replied.