63: A Loyal Servant
Fanfic or Original
In cultivation worlds, those that kill, steal, attack, or are blessed by heaven to grow stronger are well-know. Well, this is a different protagonist.
Michael Cairn was a typical butler in England in the 2000s. He was a skilled organizer, had some talent at housekeeping, knew fashion and pomp to a solid degree, and had no real ideas of climbing up any ladders. He was a butler, the son of a butler, the son of a driver. His family had been in the service of one great family or another for the last six hundred years in positions ranging from stableboy and gardener, to assassin and castellan. He was a well-trained, versatile, and loyal servant.
Who was killed by a worthless young master.
Oh, not the young master of some other house. No, his last family's young lord was a bloody psychopath who tortured the servants for fun. When Michael had tried to talk to the parents about it, they ignored him, and the young master had killed him for trying.
Slowly.
Thankfully, a lesser god of Butlers had been in the neighborhood, and had seen it happen. Besides exacting fair vengeance on the house (no more servants or similar positions would ever willingly or beneficially work for them ever again, a much more severe punishment than it sounds like), he had reincarnated Michael in a cultivation world (due to the number of morons screwing with souls and the like, it is much easier to slip someone into one of those worlds). Sadly, he was a lesser god, so besides a Boon of Butlery (a high honor, indeed!), there was little he could offer his agent in this world of unfaithful, incompetent butlers. Little, however, didn't mean nothing. In addition to the boon, he gave Michael a gift of a promising physique, a supreme-grade suppression and disguise technique… and a few bits of knowledge. Knowledge like where the best, most worthy family to serve was, how to get the necessary credentials to serve their, a few warnings (mostly vague) of potential future threats… and one little hint about cultivation. Good, strong cultivation is based off merit. The more good you do, and the better you do good, the faster you grow.
Thus armed, Michael starts his journey; but not with dreams of climbing ladders, becoming invincible, or pursuing immortality. No Michael Cairn was going to be the best damned butler that ever lived, and he would teach those idiot young masters what nobility REALLY looked like! His young mistress and family would be the most cultured, strongest, and, most importantly, best-mannered family in the whole UNIVERSE, or he wasn't a butler!