"Great, so it's all because some idiot doesn't know how magic works," Mao replies, his tone peppered with sarcasm. He has nothing against royalty--two of his closest friends are King and Queen, and he's the Overlord, after all--but those he terms idiots bring out the worst in him.

"So what was the request, anyway? Was it to bring somebody back from the dead? Those don't usually work." Saying this, he hacks at the vegetation covering the cottage, then roughly kicks down the door, which breaks off from the force and falls to the ground with a loud THUD.