This new raid is making me wonder if the devs got offended by some players refusing to engage with harem building mechanics. Is there really no avoiding building a personal army if you want to take out the servants? Even tried using a converted reaper against them but it just got shat on instantly.
EDIT: After some more experimentation, it seems Death does pretty well against the servants, IF you stack sufficient attack boosting meals. So, while it's possible to avoid building a harem army to fight against the servants, there's no avoiding wiping out the local cow population for those juicy 100 steak sets.
This leads me to believe the "intended" way to clear this raid goes something like: 1st raid kill death with a chainsaw or something (autoattack + perfect blocking works surprisingly well too) > tame death! (even if it's "dead" it just randomly revives in your inventory) > farm cows and get 100 steak sets > 2nd raid solo enemy death again while your death kills enemy servants. From this point on you can just keep capturing and taming more of them to speed up your soul farming.