RISE OF EROS

While Andrew and the others discussed the captured spies and how they would act towards their employers, Vala led Shadow's agents to the location of the group to which the two men Andrew had defeated belonged.

Just as Oliver had told them, there were about 30 people and none of them seemed powerful. Vala and the Shadow's agents watched them from the shadows for a while, so as not to make mistakes due to any wrong information.

Fortunately, the information they had obtained from the interrogations was correct. There was no expert or powerful being with the group, at least not more powerful than Vala.

In fact, they seemed like a pretty weak group, since the strongest was the leader and he was only stronger than a common soldier. Besides, he was drunk as were most of his subordinates, so it would be an easy mission.

After observing enough, Vala informed the other agents, "Eliminate everyone except the leader," and the Shadow's agents immediately began moving.

Without this group of drunks noticing, the Shadow's agents sneaked into the place and in seconds moved like ghosts. Whether due to drunkenness or being too weak, these men did not know what happened until they felt the blood gushing from their throats.

There were only about 10 Shadow agents, but with their speed and assassination skills, they slit the throats of all the men except the boss in less than a minute. .net

When the boss realized that his subordinates were being attacked, he ran to draw his sword, but at that moment he felt a strong blow to the back of his head and fell to the ground unconscious.

Vala had knocked him out with a single punch. Seeing the fat bandit leader, she showed a cold look and then addressed the other agents, "Check the place and take everything of value."

Even though Vala had joined them recently, everyone knew that she was one of Candice and Andrew's trusted employees, so they didn't feel any discomfort with her giving the orders, so they quickly ran to check the place.

Although they did not find any slaves or captured people, they did find the safe where they kept their wealth and although there was not much, money was money, so they took it without shame.

After ransacking the place, Vala said again, "Well, our work is done. Let's clean the place." Then everyone began collecting the corpses in one of the dimensional bags that Andrew had given them and cleaning the blood from the floor and walls.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the place was spotless and empty. Vala left with half of the Shadow's agents carrying the found money and the head of the traffickers, while the rest headed to a secluded place to dispose of the bodies.

Everything happened without problems, complications, and above all discreetly. Although the traffickers were not a large group, carrying out an operation like this in such an important city without anyone knowing was not easy, but Vala and the others had done it perfectly.

By the time they returned to Dunnas Palace, Andrew, and the others were still discussing some issues in the office, so Vala ordered the other agents to take the captured boss Traficant to the prison and extract whatever information he could have.

She walked to the office and knocked on the door. When she was allowed entry, everyone smiled when they saw her, as they understood that the operation was a success. "Good job. I assume there was no problem," Andrew said with a smile.

"Other than what Castor dealt with, there were no complications," Vala said, adding, "The head of the traffickers is being questioned right now. No captured people were found at its base, but some gold coins were found".

"Some Shadow agents are still outside disposing of the bodies, the operation was handled with care and discretion," Vala continued. "That's good to hear. Oliver, make sure these agents get their reward," Andrew said, which Oliver only attended.

After that, they continued with the meeting on how to deal with the pleasure houses that already had them in their sights. In the end, since they were still not completely at odds, they decided to just send some agents to investigate.

The proposal also arose to send Lia and the other dancers to those pleasure houses to investigate, since they would go to test the services of the red light district of the city, but in the end, they discarded this idea, since it was very dangerous.

Gathering information from drunk clients in the Heavenly Palace was one thing, but doing so elsewhere was not a skill that Lia and the other dancers had and that would only put them in danger.

Furthermore, since they did not want them to suffer any problems in their market research, Oliver had proposed that when they left they should use Aki's ability because that way they would not know that they left Dunnas Palace.

After defining all these points, the meeting ended and everyone went to dinner. Although it was late, they had not had dinner because of what had happened, so they asked the cooks to prepare food for them and bring it to the office.

After the sumptuous and delicious dinner, Andrew called Sonia to ask how the training of the courtiers was progressing. Even though it had only been a day, Andrew wanted to keep a close eye on this issue, as it was the most important thing for the business.

"Well, the situation has not yet improved, it has only been one-day young master, however, the courtesans have already been instructed on how to train the new courtiers," Sonia reported calmly.

She paused and continued her report, "I established that the courtesans rotate, so that attachment problems do not arise if they only have one partner in this training."

"That is well thought out. I don't want romantic feelings to be aroused, you have to be strict about that," Andrew said and Sonia replied confidently, "Don't worry, young master, I will handle that."

After finishing her report, Sonia left, leaving Andrew and his wives in the office. "Why don't you satisfy yourself with some of the courtesans?", Helena suddenly asked, making Andrew look at her in confusion.

"What do you mean by that?" Andrew asked and Helena explained, "Well, as long as we are pregnant, you can't have sex with us and now that this problem has arisen, your original plan of going out to pick up girls won't be able to happen either, so we discussed it among ourselves and thought that you could take some of the courtesans and satisfy your needs."

Andrew smiled at the proposal and giving his wives a hug he told them, "Well, my plan to go out and pick up girls was with the intention of earning points. The courtesans don't offer me many points, however, if I feel the need I will take your offer."

His wives obviously knew that, but they also knew that Andrew, as a candidate for the god Eros, could not remain in a state of abstinence for long or he could lose control as he once did.

Andrew had no secrets from his wives, so he had told them about that incident and that was why they had made this proposal. While all of this was true, it wasn't so extreme that he couldn't go a few months without sex.

Certainly, he couldn't hold out for half a year, but he had no urgency right now. After some idle conversation, Andrew and the girls went to sleep.

While they slept, different managers and owners of pleasure houses received the news that the spies they had sent to Dunnas Palace had been discovered and began to plan countermeasures.

These pleasure houses were not large organizations, in fact, they were very similar to those surrounding the Cannaris Palace in the empire, which is why they were worried since they now knew that the new competitor was not weak at all.

The spies who had managed to escape immediately notified their bosses that there were at least two experts in Dunnas Palace, as they had seen Castor and since they had also seen Andrew, along with Oliver, they knew him as well.

The bosses of these businesses were sweating with fear, because they did not have any experts in their ranks, so, if Andrew decided to attack them, they would have no chance.

Sensing danger, these cowards immediately did what they did best, look for a sponsor. The red light district of this city was similar to that of the capital of the Cannaris empire.

It was divided into zones and each zone had a leader of sorts, so these pleasure houses reported what they had discovered to the leader of the zone, hoping that he would serve as a shield for them.

Obviously, they had to make concessions, since no one works for free, but between paying for protection and being eliminated without resistance, the answer was simple, so these businesses agreed to pay 20% of their profits to the leader of the area.

The leader of the area was delighted with this deal, but he was not arrogant and immediately sent spies to check the Dunnas Palace. Although she had accepted the job, depending on how the situation was, she would handle things differently.