Day after day played out slowly, and my businesses started to grow. Not many watched as my low-end brothels started to fill all corners of the Capital city. In fact, many did not even know that I was the one who owned them. I began to branch out using these facilities as warehouses and congregation centers. I would use false identities to purchase places and renovate them to my standards.
Slowly, more normal people began to be my employees, and I found myself becoming increasingly popular in the Demon Lands.
Not me personally, but my businesses. It started to branch out, and competitors started to show up, but it never made quite the same mark. Many of them thought of these businesses as a place for people to fuck. No security, no services, no cleaning, no banning, nothing. They did nothing for the men or women renting the property and instead let customers do as they wished, which soon brought the law to their door.
This only bolstered the reputations of my businesses, which then grew even faster to the point that I started adopting a franchising model. Things were getting tough to keep up with, but they were much more hands-off model businesses. Still, these businesses were not my focus after the sixth, and I delegated many of those responsibilities to Freya, Stacy, and Hilda.
What I focused on was the new general and alchemy stores. They were much harder to push into, and I found my time increasingly focused on these businesses. They did not move forward well. Every time I felt like they were moving forward, something would happen, and I would suffer a reputation issue.
It was annoying, it was painful, and I increasingly felt like I was being targeted over the days.
I had no proof of it, though.
Then there was the slow and even more painfully slow buildup of an underground group here in the Capital city. It was harsh, it was slow, and nothing I did seemed to move forward. At least initially, as I found that many of the people that I would want to recruit were taken.
By Carl.
Carl seemed to have a solid base in this city, and I hated it.
I would have to eliminate Carl at some point, but I found it hard to find him except when we did deals.
Day after day, I strove forward, doing more and more, hiring, firing, building, playing, finding new clients, and never resting as I strove forward. My days of rest will come when I finish here in the Demon lands.
Days turned into weeks, weeks into months, months into years as I continued to build and I found myself reaching twenty-one in this world and found that I had built a small business empire here in the Demon Lands. Gold flowed in and out like the tide, and the Pirates were becoming a scourge to the Capital city.
Plundering and moving around seemed to happen all over, and things were not good. Gold from them flowed in, and my businesses sold the product and gathered the things the Lich wanted. At this point, after years of being in the Demon lands, I no longer needed Carl as much to sell a majority of the items to fence. My general store and Alchemy store were not selling all of it quickly, but before the next shipment from the undead pirates came in, I would be able to sell a lot of it.
I would discount it, but not too much, and then gather a bunch of Alchemy ingredients from my store. It was a perfect cover for everything, and I used those businesses to launder the money made through my thriving rental areas for prostitution.
With all of this going on, my days inside my high-end brothel were much different. After years of training, Freya reached the peak of C rank, and Stacy reached a high-end C rank. Kara was a little expert at growing to have just reached the C rank. Her power was growing quickly after a few years, whereas my other slaves were still looking for enlightenment. My cute little tigers also grew into the family and started to participate more while playing. They happily knew that I owned them and they would not hurt them, but they also took up an important job.
Protection.
They walked around my business, and only B-rankers and higher could even detect them. They were my little sentries roaming the city and reporting to me anything that I told them to look out for in my businesses. They were really cute as they did my bidding, and Hilda, my new pain slave, was striving to do more for me.
After bringing her back, I paid much less attention to her, and she became like a woman dying of dehydration. Desperate to please me, I would play with me whenever she did something useful for me, and I began to enjoy tormenting her by making my play with her scarce. Her body needed me now, and she sought me like a drug and training to be stronger for me, so as to make me happy and play with her more often.
Things were going well for me.
Too well.
I knew things, and I felt it; I felt my skin buzzing, and I knew this feeling.
Memories of my previous world hit me, and I felt a storm on the horizon.
Something was coming because I knew, the time you should keep your defenses up the most is when everything is going good.
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Hey Everyone,
It seems that the weeks have been passing by quickly, and I have had full work weeks. Sorry for the delays. Double release this week to make up for last week. I hope you all enjoy!
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