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City of Desire: Chapter 64 Count Darrow

“Keep calm, be rational as you always are,” said Locke as the carriage moved out of the merchant guild.

Usually, I say these words to Locke, but this time he is saying that to me.

Today is a big day, and I am nervous; for the first time, I am going to the briefing at the city lord's mansion. Usually, it is Damon Hardt, Locke, and the old man Oakley goes there, but Damon Hardt is out of the city, so Locke is taking me with him.

“Don’t worry too much, Remus; as long as...

City of Desire: Chapter 63 Ten Days till Deadline

I watched the carriages leave one after another, leaving behind only me and Carla in front of the manor, which was slowly being engulfed in a pink mist.

I watched till the whole manor got covered in the pink mist before walking inside.

The first thing I saw was a huge manor; in little more than a month, the manor’s size had increased by three times.

Only ten days had remained till the deadline, and I closed the establishment. Earlier, the closing was supposed to be for the...

City of Sin: Chapter 62 Letter

“Margaux, take a seat,” I said to her as she came inside for the interview. “Thank you, Master Silver,” she replied nervously.

“Don’t be nervous; I will only ask you a few simple questions, and it will be over within an hour,” I said with a smile.

Hearing that, she relaxed a little.

“So, can you tell me a little about yourself?” I started with a classic question. It is a very important and frustrating question, but it also gives a lot of insight into the pe...

City of Desire: Chapter 61 Responsibility

I watched through the window as the familiar carriage of Valentina entered the establishment before she came out of it with the chief architect Davidson.

She did not walk toward the door and instead went to see the progress of construction.

Knowing it might take some time, I focused on the work; the list of new requirements I have. Most of them are not major but complicated and time-consuming; I hope she will be able to do it within a time.

Click!

It was about fifteen ...

City of Desire: Chapter 60 Strange Behaviour

The carriage walked through the gates of the mansion and stopped. I walked out and saw there were no carriages in the parking aside from ours.

All the patrons had left; usually, the establishment gets emptied within half an hour of dawn.

I looked around, and the mansion looked the same as before I left eleven days ago. The pink fog is still covering the large area where the construction is happening.

I walked through the fog and saw people still working; as Carla had said, t...

City of Desire: Chapter 59 Return

The ship began to move off the port; I waved at Gerald and Selina, who had come to drop me off before they disappeared from the view.

“Namdar,” I said as I looked at the city, which was getting away every second.

The trip was supposed to be uneventful, and the only exciting thing about it was supposed to be negotiations turned out to be much more.

We have lost a lot of people; from a team of thirteen, we have reduced to eight; three lawyers and two merchants have died, n...

City of Desire: Chapter 58 Medal of Rain

“I knew it was amazing seeing from afar, but only seeing it close could I really understand,” I said as I looked at the storm tower.

“It is beyond words; no matter how many times I see it, I can’t help but get impressed by it,” said Selina in wonder.

It is huge, bigger than even the tallest building on the earth. I could feel its might and sheer power coming from it.

I did not forget how the tower had called the lightning from the surroundings, bathing in it before...

City of Desire: Chapter 57 Storm Tower

“Welcome to the velvet garden, ladies,” Carla said as the sixteen women came out of the carriages.

Remus had brought a contract of twenty-one women, but only sixteen had stayed, while five had chosen freedom.

It is the greatest mistake that the women who have left have made.

Here, they could have earned beyond their imagination; for freedom, they would have gotten it in five years, with enough money to live the rest of their lives with relative luxury.

I turned to ...

City of Desire: Chapter 56 Women

Soon, the carriage rolled into the indentured market; I was not planning to come here, but since I had come across the huge money, I might as well check things out.

The market is huge but clean, and I did not see people in chains; they were in good condition, talking, smiling, or silently sitting.

It is not a slave market; slavery is forbidden in the empire. The emperor had even greater hate for it than people of other races.

Helena Salazar is also very strict with such matt...

City of Desire: Chapter 55 Shopping

“Bastard! You had a much bigger hand in killing the lich; you deserve far more than the four hundred thousand imperials,” cursed Gerald as he watched the carriage of Mage Raul leaving the compound.

The man was a student of High Mage Blackstone; he had come to give me the share of the loot from the necromancer.

Four hundred thousand imperial, which is equal to forty-million crowns; a huge amount for me, but far too less than I deserve, especially considering what I had lost in ...

City of Desire: Chapter 54 Morning

BOOK II

Thud!

I collapsed on the cracked deck, not having the energy to even stand, while the people around me cheered.

The battle had taken everything I had and more, but I survived; two sinking ships of undead is proof of that.

“We will live stone, not just fight,” said Jon while sitting beside him, with bandages covering every part of his body.

For more than a year since the lich king started his invasion, I had been fighting si...

City of Desire: Chapter 53 Over

‘Thank you, father,’

I thanked my father as I crashed toward the ground; it was because of him I had survived.

The talisman artifact I had taken out from his dead body had saved me.

The talisman had not activated when the assassin had decapitated him, but it did when the lich’s attack hit me, which also gave me the opportunity to bury my sword inside him.

I have survived, I did not think I would, but I did, and it made me very happy as there are still many things...

City of Desire: Chapter 52 Killing The Lich III

Bamm Bamm Bamm

The barrage of thunder lances came at me, while at the same time, Knight and two others attacked me from three sides.

The bastards have killed all my death guards and special zombies and now attacking me insistently, not giving me even a single chance to attack.

The only thing I could do was cast multiple bone shields to defend and chill domain to slow them down, but both of them barely working.

The old bastard Blackstone was attacking me in a mad, mad f...

City of Desire: Chapter 51 Killing The Lich II

‘These fucking vermin’s, I will kill them all,’ I cursed when that monkey bastard killed his precious death guard.

He had twelve of them, but now, two are dead.

He had spent countless resources, many attempts, and most importantly, expensive bodies to create them, and now two are lying dead.

He wanted to curse his luck to get this island.

A Knight Commander is here, and on top of that, a High Mage, which intel had said is a scholar mage.

Fuck the bastard wh...

City of Desire: Chapter 50 Killing The Lich I

Hun!

The Knight was the first to move against the tide and was about to strike them when the coming tide parted, and six big zombies had stepped out.

Seeing them, my eyes couldn't help but widen.

Abominable zombies.

The six zombies that had come were huge; each one was at least six-five with mishappen bodies that were covered in a thick layer of bone that barely any flesh could be seen through it.

If I had not seen their undead eyes, I would have thought they wer...

City of Desire: Chapter 49 Lich Savais

A smile couldn't help from Savais's face seeing the group of humans charging toward him.

He thought he would have needed to go to them, but instead, they were coming to him.

It is the best news he could hope for as it will save him a lot of time and effort.

He looked at all the preparation to welcome his guests, they were not finished, but they would be soon, and it couldn’t help but make him excited.

This was a very dangerous mission, but he had to do it, as it was ...

City of Desire: Chapter 48 To the Enemy

“The bunker had opened,” shouted someone jubilantly, and it immediately caused chaos inside the circle.

Even those fighting lost their focus, and one ended up losing his life as the skeleton had directly pierced its rusted sword inside his throat.

They moved him into the circle, trying to heal him, but I don’t think he would survive.

The wound is too big, and we don’t have a high-level healing mage or priest who could heal him from that kind of damage.

“Quiet...

City of Desire: Chapter 47 Fighting in the Hall

I looked at the halls and saw it was swarmed by hundreds of undead and more coming from broken glass walls on every side.

In the center of the hall were people fighting, there were forty to fifty of them, and they have formed a circle, and inside that circle, they were protecting the people, about twenty of them.

Many people had died, and their bodies had littered across the floor.

“What are you waiting for? Come here,” came a shout at us; it was from the Knight of a bla...

City of Desire: Chapter 46 Undead Invasion II

“You need to cut off the head of the zombie to kill them; the same with skeletons, though you will need to crush its head afterward as our blades are not covered in holy element,” Leena said.

I nodded dumbly before walking toward her and looked at Zombie; she had decapitated.

“I think we should get out of this manor; it is what they are targeting,” said Leena, “What about finding a safe place?” I asked.

There are so many zombies outside it would be hard to get ou...

City of Sin: Chapter 45 Undead Invasion I

"Maedas," said John Santos as the small island came into view; it grew bigger and bigger till it was just a few hundred meters away.

According to Santos, it is eight miles long and five miles wide; it is not the biggest among the Namdar Islands, but also not the smallest.

There are many hills on the island, and on the biggest is a huge manor; even from far, it looked amazing.

Fifteen minutes later, the yacht was docked at the small pier, and we walked out of it, gathering in...

City of Desire: Chapter 44 Extreme Magic Region

“With this agreement of prohibitive goods, the negotiations are over,” said Carter with that charming smile and signed the last contract before sliding toward John Santos.

I don’t know how he could keep that smile on his face for more than twelve hours, but he is doing it.

After long negotiations, I could barely muster to smile; my mouth was already hurting with all the talking I’d done today.

“All done,” said John Santos as he signed, and I felt the contract cli...

City of Desire: Chapter 43 Negotiations

“Your Deathless,” said the man and kneeled in front of the huge bone throne in a giant silent hall cloaked in twilight.

“Hezar,” said the pale man on the bone throne languidly, but his words held a power that no one could resist.

“How is the progress in Dekas?” asked the pale man sitting on the bone throne; he is unmoving, like a dead person; the only part of his moving is his mouth.

“We are moving steadily, faster than we had thought we would,”

“...

City of Desire: Chapter 42 Gerald Silver

The city of Namdar came into view, and what a city it is; the first thing I noticed about its sheer size.

It is huge, really huge, huge as the cities on the earth, with more than ten million population.

There are a couple of things that take one attention when one looks at this city. The first is the huge port that stretched for miles; it had thousands of ships coming and going every hour.

Every type of ship stops here, even a few flying ones which could be seen in the skies...

City of Desire: Chapter 41 Namdar

Nothing had been stolen.

Though it turned out the thieves had come for something expensive, John Santos had, something he shouldn't have brought into the ship.

The thieves have got to know about it somehow and come to steal it.

They had failed to get it, for which John Santos had thanked Captain Julian many times. The man still seemed quite angry, even if he tried to hide it.

He is not the only one who is angry; I am too quite angry, and so is everyone.

This is a...

City of Desire: Chapter 40 Night Raid

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“To the safe journey!” we said and clinked our glasses as we drank before turning to a sumptuous meal.

We have been invited to the dinner by Captain Perry.

It is a tradition and a chance for the captain to befriend the wealthy merchants from the powerful mercantile houses.

The dinner was good; it included some dishes I had not tasted before. The captain showed great flair.

I mingled with them, lau...

City of Desire: Chapter 39 Leaving for Namdar

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"It would have been nice if I had more than a day with this beauty," I sighed as I gently massaged the brown leather seat.

I got the delivery of my enchanted carriage yesterday, and it is perfect. It is not the best one, but it is excellent for me currently, especially with the Lv. 20 driver I had hired.

It is comfortable, and I could even make a long journey with it; if we are not attacked directly, the carriage...

City of Desire: Chapter 38 Excited

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[Souteneur Merchant Level 8]

[Skill Gained: Price Is Right]

I was riding from the guild toward the establishment when a text appeared before me.

I had leveled up in my base class and even gained the skill. It couldn’t help but surprise me, but soon that surprise morphed into a smile.

I have finally got it: Price Is Right. It is a staple skill of merchants.

Eve...

City of Desire: Chapter 37 New Girls

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“You have become quite nervous since you have seen the port,” said Della as she saw the small port getting closer and closer.

“It is just excitement,” Lola replied, but she could tell it was a lie. She did not pursue it and looked at the small city in the wasteland.

It is their destination, her ninth brothel.

She hoped Carla was right; she had decided to believe in that little girl and chose this over ...

City of Desire: Chapter 36 Favor

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"You seemed uncomfortable?" Carla asked as I slowly sat down in my chair. The muscle-numbing cream had helped with the pain but not the damage.

It will take a few hours to heal from all the damage.

"The training was a little intense today," I replied and opened the file; a minute later, a smile appeared on my face.

Yesterday, there was no increase; I was just happy there was no decrease due to the loss of t...

City of Sin: Chapter 35 Level Up

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“The four categories of rooms should work well,” I said while writing in my diary as the carriage moved toward our new destination from Valentina’s office.

“If it had been a month ago, I would have said it would not work; people would not spend such money to eat and drink in a brothel, but the reality is in front of us,”

“So, there is a high chance that rooms will work,” she replied as she looked th...