Herald of Steel

Mikaya's answer clearly demonstrated that she found the new experience exhilarating.

And thusTajia went ahead to ask her mistress to describe the feelings in detail.

But the usually sleazy Mikaya seemed uncharacteristically tight-lipped about the whole experience, only saying, "It will be best for you to find it out by yourself. It was quite the new experience."

The inability to see, or hear the person behind her was a surprising turn-on for her, and she found the pleasure adequate enough to not miss having a meat stick in her mouth.

Mikaya could not wait to fully experience the pleasure and decided to hide the experience from her maids to better surprise them.

Seeing the out-of-character Mikaya not fuel her fantasies, Tajia instead turned to Alexander and pleaded, "Your Grace, I want to try next. Can I please?", looking at Alexander with puppy dog eyes.

She was just as pent up as Mikaya, and after watching Alexander do the thing, she was really having it hard holding herself back.

The way Tajia looked at Alexander, without the context, many would think she was asking her lover for a new piece of jewelry, and not something so depraved.

And just was Alexander was thinking about how to reject this offer, the room's door creaked open and Ophenia returned slightly out of breath, likely because she had run to complete the task.

This interruption gave Alexander a convenient excuse as he quickly called out, "Tayin, how was it?"

Taking a moment to catch her breath, Ophenia composed herself, and reported, "Good. Captain Hemicus and the men will not disturb you master for the time being."

"Great," Alexander softly smiled for handling this, afterward which he asked, "So where to next?"

"Well there were Lady Mikaya and her maids' quarters and dressing rooms. Also all the pleasure rooms," Ophenia offered options.

And then, as if remembering something, she quickly hopped over to a side and opened a second, almost meshed into the wall door, saying, "Also we have a secret door here. This passage leads to the outside, which was likely an escape route."

Ophenia then elaborated. "But we have modified it so that if she wanted to, Lady Mikaya will be able to enter her 'work room' directly from the outside without ever setting foot into the building. And it can also act as an emergency escape route."

Ophenia had a proud look on her face as she revealed this alternative path, and her master approved, praising her by saying, "Great! This way her carriage can her parked inconspicuously at the mouth of the passage. Mikaya can then get out and enjoy herself. And then leave via the same passage once she was done. This way no one will be none the wiser."

Alexander had always felt that this endeavor of his was much risker than it was worth it.

And he sometimes kicked himself for trying to do something so dangerous just for the sake of stroking his ego.

But after inspecting the wallbutt room and the various failsafe, he was finally assured that the chances of Mikaya being found out were, though not nil, very very low.

"That will be the best for me too." Mikaya voiced her preference, adding, "Carriages driving into the main gate of such a building always draws eyes. But a lone carriage parked inconspicuously…not so much."

Mikaya too had an incentive to keep everything hidden and this second passage was ideal for that.

"Then I will station the appropriate guards there and make that passage the main entrance for Lady Mikaya and her maids," Ophenia professionally declared.

This was all there was to MIkaya's work place, and so Alexander decided to move on to the site, though not before came Tajia's while.

"My lord, I wanted a turn. Just one will do!" She had not forgotten their conversion a few minutes prior.

And though no one noticed, even Nafia had sent him a momentary whimpering gaze.

"Lady…" But just as Alexander was about to turn her down, Mikaya interjected instead.

"Tajia, be a little patient gal. Since I have eaten him, you and Nafia will get the chance too, hehe." Mikaya seemed to be in a very good mood as she sent a sultry, almost predatory smile at Alexander.

She believed that since Alexander had sipped the poison, he would drink the whole bowl.

"Hahaha, okay, okay. I'm sure sister also cannot wait," Tajia heartily chuckled while sending Nafia a teasing look.

Because even though her older sister had hidden it well, as her sibling, Tajia would smell the heat coming off her.

Alexander did not bother to get into this conversion, leaving the three to their own little world.

Instead he signaled with his eyes for Ophenia to lead them to their next destination as the night was getting older and older.

"Then master let me first show you the first floor. After that we can move to the upper rooms." Ophenia thus proposed, and then led the group into the first floor.

"The outer hall is mainly used for reception, and doubles as a tavern" Ophenia introduced by gesturing at the spacious room decorated with high-quality couches for relaxing over one side and large and small dining tables and chairs on the other side.

She then detailed how this place worked and how people would choose their girls.

"There are two ways for people…men to choose their girls for their night."

"First, they could directly tell the receptionist their preference and budget. In case the receptionist will then ask them to have a sit on the couches and after hearing their request, he judge which girls might be suitable to serve the guest."

"Afterward, he will invite the client can then to one of those private rooms." Ophenia pointed to rows of doors on the right side of the room, while continuing, "where they will be able to inspect the girls and choose one to his liking."

"Or secondly," Ophenia suggested, "they can have a sit and have meals and drink fine wine. All the while our girls will tour the floor, showing off their assets. And if one catches someone's eye, they can book her for a round."

And then finished by saying, "Of course, a customer might also make a demand for a particular girl. In that case, he can skip all the skips and get the girl if she is available. Or be asked to wait for a ceratin amount of time until she is."

As Ophenia concluded detailing how to choose a girl in a brothel, Alexander thought back on the second method.

This more extreme hooter-style duality of food and entertainment was the standard model for many such establishments.

In fact, many restaurants were also like this, as along with food and drinks, they would also offer pleasures like gambling with dice or adult entertainment.

Thus it was a pretty common custom in this time period to go out for a meal with friends, drink, gamble, and make merry and then have a little fun on the bed afterward to 'help with the digestion' before returning home.

After understanding how a brothel operated, Alexander nodded slightly and then asked, "Will seven be enough?"

Because judging by the size of the room he was standing in, just seven might not be enough.

For even conservatively estimated the large hall can easily fit fifty or so men. And possibly triple that.

"Yes, that has come to my notice, master," Ophenia heavily nodded, and then told her concern, "But that was all I could find following your strict requirements. But if I could recruit some more girls that were a …" Ophenia tried to basically say that she wanted to use slave labor but did not get to finish her request.

For Alexander curtly cut her off with the words, "No, we will do it my way. This brothel is simply a side project of mine. So we will not force girls into this profession."

".....Yes master," Ophenia could only hide her slight unwillingness and obediently nod.

She really wanted to turn this establishment into a huge playground for Alexnder, where he could do anything he wanted without the burden of actually having to care for the girls, unlike his wives and concubines.

Alexander could sense Ophenia's acridness and thus to soothe the girl, he proposed, "Okay, okay, don't pout. Although I can't let you use slaves. I will give you my secret recipes. In that way, lots of people will come to dine here, and you will then have the budget to recruit lots of expensive girls."

"Yeah, master is the best," Ophenia cheered while saying to herself, 'I knew master would compensate me if I slightly pouted.'

She had found that Alexander usually loved to spoil his girls.

Finished with this topic, Alexander then inquired, "So how many men will a girl be able to serve per day? And what's the rate?"

This was important information to estimate how many girls he could really need.

"When I was in ….." Ophenia quickly stopped herself from finishing this sentence in front of Mikaya, and quickly corrected herself after a slight pause, "When I was in my hometown, an experienced girl could have ten to fifteen guys a day!"

This number made Alexander's heart skip a beat in surprise.

Because even at twelve hours of work shift, that came at one about every forty to fifty minutes.

And this included doing the thing, cleaning oneself up, and then starting once again.

'Did they have multiple ones at the same time?' Alexander wondered hearing the extremely high number, not putting the act past the depraved Temple.