[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-404":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846257,2449,"Chapter 406: The Opening","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-404",404,"\u003Cp>Ashton Harbor\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want every detail of the tower. Every plan, every floor,\" said the man with the staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have already instructed our people. You will have completed the information by the morning,\" replied the armored man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had received the message from higher-ups, and it made him excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are showing great interest in the legacy. More than before, which is good. The greater interest they show, the sooner, they send forces to attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He too very interested in the legacy. The benefits he will get from it will help him a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially now with the plants, there have been many alchemists and other people from the island who have contacted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Promising the high price, they are willing to pay and favors they are willing to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might not get anything out of the secret mission, but he plans to get many things from the legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let's hope, he gets the order to attack soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is sick of waiting and wants to conquer this damn wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eliyen\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want every one of you at your best behavior and remember you can always say, no,\" said the Headmistress to all hundred and sixteen girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are part of the night batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are two batches. A day batch and a night batch. The night batch is obviously the desirable, our work thrives in the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There will be a total of nine hundred and eight girls working in the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five hundred and eighty-two girls will work in the night batch, while three hundred and twenty-six will work in the day batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am in the night batch, while my roommate is in the day batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The places in it are subject to change, on our performances and the opinions of madams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four batches of hundred and sixteen had already gone to the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ours is the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tower may be big, and the beauty studio is massive, but not enough to make nearly six hundred girls ready in record time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At night nine and a half, we will open. It is only for today. From tomorrow, we will open at six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And be prepared for the surprise,\" she added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not the first time; I had heard of surprise. I have been hearing that for a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are saying there will be a surprise and asked us to tell our patron about it as if it is a big secret. It will be revealed at exactly ten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now go and make the establishment proud,\" said Madam Della, and we walked toward the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the one in the front, but the one underground. There is an underground tunnel beneath the building, leading directly to the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon we reached it, and the carriages were waiting there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We sat down and the carriage began to move through the lighted tunnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt Yani's hand gripping mine tightly; she also had her eyes closed. The human girl didn't like tunnels; she had an unnatural fear of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gently messaged her hand, till the carriage stooped at the basement tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the rest of the tower, this place too had plants. A lot of them. I heard there are plants on the floors below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a deep breath and enjoyed the beauty of these plants before walking toward the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The groups have already formed on the floor they are working on, and each group begins to enter the elevators by their group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elevator isn't big, but it could still squeeze nine people easily. Most importantly, it is fast, really fast. Enough that few people vomited on the first day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is why, there is an operator there with skills. He is good enough, that nobody has vomited since he had started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one girls entered the elevator and soon it was my turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are only four of us. We are the only ones on this badge, going to the seventeenth floor. The fourth floor of the Velvet Red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are five floors of Velvet Red, formerly Velvet Garden. They changed the name because the tower is the velvet garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The velvet red occupies the floor from the fourteenth to the eighteenth. The higher, one goes in velvet red; the more exclusive it is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of five hundred and eighty-two girls, the top two floors will have only seventy-six girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty-four at the top floor, fifty-two at the second top, and the rest five hundred would be on the bottom floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a shock to me today when I found out. That I would be working on the second top floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am one of only nine new girls, that will be working there. The rest will be experienced ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, it is quite regretful; that I wasn't able to get a slot on the top floor. There are only three slots for the new girls; I wasn't able to get it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will be trying, though. The higher, you go, the more money you will earn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are also gifts. The older girls said the people on higher floors give more expensive gifts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gifts that, the establishment never touched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door closed, and the elevator moved. It moved fast, and in four and a half seconds, we were on the seventeenth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door opened, and we got out immediately, after nodding. Old Samis; the old is an operator, and I heard, he had a good collection of skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around, at a space filled with plants densely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From below, this floor is one of the barren floors, but it is an illusion of clever architecture and mist. It is not barren, as it looked from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It has as much as plants as on every other floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a deep breath and smelled their beautiful smell but didn't feel any power of legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not every part of it is covered in the power of the legacy. On the floors of a legacy like this, only half of the area is covered in the power of legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only half of the area on sixteen floors is covered in the power of the legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They have smartly used every inch to use the power of the legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around for a few seconds before walking toward the crystal door, with beautiful carvings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened it and went inside and into the most beautiful space. It is a dream of every woman, a heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are dresses on the mannequins, shoes on racks, and jewelry that would make anyone want to never take it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each piece is worth a fortune, be it shoes or jewelry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beauty-studio is big, but small compared to those on the floors below, but it had the second most beautiful pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The level and beauty of pieces go higher with each floor. So is their price. The value of every single dress in here is more than enough to make a small family live comfortably for a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never, in my life I had dreamed of wearing pieces as beautiful as the ones around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are even more beautiful than the ones, I had seen ladies wearing in the cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eliyen, stop staring bumpkin and sit,\" said nezharian half-elf with a thick accent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are only seven seats here, with seven beauticians and three helpers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vernis is the leader and has a little temper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beautiful plants around us that would calm anyone didn't help her that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly went to the small room with the curtain and undressed quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I removed everything and placed it in the box with the name on it, before wearing a black silk robe with my name monogrammed on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sat down on the chair and immediately felt the effect of the legacy. As I had said, they were using every inch of legacy expertly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only around 10% of the studio was enveloped in the legacy's power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chairs are in the domain of legacy, and thus beautician could use the mist, in their work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have such a beautiful skin. You should have taken proper care of it,\" she said as she moved her hands across the skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brothel isn't exactly the place where I could get expensive beauty products,\" I replied, not caring if she got angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They had done a wonderful job, in fixing these flaws and bringing it to its natural quality,\" she said, as if she hadn't heard me and begun working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since I came here, they have started working on me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had my skin checked on the second day and a few hours before the news of undead came, I received the skin care products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past few months, it happened regularly, with the spa doing the best work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vernis might be a bitch, but she is as great as what she does.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The control she has over the mist is simply incredible. Which isn't surprising, seeing she had worked in the legacy for two decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She started on my face, before doing my hair, while I watched quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get up and remove your robe,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I got out of the chair and walked on a circular stand, before removing my robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is embarrassing, but not humiliating. I know, it is for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took the lotion and began to slather it across my skin, along with the mist. Her hands are precious and experienced, but they still give me a shiver whenever they move over my sensitive parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, she finished and began to apply another lotion, a glittering one on my legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She used a few more things, some in places, that made my cheeks reddened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The red lingerie from the sereh collection,\" she said, and immediately, the raven-haired teen girl moved and brought her what she wanted from many lingerie sets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lingerie is a work of art with a beautiful lacework.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am learning lacework, along with embroidery and other things. I am incapable of such craftmanship; I might be able to do it after I reach Lv. 20+.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raised my leg and wore the lingerie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is quite an experience that even after a week. I didn't get used to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am used to being naked in front of men and women, but not them helping me wear clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I tried to do it myself on the first day. I got slapped on the wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The magenta gown,\" she said, and a teen brought the most beautiful gown I had ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had worn it a few days ago to test the fitting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clothes are tailor-made for me. The skills could adjust the fitting, but according to them, the clothes tailored to one are better than those adjusted with the skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a column gown of magenta color, that had high sleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is off the shoulder that highlights my breast. Made them look bigger than they are.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to look in the mirror before she stopped me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next article, I wore was the red shoes with four-inch-high heels. I hate them; they make my feet hurt, but I need to wear them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beauty is pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last was jewelry. It is a beautiful red diamond set with a necklace, earrings, and bracelets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard Eva Charles had designed them herself and like everything I am wearing, the jewelry too belongs to her. We are just borrowing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can now, look at the mirror,\" she said, and I turned to the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, tears started to come out of my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman staring back at me looks completely different. If anyone from my former brothel looked at me now, they wouldn't recognize me at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you,\" I said to the woman, before walking into the fourth floor of the velvet red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a piece of heaven with mist everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a modern-style bar in the center, with chairs and tables around it, with beautiful places of art on the wall and of course the plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the private rooms are completely covered by them. They are everywhere, but they do not feel excess at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt like, it would have been fine. If there had been more plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most beautiful thing about this place is the chandelier. It is big with bright white crystals and a shining vine wrapped around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see most of the girls were sitting at their tables. Seeing me, they smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry too much. If you are lucky, you will get someone who you will enjoy,\" said Calis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She has been here from the start. She came to the city with Carla and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded and walked to the bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you give me something to take an edge off?\" I asked Jalir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure. What do you want?\" he asked with a smile. \"Shimmering tide,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had tasted many drinks, but I loved the shimmering tide. Likely because it faintly smells like, the homebrew my grandmother used to drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began to make my drink, while I watched. He is a showman. The way, he played with liquor and mist is mesmerizing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One shimmering tide for you,\" he said as he placed the drink in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Jalir,\" I said and took a shimmering blue drink into my lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhh…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moaned gently as I took a sip of a delicious drink. Its taste filled me while my emotions moved like a tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I knew it, I finished the drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am feeling much better now and returned to my table. It is only a few minutes before we open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To your places, girls. We will open in ten minutes.\" Ordered Madam Jenna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is a floor leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the girls who were not at their table moved back to their places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is an important day, and I am sure, many of you are nervous. Hell, I am nervous,\" she said, and many of us laughed at her admission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't let this nervousness get to you. You have a job to do. You have been trained for it and there is no one in the whole world is better than you at it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, conquer the night girls!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words rang through the hall, and they helped. More than the drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could tell, she truly believes in our abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed, and we got closer and closer to the opening, till finally, the clock hit nine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Open The Gates,'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The commanding voice with the weight of authority filled the whole floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, I didn't recognize the voice at all. Madam Caena usually does not keep such authority in her voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As her command rang out; the whole atmosphere changed. I could see, the girls becoming more confident and, the staff moving to their places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seconds passed, and a familiar ting rang out. Four human men, who looked to be in their late thirties, came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are wearing fine clothes and have confidence in their eyes, but as they step out. A clear shock appeared in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shock deepened when they looked at us before it got replaced with ecstasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked, drinking the beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see, the familiar lust and desire in their eyes as they looked at us, but I didn't see the usual degust and hate, that accompanied them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, there is admiration and excitement. The emotions, I have never seen in the eyes of men for us whores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome to the Velvet Red gentlemen,\" welcomed Madam Jenna, bringing them out of their thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They entered inside and looked, before taking the seats with the girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am a little disappointed, seeing not one of them came at me, but I didn't show it to my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had just sat down when the elevator opened again, and three people sat down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the passing seconds, more and more people kept coming. Sitting in front of girls; it took a while before a man appeared in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him, I know, the wait was worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man looked to be in his mid-thirties. with brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He is sporting a scruffy beard, that enhances his roguish look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"May I?\" he asked, in a cultured imperial accent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people that came were from a merchant state; it is clear by their accent, but this man is from an empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please,\" I said to the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mathias,\" he introduced. \"Eliyen,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are a very beautiful woman, Eliyen,\" he said, looking at me up to down intensely, in a non-creepy way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are not bad yourself, Mathias,\" I replied, checking him out in the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint surprise appeared in his eyes before the smile lit up on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you. It means a lot from a beautiful woman, like you,\" he said, and my cheeks reddened despite the efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed, and I found myself enjoying the conversation with the man. I didn't even notice when the whole place, was completely filled up, nor did I care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am completely focused on the man in front of me and the good time I am having.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",2892,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","51470074c8c1023b9242c5b441ef4726fe2ae5066884c70e95f9f834773e7dec","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-405","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-403",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]