RISE OF EROS

While everyone in the capital city of the Cannaris empire was running around like crazy to gather information about the Heavenly Palace and Andrew, he and those close to him were relaxing and watching the situation unfold.

Candice, in the company of Canna, Gastón, and Erick, was stabilizing their businesses, since in recent days they had suffered from constant harassment, first from Vocgo and Oslo and then from the 3 viscounts.

Obviously, Candice was not leaving Cannaris Palace. If it was dangerous before, it was worse now, so she continued to coordinate everything from the Cannaris Palace office using carrier pigeons.

Unfortunately for her, the viscounts' attacks delayed her plan to take over the market share left by Vocgo and Oslo. In business when opportunities like this appear you have to move quickly or someone will beat you to it and that's what happened.

Candice had everything prepared to attack that market, but with the interference of the viscounts, she was unable to do so and now that they were free from harassment, that market had already been taken over by others.

Although Candice didn't show it, everyone knew she was angry about it. Even though she had said that she didn't mind retiring and starting over, the reality was that she didn't want to abandon the businesses that she had worked so hard to achieve, which is why she was upset, because she lost the opportunity to grow.

She is a merchant to the bones, so it was normal to feel this way. Andrew was also uncomfortable seeing her because he knew it was all his fault, but he didn't say anything about it because he knew that Candice wouldn't allow him to apologize, in fact, she would scold him if he tried.

Trying not to be affected by this, Andrew began to talk to Fluffy, as he wanted to start implementing one of the plans he had. For quite some time now, Andrew had been saving points, as he was planning to start a new company, and now was the time.

Although he wanted to start the pornographic empire quickly, buying the camera equipment, microphones and other elements for that were too expensive, which made it impossible for him to do so at the moment.

For this reason, he decided to start another business and it was the sex toy business. Although Andrew could start this business with his own intellect, since it is not difficult to make a dildo out of wood or other materials in this world, the reality is that these materials are not suitable for that.

That is why he had to buy into the system, the method to create materials such as plastic, rubber, and even complex things like making cables, wires, and even batteries since the sex toys would be similar to those in his previous world.

If the sex toy was simply a penis mold, that would be easily replicable, but if it is electric, with movements and flashy, then it was difficult to replicate and would again have a monopoly.

Andrew did not want the monopoly solely to make more money, but because this way he would receive more benefits as a candidate for god Eros. Unexpectedly, he only had to get the "Inventor" skill and with it, he could create electrical and mechanical elements, of course, elements related to sex.

Just like his sewing or pharmacology skills, he had to buy the designs of these items and then he could use his synthesis skill to assemble them without any problem, but these designs were very expensive and that's why despite having saved many points, he could only buy 3 of these designs along with the Inventor skill.

Again, Andrew was poor, but he was not sad about it, because he had gotten 3 very good designs. In addition, he could also create other simpler rubber dildos with no other function than to look like a penis.

Since Carolina had taken over the lab, Andrew had to go into one of the VIP rooms to create these toys and he hadn't told anyone what he was doing.

Although he no longer felt shame for these things, he still did not want his wives to see him with these items. He was jealous that his wives had ideas of using them since they had his cock, so they didn't need toys.

That was his thought, but he only worried in vain, because none of his wives would feel satisfied or interested in those toys, since Andrew's divinity played an important role when they had sex, so currently, nothing different from Andrew would give them satisfaction.

Andrew had already planned everything for this business. Not only the creation but the way of displaying these products. He had decided to do it at the Dunnas Palace since these toys were designed for women.

Furthermore, he planned to use them at Victoria's party because what better way to promote something than with noble and powerful women? Not to mention that Victoria is a great merchant and she probably has many connections who might be interested in these toys.

Despite the strange dynamics of this country, Andrew knew that many women were sexually repressed and these toys were the solution. While it seems like men and women in this country have an easy sex life because men just have to be strong and women throw themselves at them, things are not as they seem.

While it is true that if a man is strong, many women will seek him out, regardless of his social status or even appearance, not everyone can be strong, so only a select group of men get women in abundance.

Now, women don't have it easy either, because it's not like strong men choose just any woman. As everywhere, men look for women of high status and appearance, so, although the dynamics of this country are different from other countries, the result is not that different, just a small group of elite men and women get a partner.

This is reflected in the fact that brothels abound. The red light district of the capital city of Dunnas is almost 3 times larger than that of the capital city of Cannaris, just to give you an idea.

Furthermore, Andrew had observed with his Eros's eyes the sexual dissatisfaction levels of the regular women in the city and it was incredibly high. You have to take Enri, Ilda, and the others as an example to look at this.

They are not ugly women, nor can they be considered beauties like Andrew's wives, but in any other country they would have some men behind them courting them, but here they are single and have difficulty sleeping with a man.

Another thing that Andrew had noticed is that, despite this situation, lesbianism is not very popular. Women would rather be alone than get together with another woman, which seemed strange to Andrew, but he didn't pursue that further.

While Andrew created the sex toys in one of the VIP rooms, everyone else continued to perform their respective duties as normal. Although he didn't seem like it, Oliver was the busiest one at the moment.

Since the Heavenly Palace had shown its power to the world, he had to be vigilant of possible enemies. Not only was he training Andrew, Castor, Vala, Aki, Marie, Erick, and the 5 experts who used to work for Vocgo and Oslo but he was also expanding Shadow's agents and collecting information from everywhere.

Gastón, who was the most experienced of all in the administration of organizations, noticed this and knew that things could not continue like this or there would be problems in the future.

Although Candice was Gastón's boss, in quotes, the reality was that Gastón was more of a mentor to her, since he was older and more experienced, so that night he called a meeting.

When everyone was gathered in the office, the expressions of bewilderment and confusion were evident, since it was not Andrew who called the meeting and since there was no obvious problem, they did not see the reason for the meeting.

Andrew was also confused and when everyone had arrived, he couldn't help but ask, "Gaston, what's wrong?" Why did you call this meeting?", to which Gaston responded instantly.

"Young master, I see that we are expanding rapidly, but it seems that we are not taking the organization into consideration," Gaston said in a serious voice.

None of those present understood what he meant, so Gaston continued speaking, "Young master, haven't you noticed that, if things continue like this, Mr. Oliver will be overloaded?"

Everyone gave a strange "OH", but they still didn't quite understand the point, so Gaston didn't stop, "I think Mr. Oliver has too many responsibilities. I think Mr. Oliver needs to start training some people to take leadership, he needs to start delegating things."

"What do you mean?" Oliver asked, intrigued. He was not against what Gastón said, because certainly, he had begun to feel the burden. Oliver indeed was a general and the operations he directed before were much larger, but he had subordinates who made his job easier.

He wanted to implement this same mechanism, but he had not been able to do it and now that Gaston was bringing it to light, he believed that Gaston had solutions, so he was intrigued to hear it.

"It's simple, Mr. Oliver is in charge of protection, information gathering, training, and many other tasks. I'm not saying it's bad, but him having to micromanage everything is not ideal," Gastón said.

At that moment, Andrew, Carolina, and Candice, who had business experience, understood his point and couldn't help but agree, so Andrew immediately asked, "Do you have a proposal?", to which Gaston responded with a serious " Yes".