During the third week, I pretty much just relaxed and didn't do anything except tour the capital and visited the places that I never had the time to while fighting for my life and trying to defeat the main bad guy. I went to the largest church on the continent first, the largest library next, and the largest brothel last. Despite the temptation, I did not show them any of the tricks I knew. I laid there and let them have their fun. Boy, oh boy, did they.
Magical protection from diseases was a godsend, because it let people be completely free with their bodies. Not that they really knew what to do with them. I got to see, and use, so many different kinds of breasts and vaginas, that I was starting to be a bit of a snob about it. I didn't intend to be, though. If she had a bit too much extra skin on her labia or if it was discolored, I would finish quickly and move on. If her breasts were a little saggy or the nipples were an odd shape or color, I wouldn't play with them as much.
You see? Snobbish. Luckily, they didn't notice. Like I said before, most people didn't do much more than straight sex and that was it. My behaviour was not out of the norm for them, so my internal debates on their bodies and my preferences was all on me.
Of course, I was super rich and world famous. When I dropped a hundred gold coins into the main madam's hands and told her I was staying for a couple of days and that she and her girls should 'take care of me', by god she did. She shut the place down and I had the entire place, and the girls inside, all to myself.
When I finally found the one I thought was the perfect one, I couldn't help myself and did everything I could with her. She was twenty five, which was only three years younger than me. She had shoulder length black wavy hair, beautiful perky breasts with nipples I could suck on for days, and her vagina... it was damn near perfect. I say near, because I wasn't allowed to keep it.
To her surprise, and the madam's, I offered to buy her outright. I offered a house and servants to take care of her, and more money than she would ever see in her lifetime. I even told her that I wasn't trying to save her from the life she chose or steal her from her work. I only wanted her to do it to have fun and not because she had to.
“You are leaving next week.” She responded. “What would I do with a big empty house that didn't have you in it?”
I sighed and reluctantly nodded. “You refuse.”
“Of course I do. You would only be wasting your money.” She said and gave me a kiss. “You are very sweet for thinking that you could buy me forever.”
I had a crazy thought to ask her to marry me, then she would have to accept my ridiculous offer, and she covered my mouth with a hand and laughed softly.
“Don't you dare spout that nonsense.” She said with a huge smile. “We wouldn't even have time to have the betrothal ceremony, let alone our wedding night, before you had to go.”
“Why couldn't I have found you years ago?” I asked. “I know we only just met...”
“I would love you for all your life, too.” She whispered to me, then we slept together again. In fact, I left for several hours, then returned and spent another two hundred gold and stayed there for another four days with just her. I only had two days left of my 'vacation', and I left her with a heavy heart and a promise to not use the things I showed her on anyone. If they discovered her new skills, they might do something bad to the brothel or the madam, just to keep her or steal her.
I had dropped an eavesdropping spell on her, just to see what would happen when I left. It wouldn't last long, not without me staying nearby to keep it charged.
“He really does care about you.” The madam said as I walked down the street and away from the brothel. “He left this for you.” She said and held up a wooden box.
“Is it even more gold?” Shanna, the woman I fell in love with asked with a disappointed voice. “He thinks that just because he has money, I would do anything he wanted.”
“Don't you dare disparage him.” The madam admonished her. “He's the Hero. He saved this world.”
“That doesn't give him the right to dictate what someone can and can't do with their own lives.” Shanna said. “Did you know that he taught me new things to do that will make all of our clientele have pleasures beyond all reasoning, and then made me promise to never use them?”
The madam sighed and I stopped walking. “Yes, he did. You aren't going to keep that promise, are you?”
“Of course not. I'll have half the city wanting to bed me and marry me, just like him.” Shanna said with satisfaction.
The madam sighed again. “I tried to tell him to not invest in you, subtly of course. He didn't listen.” She said and handed Shanna the wooden box. “I hope with this, you'll realize your mistake of leading him on like you did.”
Shanna chuckled. “I sincerely doubt there's anything in that box that...” She opened it and gasped. “N-n-no, how... how did he... I never said...”
“There are depths to him that someone as shallow as you will never delve, Shanna.” The madam said. “I am ordering you to never reveal the skills and techniques he showed you.”
Shanna gasped as she was covered in a white glow for a moment. “NO!”
“Oh, yes.” The madam said. “You've forgotten that I am your patron. You've oathed to me, both by blood and by magic. Unlike him, that you think has money and can tell you to do anything he wanted, I actually can tell you to do anything I want.”
“No... please...” Shanna whispered.
The madam closed the box and took it from her. “He tracked down the people that did those things to you and killed them for you. By the rotting of those five male parts, he did it when he left four days ago.”
“N-no, he... he didn't say...” Shanna looked to where I had walked.
“Why would he? You believed him to be a fool.” The madam said with a chuckle. “He knew you did. Why else would he make such a ridiculous offer to buy you?”
Shanna didn't say anything in response.
“He spent a hundred gold for the entire brothel for three days, until he found you.” The madam said. “Then he spent two hundred gold for four days with just you. That's fifty gold a day. How much do you think he would have paid to buy you?” She asked. “Tell me!”
“A fortune. A literal fortune.” Shanna said against her will, because she didn't want to admit it.
“Yes. It's not that he has money and thinks he can do whatever he wants with it. It's that the money means nothing to him. He's been adventuring around the world for ten years. How much money do you think he has? Did you even ask?”
“No.”
“I have contacts at the fortress, the Merchant's Guild, and the Enchanter's Guild. He sold off so many rare and unique items at the Merchant's Guild that they couldn't pay him for them!”
“N-n-no.” Shanna mumbled and shook her head.
“You know that they don't pay top coin for it, either.” The madam said. “He took trade in skills from the Enchanter's Guild and the Merchant's Guild owes them thousands of gold coins.” She almost laughed. “Can you imagine talking to the heads of both guilds and working out a deal like that?”
Shanna shook her head.
“No, you can't see past your own selfish needs.” The madam said and sighed. “Just to make sure, I am ordering you to not teach the things he showed you to anyone else, or tell them about them, or suggest that you know things he specifically told you to never reveal.”
The white glow swirled around Shanna and she didn't say anything in protest. She knew how much she had underestimated the man that tried to profess his love for her and she looked at the wooden box.
“I'll have these preserved for you, so you will always have the reminder that out of all the people that have seen you, heard about you, and learned your story, only one man stepped up and gave you the secret justice you so desperately wanted.” The madam said. “You have my permission to go and try to find him, if you so wish. Just be back by this evening. I am opening for normal clientele tonight.”
Shanna looked in my direction once more, shook her head, and went back inside.
The madam turned to look at me, as if she could see me hiding behind the building, gave me a wave, and went inside herself. The eavesdropping spell was dispelled as soon as the door shut and I had to chuckle.
She's a smart woman. I thought, then I smiled. I had two days left and I didn't see why I couldn't thank her for everything she did for me all week. I walked back over to the brothel and before I could knock, the door opened and the madam gave me a knowing smile.
“I believe you and I have some business to discuss.” The madam said.
“I am honored that you would grant me your time.” I said and gave her the same bow I would for a member of the royal family.
“Oh, my.” The madam whispered as she blushed. “Please, come inside.”
“I plan to.” I said and her blush deepened, knowing what I meant, and she led me inside to her private bed chamber. She was more than delighted to discuss her kind of business.
When I left that night, I gave her a thousand gold coins as a thank you. She tried to refuse, quite adamantly, and I reminded her that I was leaving and the currency couldn't be used where I was going. She accepted the money and walked me out, then bid me a fond farewell. It was genuine and I had the feeling that I would miss her a lot more than I would Shanna, even though I didn't know her name.
I went back to the castle and stayed in the guest room I was assigned. Tomorrow was it. The last day. It was my last day on a world that I had spent ten years fighting for.
I wanted to go home.
This went weird. By and large, after the first thousand times of having sex, people are more or less over the adolecent imagining that any particular combination of gymnastics will make s*x a significantly better experience, or that s*x is some sort of a performance, or they could possibly have come up with anything innovative in that area.
That's the thing about harem novels. The essence of harem novels is about fear of rejection, and the feeling of inadequacy many teenagers have. They think that they can't possibly be good enough to attract a mate, which is why fantasies of disposable lovers or unequal power relationships are so attractive to them. But in reality, once they graduate high school, they look out in the world and notice that even the stupidest slobs somehow manage to reproduce. Maintaining even a single romantic relationship in the long term is very challenging. You'd have to be nuts to wish for that challenge, multiplied by the dozen.
Most Harem novels don't even try to do that, or have actual stable relationships. I wrote one (that took 780 chapters) and it was a lot of work to make sure the women in the MC's life were happy and juggled their emotions and needs. Yes, he failed a few times and the members changed occasionally. That's another thing harem authors seem to forget. Not everything works out.
@Bokuboy is that novel available to read?your works here are too short and still few chapters
@Luminous11 I knew I forgot to do something. I was supposed to add links in my profile to my stories.
...I just realized you said 200 chapters and a hundred chapters are stories that are too short? I think you're a bit too used to CN with tons of tiny chapters. LOL
Anyways, it's called Mythran's Master of All - Continued on Royal Road. It's a fan-fiction of another story called Master of All Jack of None. It was only 16 chapters, so I wrote from 17 to 790. It's 10,000 pages and 2.75 million words.
@Bokuboy yeah that is very true and thnx imm binge it
Then why are you reading this story despite the harem tag?....also in medival times "s*x techniques" were not evolved like today ..what people use in their bedroom today would rarely be seen in even high class brothels ....and maybe you don't know anything about s*x ...foreplay is king and getting your partner to enjoy this as you ...some techniques are needed..which as many thing comes with practice as you can tell difference between your first kiss to your 30th or first time s*x to tenth.i don't understand why even after reading tags people still complaint about the story being harem..?
@Deadrule42, some complain that there's s*x in it, too. LOL
@Bokuboy I have seen a lot of so called ,"geniuses" reading a story tagged harem and complaining about harems or ECHII /adult tag and comment about too much s*x ....I don't understand why the even read this ,after all tags are here for a reason??
@Deadrule42 It amazing how many times I see people complain about Harems. Here, on royal road, on facebook groups dedicated to paid for fiction/kindle unlimited novels where sometimes harems pop up. Thing is they're all label as harem and can be skipped. Okay they dislike harem then why are they not checking the Tags on the damn stories, so they can avoid it. Just makes me and other people think they're idiots.
My favourite complaint is: "It's unrealistic!!!!" they are reading a story with dragons, magic, fantasy races and game mechanics over layered onto real life and the bit they find unrealistic is the fact MC is sleeping with three women who don't care that he is sleeping with the other women. Something that can, but very rarely ever happens in real life. THAT's the unrealistic part LOL
@CozmicKhaos yeah as for example I don't like gl or bl that's why I always check genres or tags before reading the novels and sometimes reviews too...I would never waste my time reading about something I don't like and then complaint about it like children ....tbh in medieval times various nobles , ministers , high ranking army officers and kings ,royal family etc a lot of polygamy was seen,and mostly high ranking nobles and kings would have around 2-3 queens or more and many mistresses , concubines etc
And even now a lot of rich people have mistresses along side their wife ...and normally of you got money ,good looks and smooth talk ability ...hooking up with multiple girls can be possible if you can be smart about it ..also some socity like "Mormon fundamentalist" groups in America or other countries still practice polyamory or polygamist lifestyles ... unrealistic my ass
Only unrealistic thing in a harem novel is how readily all the girls aggree to share the protagonist...and doesn't break up when found out about his other affairs?
@Deadrule42 I actually know of someone who lives with two women and has children by both of them. I also run in circles where there is a girl I talk with, who has two boyfriends who both know about each other and looks like she probably be getting a third soon. Neither are rich, but probably very smooth talkers lol
Think polygamy is bit more common than it was a decade or so ago. So idea that multiple partners is unrealistic is bit laughable, though harem levels you see in novels and how easily they share is. But then it's a story and stories are hardly the most realistic of things in first place. The job of a story is to entertain via the authors imagination, not portray gritty realism. For most people, stories are a form of escapism from the worries of life, so being overly realistic is counterproductive.
The Thai King did self isolate in a hotel at beginning of covid with a harem of 20 concubines. So even the large harems you see in some novels are not out of the realm of possibility for a very select few.
@CozmicKhaos yes indeed , a lot of people crying over harem seems like the jealous idiot themselves who never held a girl's hand in their life ...I have been through 20 breakups till now and living in with my 21 gf lol...prolly not sensetive enough or not emotional enough but let me tell you ,it not that hard to have more than one partner but to mentain that relationship ...you have to adjust a lot and sacrifice some things that's why harem stories are guilty pleasures of many including me as no not all harem genre lovers are pathetic losers but it's the fantasy that all of mc 's partners are living like sister's and yes a bit fantasy too ?
@Deadrule42 I agree. Those who keep protesting harem I think protest too much. After all as we both said they can skip the genre. So whats the point of complain about something they can avoid.
If they ever bothered to actually look into the genre and instead of making biased statements about it being "insecure teenagers" or "horny teenagers" they'd realise they're full of crap. Maybe they should stop looking at anime harem as the norm as well and look at some of the western stuff and the associated fan groups around it.
The Harem genre has a quite decent fanbase (would need it to keep supporting author such as Bokuboy as well all those who actually publish paid for content), with plenty of married men and even some married women who don't like the reverse harem genre. One author has made over $130,000 on kickstarter so far with just two harem books and he has a fanbase in the thousands and a dedicated facebook page. Which just goes to show that it not a genre dominated by teenagers like some would like to think.
Harem is escapism fantasy and really what straight man wouldn't want several hot women competing for his attention and love.
@Deadrule42 I just want to say thank you. Your words are full of wisdom. I learnt so many from you. For research purpose of course (not to practice it in real life)
@Deadrule42 If only people in real life tolerate polygamy and polyandry like they tolerate lgbtqia+. I know someone who has two wives and both of them love him. Sadly, people in his neighborhood scorn him
@alienix wow thanks man , but it's just that I hate hypocrites who even after reading the tags and genres of still complaint about it ...
@alienix though a lot of woman in America got a boyfriend and a husband but society doesn't scorn them cause well "woman" ofc ?
@Deadrule42 Same goes for Reverse Harem aimed at women and far outstrips Harem by about 5+ to 1 on Amazon. Does not get criticised the same way. But Harem.. nah that for insecure men/adolescent teenagers and the women in the harem should be sleeping with other male characters because "it only fair to reciprocate" Just so hypocritical that complain about one but dare not because it aimed at women.
Maybe they're projecting about their wife boyfriend on to the genre and if they're getting cucked, so does everyone else have to be cucked.
i actually like harem for the idea of trying to make everyone happy! also love the harems in “in another world with my smartphone” and arifureta
as the mc in smartphone doesnt actually want the harem but because the girls want him badly enough to agree to share him or his main love interest actually talks him into accepting the others in arifureta
@Bokuboy unless you have bullshit-do-whatever-the-f*ck-you-want magic. Aka creation magic
@Deadrule42 Excuse you, most sexual or hygienic techniques have been solved for thousands of years.
The only real discrepency between standards in advancement are geographical.
@CozmicKhaos Welcome to Feminism. Note how Strong Male role models are being gradually removed, and replaced.
Rather than having a man AND a woman, as an example, on most product packaging, they outright replace male characters with female characters. Because this: the lack of apparent equal representation, apparently represents equality.
@Deadrule42 Kamasutra book is laughing in your face. You just want to think they were like that at that time. Not always true.
Old kings used to do more sh*t than we can imagine. In old times , girls didn't even cover their boobs. That's how open they were about many things .
@Vikass17 da f*ck? Why replying to 1-2 years old comment , i don't even remember what that comment was about
@Deadrule42 because why not 🙃
@Bokuboy the main thing harem authors seem to forget — the law of Fatih, also known as the law of the fratricide.