Primordial Villain With A Slave Harem

<Hmm… A very diplomatic answer. You didn't deny anything yet did a good job of alleviating my worries. That is if I were Aurora or Blossom. Sadly you failed, for I see right through you.>

<It was worth a try.> I sighed, not seeing a reason to lie when I could feel it in the force that there would be more girls that I fall for in the future.

<Hmph.>

Just as our tongue's emotional dance session intensified once again, I could hear loud steps. <You might wanna cease your actions and get off.> I informed Ayame.

She didn't respond verbally, only tightened her hug around my neck.

*Step* *Step* *Step*

The door creaked as the doorknob turned, and a few people walked in. Ayame, like the speedy and agile girl she is, used the time to enjoy my company down to the very last moment before detaching her hips and rapidly getting seated next to me.

How greedy…

I turn to see eight people. Five slaves, and three slavers. It seems they wish to be present to sell their slaves, not leaving it to the firm we're at. Understandable, they probably wouldn't negotiate in their stead as vehemently as if they were selling their own product.

I examine the slaves for a good while, even activating my primordial eyes, which I've managed to control the bright red effect of. Now I can use it without any change in color or brightness. It was all a mental command, really. If I want I can make them just as violent crimson as they were before.

I don't know how good dwarves are at construction compared to other races, but if stories from Earth are anything to go by, they might be better. They are definitely better blacksmiths and artificers here, that's a fact.

While I would be happy with both a human or a dwarf chief architect to serve me, I have an admission to make.

I'm a sexist scum.

I don't believe that women can satisfy my desires for this super luxury fantasy stronghold that I have in my head.

The creativity needed requires a man's understanding of a man's needs. Women can be creative, sure, but architecture has always been a male-dominated field while being purely non-physically demanding, so maybe there's a reason behind that.

If I tell a woman to design me a harem room, let alone a straight-up sex dungeon, I don't know if she will be as good at it as a man would, and she might be severely disillusioned by my project, lessening her creative output, while a man might be very engaged in the design phase.

It's all about the small details. I need to select the right candidate based not only on their CV but also their attitude.

There are two women, all thanks to Ayame's wishes, two human men and a dwarf man.

I look at the dwarf the longest, mostly because this is my first time seeing one. Well, I've seen a few in the open market when I initially visited it in Aldoria, but didn't pay much attention because I knew I couldn't afford one.

The dutchy of Greenveil borders the Beastman Confederation, so there are a lot of beast-kin slaves everywhere, but the Alliance of Elvardia, which is the nation that is jointly ruled by both elves and dwarves is some distance away, so they're much more of a rarity over here, and they are just less in numbers and demand more of a price in general.

Honestly, I don't like this dwarf. He is incredibly depressed and looks at me with eyes that are full of hate. I can tell that he is a stubborn one just from a single glance. Even if I treat him well, he might not appreciate anything I do.

<Ayame, are dwarfs inherently better at designing buildings?>

<What? No, stop being racist. Just because you're not a human any longer you're not allowed to look down on my species!>

<It's a stereotype from my old world, I wasn't trying to be rude.>

<Oh! Then apologies for my outburst and no, while they definitely have a better innate aptitude, humans can learn this specialization just as well. There's no Architect class or anything similar, so it all comes down to their intelligence, experience, talent, education, and ingenuity.>

Good. This dwarf costs eight gold coins for whatever reason, while the humans don't even cost five gold. I think it's just the rarity tax because his resume is simply running a construction venture in his city before getting captured by the invading human force. Unlike elves, dwarves also have the same life length expectancy as humans, so his expensiveness couldn't be explained as such either.

I look at the humans, starting with the males whom I have high hopes for. As far as I'm concerned, if neither is good enough, we're done here.

I grab their papers to take a look once again. One is called Corin, and he appears to be the most ideal candidate. He is fifty years old with tons of experience and also ran his own company like the dwarf, and he even had contracts with multiple noble families.

Supposedly his wife divorced him and married his best friend, took a lot of his belongings, forced him into depression by the looks of things, which ruined his firm, made him indebted, and here we are.

Yeah, don't get legally married, kids. Or if it comes to divorce consider hiring a hitman instead of an attorney. It's cheaper and less of a hassle that way.

Or just find lovely ladies like I did.

The other is Ronan, a thirty-year-old man who was working in a rich noble's employ as his chief construction 'guy' who was responsible for everything, basically. Design, survey, implementation, construction.

The issue with this one is that he was caught getting into a sexual relationship with a noble's daughter, took his virginity, got her pregnant, and gave her STDs, as he was also a frequent visitor of the bedrooms of other ladies. Supposedly, both have been healed of any disease since then.