RISE OF EROS

The Star Palace had announced its opening and when the sun was setting, many people came to the establishment looking to have fun. As in any other city, here the red light district began to come alive at dusk.

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Dino, as the new acting manager, received all the clients in the company of the receptionists, since it was the first day he wanted to show himself. Dino was not only a manager, but he was a former agent of Shadow.

This meant that he knew many things. Not only did he have great intelligence-gathering and assassination capabilities, but he had detailed knowledge of how the world works.

In cities as chaotic as Star City, where dubious characters abounded, showing his face with authority was necessary. Dino knew that it wouldn't be long until someone came to cause trouble and that would be his way of making himself known.

In short, he wanted to show his face when the rioters arrived, because that would make him known in the city and gain authority.

For this same reason, Andrew, Oliver, and Castor were not in public view. This was Dino's night and this establishment would be his domain in the future, so Andrew wanted his person to be the one associated with this establishment.

The problem was that the current situation was much more complex than Dino could handle. He was a strong warrior, but his specialty was that of a spy and now business administration.

For this reason, the presence of an assassin was something Dino couldn't handle. Furthermore, this alleged assassin was extremely dangerous, since not even Oliver was able to detect him.

No matter how good an assassin he was, completely suppressing his strength and killing instinct was complex. It's easy to fool the average person, but it wasn't so easy for experts of Oliver's level.

For this situation, there were only three explanations. The first, and least likely in this case, was that the suspect was really just a normal person, but Andrew already knew that was not the case, thanks to the Heavenly Palace Temple system.

The second option would be for the suspect to be more powerful than Oliver, but that was also difficult since very few experts of this level would enjoy places like this.

It's not that it was impossible, but as a person becomes more powerful, they only look for companions and partners of the same level, so unless there is a pleasure house with expert-level courtesans, it is difficult to find an expert in this place as a customer.

For this reason, the only option left was that this assassin had a special ability. Furthermore, Andrew suspected that it was a blessing since he couldn't imagine an ability that would outwit Oliver even though Andrew had already pointed it out.

This was what he was worried about. Although within all the Heavenly Palaces Andrew is a god, he would not act complacent even in these situations. Andrew is an intelligent person, and although he knows that in the establishment he is invincible, when he is outside of them the situation is different.

Andrew always tried not to look for trouble, but it seemed like trouble always looked for him. Not wanting to alert the assassin who had infiltrated the Star Palace believing he had not been discovered, Andrew directed all of his attention to him.

The man seemed like a normal customer. His clothing and actions did not make him stand out in the slightest and unlike Andrew who controlled everything within the establishment and Oliver and Castor who he had told about this man, no one else noticed this man.

The courtesans acted as Sonia and the other courtesans had trained them. They approached him trying to seduce him and the man pretended that they caught his attention, but his aura gave him away.

While Oliver has the blessing of aura eyes that have been enhanced since he became Andrew's guardian, even he couldn't notice anything strange about this man and it made him frown.

If he did not know that Andrew was a candidate for god and that in his temples he could see things that others could not, he would not believe Andrew when he claimed that the man had bad intentions.

The detection capabilities that the Heavenly Palaces had were more powerful than even Andrew's eyes of Eros because even with those eyes, Andrew could not determine anything strange in the aura of the unwanted guest.

Stunned by the strangeness, he asked Fluffy about this and his divine beast told him, "Master, just as you suspect, that man has a blessing, but not even I can identify what it is."

Fluffy's words made Andrew even more alert because he did not know what blessing could be so powerful that not even Fluffy could identify it.

Understanding his thoughts, Fluffy said, "Master, don't be scared, just because I can't identify that man's blessing, it doesn't mean it's powerful", to which Andrew asked, "What do you mean?"

"The blessings are easy for me to identify because unlike you, my eyes can detect divinity with relative ease. Unless it is a god who descended, they will never escape my gaze," Fluffy began to explain.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

After his pause, he continued his explanation, "However, I do not know all the blessings that exist." Andrew immediately understood. It's not that the blessing was strong and that's why Fluffy couldn't identify it, but that he didn't know what it was.

Regardless of that, Andrew kept an eye on the man throughout the night, however, the man did not make a move. Not even when some troublemakers caused trouble by posing as drunk customers, the man limited himself to chatting with the courtesans and even took the night services of one of the elves.

Normally, Andrew does not spy on his clients in the room with the courtesans, but this time he did it because he did not know what he could do to the girls in privacy. When the man left, Oliver sent a team to follow him, but they lost him fairly quickly.

Apart from this suspect, nothing extraordinary happened. There were some drunks and miscreants, but Dino controlled the situation like a professional. The courtesans were also very attentive and all the clients left satisfied.

In the early morning hours, the establishment closed its doors and Dino met with Andrew, Oliver, and Castor in the office to discuss what had happened, but they did not tell him about the suspicious man, because they did not want Dino to act strange if he returned and they lost the opportunity to discover who he was and what he wanted.

What they did not know, was that the assassin who had been in the Star Palace had noticed that they were following him when he left the establishment, which caused this man to be more careful.

This man was one of the best agents of the Assassin Society, one of the most powerful organizations in the city. It turns out that the group of barbarians who had crossed paths with Andrew and the others when they arrived at the city had put a price on their heads.

Unfortunately, due to lack of information, the intermediary of this group searched for one of the best assassins and that was the man who visited the Star Palace that night.

He is a cautious man, so before accepting the job, he went to gather information. Although he did not discover anything during the time he was there, the fact that he was discovered alerted him.

Without any shame, this man arrived at the bar where the intermediary of his organization worked, and, posing as a common customer, he gave the bartender a small piece of paper along with the money for the beer he had just taken.

The man did not wait for any comment from the bartender and left. The man who received the message also said nothing, he just took the small paper and entered an office hidden behind the bar and there he looked at what he said.

The message was short, but he managed to surprise the man, as it said, "Don't mess with them." There were very few people or organizations in the city that the 3 elites of the Assassin Society did not dare to mess with and to find that a new player in the city received that same caution was a giant surprise.

The intermediary immediately sent messengers to all the members of the society of assassins, passing the message and it was not strange that everyone wanted to confirm that it was true.

For this reason, several members of the Assassin Society visited the Star Palace trying to verify the message and when they noticed that without exception everyone was discovered, the alarms went off.

All the members who visited Andrew's place were top agents, so they were able to escape the pursuit of Shadow's agents, which surprised Andrew and worried him at the same time.

Unexpectedly, a week later the first assassin who had visited them arrived during the day at the Star Palace. Andrew, Oliver, and Castor were not present at the time, but the moment the men entered, Andrew immediately felt his presence, so he returned in the company of the other two.

The assassin showed up with Dino, believing that he was the leader of this place, but seeing that Dino had no idea about him, he immediately ruled him out, but he did not flee, since he had come to talk to the head of the place.

Dino, ignorant of everything, when the man asked him to see the boss, was still suspicious, but he never expected that this man was a big shot, so he decided to extract information with a simple conversation, but at that moment Oliver interrupted him.

"Dino, the young master, wants to see the guest," Oliver said announcing his presence. Dino is surprised to see Oliver because although he knows that Andrew may know everything that happens in the establishment, he never expected that his boss would be paying attention to the man in front of him who looked very normal.