Saying these words, the lady continued towards the exit, but before she leave, she heard Ben’s voice from behind....

"Is that a promise then?" he asked.

After a momentary pause at the door, she continued on her way without replying or turning back again until the large door closed behind her.

Ben was left alone in this large, fancy room, and after sitting on the wooden chair he was assigned for several minutes.....

curiosity got the better of him, and he stood walking towards the windows.

As Ben pulled aside the blue silk curtains with beautiful hand-stitched designs....

Outside was an expansive view of the open sky, with three massive planetary size moons... and a very large sun.

The open compound of the estate was lined neatly of concrete square bricks, towering structures to every cardinal zone.....

And far off in the distance was a massive metal gate manned by two bulky guards in armor.

The grounds were designed nicely with paved pathways, encircling around a beautiful garden, smack dab in the center....

And leading into four different zones of the estate.

There were also two carriages packed to the left wing with a servant feeding some hay to the strong looking horses.

Servants were moving around, going about their business, with most male servants having that distinct branding on their foreheads.

Ben could now confirm that all present male servants he’s seen so far, indeed have a triangular marking on their foreheads....

But not all the male guards or those in special combat gear did.

The estate flowed like a well coordinated machine, with all parties going about their duties and carrying on swimmingly.

Ben felt he was positioned high in comparison to his view below, probably courtesy of the several meandering they did from the dungeon.

The architecture of the place was a bit confusing, but one thing was for certain....this was a home of someone with much affluence.

Even in Ben’s former life, with all the wealth he had accumulated from his career....

he could certainly not afford such a vast mansion and so many servants and warriors... not that he ever wanted to in the first place.

After watching the comings and goings of everyone he could....

Ben proceeded to sit back down on his assigned sit like an obedient fellow, taking in the room he was in.

It was already getting quite late into the evening, and the shadows of dusk were beginning to pour in.

Escaping the room through the open window was certainly an option Ben had considered....

But id he was to ignore the fact that the estate was heavily guarded, and the room he was in was positioned high up from the ground below....

Ben Dover still wouldn’t take the riskz because he was right where he needed to be.

There was no running for him because there was nowhere to run to. He knew no one in the new world and he had no place of his own.

Stubborn as he was, he also wasn’t okay with the idea of running away just because the situation was not ideal enough.

Ben was broken out of his thoughts as the room door was suddenly pushed open...

Through the entrance came similarly dressed gorgeous women, to the ones who had bathed him earlier....

Though these ones wore clothes that looked a bit more refined and made from better materials which were coordinated into a light blue cyan fitting that barely covered their most parts.

They moved inside the room, giving Ben a subtle, polite smile before proceeding to setting things up, completely ignoring the curious and unraveling gaze of Ben, following their every action.

One of the young ladies, this one carrying a basket filled with dry wood, proceeded to the fireplace a few feet away from Ben...

And using an equivalent of a flint and steel object, striking into a char cloth that was placed on top of the dry wood, and in no time, the fireplace was burning, dousing the vast room in its cozy warmth.

The other lady did something similar with the lamps hanging on the four walls of the room.....

Then, on a solitary table, she placed an object shaped like an incense burner but less refined, and in it she poured some seeds that burned into billows of smoke, dispersing through the room.

A minute later, Ben began to perceive in the air what smelled similar to rich, earthy chrysanthemum, its fragrance filling the entire space.

The room was lit, warm, and smelled distinctly amazing..... but these hardworking servant ladies weren’t done just yet.

One after the other, they left the room, returning again with wooden containers filled with water they carried on their heads....

and one after another they deposited these containers of water into the carved bath hole on the floor until it was more than half filled.....

This took them three full trips.

They then rolled in a wooden trolley, and on it was a burning hot boulder....

Small enough to fit into the trolley, but large enough to require both young ladies’ strength to push the trolley into motion...

and as Ben watched entranced in the efforts of both these ladies, mostly focused on their occasionally exposed parts as they are forced into compromising positions from the labor....

He saw them empty the trolley containing the boulder into the bath hole as the water ignited in a flourish of plentiful steam.

As he observed closer, noticing more than the ladies curves and more of their effort, he saw that there were chains fastened around the boulder....

And after the ladies waited a couple of minutes, occasionally dipping their hands inside the water to test the temperature....

They soon pulled the boulder back on top of the trolley using the chains as they rolled it out of the room, the bath hole now steaming heavily.

Ben watched these ladies go through all these taxing processes just for some hot water, and it became clearer than ever for him that he was in another world.

’Don’t they have magic here ?’

Ben pondered. Though even these sexy ladies setting up the room appeared quite strong....

Unlike the fantasy world Ben’s read about, nobody he’s seen so far has used any magic whatsoever.

As Ben had this thought, he saw both ladies reenter the room, looking cool and composed as if they hadn’t just pulled and deposited a literal boulder before dragging it back out.

They both simply went to stand by the steaming bath of water, with one holding a jar in hand, and the other holding a silk cloth, making no further movements and laying no mind to Ben’s gaze.

Ben thought to talk to them, but seeing all the setup they had just put in place, he understood the owner of the room was probably on their way....

So he decided to save his seduction energy for the big boss of this estate.....this mistress person.

What type of person she would turn out to be or what she would look like was all Ben could think about....

And as he had that thought, his mind again went to his system, since that’s the only tool that he might use to preserve himself should he get into a sticky situation in this world of the strong.

He still had a hundred points, so Ben decided he might as well check the shop function....

But first, since it was his favorite part of the system, he decided to check on the dick expansion pack....

But when Ben opened the system status and selected that part....

he couldn’t help but curse out loud, causing both ladies in the room to turn to him in shock....

"Elyndra! You fucking asshole!"