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‘Ending Empire of Slaves: You have built your own empire within an empire.’

“….I finally woke up!!!”

There was a lot of cheering.

A game in which the player, who becomes a new slave trader in an ancient Roman-style fantasy empire, trains and sells slaves of various races and purposes.

‘Slave Maker’.

After a time that I don’t even know how long I’ve been holding on to this game, I succeeded in seeing the new ending that I had only heard about.

I fell down on the desk with joy and watched the ending video and narration continue on the screen.

‘The once wise emperor of the empire ended up completely abandoning government affairs because he fell into the love affair with the slaves you described as despicable.

Now that you have monopolized the entire empire’s slave trade, you have also taken control of the empire.

Most of the new territory and slaves obtained with the blood of countless legionnaires will also fall into your hands intact.

Even your endless greed could feel satisfied after tasting the pleasures of this immense wealth, power, domination, and sadism.

At least, for a while.

But in the end, even all these are but stepping stones to further pleasures, and the empire of slaves exists only for one person, his master.’

okay. The reason why I continued to play the game, even though I would have already accumulated enough wealth, fame, and military power to be able to safely see the ending if I had played the game previously.

It was to see this ending.

“Isn’t this why the game gets that nickname?”

Looking back on what I had played so far, I smiled lightly and muttered.

One of Slave Maker’s nicknames was a game that didn’t play games.

Of course, as can be seen from the fact that it is expressed as ‘not doing’ rather than ‘not being able to do’, Yas ‘was able to do’. The scene in question was also implemented in a higher quality than expected.

It’s just that it wasn’t the main content. In fact, it was unclear whether it should be classified as a night game, but…

There are many things that can result in big losses if you do things carelessly, and thanks to the incredible freedom, there are a lot of things you have to do and can do.

You can have sex with a slave you own, but if you do that, the value of the slave will plummet, and if you do it wrong, it will even have a negative impact on your reputation as a slave trader.

It is believed that other slaves may have also secretly touched it, which makes it less trustworthy.

If you do this carelessly in the early days when money is tight, it is natural that you will go bankrupt in an instant.

On hard difficulty, you borrow money to start a business, so if you make a mistake in the beginning, you will go bankrupt even sooner, and in the ending where you go bankrupt, you can see the ironic situation where the player character is actually sold into slavery.

Besides, there were many other things to pay attention to.

The management of shame and reputation to prevent assassinations and bribes to be given to imperial officials and members.

The operation of manors and mines where slaves could be used as a labor force to earn a handsome amount of extra income.

The winning percentages and odds of gladiator slaves sent to the Colosseum and the corresponding betting amounts.

From the loyalty of family soldiers and battle slaves to the player character’s military power level.

I had to manage all of these things well in order to be able to deal well with various events that suddenly come up.

From natural disasters to large-scale invasions by barbarians and other races, plotting by political opponents and rivals, and large-scale slave revolts.

In fact, if the customer’s background is not properly checked when selling slaves, sometimes cultists use the purchased slaves as human sacrifices and evil spirits descend upon reality, resulting in disaster.

Moreover, in addition to these secondary things, the main job of training and selling slaves also becomes more difficult.

Although they can be sold at a high price, they are brought in by slaves, so-called ‘ornamental slaves’, who are very picky about training, management, and sales.

In fact, it is not officially called by that name in the game, but as a seller, you bought ㅇㅇ as a slave? Are you out of your mind? That’s what slaves who say that sound are called.

There were even cases where it was intentionally sent as a gift to a political enemy or competitor and used for assassination.

It is said that it all started when someone asked the question why people pay such a high price to buy such slaves, and replied that they were for ornamental purposes. I’m not sure because it’s written on Treewiki.

If you look at it this way, it just feels like a very annoying and difficult game, but…

As I said at the beginning, this game was not only full of things you had to do, but also a lot of things you could do.

From the ending where the player becomes an ordinary wealthy merchant, to the ending where the player retires from business and marries a slave he owned, to the ending where the player himself debuts as a gladiator and wins…

And the newly added ‘Empire of the Slaves’ ending involves being deeply involved in the empire’s political scene, going beyond the level of a simple colossus and becoming one of the most powerful figures in the empire.

Of course, it was several times more difficult to see than other endings. I often had to see the game over screen where I was expelled as a traitor.

However, ornamental slaves, who until now had no special merit other than being able to sell them at a high price, have jumped to become a key element of strategy with the update of this ending.

In particular, in order to somehow deal with the emperor, which was the biggest obstacle in this ending, the use of specific ornamental slaves was essential.

In fact, one of the reasons why this play time was so long was because we had to spend several times more time training these few ornaments than before.

‘Still, it was well worth the time and money spent.’

Even the current emperor, who seemed to never collapse or be shaken and would live only for the empire and its subjects, could not stand in the face of a color that could shake the empire.

The empire that its owner abandoned on his own naturally fell into the hands of others, including my character.

Thanks to this, after finally seeing the ending I wanted, even the times when I thought teaching assistants were extremely picky came back with a sense of pride.

That’s right too.

“Now, let’s see what happened again…”

Even after seeing the ending of Slave Maker, you can continue playing with the same character if the character still has life left.

It wasn’t simply that the length of the game was forcibly increased. The empire after the ending went through various changes depending on which ending the player saw.

Not only through video or narration, but also as the game continues, the impact of the ending achieved by the player can be directly experienced.

How did the empire change when the emperor was reduced to a scarecrow and the slave trader became the most powerful person?

I chose the option to continue playing on the screen that appeared after the ending, and was filled with anticipation and lost in thought about what to do.

“Ah, should I get some ornamentals myself now?”

Certainly, while playing the game so far, it seemed like it wouldn’t be a bad idea to own the slaves that were specially prepared for high-ranking people.

“Good. Then right away… huh? What’s wrong with the screen?”

Even though it was time for my character to reappear on the game screen along with the interior of the mansion in the imperial capital, the screen that had been stuttering suddenly turned black.

I, who was immersed in joy, couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the sudden change and jumped up from my chair.

‘Holy shit! What’s happening all of a sudden? I guess this was saved?!’

It couldn’t be like this. I’ve never experienced anything like this while playing a game so far, but this happens when I finally see the new ending after all the hard work?

“This kind of thing-”

Just as I was about to spit out an insult as my anger filled my head, the color returned to the computer screen and the game started rolling again.

“…Sigh… I’m bored. Really.”

However, as I looked at the screen with a sigh of relief, I soon noticed something strange.

“Where is my character?”

Although I could clearly see the interior of the mansion I purchased while playing the game, my character, who was supposed to be inside, was nowhere to be seen.

“That’s strange. Is it a bug?”

Still, I was able to stay much calmer than before. Seeing as the mansion was still intact, it seemed like it had been saved for sure.

All I had to do was turn it off and turn it back on.

So I reached for the mouse, and the moment I pressed the click button with my finger –

“…At first I thought the screen had turned off again because blackness suddenly appeared before my eyes. But not the screen, but everything around it went dark.”

“Uh… I see. Are you drunk too much-”

“And it becomes bright again. It was here. Oh, other than where we are now, of course. It was an empire.”

As I poured another drink down my throat, I continued to talk about the past, which was still vivid even though more than a decade had passed.

“It’s crazy that I was suddenly dropped here, but my body has suddenly become younger and I’m the illegitimate child of the character I raised?

I couldn’t believe it, so I thought I was just dreaming because I had been playing that game for so many days… at least until I got kicked out of that mansion.

And do you know how hard I worked to get here?”

Emma, who showed that she was listening by pricking up her long, black-haired ears, carefully conveyed her consolation to me.

“Hmm… It must have been very difficult. Please-”

“You weren’t even able to understand, but you were accepting all of the owner’s drinking?”

Until a different, yet familiar, sly voice suddenly joined in.

“…Comforting the lord’s sorrow is also a proper duty as his follower.”

“If anyone hears it, they will think that you are not a slave but a warrior who swore loyalty.”

“…I just followed it because it is the best way to serve my master now, and I am still a proud warrior.

Don’t play with that tongue carelessly. If you do something wrong, he will bite off my tongue with his fangs.”

“Well… honestly, looking at your roles so far, I think you’re closer to a pack horse than a warrior?”

Emma stood up, putting her ears back. It was shaking its black head and tail of the same color violently like an excited horse, as if it was about to rush at any moment.

I sighed as I looked at Luvia, who was laughing with her red eyes and fangs shining, and Emma, who was grinning.

I didn’t mean to say that I wanted to have ornamental objects like this. No, maybe I shouldn’t have thought of having it for ornamental purposes in the first place.

What do you do if you look like pretty girls? They are half-uncontrollable beasts.

I wondered for a moment whether I should get up to stop the two who had started fighting again, but due to the drowsiness that came with the intoxication, I just laid back down.

‘Well, no matter what, we don’t cross the line. When we’re tired from fighting, we’ll both sleep peacefully.’

I was almost there, but I didn’t want to waste my energy unnecessarily. Those two are always full of energy, so it’ll be okay.

So, I used the sound of the two of them arguing as a lullaby, and with the help of alcohol, I tried to get a good night’s sleep for the first time in a long time.

“Keuhak!”

“Ah!… Lord.. Master!”

“…huhuhu”

At least until the two of them fought and Luvia, who was thrown this way, hit my stomach with her head and woke me up.

Luvia, who was lying on my stomach and making eye contact with me, was smiling slyly. The next moment, when I stretched out my hand, Luvia quickly ran away, hiding herself in the darkness.

It’s been ten years since I was suddenly dropped into the Empire of Slave Maker, and it was a night like any other recent day.

After watching this in silence for a moment, I quietly called out to Emma, who was frozen and frozen.

“Ema.”

“…I’m sorry. master. I made a mistake-”

“Bring Rubia’s leash.”

“I will bring it right away.”