Hedonism and Piledrivers

In an alternate alternate timeline, slowly waking his eyes and noticing he has a splitting headache, Erdem wakes up in a luxurious bedroom clearly meant for nobles. Cautiously making his way to the door, he slowly opens it and peeks through to see if anybody is around but he finds nothing but very long hallways and many doors leading into other rooms. Surveying his surroundings some more, he realizes that he's in a lavish mansion, and from taking a look around outside through the windows, he recognizes this industrial scenery anywhere. He's in Malgold's city. Deciding to make the most of his good fortune, Erdem helps himself to the kitchen and eats his fill of anything that looks tasty to him. But it's while enjoying his feast, a woman wearing very expensive clothing walks in shocked and screams "Intruder! Help!" At the top of her lungs.

Erdem, keeping calm and putting on a confident front, says that the woman must be confused as he's not an intruder and was happily let inside by the servants and says he was scheduled to show up at this mansion today. The woman then responds by saying "Ohh, you're the life teacher? That explains your...attire"

Before responding, Erdem has already correctly deduced the situation and knows how to perfectly handle everything. This mansion belongs to a lonely, rich, highly successful career woman? "So easy to control...all I have to do is take charge and let her know I always have the right answers for everything that's going wrong in her life. I'll show this woman an overwhelming amount of love so we can both have our freedom". Erdem confidently thinks to himself, concluding his thoughts before opening his mouth once again to speak.

Erdem then brushes off some crumbs from his shirt and then firmly states "Yes that's right, I was just simply having a snack as the servants said I could make myself comfortable by waiting. I'm sorry if I caused any problems."
"Oh no, not at all. Please do forgive me for my outburst, it's been a very stressful day." The woman responds by correcting her posture to return the flow of the conversation to a more formal level.
"It's of no concern. Shall we get started now? I can sense you have a troubled love life." Erdem calmly replies finishing off his food.
"Oh my, I'm not that obvious am I? Please don't tell me I'm that obvious" The woman stutters looking away from Erdem out of embarrassment
"It's alright, I'm sure we'll have lots to talk about. Please show me the way and if I may ask, may I stay here for some time? To make future appointments that much easier." Erdem says presenting the level of professionalism he knows this woman will expect from a teacher.
"Oh yes of course, please stay as long as you like, you can pick any room you'd like, like the gu-." The woman kindly declares before being cut off.
"Perfect. Then I'll have yours since we'll be spending lots of time there together after all." Erdem sharply states without hesitation
"Oh. Yes. Okay yes, I see that's alright with me. I'll show you the way."
While following the woman, whose name he cares so little about to even ask. Erdem then smugly thinks to himself. "And there it is. I've only been here for 30 minutes and I've already secured a place to stay, free food, and servants at my call and I can invite anybody I want over to my place. Am I too good? There's just nothing that beats true freedom."

As more time passes at the mansion, Erdem makes sure to have every interaction go perfectly his way. He's always the one in control and never left stuttering or feeling unsure of what to say, for he knew the easiest way to get into this woman's heart was to be the sturdy rock she was desperately trying to reach out for against the merciless waves of life thrashing against her. Being allowed to stay in her room was just the start, for Erdem wasted no time in making more demands which were all happily accepted despite him slowly increasing his level of control in the mansion and lowering the original owners. Soon this mansion became a Palace of Pleasure for Erdem with the woman who took him in carrying out her specially designed role of being Erdem's footstool perfectly. Erdem was the new owner, and every woman he invited into his palace learned that lesson very fast.

Meanwhile with Priapus, who wakes up in a forest and initially decides to explore to get familiar with his surroundings; but his finely tuned unparalleled sense of smell can pick up the industrial fumes lingering in the air that shouldn't belong in a natural place like this, and Priapus recognizes that smell anywhere, it's Malgold's city. Hating the smell and wanting to be far away from it, Priapus notices there's a large number of travelers going to and from the city so he decides to make a secluded base at a cavern that overlooks a lake and waterfall deep in the forest, and at first finds women that he knows won't be able to resist his overbearing manhood and when the men come looking for their women, he'll dominate them too and steal all of their riches for himself. This would become Priapus' Cavern of Pleasure and any men or women that discovered this cavern quickly found how they'd be treated by the minotaur's insatiable desire.

As the weeks pass, many rumors start going around Malgold's city of there being a secret treasure trove located in a cavern in the nearby forest but it's guarded by a ferocious beast. Nobody knows who or what the beast is as anybody who went to explore never returned and President Malgold had far more important matters to attend to than deal with some filthy rabble in a cave.

Now we come to Yasha, who also wakes up in Malgolds city but he finds himself in a rundown shack located in the slums. Hating where he ended up and having no idea what's going on, he decides to blow off some steam at the various whorehouses and restaurants located throughout the city, slowly making his way through them all one by one and judging what ones are the best and the worst. When it comes to money, he takes some passing mercenary jobs that pay well enough to keep Yasha's passing pleasures coming. As some time passes in his conquest for pleasure, Yasha hears of a place called the 'Palace of Pleasure' and upon paying the entry fee to the female guards dressed in bikini armor, Yasha sees an incredibly muscular man, comfortably sitting and leaning back with his arms outstretched to the sides on a lavish couch fit for a king, surrounded by beautiful naked women. The woman in his left arm feeding him an assortment of fruit from a bowl, the woman in the man's right arm is feeling his muscular chest and Yasha can't help but notice a woman wearing a blindfold wearing a collar that says 'Footstool' being used as a...footstool by the muscular man who Yasha now notices is solely wearing so little pieces of cloth covering his groin they could barely be considered undergarments.

Noticing Yasha staring at him, the muscular man introduces himself calmly and confidently. "No need to stare so much friend, welcome to my Palace and I'm the King, Erdem. You can have any girl here you see. Well, any except the ones with me of course."
Responding with the same level of calmness and confidence, Yasha replies "Well met 'King', I must admit I'm a stranger to these lands yet I must say you have a fabulous palace you've made for yourself here."
"I've worked hard for it for a long time and am very proud of what I've been able to accomplish. It would normally take someone a lifetime to achieve a Palace like this but people like me can work wonders. Though you would do well to watch your tone when addressing the King." Erdem states with a confident piercing gaze that continually follows Yasha as he paces back and forth in the room.
"Ohh well. Do forgive me for my rudeness but I've been enjoying my share of freedom too and am feeling emboldened somewhat from the drink." Yasha says casually, attempting to defuse the situation by sensing some hostility from Erdem.
"No worries friend, I forgive it. Do enjoy." The King claims while relaxing his posture.

However, it was at this moment that hostilities between both men reached a sudden boiling point as the door to Erdem's Palace is breached and knocked down by an army of very well-armed soldiers who swarm in and efficiently surround the two men while all the women run away screaming and try to find a place to hide.
"EVERYONE HERE STOP MOVING! EXCEPT FOR YOU TWO! THE MAN BARELY WEARING ANYTHING AND THE FOREIGNER! WHERE IS PRESIDENT MALIGOLD'S SECRETARY!?" The Captain ranked soldier asks Erdem and Yasha with his gun pointed at the both of them
At this moment, Yasha quickly considers cutting his way through and escaping but then discards the idea of wanting to avoid the hassle of making an enemy of Malgold and being chased everywhere so instead he quickly blurts out "No idea, try asking him instead." And quickly passes the baton over to Erdem who's lost in thought.
"Secretary? Does he seriously think I know who that is with how many women are around here?". And so Erdem reaffirms himself to say. "There is no Secretary here, you must be mistaken soldiers for this is a place of entertainment and pleasure and nothing more."
The Captain then discharges a shot on the ground right in between the two men and asks another question while shouting "LIAR! WE KNOW THE SECRETARY IS HERE BECAUSE THIS IS HER HOME AND YOU'RE NOT THE OWNER OF IT. NOW TELL US WHERE SHE IS OR WE WILL OPEN FIRE!"
Yasha continued to be dumbstruck but Erdem has now gone from surprised to confused to calm again and calmly states "Oh her? Yeah, she's right over there. Footstool! Footstool come here now."
And it's then that a naked woman wearing a blindfold and cuffs comes out of hiding and walks up to the two men and the soldiers. Yasha couldn't help but let out a small 'Aaah' and Erdem showed a wide satisfied smile and voiced confidently "Here she is soldiers, I trust there's no problem now?"
The Captain, taking some seconds to respond as he processes the scene before him then orders the rest of his soldiers. "PLACE THESE TWO MEN UNDER ARREST. MAXIMUM DETENTION. NOW!" and all the soldiers move to arrest the two men who let it happen without any resistance.

Placed in their maximum detention cell together, Erdem begins meditating and Yasha has his back resting against the wall and speaks to Erdem.
"You intentionally voiced things that way to make sure they'd put us in this cell didn't you?" to which Erdem replies.
"You catch on fast, I did. I knew those soldiers had the insignia of Malgold's elite private force, the Aurum Corps, and they would respond by giving us the worst punishment until our trial which would be this cramped cell."
"I see." Yasha matter of factly states, with a sly grin beginning to take face. "But what's the next step of your glorious plan Mr 'King'? I'm curious to see what a man wearing only half a loincloth and crown can do after he's finished meditating."
"Well lucky for you.". Erdem says finishing his meditation and beginning to stand. "I've just finished gathering the exact amount of power I need to cause a scene so you no longer need to wait."

Back in the Cavern of Pleasure, Priapus has been enjoying the fruits of his labor for three weeks now and he's collected himself a vast amount of wealth, a throne, and a harem of both men and women that dedicate themselves to entertaining him. When suddenly, he hears and feels an intense explosion strong enough to shake the earth and make the waves in the nearby lake crash and turn violently. Leaving his cavern to see what's happened, he easily spots a large cloud of smoke and fire coming from Malgolds city.

"Better see what's up. But man do I hate the smell." Priapus says to himself, for if large explosions are going off in that city then that places his Cavern of Pleasure at risk and that's an unacceptable thought and feeling for the minotaur.

When he enters the city, Priapus finds nothing but chaos and destruction complemented by people running directionless everywhere and a fog of smoke and rubble coming from a large building that Priapus deduces must be the source of the trouble and wastes no time using his great strength and speed to approach the headquarters in seconds, which is where he sees an armored and naked man, who the minotaur can analyze is holding some kind of energy charged rifle, running away together and the minotaur overhears the armored man saying something about using 'too much power' whatever that means but either way the minotaur feels these two men have a story to tell and approaches them.

"You two men running. Stop or you're fighting me now" Priapus' commanding tone easily caught the attention of the two men with the naked man showcasing a new detail of his face being covered with soot.
"A talking Minotaur? Sorry, there big guy but we don't have time to talk, for you see some people aren't happy about the fireworks going off." The armored man quickly says trying to defuse the situation as fighting a Minotaur is not what he wants to do right now.
"Yeah I talk and that's why I'm here. Your 'fireworks' disturbed the peace of my cavern. Do you know how far away I am? Decently far. So if you guys escape, those soldiers will start snooping. And if they start snooping they'll either find me or my cavern. If they find me or my cavern, I'll find YOU. So you're going to stop that problem from happening and you're going to stop it NOW! Or..." The thundering and bellowing voice of Priapus commanded while he lifted his great axe in his hands. "Axe time."
"That would be a problem." The naked man interjects. "So here's a solution. We don't run away and we don't fight each other BUT..." The naked man pauses for some seconds before continuing "You instead help us take over this city?".
"What!?" says the armored man who couldn't stop his surprising outburst from blurting out before being shushed by the naked man. "Ignore him, he's seen a lot of excitement today."
"Hmm." mumbles the minotaur as he takes some seconds to think over the plan. "I like it but I can't stand this smell so those towers have to go."
"No problem." comments the naked man who then charges his energy rifle at one of the towers and destroys it instantly.
"Good shot. Alright I'll help so let's just go straight for the boss".
""Sure"" both the armored and naked man say in sync though the armored man can't help but think how interesting today has been.

The newly formed party of three begin their assault on President Malgolds main headquarters and slaughtered all of the personnel, and security forces and finally finished their assault when killing the President himself who operated highly advanced automata but its strength was no match for the power of these three men and thus the siege ended.

Enjoying their newly found victory, the three then introduce each other but introductions are interrupted by the civilians of Malgolds city who see these three men as their saviors for they believe that the ex-President went insane and started attacking his people in his madness which Erdem and Priapus both reaffirm as the truth. At first saviors, the people then started chanting for these men to all be Kings of their own right, which all three happily accepted. It was also convenient that Erdem found a spare set of clothing during the siege so the trio's image of heroism wasn't ruined.

Now called the Three Kings of Glory, or just Three Kings for short, the trio quickly got to work on rebuilding the city in their unique image that perfectly fit their tastes, and during the downtime, they engaged in hedonistic pleasure fit for a King while also sharing stories. It was during these moments that the Three Kings noticed certain events were wrong, they spoke of places and people that shared the same names but were in different locations and had different histories, making the trio collectively decide that they must be in a new world and if they're in a new world, they should enjoy it's fruits no?

While the city's development continued and was nearing completion, the trio agreed to name their city the City of Pleasure and each king represented a different symbol of their city which when combined showcased the glory of what their city stood for. Pleasure and Freedom.

Erdem was the King of Love who spread his teachings of love and happiness to the people and was in charge of their wellbeing.
Yasha was the King of Bounty who managed the treasury, and food and hired his citizens to manage the trade.
Priapus was the King of Pleasure who managed the state of pleasure in the city.

And as the ultimate symbol of their glory, power, wealth, and pleasure, the Three Kings had their citizens build a giant spire in the middle of the city called the Tower of Pleasure. The tower had 76 floors with every 25 floors being dedicated to each King's tastes and pleasures. Priapus had floors 1-25, Yasha had floors 26-50, Erdem had floors 51 - 75 and the final floor, 76, was a meeting room that could only be accessed by the Three Kings and they met there every time to discuss affairs of their city.

While the City of Pleasure experienced tremendous growth and prosperity under the Three Kings and the people's happiness was always at an all-time high, dissent gradually started creeping into each of the kings. They started to disagree more on what they should prioritize, disagree on who gets what resources, and disagree on who's fit to lead and who isn't. The kings kept digging themselves into deeper and deeper holes that neither could escape from until every king had the same idea at the same time """I need to get rid of them so that I'm the only King""".

While each king was making their plan to take out the other and reign supreme, Erdem held a surprise meeting for the other two to attend much to their dismay for Priapus had been having trouble sleeping recently and was growing tired and bored of the men and women on his pleasures and, upon arrival, began drowning himself in alcohol without so much as greeting the other two kings. Whereas Yasha had grown tired of being kept in one place for so long for his nomadic way of life was calling to him to leave the city behind and go on his own but at the same time, he couldn't imagine what would happen to all the people if he left the city in charge of those two but this dilemma caused the King of Bounty to lose precious sleep as well which had been badly affecting his mood as of late.

However, Erdem who had been sleeping peacefully had been planning to have the two kings killed while the City of Pleasure was being constructed but he knew that combat wasn't the way to go as Erdem preferred to not get his hands dirty. But even if he did, Priapus and Yasha are both incredibly powerful and he couldn't beat either one-on-one or if they worked together to face him. So instead, Erdem turned to other solutions that could still have permanent effects, sealing. As a little thank you from ex-President Malgold who had kept some very secret documents on powerful sealing techniques which Erdem had been keeping hidden away since the day of the siege and today was the day he planned on using these techniques.

During the meeting, Priapus was overindulging in alcohol to the point his intoxication was slurring his speech, and Yasha is happily eating food and doing the same with the drink, becoming a loud drunkard. Erdem isn't indulging in anything but this only begins to annoy and frustrate him as his plan is being delayed so he continually tries to bring the focus back to the meeting which only worsens the moods of the other two kings who want to return to their ideal pleasures.

Meanwhile in other lands...

The word of this fabulous new city starts to become spread all over the lands: Malgold has been overthrown? By who? When? Who could be powerful enough to do that? What's the City of Pleasure? What kind of pleasure is it?

"Powerful?" Bru hears. "The City of Pleasure?". Thinking that there's no greater strength than the pleasure of fighting and becoming stronger, Bru makes his journey to this fabled City of Pleasure to judge with his own eyes whether this is true or just some mere rumor.

Bru arrives in the city and asks the locals where he can find the boss in charge. The locals direct him to The Tower of Pleasure where upon looking at the statue, pictures how they must take their fighting very seriously to have so many floors built. Bru arrives at the entrance to the tower but is stopped by a pair of female guards wearing bikini armor, telling him he's not allowed further without authorization. Bru, thinking this is just a normal challenge and cultural custom in the City of Pleasure happily accepts their will to fight but unfortunately knocks out both guards in a single punch. All the other guards notice the attack and begin fighting Bru as well.

Getting beyond irritated and frustrated and no longer being able to hide it with how long the arguing has been going on and suddenly hearing all the fighting going on outside, Erdem interrupts the argument by shouting "What the hell is going on out there!? Guards!". But right as Erdem finishes speaking, Bru arrives by destroying the meeting room's door to pieces with a punch. Not caring for interrupting the argument between the Kings, Bru asks with a cheery smile that shines as brightly as the sun, to see the strongest fighters in the city to see if it's truly the City of Pleasure. Yasha, confused about what Bru is asking about says "What the hell are you talking about weak man? Fighting is always a pleasure but THIS". Yasha now begins to point towards his groin "...city is about THIS kind of pleasure if you know what I mean". Priapus agrees with Yasha and calls Bru a stupid weak man too.

"Weak man?" Bru asks anger starting to brim his face. "I've been called that a couple of times just because I'm the big guy that likes to fight and people want to make an example out of me, but they always fail. I'm not a weak man. And I don't like being called that. Apologize. Now. Or put up your fists and prove your strength."

"Oh yeah, tough guy?" Yasha smugly replies while beginning to stand up from his chair feeling his blood boiling which is only further emboldened by all the food and alcohol he's been consuming; Priapus, sensing what's about to happen, stands up too which is when Yasha says "How about you apologize to THIS". Both Yasha and Priapus sync their attacks perfectly and punch Bru directly in the middle of his chest but he stands tall, maintaining his sunny smile with arms perched on his hips, unconcerned with what just happened.

While Yasha didn't put his full power behind that punch, he's still surprised and confused as to how Bru is still standing firm as he knows most people wouldn't have been able to take that head-on. "How the-" but Yasha's words are cut off as Bru quickly counters with his own punch that thunders like a battering ram knocking down a castle gate, sending Yasha crashing through the ceiling of the tower with his body being seen becoming ever smaller as he flies away from the City of Pleasure.

"Oh. Shit." Priapus mutters, stunned that Yasha was knocked away so easily but then realizes it was because he was off guard and snaps his attention back to Bru before he suffers the same fate as Yasha; which was a correct judgment to make as Bru was already about to connect a punch to Priapus' face but the minotaur put up his guard within a split second and got knocked back but even with his great minotaur strength, he still crashed through the wall and fell to the bottom of the tower but then climbed and jumped back up to the top ready to punch and grapple with Bru with the two fighters beginning to wrestle each other, each looking for an opening to exploit.

Erdem, seeing the power that's on display, judges that he doesn't want to get himself involved with this fight and remarks "Well this was fun while it lasted". Erdem then proceeds to jump out of the tower through the hole Yasha so kindly made and then jumps down from the roof onto the city streets and begins leisurely walking to the gates while casually avoiding the secondary destruction being made across the entire city by Priapus and Bru. While reaching the gate, Erdem notices a woman lying under some rubble asking for help, but then he finds that he recognizes this woman, it's Airtafae, who was part of his party during his previous journey though he knows this isn't the same girl as the one he knew. Putting on the mask of a perfect loving gentleman and giving her a loving, piercing gaze aimed right at her heart, Erdem says "Please allow me to help and forgive me for not finding you sooner. A pretty flower such as you should be blooming in paradises far away from here." and pulls Airtafae out of the rubble and then says "Please allow me to heal you." and gives her a potion that Erdem keeps close just in case for emergencies. "O-oh, t-thank you" Airtafae stutters while blushing heavily while quickly bowing, snatching the potion, and then drinking it to hide her embarrassment.

"Better now right?" Erdem says with a smile so honest it could make the purest good samaritan proud but in his mind, he thinks "Oh man this is too easy just like the last time. How many chances does a man get to break the same woman twice? I should do something different this time to keep things fresh.".  "Y-yes much better, thank you so much for your help Mister...?" Airtafae says in response.
"Ah, just call me Erdem...for now," Erdem states while moving his hand towards Airtafae's waist, knowing this is secretly her favorite way to be held close by a man, especially if it's done by a man who's so chivalrous and kind to save a woman in danger like Airtafae.
"O-oh, I will!"
"Good, that's good. Now, why don't you tell me what a beautiful rose like yourself was doing in a-" Erdem turns to look back at the now city of rubble and the dancing dust clouds which surely belong to a certain two fighters, and then turns back to Airtafae. "simple city like this?"
"Oh well you see I was sent here by the Holy Kingdom of Sidith to be a messenger for the rulers of this city. But with looking the way things are now, I guess I should go back home."
"Ohh Sidith you say?", Erdem asks pretending he doesn't already know that. "I just so happened to be heading to Sidith myself, what say we travel together...? Side by side."
"Oh, I would love to travel with the person who saved me!" Airtafae gleefully responds
"Wonderful and with noticing your dress, you must be a dancer right? I'd love to see your moves. Perhaps we should stop and rest awhile before starting our journey to make sure your health's okay."
"Oh how considerate, yes that sounds like a great idea. How about we go to that area close to the lake? It looks a bit seclud-I mean safe from anything that's going on in the city."
"Great idea, please lead the way". Erdem now begins to think to himself "This wasn't such a bad ending after all."

"Hmm. Not bad, you certainly have strength though that's not surprising for a minotaur but you're the first one I've met that's survived this long and you don't even look badly beat up." Bru says while standing in a magnificent pose that perfectly highlights his chiseled herculean physique. "Your-your not bad too." Priapus says back, still feeling woozy from all the alcohol he's consumed and regretting having done so if he knew he was going to be in a fight like this today.

"Unfortunately, your form is bad. Let me spot you". It's then that Bru heightens his strength even more and then suddenly grabs Priapus and rearranges his body in the piledriver position. Bru puts every last bit of strength in his legs and jumps so high he nearly passes through the planet's stratosphere making the descent of both fighters look like a miniature comet was flying through the daylight blue sky granting wishes to all who catch its visage until

***CRASH***

Both fighters slam into the earth with the fury of an 8.0 magnitude earthquake with Priapus' head making first contact with the ground, knocking him out instantly upon landing.

"You sleep off that alcohol for a while buddy. I hope I get to fight you again one day when you're at your full strength." Bru then releases his grip from the grapple position and leaves Priapus standing straight upside down, head first buried into the ground. Bru then takes a look back at the destroyed former City of Pleasure with the sun giving a shining glint in his eyes as it reflects what's left of the Spire of Pleasure and states "This city really was pretty fun."

And as for Yasha, who landed many leagues away from the former city in an open field of grasslands. Though he was physically unhurt, his pride was damaged and he decided he'll no longer drink nor be drunk when it comes to trying to fight tall muscular men who only wear tight shorts while deciding that for the rest of the day he won't move from the crater he made when landing and enjoy the warm breeze while waiting for his drunkenness to clear.