In a beautiful yard, 7 children were playing happily with each other, but keeping their youngest brother’s health in mind.

This scene was quite peaceful for all the people watching them, either playfully (teasingly) or joyfully. Eldest one was having his eyes covered with a black cloth, and was trying to follow the giggles of the young ones while young ones were running here and there to not let the eldest catch them.

Their giggles were like melody to their mother’s ears, who was listening to the younger’s playful cries to mislead the eldest to save others.

But soon those giggles faded, that colorful yard covered into the black mist. That dark thick fog ate those giggles, ate that happy environment and ate those kids.

Nothing could be seen and heard except that pitiful mothers’ painful cries and begs to let ‘him’ see his kids, to let him save his kids, and to let him go to his kids. But nothing changed, that mother kneeled there in that dark fog to let it gulp him as well, so that he could meet his kids.

Only his cries and wails were echoing in that silent surrounding. That’s when, he heard someone calling his name –

‘Henry’

Henry’s POV

I opened my eyes from this regular nightmare I am having for almost 1 year.

It has been 10 years straight, that I become the master of this hall. And many things have changed, like –

I have been caged in my own hall for almost 1 year…

I have been suffering from insomnia for 1 year…

I have born seven (7) little kids of my own…

This all happened due to my sacrifice, 10 years ago….!!!

When I asked for the meeting with the leading Monarchies of the kingdom, I never knew that my life would turn upside down.

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At that time when those emperors came –

“Come on…!!! What can you even offer except your defiled body…?” said the 3^rd leading emperor, Lord Joseph Hicks, literally showing his dislike at my proposal.

Well, I called them here to ‘sell’ my body in exchange for justice for my daddy.

And seeing how ‘interested’ 1^st and 4^th monarch were…… I was afraid that I won’t be confident enough to put my words here, and all this proved true as I heard raspy and heavy voice of 4^th Lord, “What give you so much courage that you dare to invite this Lord along with other Lords too…!”

I was startled after hearing this threatening voice of Lord Nichole. After all, 4^th Lord’s mind is sharp among all the 6 Lords and if I let my timid nature exposed ––– everything would be over for this hall.

So I composed myself 1^st and answered, “Lord…! You all have one thing in common ––– your spirit to win ––– and because of this only I asked you Lords to protect this hall……”

I then gave a pause to what I was saying and tried to read their faces over this topic, and unsurprisingly they have ‘we don’t care’ look. So I just continued, “…..So you Lords just ask the terms to stop this war ––– for this hall….!”

I just want this war to stop causing more trouble for this hall — This is what he mean.

And there was a moment of silence in the hall. But then 2^nd Lord broke the silence, “Then you want to offer your defiled body for protection…?”

Argh ––– I couldn’t believe that they were just saying this ‘your defiled body’ – ‘your defiled body’ again and again.

This was so much frustrating. So I rebuked 4^th Lord while gritting my teeth, “I am not defiled….. Stop saying this again and again….! And I agreed to sell myself so that others don’t have to sell themselves unwillingly…. This hall is something my daddy used to cherish and so do I.” While forcing myself to say all this I lost my composure and told the whole truth of this hall.

This was unexpected, neither they nor I spoke after this. And after this I just wanted these Lords to have some peace treaty so that this hall can be saved. After all they had been enemy for so many years that now my legs were losing its strength in fear.

GOD…!!! Just help me…!!!

And that’s when 5^th Lord asked something I was afraid of, “We are six Lords here, and how do you plan to ‘gift’ us those prostitutes…?”

I couldn’t just sell someone who was unwilling to do this. And I am sure that after knowing the truth of the hall, this Lord must have known about this too. I was really to roll my eyes over 5^th Lord’s face, but I controlled myself with difficulty.

This is frustrating…!!!

Then I look at 6^th Lord, after all, this Lord was the only one here who was behaving like an invisible person. At least someone was not making fun of me and my state.

But it proved all wrong when I heard him taunting me, “With your physique, I am afraid that you won’t be able to handle all of us…!!! And here, we are arch enemy, so not an option to share with each other.”

I could feel my throbbing head, these Lords were not even behaving like one, besides they are like those local hooligans who found something new to play with.

These 6 Lords already had many concubines, but didn’t have any heir. So there were chances that they might don’t want any for now and might accept my proposal.

‘I WILL AVENGE MY DADDY…!’ was in my mind. 

Lord Joseph Hicks’s POV

This Lord is the descendant of Hittite Empire. This is the 3^rd largest Empire in power, and it is easy to identify the descendant (bloodline) with their pure golden hair. So there is no chance where some shrew can come and declare that they are carrying Royal Blood in their womb.

When the war was declared, we thought that our friends (other Lords) were just playing to see who had the power to rule this whole land. After all, when we were young, we along with our friends used to play like this.

But it was only after time that we understood that we were conspired. Then this Lord was asked to come to this kind of place (prostitute hall).

At 1^st, this Lord thought that we would not come to this filthy place, but other Lords held a meeting regarding this and decided to go there so we went there.

After all, after being conspired, we lords decided to discuss even before taking a simple decision. That’s when we came to this kind of place. And then we come to know that, this filth (Henry) asked us for protection in exchange for his defiled body.

So we just ask bluntly in front of our friends, “Come on…!!! What can you even offer except your defiled body…?”

Kingston Sylvester Jacob’s POV

This Lord is the descendant of Samanid Empire. We are given the middle name of Sylvester because of our wildness in battlefield. That’s why, we are the (1^st) powerful Empire among all the other empires.

We are known for our aggressiveness as well as our rare ‘purple’ eyes (bloodline).

We have been playing with human lives from the very young age, after all, we have been trained like no one else. That’s when we made friends with other lords too and were conspired too.

So here we all 6 lords are gathered for some ‘protection’ purpose of this filthy place. And hearing Joseph’s question, we were kind of interested too, after all, what can this shrew offer…!!!? And I am sure Kenneth would be interested too.

Our speculation was very right, as we heard him saying, “What give you so much courage that you dare to invite this Lord along with other Lords too…!” in his hoarse voice.

Kenneth Nichole’s POV

This Lord is the descendant of Nanda Empire. We are known for our decisive actions and planning. We are the 4^th largest Empire in power because of our strategic planning and perfect execution of the plan to kill the enemy one for all.

But this was the 1^st time when we were conspired and fought against each other, which benefitted others and was a slap on our proud Empire. And except gritting teeth, we couldn’t point who was at fault till now.

And when we were asked to come in this hall, the only thing we have in our mind was to use this as an opportunity to find some evidence about that conspiracy.

But to see a ‘young’ (naïve) man in front of all the 6 powerful Emperors, increased the heat in our heart unknowingly and after being questioned by Joseph, we then also asked him in our deep voice, “What give you so much courage that you dare to invite this Lord along with other Lords too…!”

We saw his perplexed look and this clearly meant that he was showing himself strong and arrogant in front of us. This perplexed look satisfied our unknown thirst.

Lord Matthew York’s POV

This Lord is the descendant of Yuan Empire. We are known for our bluntness and (the bloodline of) red hair. We are effective over the work we decide to do, even if it is something impossible because of our ‘act without thinking’ philosophy. That’s the only reason we are 2^nd powerful Empire in the North Continent.

Everyone tries to keep distance from us because of our blunt acts, but we were conspired…!!!

WE WERE CONSPIRED…!!!

This Lord was conspired….. And it was the worst thing we can expect despite being known for our bloody nature. And that’s when we were asked to come to the pleasure hall, and it was decided that all the Lords would gather there to know more about the overall situation.

After all, only that place was left from being acquired. And after hearing Joseph’s and Kenneth’s question, we heard him pleading to stop that ‘conspired’ war as his answer.

Well that’s something courageous…!!!

And we were sure that he didn’t know that we Lords were all friends in secret. After all, our Empires were known for our enmity, started by our ancestors.

And to think that a mere prostitute trying to establish already established peace, our interest was also piqued. So we also asked, “Then you want to offer your defiled body for protection…?” concealing our excitement.

Lord Philip Jayden’s POV

This lord is the descendant of Jolof Empire (5^th largest Empire in power) and known for our mysteriousness.

Their bloodline has black-white (mix) hair. So we saw such combination rare and this Lord had seen many deaths of our bloodline, where our own bloodline was killing each other for power.

That’s when we draw a clear line between them and us, and were left as a mystery as well as were left as the only descendant of Jolof Empire. We had been cautious from the time our own brothers started setting traps for each other.

But then also, after so many years we were conspired along with other Lords.

This is shameful…!!! Utterly shameful…!!!

And then we Lords gathered after a detailed discussion. Meeting in this kind of place was indeed shameful for us Lords, but this had to be done so that we can have some evidence related to that conspiracy.

As the things (talks) progressed, that (young) master, Henry Rose, revealed the truth of that hall. This was shocking that this kind of place was much better than that of our palace fights.

And now looking that this place couldn’t offer anything except for their BODY, but not of any other prostitute, only those who were willing.

Looks like we overlooked many things, and that conspiracy destroyed this place too. So we also asked this hall master, “We are six Lords here, and how do you plan to ‘gift’ us those prostitutes…?” in a low-key manner.

We knew that this was frustrating enough for this ‘naive’ master, but we couldn’t help; felt a sense of accomplishment. This satisfaction was on another level.

Lord Kensington Theo’s POV

This Lord is the descendant of Timurid Empire (6^th largest Empire of North Continent in power).

And this Lord thinks that there is no need to fight over this North Continent as we 6 Lords are already friends, even if it is in secret, so we didn’t participate in that fight and that’s why we ranked 6^th.

We were safe from that conspiracy, but not our friends so it was necessary to investigate this matter thoroughly. After all, this conspiracy may eat our Empire too.

We had never participated in any war or debate as we thought that it was a waste of time, when competitors were our own friends. So we never paid attention to these kinds of things and then another – LAZY – tagged to us.

So when we came and understood the truth of this hall, we became interested too. After all, we have seen every humankind, but this ‘naive’ hall master was the only one who caught our eyes.

Mostly because of those ‘naive’ eyes, who were looking at us with fear and admiration, so we couldn’t help but teased him saying, “With your physique, I am afraid that you won’t be able to handle all of us…!!! And here, we are arch enemy on that, so not an option to share with each other.”

This feeling was something new to us so couldn’t help but became hooligan along with our friends.