Second stood In front of the door, behind the door he could hear several people talking. He knew he was late but he had a good reason but he will be scolded again.

With determination he opened the door and walked in. There were several people sitting around a table and in the middle of the table sat a person wearing a golden raven mask and blood red robe covering his body.

The person then spoke: “ Second, how nice of you to join us. You are late… again, care to explain why?” His voice was teasing but Second knew that if he didn’t answer correctly then he’s doomed.

Second then bowed his head a little: “ I'm sorry your majesty, there was a traitor and I had to take care of them. I discovered yesterday that they had sold important information to the giant syndicate, and I had to know what kind of information they were selling. And you know “talking” with them can take a lot of time”

The man with the golden raven mask nodded his head: “ I see, and what did you find?”

Second walk to his chair beside the man with a golden raven mask and sat down while talking: “Not a lot actually, they had only sold that we had a team that was controlling slave business and they were coming to town to bring the slaves. And if I can make an educated guess, the giant syndicate will attack the team that has the slaves so we should probably protect them”

The man with the golden raven mask cupped his hands and spoke with a heavy tone: “ This war is getting out of control, speaking of it. I’ve gathered you here because we had an order… from the master”

Surprised gasps were heard throughout the room, everyone knew that they had a person controlling them, the real boss of blood raven they call him The Master. The only people that know The Master are Lady Lilly and Hadith. They had only gotten one order before from the master, and it was to infiltrate the city lords family. But now he has another order for them.

They sat in silence for seconds, but then one of them couldn’t control it anymore: “First, what is the order?”

The man with the golden mask, First. Sighed and said: “ I honestly don’t know, Fourth. I’ve only gotten the news from Lady Lilly and she told me that I should gather you all so she could give the order”

Fourth sighed and shook his head.

“Wait!” Said Second a little too loud.

“ Lady Lilly never came to our meetings, in her words. “It is too dangerous for her to be here” so is she coming here or is she sending somebody else?” Blurred Second

The moment he finished talking, the door he came from opened revealing a man in a butler suit coming in.

“ Hello children, I'm here today to deliver the news and the orders from The Master so I don’t want anyone to interrupt me while I’m talking, got it?” Said Mr. Erikson and his usual coach voice.

All six of them noted in response to his question.

“ Good, now today morning lady Lilly got a message from The Master. The Master is very upset, he says “this childish war has gone too far and took too long, find a way to end it fast” He also says that if you don't end it in the next three or four months he will come to the Firebird city and skin everyone of you alive.”

After Mr. Erikson finished talking, the room was silent for several minutes. The only sounds were swallowing sounds. The blood Lords looked at each other and saw fear in each other's eyes, they didn’t know who The Master was, but they knew that he is not a person to play with and a person that sticks to his words.

Mr. Erikson then looked at them sympathetically and said: “ Hope you do what you were told, I don’t want to see you without skin” He then walked out of the door and closed it behind him.

The silence dominated the room for several minutes until Second couldn’t handle it anymore: “ First, you are the Blood King. What are your orders and what should we do? Even though lady Lilly is our boss, you are our general so what do we do?”

First just shook his head: “I don’t know, I have done everything I could do. The Giant syndicate has someone backing it and I don’t know who”

At that moment a woman that was sitting beside First laughed.

“What’s so funny Third?” Asked First in an angry tone, he was sure that they would die and she was laughing!

Third got herself together and said in a sing song voice: “ First, I think I know who you’re talking about”

First was confused: “What are you talking about?”

Third laughed again: “ The backing silly, I know who it is”

Realization struck First: “Who is it? Why didn’t you tell us?”

Third stopped laughing: “ I wanted to tell you today but before I could speak you started talking about the orders from The Master. Anyway my little birds told me that the person backing the giant syndicate is… Brad Saloman, the Lord’s oldest son.”

Shocked gasps were heard around the table, this news was huge. If it got out the Saloman family could lose all of the respect they got over the years. The heir to the family and the Lord’s throne was the backer to a giant criminal syndicate.

It all made sense now, Brad Saloman did that so he could have someone backing him when he became the Lord and he can control the underground world of the city without even trying to do it. It was a smart plan but Brad was not smart enough if Third could find out about it. They knew that normal people couldn’t find what Third found because Third is the specialist in these things. She is the secret keeper; she has every little secret she could find in the city so she could use it to her own benefit and blood raven’s benefits.

First nodded, he then turned to a person sitting two chairs away from him: “Fifth, you are a guard at the Lord’s mansion. I want you to keep an eye on Brad Saloman, and I want you to find a way to get close to him. Got it?”

Fifth nodded her approval.

A plan started to form in First’s mind, and the key to that plan is Brad Saloman.