The four of them stood in Aluric’s office in silence, as all four of them were not usually in there all at once, pix was the first one to break the silence,

“so why are all of us here together ?”, he asked aluric, his face filled with curiousity,

“that is a good question”, kiara chimed in saying,

“though anything he does will always have purpose”, she continued,

“pfftt… like you would know what a real sense of purpose is”, one of the other pillars slyly remarked, with a wicked but tempting grin on his face, it was the kind of look that screamed ‘if you don’t like it then fight me’,

“Grahm shut up, I bet your still upset that I stole that mission from you, though to be honest it’s not like you could’ve handled it either way”, kiara retorted back at him,

this was enough to completely piss him off as the feint golden glow of Divine energy radiating off of him began to grow and become aggressive, and in response so did Kiara’s,

kiara turned to grahm and walked right up to him, standing face to face with him, in her right hand her sword appeared, this time with a golden chain, wrapping all the way up her arm,

“do I need to put you in your place”, she said, with a very serious look in her eyes, one that told you that she was willing to fight until one of them couldn’t fight anymore,

however grahm was not scared, he placed his hand behind him on one of his swords hilt, ready to draw it at any moment, pix was standing there rather amused at the thought of the two of them fighting it out as he hadn’t seen them fight for a while, while Aux just stood in the corner in silence, with a slightly annoyed look on his face,

but the longer the two stood there the more the tension as well as the divine energy shooting off of the two of them grew, until kiara had had enough, she began to lift her sword, to properly start the fight but as soon as she did that Aluric’s voice rang out,

“THAT’S ENOUGH”, his voice echoed loudly, and with just his presence alone they both withdrew their hostility towards each other,

“the battle against my brother is less than a week away, I’m not entertaining this from any of you”, he continued,

“especially you kiara, I know I don’t have to tell you that just by unleashing the power in those chains wrapped around your arm is enough to take out the guild hall”, he sternly scolded kiara,

she let out a very depressed sigh,”yes master”, she replied,

“now what I’ve called you here for today is, I want to know what you four truly think about the war that we,ve been waging against the other kingdoms on this continent and against my brother”, Aluric announced,

“all of your can freely express your thoughts”, he finished,

……..for a moment there was complete silence, then grahm was the first one to speak,

“well if I’m being entirely honest it’s been bitter for me especially where I was assigned to over see because aluric as you know I’m from the Argon kingdom, and that sick prince of yours decided to place me in charge of the attack against my home, it really shouldn’t matter to me since I defected and left but I hadn’t realized how much I actually still cared about that godforsaken kingdom, so right now I would just like this entire war to be over”, Grahm said with a pained expression on his face,

in his mind grahm was remembering the good times he had while he lived in Argon, he flash backed to when he was the protege of the head of the royal guards, it was during this time he found his best friend, the prince of Argon, they would spar regularly and hang out even more than they would spar, the two were known for getting in trouble around the castle, he remembered this time fondly, after grahm had said his peace he took a step back, allowing one of the others to speak,

After that surprisingly Aux spoke next,

“this entire war is stupid and a complete waste of resources and people, not to mention it’s putting a serious strain on my business, not to many people are putting in assassination request because everyone is focused on war, plus it makes it that much harder to move around quietly because the entire continent is brimming with activity”, Aux said taking a seat on the sofa next to him,

“damn Aux sounds like you’ve got it rough”, pix said, lightly making fun at Aux, who he could tell was very annoyed,

“and what about you kiara ?”, Aluric asked,

“what about me, I’m satisfied and content, with the war I’ve gained lots of new girls, so my regiment is stronger than ever, especially this one girl who I recruited recently and get this she’s from the same island as those boys from earlier, she even dated one of them, good thing she tagged along with me earlier, I’m gonna have fun playing with them”, she said with a wickedly seductive grin running across her face,

Aluric let out a sigh”what am I going to do with you”, he said holding his hand to his head,

“and lastly Pix, hurry up and tell me what you think”. Aluric said,

“well….where do I begin...ahh I know….Aluric why the hell did you go along with this idea in the first place…. You seem to forget that I was there for the start of all of this and I voiced my opinions then and I’m telling you again now, this time in front of these three, this mission is suicide, yes we might win these wars… but if you go through with it and succeed in drawing them out, this isn’t going to end well for anybody”, Pix said, his tone shifting from happy to deadly serious,

“aluric what is he talking about”, Grahm asked, his face filled with concern,

“He’s talking about the mission me and the First prince of the Dracht kingdom, Ea Dracht, came up with, he was apart of this guild a while ago, and if he were still with us I can say for sure that I wouldn’t have been guild master today”, Aluric beckoned,

“so why come up with this ‘stupidly dangerous’ idea of yours then”, Aux asked,

“long ago me and Ea were tasked with a mission to secure some relics that had been found on the outskirts of the Dracht kingdom, this is coincidentally the first time I had met Pix, and while one thing lead to another the three of us found ourselves deep inside an underground altar, there we found a scroll that had on it a prophecy about the coming of four powerful kingdoms lead by four kings, but before they were chosen many candidates for those four positions would arise from all over the world. Unfortunately the rest of the scroll was missing” Aluric explained to them,

“ okay but what does that have to do with us waging war” Aux asked,

“well since we found that scroll to absolutely increase the chances of at least one of those kings being from Dracht we came up with the idea of taking over the continent completely, but we had one major problem, the largest and most deadly military power to exist as of this moment, the ones who serve the most powerful of all the Gods, The Church Of Exxion, A little unknown fact about them is they will completely stop any kingdom or country the perceive as a legitimate threat, and one kingdom over throwing two others by themselves with no help is certainly something they cannot ignore” aluric continued,

“but me and the first prince believe that once we take over the continent we will have enough military power to contend with them and stop there advance before they even reach the continent, solidifying us as a powerful stand alone Nation”, aluric finished saying,

the three pillars were in complete shock, due to the fact that this really was a suicide plan as Pix had stated,

“A...Al..aluric thats madness and thats coming from me”, kiara shouted,

“have you completely lost your mind”, she continued,

“NO I am perfectly sane” Aluric answered,

“okay but even if you do take over the continent how are you so sure that the people from the other kingdoms will follow you”, Kiara asked,

“because from the moment w take over this whole continent and rule it under the name of Dracht, they will make the decision to eradicate the whole continent, or so my inside source tells me”, Aluric answered,

“inside source ?” pix asked,

“what else aren’t you telling us Aluric ?”, Pix asked, taking a step forward towards him,

Aluric let out a sigh, leaning forward resting his elbows on the table,“fine I’ll tell you all something not even the prince knows though, the selection of the King’s candidates has begun for a while and I am one of them”, he said with an evil smile painted across his face