War

Jacob closed his dairy , a summons arrived for him at his door calling him to attend the meeting .

He slowly went towards the venue.

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The meeting room was a bit shabby and old , the art and designs used in the room showed how antique the room was.

In the reign of King Henry ,it was the least used room in the entirety of the palace , so he never had ideas of renovating it.

The room was filled with old maps ,and had some old and rusty prototypes of swords ,shields at its corners.

In the middle of the room there were thirteen chairs which were arranged in a round manner .The chairs had beautiful artwork on them ,and they were arranged perfectly in order.

A big throne sat in the middle of the thirteen chairs outlining the authority of the figure who sat on it.

Every ministers slowly arrived and sat at their respective chairs ,and the king also arrived and sat on his throne.

The ministers who were seated the closest to the king were the oldest and the most loyal ministers among all the other ministers ,the others were loyal but they didn't have experience in managing the kingdom like these two.

Three chairs remained empty , which marked the presence of the ministers who died for selling themselves as a spy to the Draeyus Kingdom and Blaze Kingdoms.

Even though the King had known it for the past five years, he didn't get rid of them quickly as he thought that if he did it immediately the peace of his Kingdom would be affected.

But now the right time had arrived, it was time to advance and grow ,and he wanted no hindrance.

"Let the meeting commence",said the King to mark the start of the meeting.

Jacob didn't have permission to enter the meeting room , even though he was called ,and even if he had the brains , a young man with no experience could not be made to sit for counsel directly that too in meeting regarding the future of the kingdom.

He had to come of the proper age to be able to take important decisions for the kingdom, and Jacob already had a bad name among the ministers for his recklessness, they didn't approve him ,and preferred the Battle Lord James to be King after Henry.

The King only took his son's advice because he yearned for a change , a way out of his boring life, of course he had the right to do that without his advice from the ministers.

He slightly gave out the information to only the two old men , as he wanted to make sure the move was not too reckless, to his suprise they agreed to his decision , because they too wanted their Kingdom to change ,they wanted their Kingdom to prosper.

"King , Why did you not ask our counsel when you carried out an execution among us ,and magically brought a river among us."

"King, did you purposely choose to break the treaty now , I think we should have waited for some time"

"Henry did you have any specific plan in your head while you made these things happen"

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The King sat silently hearing all their thoughts .

The ministers started talking ,and discussing among themselves, but the King sat still.

His mind was focused on only one thing , his mental training and image of him fighting,

His imagination ran rampant and his thoughts were left on the battlefield his whole life he had trained but he had never entered a battle field he had never been fulfilled.

The ministers were looking at the King patiently but the King was on a world of his own.

The ambience and the silence in the room ,even made the King go deep in his thought training.

The last time he fought was while selecting an instructor to teach his sons , even the instructor was not able to hold a candle to his swordsmanship and combat techniques even while using magic.

In his head, he was rampaging through the battlefield ,and hacking off heads of some enemy soldiers until he met with a soldier who was able to match him in strength.

He fought with him hard ,and let himself go all out.

Even though this happened in his thoughts , inside the meeting room a strange thing happened.

The body of the King got shrouded with a white aura , an aura which was even visible to the naked eyes of the ministers.

The aura was releasing a killing intent which was making the ministers shudder in fear.

The ministers didn't know what to do , but the old men knew , They had known the king from his birth , they knew about every secrets he held, so one of the minister slightly touched his hand and said," Henry wake up ,we are awaiting your decision".

Both the old men were not ordinary ministers they were also the teachers of the King when he was young, but they were not able to train him after a certain period because he even surpassed them .

His son James had training from his dad's two teachers ,his dad ,and from Mr.Carl his instructor who also taught him magic.

They found his son had the potential to even surpass him.

The King quickly slammed his hand on the table ,and shouted a single word, "War".

The moment his fist struck the table it created a ripple in the air ,and the two empty chairs flew away , the ministers were slightly pushed out from their positions.

The maps in the room flew all around the room.

Jacob who was standing outside the meeting hall could feel the brunt of the energy ,and the word said by the King was clearly audible to him.

"War ,huh,."thought Jacob and a sinister smile not befitting a prince appeared on his face.

Even though he was aware war caused life loss ,he had to do it for the sake of the Kingdom , the sake of his people.

He knew his father would have different plans ,when he saw his face while discussing his plans with him , while he saw a peaceful way ,and a plan for a slow growth , his father chose a plan for a quick and fast growth.