Peace Offering To The Cursed Prince

"So how many ships are we willing to part away in exchange for a trace, let's not forget he might not keep to his words," the third lord said.

The leaders fall silent.

"Tell him that although we have boats we are willing to sell but the empire of Taiwana and our kingdoms are not friends, giving away sure precious recourse will be like shooting one's foot," the sixth leader replied after carefully thinking everything though.

The soldier interpreted this to emperor Vanish. When Emperor Vanish heard these words he was not angry. 

"This is why I have asked how many you are willing to sell," he replied in a calm voice. The soldier told the leader what he has said.

"Then if you are asking about this, we are unwilling to sell any to a person who is not our 'friend,' " the sixth lord emphasized the word friend because he knew that for the emperor to take the journey himself and will not take no for an answer.

When Emperor Vanish heard the response he became displeased. Of course, this was because the interpreter had failed to emphasize the word 'friends' so the hint from the sixth leader was gone.

"I am here to ask nicely this time, I am even willing to pay, tell me if we go to war and I defeat you will I not have more than boats. I do not consider you enemy this should be enough," Emperor Vanish said in a cold voice.

Even if the six leaders could not tell what he said without the interpreter they knew he was angry and if they had not been leaders for a long time they would have broken into a cold sweat.

The interpreter then told them what the emperor has said. The first leader was angry at his arrogant words. "Tell him that he is currently in our territory and he can not act so arrogantly," the first leader spoke without thinking.

The poor soldier felt cold sweat but he had no choice but to tell these words to Emperor Vanish.

"Acting Arrogant, I have the ability to act arrogant. You do not think I was stupid enough to come all the way to the southside with just fifty men, do you? I have five thousand men who will match over in the next two hours and if they do not see me at this point the first kingdom of the south will be gone," Emperor Vanish replied without fear. Truth be told he only had three thousand men altogether but he wanted to scare the leaders so he called five thousand.

As expected when the leaders heard the word they all had worried expressions even if they tried their best to mask it.

"He must be lying," the first leader felt that Emperor Vanish was just trying to scare them.

"What if he is not?" The third leader asked. It was a matter of an entire kingdom, how could they act based on assumption.

"I am sure he is lying" the first leader insists.

"Then you are a fool," the fourth leader was angry with the first leader. Then agreed to deal with the situation in other to avoid war yet, the first leader kept saying things that will lead to what.

"How dare you," the first leader angrily pointed a finger at the fourth leader.

"I dare! what will you do about it? Your kingdom might be destroyed after today yet you think like a fool. How did you even become a leader?" The fourth leader was angry?

Seeing that an internal conflict was about to start amongst them the sixth leader decided to come in. "Both of you, stop," he roared in a loud voice.

The two leaders glared at each other before looking away. Nobody on the south side dared to offend the sixth leader as his kingdom is the largest and richest on this part.

"We can not afford to fight among ourselves, if we do the entire southside might be lost forever. We can also not afford to act based on careless assumptions. We all know the identity of the man standing before us. He has the entire Northside under his control. This means that he commands nothing less than fifty thousand soldiers. Tell me how can sure a man journey this far with just fifty men?" The sixth leader asked nobody in particular but his gaze rested on the first leader.

The first leader looked away embarrassed. The total number of soldiers that he commanded was less than seven thousand so he could not think of one man traveling with five thousand men at once. He forgot their differences in status.

"So what if he has five thousand men with him, I do not believe that this man will dare attack if we have him as our prisoner," the second leader said.

"You seem not to understand something...," Emperor Vanish spoke in their language.

The leaders were so shocked that they almost cough out blood. They have been discussing among themselves in his presence because they were sure he did understand them. How could they have guessed he will not only understand them but he was also flaunted?

It was not just Emperor Vanish the fifty men with him could also understand the language. This was why they were the ones that followed him into the first kingdom.

"Emperor Vanish why pretend to be ignorant if you understand us so well?" The sixth felt Embarrassed.

"How else will I know if you plan to poison me if I do not act ignorant?" Emperor Vanish's face had no emotions or readable expression. "It does not matter if you hold me prisoner or not, if I do not return in another two hours my soldiers will show themselves. If I still do not show up one hour later this kingdom will be ruined," Emperor Vanish added after a short pause.

The six leaders came to a realization, the man before them had come well prepared for any situation. Usually, they would have talked among themselves now that they knew he could hear them they were at loss for a short moment.

"Emperor Vanish since you can understand us then you have also heard us agree to sell the boat we have to you but on the condition that we become allies. So what do you think? Our offer is reasonable. With boats in your possession, you can ride quickly within a day to this side. We need to know that there will be no sneak attack for no reason if we stay in our space," the sixth leader said.

Emperor Vanish knew their demand was reasonable but he could not just agree to be their allies, who knows if they will turn against him after they handed the boats over.

"I understand your concern but Taiwana will not agree to become Allies just to buy boats that we will pay for.. How can we trust that you will honor your words and stay in your side?" Emperor Vanish asked.