"He is quite resourceful," she said, with much hesitation, "we have an assassination squad in our empire, very talented and can't be rivaled by any here except perhaps you."

Her face showed how much distressed she was!

"Don't worry," he said, before realizing more of him lacking good fighters. "The idea of making more droids should be pushed faster than scheduled," he added, as this was the only option he currently had to counter the risks they were facing.

"Oh, that… that seems to be a great option," she smiled finally while agreeing with his decision. "If we managed to create a special squad of them, upgrading their tech with what we currently have, I think we might be able to stop many attempts."

She spoke lightly of this like her life wasn't on the line. He glanced shortly in praise for her great control over her emotions. "Good, push using everything we have," he said before adding, "and I will keep your company here until we have decent numbers of them."

"Thanks," she said in honest gratitude.

"Don't thank me, you are my girl y'know."

"I know but…" she paused before adding, "others might have sacrificed me instead."

"Hahaha, silly girl, I'm not that lousy and mean."

She laughed, knowing that what he just said was correct.

He glanced at the palace before adding, "this palace needs repair."

"And more security," she turned to glance at the perfectly fine walls and gates, "that man managed to enter here without being asked!"

"I watched him enter through the main door of the palace, no one seemed to see him. Like being invisible, which was… odd!" James said, explaining what he had seen when he noticed the man for the first time.

"Special ability perhaps?" she muttered, "well the droid team will solve things for us," she nodded, confirming her own belief and decided to proceed in this process.

James left her to go and start her busy schedule day, while he went upstairs. He had unfinished things to handle; that king!

When he entered his soul room, the scene he saw wasn't anyway far from what he expected! Total chaos and war between everyone!

And the man, that king, dark skinned and bald, stood in the middle tightened by chains all over his body, and even his mouth.

"Just give up, this one is mine!" Stefanie shouted at the others while she added, "my man, your man said he is mine!"

"Humph, we won't let someone low as you have it, this is ours!" Sirene said, speaking on the tongue of her and Natalie, while both were fighting all the other girls in a brutal fight.

All were for themselves here, and everyone just dreamt of eating this king alive!

"Stop," James didn't shout, he simply waved his hand and everyone, literally everyone froze in place. "Sigh, didn't I warn you?" he glanced at the stupefied Sirene before walking, leisurely, as the only king here in place.

His words were threatening, not just to Sirene but to others. Sirene glanced at him with no fear at her face, yet he knew she was terrified of what he once threatened.

"Do you want to be thrown on the corner, not used or touched by me?" he said, while enjoying the distressed look over the two queens faces. "Sigh, I said I will give this to Stefanie, why didn't y'all listen?"

He kept walking slowly until he reached Stefanie, caressed her face before releasing her body and giving her a fiery kiss. "Go and claim your meal, you earned it fair and square," he said while she jumped out of joy and ran towards the king.

Once reached there, she touched him with both hands before the man seemed to be in agony, screaming with all his might without his screams being answered by anyone.

In minutes his body melted and his flesh withered away. nothing remained out of him except for this fluid which was absorbed by Stefanie.

Once she took all the fluid, her body went soft and her legs couldn't hold her anymore. She fell on the ground, yet a small mattress appeared there by the act of James to hold her body.

"Tsk," Natalie wasn't pleased with such an outcome, "this is… total waste!"

"I just want to have more queens," he laughed while giving her a meaningful glance. She and Sirene exchanged glances; they didn't expect him to know such a thing.

And now they realized all their efforts from before were meaningless. The two wanted to share this king for themselves, not allowing one more queen to be born.

"What? Did you think I didn't know? Hehehe, wrong move from you two, very wrong move," he laughed and the next moment he snapped his fingers before going out to the ladies around. "I will enjoy with those here and leave you two watching," he laughed while a long and vigorous love session happened between him and the girls.

Sirene and Natalie had to watch this and do nothing. They knew they couldn't blame anyone except the girls for not being punished with them.

And so the two decided to teach these artifacts what it meant to defy a queen's order, of course after waiting for him to leave.

After hours of having fun, he opened his eyes again feeling more energized. Just as he went down the palace, he noticed many repairs there. "She is really efficient," he commented before leaving the palace and heading towards the main administrative building in the huge garden here.

As he went there, he noticed the presence of two strangers walking leisurely in the garden like it was their own backyard.

"Sigh, two more assassins in less than a day?" he wasn't clueless about those two, as he already knew who they were.

"Time to teach them a lesson," he smiled before taking out the knife and the whip.

"Asking us out to fight, and not asking us inside to play, huh!" Sirene had such a sharp tongue, yet James laughed while saying:

"I warned you, didn't I?"

"Tsk." She groaned and didn't answer. "Are they the new kids sent for us to kill?"

"Sure, can you do that?"

"Of course, let's finish here fast as we have… ahem, we have to rest inside."

James didn't know why but he suspected something was going on inside his soul room. Despite his doubts, he didn't think of interfering, he would love to let the girls settle on their own matters.

The fight erupted hot from the start, while he used the knife, the whip, and the bow to kill the two after a simple fight.

"Tsk, unlike that youth, these middle aged men aren't that strong or rich," James complained when he didn't find any king or queen artifacts in their possession. Even their storage rings were almost empty except for a few ores and some artifacts.

"Take these and see who's worthy to join and who is suited to be sacrificed," he said while taking out all these useless artifacts and sending them to the soul room.

Then the girls all vanished returning back inside.

"This is getting out of control now," he muttered while glancing at the two dead bodies and the devastation this small war caused to the place around.

The garden had many holes now, and even the administrative building had some damage. Panic and confusion erupted everywhere, yet all who witnessed the fight with their own eyes became much touched with James and his hidden prowess.

"They kept knowing her position even after changing it," he noticed this thing, and this was a mystery.

The first assassin came to the residential palace and headed without question to the higher floors. These two were heading straight to the administrative building; totally ignoring the residential palace.

"Is there a track on her?" That was the only possible explanation he had.

And knowing that made him grin. "If you want to play this dirty, then I will gladly accompany you," he turned towards the administrative building where he noticed the face of Islinda rattled with worry from the third floor side window.

He smiled before entering there and ascended the stairs. When he reached the place she was at, he found himself in a small meeting room with Dora, Luna, and Rigo.

"You rascal, you have your girls around and forgot about your sexiest one!" the moment he entered the room Luna screamed at him while jumping to land in his arms.

Per old habit his hands moved to touch all of her sensitive parts, making her eyes roll up, bite her lips and even moan!

"You are the naughty one! Heard about my return and didn't come to welcome me after all this time?" he retorted back in words and in strong touches that made her body twitch slightly under him.

Yet he wasn't in the mood to go deeper with her right now. "Tell me, do you have anything precious from your past life at the empire?" he said, directing his question straight to Islinda even before he sat on a seat.

She seemed quite troubled for a moment, before saying: "I have many ornaments. But why do you ask?"

"You wear all of them right now?" James didn't answer her as he threw his next question.

"Only two of them, the rest are back in the palace."

James nodded before stretching out one hand, "give them to me then."