Battle Harem of the Heavenly Sword

"Nii-sama, please say that again?"

"I do not belong to the existing seven chains. I am the eight."

"..."

"Master, is it okay for us to hear this? If others knew they would hunt you." Aurum expressed his concern over the topic.

Geo followed up with his own thoughts. "I agree, the ones unhappy with their current generation in the original chains will jump at the chance of being 1st generations."

Lars as someone who saw the darkness that hides in people didn't comment but similarly knew the dangers that such information presented.

"Your concerns are valid, but that is a matter for another time. Right now your main task is beating us." Raylene crossed her arms as her ponytail swayed. Not to be left behind Vanessa and Jade similarly stood beside her like a K-pop group posing for a photo.

Tsugumi smiled and faced off against her sisters-in-law as her calibers slowly engulfed her. "Yes! My happiness is on the line. How will the duel take place? Does Nii-sama already have an Idea how we do this?"

At her words the mind screen broke, allowing their group to again return to the dining all. Upon doing so they noticed Dyan and his wives, Alan, Madame Xing, and even Hach around them. Hiro's words explained what just happened.

"I terminated the screen as there was a pervert who spied on us anyway."

Dyan made a wide grin as he answered. "Now don't get me started on that, you bastard. I suffered a lot over this week because of you. I do not believe there is a bigger pervert than you in the entire continent. You seem to live my father's precepts about the Four F's."

"From the sounds they all made your women don't seem to think so. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dominii bloodline suddenly had a baby boom in the coming months."

At Hiro's words, Vesna, Talvi, Autumn, and most of all Leto blushed like apples. Due to Hiro not allowing himself to be blocked, it also meant no one else could either. So naturally, if others heard his harem's voices he heard everyone else's as well.

Madame Xing who understood what he meant hid behind Alan out of shame. The prince who could not rebut the butcher's comment grew silent. Being a system user with high stats, sometimes made others feel they were ever-present.

So long as you were in the sense range of one meant that even your whispers would be known. This was why people opted to create mind screens. These constructs blocked the senses of other system users, naturally with high enough stats mind screens became useless.

Hiro who could see how powerful Dylan was, knew that placing screens on himself would be pointless in front of the crown prince. Luckily it seems that the Dominii royalty knew nothing else but combat. He could neither create caliber constructs nor possessed skills that did. Thus he gave the jobs to his wives.

The four women while powerful were far from Dylan's level. Thus none of them could stop Hiro when they tried to lock the sounds of their amorous lovemaking. Tsugumi and Hiro's group stood silent as they knew not what Dylan heard.

Feeling the tension slowly rise Hiro waved towards an empty table for them to sit at. "Your highness, thank you for respecting my honeymoon. Let us get down to business shall we?"

The prince nodded and they soon sat down at a long table on opposite sides. Neither side ate anything as the matters to be discussed would affect not just the empire but possibly the entire continent.

Hiro sat down flanked by Raylene, and Vanessa, with Jei and Tsugumi serving as his wings. Dylan did the same with his four wives in a neat row, with the mature Vesna and silent Talvi taking the spots by Dylan's side. The San-Baka waited with Alan, Madam Xing, and Hach.

Dylan opened up the discussions as he started. "So, the only thing I want is for you to join my faction and make me Emperor of the Dominii empire. If that is not possible then the mere minimum I request is for you to not join Rhyne."

"That will never happen." X4

The abrupt objection did not come from one or two but all four of the women by Hiro's side. The rage in their voices did not betray the hostility present in their words. Hiro released Spirit which blanketed his battle harem. Noticeably all four calmed down much to the surprise of Dylan's women.

Autumn, who naturally was curious about such applications asked in excitement. "WOW! What was that? How did you manage their moods with just your Calibers!"

Hiro then looked at Dylan to see if he would allow such tangents at this important meeting. The prince simply nodded, which indicated it was fine to do so. The butcher quickly noted how soft the prince was to his harem. Spoiling such bad behavior comes either from affection or devotion. Both showed how much Dylan valued the ones beside him

"I have learned that Calibers function like brain chemicals. Aura, Mana, and Spirit reflect a certain emotion and mindset that fosters minute changes in the person's disposition.

"Aura invokes courage, aggression, and anger. Spirit is represented by righteousness, comfort, and apathy. Lastly, Mana is characterized by prudence, happiness, and ruthlessness."

The princes' faction despite being powerful individuals had yet to hear of such matters. However, like lightning bolts, they each gained their own insights when they compared it to what they knew.

Their group had Leto a loud, aggressive aura user. Talvi, a detached righteous spirit user. Autumn a bright and happy Mana user. And Vesna a calm and prudent Spirit/Mana hybrid user.

Dyan who had both Aura and Spirit also displayed traits from both calibers. He made a signal and before Autumn could ask again, Talvi held her hands and told her to remain silent.

"It seems we have much to learn from each other. I stated my terms what are yours?" Impressed that the brute in front of him also had wisdom, the desire to get Hiro in his faction burned inside him.

Hiro then nodded and answered. "You already gave me the wedding I asked for, the other is information. Guide me to where Leonidas Reisen Dominii was found and all your information about the saviors."

"You have business with my father?"

"I do not know yet."

"What will you give me in return?"

Hiro smiled and asked, "How will the duel go?"

Amused Dylan then explained. "The event is an annual show of force by our empire called the "Battle Harem Royale". It is a tournament-style competition similar to the Olympics.

"Each Battle harem can register up to ten members. These ten can challenge as many events as they wish to all gain points.

"There will be five different types of matches: dom matches, sub solitary combat, sub pairs, dom and sub pairs, sub-only team fights, and battle harem combat.

"Match modes include duels, free-for-alls, capture the flag, and death matches. Subs will be eliminated from the entire thing if they lose at any event.

"If the Dom losses his/her entire battle harem is kicked out, if a grand dom loses all sub-dominants will get kicked out. There is a 5-generation limit for sub-harems to prevent alliances.

"The top two battle harems with the highest score will join Gae-Bolg and Starfall who are seeded in a four-side elimination battle royale."

Calibers rose from Hiro's body like a hurricane. His excitement, bloodlust, and thirst for battle surprised Dylan's entire group.

"Can I kill Starfall in the tournament? More specifically can I kill your sister? She and I can no longer live under the same sky. Do you mind?"