The king raised his hand to the sky, releasing a sonic boom in the process as a barrier covered the entirety of the palace. The remaining guild kings seemed to recognize the barrier as they turned to look at the king with nasty looks on their faces.
"A life and death barrier? Now that barrier will not come down until either you or all of us are dead. You won't use it unless you are absolutely sure you would win, are you sure you want to make that mistake, do you think your aspirant pet… or perhaps it is you who is his pet. Well do you think the both of you are enough, that you can even do much as leave a dent on any one of us." Cole's reply to that was to look at the still impaled corpse of the guild King pinned to the main doors of the palace.
