Chapter 413 - Sneaking Past (Part-3) (1/2)
Xughez, sighed as he looked at his men, it had been some time since the news about the death of their Lord Zikris had reached his ears, and since then he was anxious as well as afraid, Zikris may have been a bit hot-headed but at the end of the day he was a lot better than the other two, at the very least he cared about his men not use them like some disposable chess piece, and now he is dead and he was told to wait before his unit would be divided between the two.
Since the time he had heard about Zikris's death, he had suspected something afoul at work but he could not prove anything not to mention he was sure that the moment he speaks about this suspicion, he would be dead, after all, many would love to take his place and his share of the loot as such he was forced to swallow his anger and keep his mouth shut.
As he contemplated on what to do and in what direction his life would lead, a sudden shout came from his men as he quickly stepped out of his tent, he was greeted with purplish mist that made him feel dizzy and he collapsed shortly.
A few minutes ago, Ryuu and his group of fellow cultivators had made their way towards the base of their enemies, the base which was situated on completely flat land as such no matter the direction of the approach they would have been noticed a long time ago, but due to the ingenious use of various array they were able to approach them with relative ease, though their approach was not a walk the park either as they had to disarm various kinds of traps along the way.
A distance away from the base Elmer gave a small nod as one of his fellow cultivators of Deva realm threw small balls towards the base, it detonated upon impact as a purple colour mist covered most of the base, upon seeing that he gave a satisfied nod as he spoke with a smile on his face, ”Good now let us charge!!”
With a roar from the cultivators charged against the camp, but the Manushya realm was a bit half-hearted in their attempt compared to the Deva realm, at first they were eager for a fight as seeing Ryuu's battle a few days ago which had lit their blood aflame but that had changed to a bit of annoyance mixed with exasperation as Elmer a person who was not even from their realm had begun to command them and they refused to follow him anymore.
Ryuu's group descended as soon as their initial bombardment of poisonous bombs took place, whoever inhaled them were paralyzed as they fell on the ground, sound tactics as it had managed to reduce the enemy forces drastically, but it was not without a flaw, the air was blowing away from them was the only reason they have not succ.u.mbed to the poison, and even if the enemy cultivators were poisoned that did not mean that they could not attack amongst them were many KI practitioners who did not need to move physically to attack and they held their ground well, but the most dangerous flaw was that they even got their hostages paralyzed.
Ryuu clicked his tongue in annoyance as he waved his hands as half a dozen short swords flew and tore open his opponents before they return forming a circle behind him, as another six similar swords joined them.
Pierce, slash, cut, the kick was all that Ryuu did as he was joined by Frost Flames, who stood back to back with him, complimenting his fighting style with a smirk on her face, they fought like a well-oiled machine to the point it amazed Ryuu.
'I do not know whether she might be able to keep up with me if I was to go all out, but I am enjoying fighting side by side with her.'
Ryuu stabbed a person with his spear, as Frost Flames took off the head of the enemy who was behind him before they turned back to back cutting down another set of enemies.
”We are taking too much time.”, Frost Flames growled out in anger, her voice was full of worry as Ryuu could not help but out in the agreement.
”We have to pick space, otherwise the sound of our battle would draw the other groups and it would be the death of us.”, Ryuu spoke with complete agreement, before he spoke with a groan, ”That idiot is busy killing Preta realm cultivators, he should focus on rescuing his brethren first otherwise…..”, Ryuu gave a deadpanned look on his face as he stared at the scene in front of him.
Frost Flames growled as she spoke, ”I have half a mind to beat some sense on his head, now because of the idiot we have a hostage situation, and we are wasting time not to mention others might notice.”
Ryuu snorted at that as he spoke, ”That is a given, but I failed to understand how did others notably True-Spear and Chianyu agreed to his idiotic plan.”