Chapter 427 - Dying Regret (Part-2) (1/2)

”But... but what about them? Are we going to leave them just like that?”

Ryuu looked directly into the eyes of the speaker as he spoke, ”I understand you are concern about the fate of Elmer and the others but please tell me what are our chances against them? Please enlighten me.”

The person looked down as she bit her lips before she spoke, ”None, we have no chance at all.”

”There you have it. You yourself acknowledge the fact that we do not have any chance against them not even a small chance at all, so how can we rescue them.”

”What if we prepare an ambush?”

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, ”It will not work, and they might just use your brethren as a meat shield, not to mention how will we ambush them here, look around us there are small dunes of snow nothing more if we say we could hide underneath and trigger some trap and what not then you forgot that we will have no exit they will simply pump in some poison and close the exit.”

The person looked dejected, a look of resignation came to her face as Ryuu gave a sympathetic smile to her as he spoke, ”I cannot fathom to even understand the emotional turmoil you are going through, my words may seem like a false platitude, but believe me when I say that I would help to rescue your people that I swear on my honor and name, but we have to do it slow and methodical, if even half of our original numbers were present it would have been different, but unfortunately we do not have the luxury.”

”I understand, I understand everything but its hurt so much they..”

As sobs came from her throat, Ryuu embraced the crying girl as he began to gently pat her trying to ease her pain, 'Such a cruel world we live in, those poor people they are suffering so much yet I can not…. No, I chose not to do something I might call Elmer an idiot but I am no better if I had someone who was near to be captured like that, I would have moved heaven and earth to save them, I am such a hypocrite.'

His eyes hardened as he swore inwardly, 'I might not be able to save them today, but I will I swear on my honor and name, I will rescue them.'

The thought of the captured cultivators made him wince, 'I doubt even after I have saved them, they would be alright who knows what those sc.u.m are doing with the, just the thought…', with a deep sigh Ryuu reigned in his thoughts before letting go of the somewhat composed girl.

Severing Saber gave a small nod as did Chianyu which Ryuu returned promptly before he began to speak, ”Some time ago our good friend Elmer had been caught and we fear that by now they would have pried our location from their minds, as such we are moving to another location.”

”Direct confrontation is still not possible and the outside is still as dreadfully cold as ever, not to mention the occasional blizzards so I advise caution, and please be fast, we will be moving at extremely fast pace as it has been sometimes since the capture of brother Elmer, by now I am confident that they have already found about our base, and I do not want brother DarkThorne's hard work to be wasted, he had put his life on the line for us after all.”

The group simply nodded as they soon followed after True-Spear who was leading them towards their new place of residence, which was unknown to but a handful was not a place of refuge but the gateway to the other level, Ryuu simply wanted a breathing room without breathing down hard on their neck.

As they moved well few distance away from the previous base Ryuu looked back towards its direction as his fingers twitched a bit and a smirk appeared on his lips before he resumed his journey.

Frost Flames looked at the odd smile on his lips as she spoke, ”Why are smiling Ryuu?”

Ryuu looked at Frost Flames who was now his girlfriend as he spoke with a smile, ”Nothing just left a rather nasty surprise for them.”

Frost Flames brow furrowed as she spoke, ”Surprise?”

Ryuu ran his hand through his hair as he spoke, ”Well since they have hostages and without a doubt, they would use them to test any traps as such nothing lethal but something that could occupy them for some time.”

”I see, are you going to do the same near the gateway, Ryuu?”

”Of course Frost why wouldn't I, the longer I can keep them occupied, the better it is for us.”

Frost Flames bit her lips as she spoke, ”But, you said that you would help to free all of them on your honor and name.”

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, ”That I did but I never swore that I would rescue all of them as it is basically impossible.”