Chapter 813 - Flaming River Dragon Flag (2/2)

“Why is the lord in such a hurry? What is he doing?”

Anyone who saw the rushing crowd of horses and people would know that something was about to happen.

There’s an emergency!

After rushing to the city gates, Chao Wen climbed up the tower and stared far away. His chest tightened. Although he could see only a black dot far away, he knew that Chao Chuan’s report was true. There were even suspicious figures in the air.

“Close the gates!” After Chao Wen shouted, he readied the archers. The birds in the sky were no ordinary birds.

Rumble…

Outside the city was a trading group who just arrived. Before they could enter, they were locked outside. No matter how they begged and yelled and threatened, the gates were still closed. The lord was personally at the gates, who would dare open them?

Not just the people outside, even the people inside the city were puzzled. Anyone who wanted to leave was stopped.

A crowd approached the gates to watch. If the guards did not stop them, they would have come over to the gates.

“Why are they closing the gates during the day?” someone was upset.

“Yeah, they should have informed us too, if something happened.”

And we would have run as soon as possible, they thought privately.

“It doesn’t look too good. Should we find a way to leave now?”

“Climb the walls? There are guards everywhere now though.”

“We can hide first.”

“Don’t speculate blindly, let’s watch.”

The complaints and discussion stopped in the next second.

Awooooo—-

A wolf’s howl came from far away.

There was silence, then the crowd exploded in discussion.

“Wolf! That was a wolf!”

“That was no ordinary wolf, I can tell!”

“We have heard howls like this before but why does this feel so…” The person shuddered.

“A fearsome beast!” said an older traveller with confidence. Their group was from deep in the mountains, they could differentiate between wild and fearsome beasts. Only a fearsome beast could make that sound. An ordinary wolf could not release such a bone-chilling howl and made every muscle tense up.

Caw—

A few eagles flew past. They circled the city.

“They are too high up, we can’t shoot,” reported an experienced archer. Even if they could shoot, the arros need to be fast enough because the bird could have moved after the arrows were fired. Based on their agility, it was clear that these birds could not be shot down easily.

“That… is also a fearsome beast!”

“What is going on? Is someone attacking the city?”

The crowd had many guesses, their imaginations running like wild horses.

At this moment, Chao Wen stood on the city tower, his brows furrowed so tightly they could break a twig, his eyes fixated ahead.

Chao Chuan had received orders to mobilise the troops while Chao Wen watched the approaching group, trying to guess their identities and formulate a plan.

There were three large flags in front. Chao Wen recognised two flags- one bore the Longboat tribe’s totem, while the other made Chao Wen sigh bitterly.

“Flaming Horns!”

He recognised the totem because King City had once issued a command to kill Flaming Horn’s migrating party with the totem on the message. Chao Wen since learned more about the tribe.

When King City requested for them to send reinforcements, Chao Wen stalled on purpose. It was not because he wanted to help the Flaming Horns but because he did not like wasting his own troops. King City can fight their own battles, we just need to act like we’re helping.

However, he did not expect to see Flaming Horn’s totem here. So they were indeed from the other side of the ocean!

Other than Flaming Horn and Longboat tribe’s totems, he was not familiar with the third flag. There was a strange picture on it, like a snake. He had not seen it before.

No matter what, his first thought was— this is bad!

Actually, the flag that Chao Wen could not recognise was a new flag. It was ‘new’ because it was created not long ago.

Before the fleet left, when they were sending messages to each tribe, Shao Xuan suggested designing a flag for the Flaming River Alliance.

Since the alliance did not belong to one tribe and there were many members- likely even more in the future- they could not use any specific tribe’s totem. Even if they wanted to use the Flaming Horn’s totem, every tribe would object to it. The tribesmen were quite stubborn when it came to totem matters. That was why Shao Xuan used a familiar- though foreign to the people here- picture— a dragon.

The dragon was drawn according to Flaming River’s approximate shape.

The Flaming Horns did not object to Shao Xuan’s decision and thought it was a good idea. The other tribes naturally did not object either. Since it was based on the river, they were fine with it. When Shao Xuan suggested putting each tribe’s totem on the flag in the future, they grew even more excited. However, they took totems seriously and would not put their totems on the flag without a solemn ceremony. Since there was not much time, the flag only contained one Flaming River-shaped dragon.