Heavenly Dao Child

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."

Frost Flames narrowed her eyes as she looked towards her Martial brother as she spoke, "That idiot claimed that they were going to get some form of super-secret concoction that would make the enemy useless, those two should have thoroughly probed and prodded them before agreeing."

Ryuu growled as he looked at the horizon towards where the other camps of their enemies were present, he could spot a large amount of black dots coming from that direction, which made him swear as he looked towards the Preta realm cultivator who held one of the Deva realm cultivators in front of hostage and from the looks of it Elmer and his group was hesitating to attack, 'Damn it those idiots are goings to get us all killed.'

Ryuu quickly went and kneeled on the ground, with the sun behind him, a considerable shadow formed as he sent his short swords through his shadow, the Preta realm cultivator did not get time to blink as he was skewered by the swords tearing him apart before they flew back to him.

"What the hell are you doing? Is this how you are going to rescue the rest of your people.", Ryuu showed at Elmer his face showing barely restraint anger but before he could say anything Ryuu simply waved him off as he spoke, "Forget it, you all are going to carry your injured companions and we are leaving NOW!!!"

With his peace said Ryuu took the sky as Frozen Ocean joined his side but not before she shouted out, "What are you all waiting, look at the horizon we have already poked the hornet's nest if you wish to do, then stay back and do so but without dragging others."

The Manushya did not to be said twice as they followed after them without asking, the Deva realm stood there gawking with a few enraged at their disrespect but they soon followed after him carrying their newly rescued but injured fellow cultivators.

"Ryuu do you have a plan?", Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, "Tell others to follow it to the letter."

A few minutes ago Unanresh lay on her bed as she looked at the ceiling of her tent, her leader Jethrar had ventured out with a small group of his men and as did Ithrura leaving her in charge, 'Charge, yeah right, it is clearly some nefarious plot of their, when they return they would find something amiss and cause trouble for me, I hate them if only I had access to resources as they were I would have become a Celestial by now, I hate them and now I am bored.'

"Lady Unanresh there has been an emergency."

Those words made her jump up from her bed as she spoke hurriedly, "What happened?"

"There has been an attack on cam….", as she heard the news her eyes widen as a gleam of excitement appeared in her eyes as she ordered the messenger, "Arouse everyone we are going to hunt down those wretched cultivators."

The messenger gawked at her as he spoke "But we we….", only to choke as if someone had their hands wrapped around not only his head but was effectively squeezing his vital organs while Unaresh looked at him with unbridled fury as she spoke, "Go and arouse everyone, I will not tolerate my brethren dying because someone requested it because of some sick humour."

As such a few minutes later she found herself standing with almost all of the Preta realm cultivators behind her back as she glared at the invisible shield that stopped them from venturing forth and chasing after the attackers as she bellowed out loud, "Destroy that shield now! We will move to the next level, capture them and teach them the folly of messing with us."

Her words were greeted with loud cheers as they eagerly began their attack to clear their path to the next level and catch Ryuu and his group.