The Sorceress: Blossoming Power

Saying nothing further, Lady Seliah walked out from her carriage, took one unicorn from its strappings, and rode on it. 

"Take good care of my other unicorns, Soldier. Remember, your life depended on it. Bye." After speaking she left, leaving the commandant dumbfounded.

The man shook his head, disgusted. "You're an insane, foolish woman. Don't take this person as a nanny of your pets." He looked around and found a man in the red suit running to the forest. "Hey! You!" he shouted. The person looked at him with wrinkling brows. "Look after these beasts. And, by the way… your life depended on the lady's mood. So look after these horses here well." He left after speaking, not waiting for the soldier's reply.

The man looked at the leaving officer, to the unicorns, to the fights at the forest, and scratched his head. After a while, his eyes shone, lifted his spear, and spanked one of the unicorn's butt, sending the Polkadot animal into a frenzy. It ran away, carrying along with the other two animals and the carriage. Contented, the soldier ran to the forest with a spear in a horizontal position, ready to pierce a Chiangda.

The blue-clad archers positioned themselves to fight as a group. Half of them faced the right while the other half faced the left. They lifted their bows with arrows and sent them flying to the forest on both sides. 

The Chiangdas weren't to be trifled with. Those with the power of the winds let their whirring air turn the arrows and send them back to the enemies. A green-clad man with a cape shouted something, and the green-clad infantries stood near each other, raised their shields like a dome above their heads, hiding the archers under them. The returning arrows struck no one but the steel round shields. 

While in that formation, another group of green men formed a straight line in the middle and stomped their spears to the ground, and the frontmost person threw its spear like a javelin to the forest. Out of nowhere, a strong quaking of the land took place where his spear pierced. 

This was the first the Chiangdas saw this type of attack and was caught unprepared. At first, they only watched and moved sideways, avoiding the thrown spear, but when the spear hit the ground, a speedy crack that looked like a spider web appeared, and the spear was its middle point. The cracks spread in a flash. This time, the Chiangdas fell on a crumbling land under them.

Good thing they had powers and used them to bring their bodies up. But a few had fallen into a deep hole and got wounded by the heavy blow. However, they got up and sent themselves up while covered with blood. 

Somehow, the blue archers didn't wait for the Chiangdas to recover from the previous setback and flew another volley of arrows. As trained warriors, their commanders and the battalion of archers were in one, knowing what to do in times like this. Archers took turns sending multiple arrows, piercing the Chiangdas who were not prepared for such fast attacks. Not just that. The green footmen stomped the spears again, sending quakes to those in the forest.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #%!d(string=14314881306034205)/war-(6)_%!d(string=51508149164758304) for visiting.

With no one commanding them, the Chiangdas were at a disadvantage. They were in disarray, fleeing from the quaking and the arrows. Xian Lang saw this and lit two simultaneous flares. With the signal, someone assumed leadership in every fifty Chiangdas. They went into different formations they trained themselves for years for such a time as this. 

Having a commandant changed their way of fighting. Instead of sending their attacks individually, they attacked in waves. Water Chiangdas sent frozen waters from the ground, freezing their enemies who were still in their formation, with shields on their heads, rendering them immobile The green men were in their excellent sense that they stomped their spears on the ice and broke them right away.

Yet, before they could move away, the fire Chiagndas sent a stream of flames to the enemies who were still busy breaking the ice. And roasted these men. Some pulled their shields down, defending them from being grilled alive. But this was an opening to the Chiangdas, as if offering the enemies were offering their heads to them. Iced arrows went flying and killed the blue archers and green infantrymen. 

While these happened, the plant Chiangdas were already letting their vines crawl underground to attack their enemies from under. They needed time to cover a vast area where these trained Platanna archers and spearmen stood. The rock Chiangdas were also busy making the land their standing into solid rock, perfectly cutting the effect of the greenstones.

A Platanna commander, a person wearing a cape, saw what a plant Chiangda was doing and called his men to retreat. They hurriedly ran back down the road where they entered the city. Unfortunately, half of them were caught by the plant Chiangdas enormous cage. Even the prince was inside this plant trap.

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Earlier, after Xian Lang directed Xinyi and the rest on where they would head, Xinyi used her plant essence to deliver herself in front of her Uncle Prince Zelmer. Both of them stood in the middle of the ongoing fights. They were meters apart.

"Uncle, there's no point in fighting this thing out. The people in Chiji had the right to live too. If you take all our power stones, it is the same as killing them. The stones aren't plants or animals that would reproduce on their own or when nurtured. Once lost, they are lost. They were made for Chiji, not for warfare or for your world. "

"I know but we need it to survive," the prince reasoned. 

"Your people got to find another way to survive. Not at the expense of Chiji."

"Maybe later we can find another way, but we don't have that much time now. That's why we need the stones so we can buy time to find another solution. Look, we can't transport the whole inhabitants to another world while we're trying to make a way for survival. That's why we need a lot of these stones now. If you don't want to fight, you need to give it to us and we'll leave and never come back again. Just this once."

"No, this world would be dead by then if I'll give what you want."

"As you've said, there's no point in talking now." From his palm, he directly sent a quick and blinding light at Xinyi. But her shield was ready to accept anything.

In return, she lashed her vine-like whip at the prince, but the latter's body was also covered with his own shield, so they were now facing each in a stalemate, waiting on who could make the first hit.

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