Towards Eternity
Ch 516's. Conquest (II)
Inside the capital there was panic everywhere. A deafening scream came out from the mouths of some of the women who saw the condition of the dead soldiers near them.
The panic soon spread to the emperor's palace. The soldiers who were guarding the gates and the palace walls noticed the chaos that was going on inside the city and immediately sent some people to check on it.
Before long, the sent men returned to the palace. Cold sweat poured down from their bodies and with fear they gave their reports to the superiors who sent them.
A look of disbelief emerged from the faces of their superiors, so dismissing the reports from the people he had sent. It is quite natural, after all who would just believe when he heard that 900 more people have died in 1 day and the cause is unknown.
"Hey you, don't joke with me. You know I can fire you right now, don't you?" the man who was the superior of the soldiers spoke in a cold voice to the 3 soldiers before him.
The three warriors were jolted with shock and still remained terrified, "Ti-No captain! How could we dare to lie to you!" One of the soldiers immediately spoke.
"Then what kind of report did you give me?! You're telling me to believe that all the soldiers in the capital right now are dead, huh?!"
"But that's what happened, captain!"
"Already! Go you guys, I'll check it out myself!"
The warrior captain immediately pushed the soldier who was in front of him, and walked away towards the capital outside the palace. The soldiers made no attempt to stop him and could only gulp.
Before long, the captain arrived outside the palace gate, and saw the panic that had been going on everywhere. Scared screams could be heard all over the city.
He frowned, and then walked quickly to a crowd of people not far from his current place. It didn't take long for him to reach the crowd and see what was being surrounded by those people.
But then, his facial expression turned blank as he looked at the pieces of human body that were currently lying on the ground. Hands, feet, head, and even organs of the body appear blurred and make anyone who sees it will become nauseous, even the captain was currently restraining himself from spewing out his breakfast which he had eaten two hours ago.
"I-This...What did those soldiers say was actually true?! N-No.impossible. You must be kidding...."
The captain, trying to convince himself that what happened and he saw at this time was not real, was, before then he began to pay attention to the surroundings and saw some other crowd that existed almost all over the city street.
There was one thing the crowd had in common, that they all looked confused and frightened. The warrior captain did not need to check all of them to find out what they were currently looking at.
As the Captain of the troops he commanded, he was a Martial Practitioner who was very sensitive to the scent of blood. He could easily smell the smell of blood from all over the city in just a few seconds of being inside the city.
"Hm? It seemed like the soldiers present in the palace were already aware of the situation. Did we just start in this place?" A few meters away from the captain, the figure of Ye Lao speaking spoke to Qian Yu and Weng Lou who were walking with him.
Hearing Ye Lou's suggestion, Qian Yu immediately rejected the aforementioned, "No need, the people within the city are already quite panicked and frightened at the moment. If we aggravate the situation, they will all scatter throughout the city and will trouble us if there are some soldiers who run out of the city. After all, he was only at the 4th level of the Foundation Base. As far as he goes, the Kirin we've assigned out of town can handle it easily."
Ye Lao did not speak any further. Although Qian Yu had always criticized him, she could not be angry or displeased. Being cooped up in the Book of Immortality for thousands of years makes Ye Lao's way of thinking sometimes too brutal, and speaking without thinking carefully.
The existence of Qian Yu who became his partner to help Weng Lou made Ye Lao feel relieved because Qian Yu understood Ye Lao's condition. He himself is often like that when too long in solitude.
"So, who are we going to kill?" weng Lou asked as soon as they passed the warrior captain who was still dumbstruck by the side of the road.
The three of them continued walking towards the palace gate.
"Hmm...what if it made all of them unconscious, including that Emperor Shengshi Huangdi? We can split up the tasks and do everything quickly." Ye Lao returned to give his advice.
This time Qian Yu did not directly reject Ye Lao's suggestion. He seemed to think for a moment before then nodded in agreement, "That's a good idea. Then let Lou take down the servants and other workers, and I'll handle the soldiers."
"Okay, let me find that emperor. I hope he hasn't escaped far enough after hearing about the soldiers being killed in the capital."
Weng Lou, Ye Lao and Qian Yu arrived in front of the palace gate. As they walked closer, the two soldiers who were there immediately confronted them with the weapons they were carrying, "Stop! This is not a public place! This was the emperor's palace, other than the nobles and the emperor's people, no one was allowed to approach!"
The two soldiers stared lowly at Weng Lou and the others. The clothes worn by the three of them did seem ordinary, unlike those worn by nobles or other wealthy people thus triggering insulting gazes from the soldiers who were there.
"So, who wants to start?" ye Lao asked with a faint smile to the soldier before him.
"Let me, I want to hone my skills a little bit again" said Qian Yu who immediately stepped forward.
Seeing the actions of that Qian Yu, the two warriors who confronted them felt Qian Yu provoke them, and unreservedly swung the weapons in their hands at him.
Qian Yu did not panic, she calmly took out a thread of bright blue color from her palm. The blue thread moved like a whip and directly wrapped around the body and weapons of the soldier before him.
The movements of the two soldiers instantly came to a halt, as well as the attacks they aimed at Qian Yu. The blue thread then continued to wrap around the bodies of the two soldiers and then covered their entire bodies completely.
"That Death."
*plash!* *tsh!*
*KRAACKK!*
The thread was jolted and immediately wrapped tightly around the bodies of the two soldiers. The sound of broken bones could be heard from within the winding of the blue thread, and blood then gushed out from between the twists of the thread.
At this moment, the twine no longer formed a human body, but rather a lump of flesh. The lump of flesh slowly disappeared, and when the twine was pulled back by Qian Yu, the bodies of the two soldiers who had previously been lost were left unnoticed.
"Ah, they don't even have the slightest energy in their bodies." Qian Yu spoke as she clicked her tongue.
"Yes, after all they are just ordinary soldiers. There are quite a number of warriors inside there who might be able to charge Qi for me."
Qian Yu reopened her hand and a sword shaped similar to the Night Dragon Sword appeared in her hand. The sword was as bright blue as the thread he had previously created. This sword was made using his Mana which came from the Qi he had turned over.
Not far from them, the other warriors who witnessed what Qian Yu was doing immediately called out to his comrades and surrounded Qian Yu, and the others.
"Bless your hands, and throw away the weapons in your hands! We'll kill you if we don't!" One of the soldiers exclaimed at Weng Lou's group.
"Hahaha.they are very understanding. I don't even have to look for them one by one. Now...who wants to die first?"