304 WE ALERTED THEM

Senja looked straight ahead when she saw two of the soldiers was eyeing Ye Xiu's sword which hung on his hips threateningly.

"Throw your sword and show your identity." One of the soldiers said while he unsheathed his own sword.

The other soldiers followed his movement and now, there were around forty soldiers on the spot who were ready to take both of them down in matter of second if Senja or Ye Xiu took a reckless moved.

But, Ye Xiu looked at those soldiers with hardened eyes and determination in his stance.

"Senja, be ready." Ye Xiu said before he drew his own sword.

It would be a scene of bloodshed after this.

Well, Senja had really tired of all this and wanted to meet Xiao Tianyao as fast as she could, to see with her own eyes that he was fine and nothing bad happened to him.

That was why, they trying to delay her meeting was annoyed her to the bone.

So, the mixed feeling between anger, annoyed and sadness finally take a toll on her as she found a way to vent out all of her frustration.

Following Ye Xiu's command, Senja drew her dagger as Ye Xiu and she left the bloody victims in their wake while encroaching forward to the city's gate.

They were just mere soldiers with average swordsmanship. Even though Ye Xiu and Senja were outnumbered it didn't have much effect on the result. Ye Xiu could take them down in on his own like a walk in the garden and for Senja, her skills was quite good.

In a matter of minutes all the soldiers who were guarding the outer gates were lying on the ground, bleeding and dying.

There was no way they could fight both of them anymore.

Looking the defeated soldier at the outer gates, people from inside was trying to close the gates and kept them outside. However, Ye Xiu had decided to enter the city and nothing would stop him or Senja.

Before the gates closed Ye Xiu gestured Senja to stay behind him.

Senja complied as she watched the things that she had never seen before with wide eyes and gapping jaw.

Ye Xiu took his stance and with white aura surrounding the blade of his sword he slashed through the air, the momentum made waves of shock.

The gates threw open as though there was a brutal force hit them. Those people behind it flew a few meters away from the scene and instantly cleared the entrance.

The shouting from behind the gates snapped Senja out of her thought. Following Ye Xiu into the city's gate Senja found they were surrounding with many soldiers there were more of them.

Ye Xiu didn't wait for Senja as he lunged himself to the nearest bunch of soldiers and drew their live out from their mortal body.

This was a battlefield and their life was on the line, unfortunately they had only one life that couldn't be returned once it's gone.

So, they had to fight for it.

Ye Xiu tried to shield Senja and protect her, but the girl was good on her own so he kept going forward, satisfied with Senja's reliability. In another situation he would like to take her as a disciple, but not now and of course not in the future as well. He doubted that both of them would cross path again after he found Riana.

It took sometime before wave after wave of the soldier who kept coming on their way stopped.

Moving forward, Ye Xiu and Senja half running toward the other gates to enter the city, however the city that unfolded before their eyes made Senja gasped in shock.

Subconsciously she brought her hand to muffle her scream.

"Oh, my God!"

The city before their eyes wasn't like a city anymore.

The smell of something burned could be caught from miles away. Smoke, billowing into the sky as the glimmer of sunlight could be seen over the edge of the horizon, giving some light on the heartbreaking landscape.

It was an utter destruction.

Most part of the district had been completely burned to the ground and some still continued to burn. There was no citizen on the sight, presumably they had escaped from this ruin city.

"What they had done here?" Senja gasped in shock. Something terrible and horrify had happened. This district was utterly out of shape.

No sooner had the words fallen off her lips, Ye Xiu grabbed her hand and urged her to run the opposite direction.

Before both of them disappeared from the bloody scene of the entrance gates, Senja caught a glimpse of another bunch of soldiers were coming their way.

They could fight them off again of course, but it wasn't necessary. They had to keep their energy for something more important as both of them run out from the scene.

Ye Xiu took them to the stables and released a horse for himself while Senja did the same. Like there was a tacit understanding between them, they started to move toward the same direction.

Riding their horses through this devastated city, gave Senja and Ye Xiu the big picture just how horrible this place had turned.

Senja could feel her heart hammering in her chest as she thought about Xiao Tianyao and Xiao Jun's condition at this moment. They should be in this city, but looking from how the Emperor of Azura's armies swarmed all over the place in this district, made Senja thought about the worst thing that could be possible happened to them.

Her heart was tightening in worry.

"What happened here!?" Senja shouted at Ye Xiu to fight the winds as they ran their horse as fast as they could.

Ye Xiu shook his head. "I don't know!" He shouted back. "But, we will find out."

Senja didn't feel good about the things that they would find out.

They rode the horse through the forest to the other district and another, but it was all the same, destruction was everywhere as the smell of burning ambers in the air.

The sun has almost set in the horizon when they arrived in district 11, where the Roccaleaf Tea House located, but all they could see was a burning enormous building with fire on some part.

"Impossible…" Senja muttered under her breath when she saw the inn that almost couldn't be recognized anymore.

Beside her, Ye Xiu's eyes turned darker. "We need to find someone who can give us the detail…" He said.

"And you know who?" Senja snapped her head at him with expectant eyes. She didn't have connection here and didn't know what to do now.

"Yes, I do." Ye Xiu said firmly. He knew someone that could help them in time like this.

Both of them ran their horses to different direction. There was a time they were running into a bunch of soldiers, but it didn't stop them.

However, it didn't mean they were not alerted by the unexpected trespasser.

"Ye Xiu." Senja raised her voice to fight the wind that howling around them. "We alerted them."

"I am aware." Ye Xiu replied, he knew because that was his intention.

His white hair flared behind him as wind brushed past them. For a moment Senja admired the scene, it was surreal. Ye Xiu must be a handsome man in his young age.