
L.O.S.E 33 - Silence
ARC 1 - Fall to Rise
The sound of the clash of weapons echoed loudly and was mutual. Xudong Land is a beautiful meadow now turned into soil mixed with blood with all the stinging fishy smell.
The tactics carried out by Commander Fujun and Gao Lu Ma went perfectly. The two thousand great armies were divided into two and all moved as directed.
Even the five hundred Yang Empire troops did not struggle against all of them before Baihu showed himself and joined the battle.
Although it had felt a fierce resistance, but the Tang Empire remained superior in terms of the number of troops and all its readiness.
Commander Fujun also found a traitorous figure in the Seven Colors Pagoda. Originally Commander Fujun had intended to finish him off on his own, but upon learning of Xing Zhuo's troublesome figure, the man finally intervened to face Xing Zhuo.
The fight between Xing Zhuo and Commander Fujun was fierce. The second duel actually kept the other cultivators away from their fight spot.
However, the fight went unbalanced when Commander Fujun gave instructions to his troops to release hundreds of arrows repeatedly to Xing Zhou.
This plan went perfectly and left Xing Zhou overwhelmed with endless attacks. It didn't take long for Commander Fujun to unleash a deadly attack using his beloved lightning spear.
This absolute victory did not make Commander Fujun directly kill Xing Zhou. Commander Fujun intended to behead Xing Zhuo while in the Luoyang Capital.
“You gave an interesting fight! But we are talking about tactics!” Commander Fujun said to Xing Zhou that he stepped on his head.
“You and your army have lost! This victory belongs to the Tang Empire!” commander Fujun said and made all the troops of the Tang Empire shout out loud.
“Victory belongs to Tang Empire!”
“Glory belongs to the Tang Empire!”
“Victory belongs to Tang Empire!”
“Glory belongs to the Tang Empire!”
This voice echoed across the Xudong plains after the five hundred Yang Empire troops were decisively defeated. Some of them were killed and some were left alive for public execution.
This situation was so bad that Xu Kai and Liu Bai who were fighting against General Song Guan no longer put up a fierce fight.
‘I didn't expect it to be like this!’ Xu Kai cursed as he faced the barrage of sword slashes from Song Guan.
Those two swords that Song Guan swung were really making Xu Kai desperate. But Liu Bai's help repeatedly saved him. The combination of the two gave a fierce resistance to Song Guan until finally the two mentally weakened when they found out the sea of enemies surrounded them all.
But not only that the mental cause of the two weakened, but when he saw Tang Xia and Yang Ruan in pain and looked helplessly tortured Gao Lu Ma.
“Give your hands! Surrender and submit to us!” general Song Guan said to Xu Kai and Liu Bai.
But instead of giving up, the two even fought Song Guan back even though their lives were at stake.
“Stupid basis!” Song Guan laughed at Xu Kai and Liu Bai's reaction.
The same situation also happened to Zhao Tian and Yong Xiang. Both of them did not believe what was happening in the Xudong Land. Zhao Tian had predicted that Shu En's presence would change the situation, but Shu En would not reveal his nose and return.
“For a traitor! You two don't need to be left alive! I'll kill you!” general Lu Xuhen said as he unleashed a sword slash that split the ground and destroyed Zhao Tian's attack.
“This is already destined to be the absolute victory of the Tang Empire!” general Lu Xuhen said loudly.
NUUAARRR!!!
BOOM!!!
But suddenly a loud explosion echoed from the south of the Xudong mainland. This made everyone who was there silent for a few seconds when they saw thick dust from the south and disturbed visibility.
Tang Xia who was already running out of energy from enduring the pain stared at the weak Yang Ruan who had already lost consciousness. Yang Ruan's body was covered in bruises and blood, even his pulse was extremely weak.
“You... Absolutely animal..” Tang Xia said weakly and still heard Gao Lu Ma.
“I'll make you die like an animal!” Gao Lu Ma smiled widely before raising his hand giving instructions to the Tang Empire's troops.
“What can you guys serve that young girl up-”
Gao Lu Ma's words came to a halt as a huge explosion rang out loud.
“What is it?!” Gao Lu Ma instantly frowned when he saw the shadow within the thick dust.
“Aura this..” Tang Xia smiled faintly and looked relieved when he found out the aura emanating from the explosion was an aura he was very familiar with.
As the thick dust covering the Xudong landmass disappeared completely, a thousand more Tang Empire troops fell silent without taking a word.
In front of them all were seen the figure of the king of all kinds of beasts showing their form like he was watching them. Above the head of the figure known as the Dragon was a young man wearing a black demon mask was slowly pulling a black sword.
“Devil Sword Arts..”
The young man exhaled slowly and regularly before silence filled the Xudong land. Five seconds later a huge aura gathered within the range of the young man's sword attack.
BOOM!!!
Gao Lu Ma's eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at the Tang Empire's remaining army of over one thousand five hundred subdued cultivators in one deadly attack from a mysterious young man.
Gao Lu Ma's mouth was open wide watching this. As the young man swung his sword quickly, a huge explosion was created like a bomb that destroyed the people around him.
The direction of this battle was instantly changed as a drizzle of blood filled the land. The mysterious young man who came passed through the pile of corpses that died from his attack and continued to walk until he reached in front of Tang Xia and Yang Ruan.
Before examining Tang Xia and Yang Ruan, the young man looked at Xing Rou and showed a feeling of guilt.
“So this is what you mean? That's why you're trying to prevent me from leaving.” the young man told Xing Rou.
Xing Rou shook her head and tried not to cry knowing the young man was Shu En.
“Sister Xia, who made you and Ruan up like this?” Shu En said very gently to Tang Xia.
Tang Xia immediately told him that all this was Gao Lu Ma.
“Man named Gao Lu Ma who did all this to us..”.
Shu En stood up and looked coldly at Gao Lu Ma.
“Your condition looks very messy.”
Realizing that Shu En was about to spiral out of control, Baihu immediately explained Gao Lu Ma's Vengeance Body's ability. This made Shu En grit his teeth until it sounded clear in the ear.
“You're about to vent your anger on me aren't you?! If you do then the two girls will feel much more agony!” gao Lu Ma said after seeing Shu En know the technique.
“Sorry Big Brother Xia, Ruan, I can't control myself Shu En held onto her chest which felt tight with both cold eyes widening.
After that Shu En was already in front of Gao Lu Ma and strangled his neck.
“Bokah! Didn't you hear my explanation?!” Baihu immediately roared because of Shu En.
“What happened? Why don't they both feel pain?” Baihu was surprised as she saw that Tang Xia did not show an expression of pain again.
“Baihu, the technique has a time limit. Chances are he can use the technique in just about an hour.” Tang Xia explained.
“So it's like that... I really almost lost my life worrying about you..” Baihu looked relieved after listening to Tang Xia's explanation.
“So you worry about me huh Baihu?” Tang Xia smiled slightly and laid his body on the ground.
“Stupid basis! Who is worried about you! You two have always been happy!”
Meanwhile Shu En had already smashed Gao Lu Ma's throat and was intent on killing him, yet an enormous aura emerged from above the sky and struck Shu En's body.
Shu En was bounced hundreds of kilometers due to the sudden attack.
“See this yourself, Gao! You almost died a fool!”
It was seen a man holding a sword filled with fire standing on Gao Lu Ma's body and piercing his stomach.
No one realized what the man was doing until the fire sword looked like it was burning Gao Lu Ma's body.
Commander Fujun, General Song Guan and General Lu Xuhen immediately saluted the man.
“Exposing later! For now we think of how to escape!” said the man and made the three top military officers of the Tang Empire in disbelief.
Shu En's ability is indeed very surprising but running away because seeing Shu En's ability is not the fighting style of the man.
“Gao, you leave without taking me and look at yourself! Lucky Mr. Long gave me orders to keep an eye on you!” said the man before giggling to himself.
“I understand, I understand, you won't let us go aren't you?!”
From a distance this man sensed the aura that Shu En was releasing. It took him ten seconds to get Shu En back and stand in front of the man.
“Black demon mask... So you're the one Mr. Long meant for. Are you the same person in Zhang Empire?”
The man's words made Shu En resist his attack, before long Gao Lu Ma's voice sounded.
“Thank you, Qiong Shan! Quickly take me away!”
“I understand, Gao.”
A golden-coloured light appeared around the man named Qiong Shan. Before long the bodies of Qiong Shan and Gao Lu Ma disappeared into the light and disappeared.
“Aura they disappeared..”.
Shu En tries to track down the whereabouts of Qiong Shan and Gao Lu Ma, but the aura of both cannot be felt. Shu En then turned his eyes to Commander Fujun, General Song Guan and General Lu Xuhen.