Chapter 367 - The City of Caves(Part-3)

True-Spear twirled his spear as he slashed against another creature that tried to lunge at him, by then the sand had been dyed red from their blood, this time their instruction was simple find shelter and guard it for 300 days and they were already half way through it. According to the locals every 50 years interval a beast tide occurs for approximately 300 days.

The City of Thousand Sands and their Chieftain had been preparing for a long time and the arrival of the cultivators proved a boon to them, as they provided extra help to them, Dhaeq ahd already warned them the situation would be dire and Ryuu could understand why, after all sometimes a horde that was so big that even the horizon could not be seen would appear, the ravenous beast who cared for nothing but to rip apart and consume their prey and each horde were unique some were just simply beasts of immense strength but simply beasts at the end of the day where as others were more dangerous as they happened to be simply poisonous to spirit beasts of various kinds.

As he let out a huff as he turned to see Amnon who was nearby, Amnon had fought shoulder to shoulder with him as both of them had slain many of the beasts.

True-Spear grinned back at him as he spoke with a tired huff, "This is getting tiring."

Amnon nodded towards him as he spoke, "So true, if that tragedy had not taken everything would have been so different."

True-Spear sighed at that as he spoke, "So true, and I am grateful that we stumbled upon this shelter, fighting waves and waves of so many enemies is no joke even if we had erected a shelter eventually we would have been overrun as no matter how strong we are we would been overcome by fatigue."

Amnon nodded as he spoke, "So true my entire body is screaming and protesting, how long has it been since the battle began."

True-Spear looked to the sky as his eyes squinted before he let out a sigh, "I think that the sky turned dark twice, so three days I guess?"

"It has been four days brother True-Spear, it has been four days since we began the battle.", came a tired reply to his unsure one as True-Spear turned he was greeted with the sight of Amnon's wife Daniella who looked worse for wear and injured.

Seeing her Amnon was quickly by her side as he spoke with concerned smile on his face, "Are you alright?"

Daniella gave him a weak chuckle, "Have a taken a look in the mirror you do not look too well."

True-Spear sighed as he looked at the corpses that had pilled around him as he spoke, "So much death today I hope that some of our fellow brothers and sisters have not fallen today, so many enemies it seemed as if the entire desert has turned into a mass grave."

Daniella bit her lips as she spoke, "Brother sorry to disappoint you but today we lost a few.", as she spoke she closed her eyes.

True-Spear gripped his spear hard enough to draw blood from his hand as he spoke, "I regret coming here you know, so many dead needlessly our group is really unlucky we really are unlucky."

Amnon then looked around as he spoke with a frown, "Where are others?"

Daniella frowned towards him as she spoke, "Su-Min is injured she will recover."

Seeing her tensed Amnon groaned as he spoke, "What did that idiot do now?"

Daniella sighed as she spoke, "The left flank was falling and was on verge of being wiped out."

At that both men was startled at that as did others as one of them spoke in a voice filled with dread in them, "What do you mean what happened?"

Daniella sighed at that as she spoke, "The leader of the horde charged at us and broke our line, we were at loss when Ryuu did sprinkled some kind of powder over himself that drew most of their attention towards him before he ran away from the battlefield with most including the leader hot in his heels."

"I think he must have used something similar to 'Instigator of the Moon', it makes beast gather around a place completely enraged, mostly used when different types of animals are around making them fight each other", a reply came from one of the many cultivators present.

Daniella frowned at that as she spoke, "Well it certainly seemed as such it had been a few hours since then we have not heard or seen him. Frozen Ocean and Zywia had both gone after him, but as soon as they left a brilliant explosion was seen at the horizon. But I am grateful to him without his help we would have been fallen."

Everyone frowned at that as True-Spear spoke, "We will wait here for a couple of hours and kill any strays that are still breathing, while trying to recuperate a bit then we will send a group to find about their fate, I do not think most of us have enough energy to go after them at the moment."

Daniella bowed slightly at that as she spoke, "I know and I hate it."

One of the cultivators that looked old enough to be someone's great grandfather spoke as he stroked his beard, "Daoist brother is resourceful and strong I do not believe he will fall so easily."

Meanwhile Frozen Ocean and Zywia both had fought against numerous beasts that attacked them, but as they moved towards Ryuu's direction they found more and more corpses of the beasts, when all of sudden they noticed a large dark cloud near the horizon, a brilliant flash accompanied by a large boom followed soon after, as they hurried towards that direction while slaughtering what remained of the beast as they neared the epic center of the blast they were greeted by few miles of scorched earth, the entire part of the desert seemed like made up of steel smoking molten hot glass with a familiar smoldering carcass at the middle.

The giant carcass belong to a certain leader of the horde that had attacked them, Zywia grinned back at Frozen Ocean as she spoke, "See I told you he would win."

Frozen Ocean rolled her eyes as she spoke, "Of course you said that as soon we began to follow this bloody trail, but now where is he?"

Zywia frowned at that they did not have to wait long as they found a kneeling Ryuu a good few distance from the epic center of the blast kneeling on the ground looking a bit worst for the wear, as they neared they felt something wrong with Ryuu.

"Ryuu? What happened are you alright? Ryuu answer me?", a voice came to his ears which made his blood freeze with fear.

He turned to see both Zywia and Frozen Ocean looking towards him with concern in their face, before another bout of pain racked through his body making wince as he placed his hand over his heard.

Zywia was by his side as she quickly patted him on his back worried about Ryuu's heath only for him to collapse in a coughing fit as he quickly placed his hand over his mouth he vomited blood, but unlike normal reddish colored life fluid it was more like some putrid blackish substance.

Seeing him like that made both of their blood to freeze as Frozen Ocean was quickly by his side, as Ryuu managed to control her coughing fit his voice sounded hoarse Frozen Ocean quickly held her bottle of water to Ryuu's lips as he drank from it like someone who had not even had a sip in ages.

Frozen Ocean bit her lips as she spoke, "He has a slight temperature, something is not right we have to get him help quickly."

Zywia nodded at that as they tried to carry him he stopped them, "Please don't, I do not wish for others to know, please. I will be fine if I get some rest."

Ryuu's voice sounded incredibly weak, shocking the duo greatly as Zywia quickly spoke, "Do not worry Ryuu there are many strong and wise cultivators with us they can help you please let us help you."

Ryuu gave her a small smile as he spoke, "Thank for that sister Zywia, but I am sorry there is no one here who can help me."

Frozen Ocean was the one who spoke hurriedly at his declaration, "Brother Ryuu please tell us how did it happen did the leader of the creatures did something to you, we can definitely find some cure we can heal you."

Her voice had a note of desperation in them, the time he had spend with Ryuu had brought them all closer to each other and seeing him like that made her heart ache.

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, "No one can help me sister no one can, that day when I said I had completely sealed the poison I had lied, I only have half a decade to live and using a Forbidden Technique simply..*Cough* *Cough*", Ryuu could not finish the sentence as he broke into another coughing fit as more blood flowed from his mouth, as the duo looked at him with their eyes widen with alarm.

"Yo Brother True-Spear, I hope everything is well here."

True-Spear turned towards the speaker as he speaker as he spoke, "Ah Brother Ryuu welcome back, the stunt you pulled saved many lives but we were all worried when you did not arrive for so long and I was about to form a party to go on search for you."

Ryuu smiled at him as he spoke, "Sorry for making you all worry, the battle with the leader was tiring and I was forced to take rest to recuperate a bit."

True-Spear nodded towards him as he spoke, "Well you are back now so go and rest who knows when another horde might pop up."

His words made every grimaced except the absent minded duo that had just arrived with Ryuu.