Chapter 423: An Escort Mission

David smiled in disbelief. He had been feeling slightly claustrophobic while in the academy but he controlled himself perfectly and hadn't thought to come out of the academy until he was finally ready.

Who knew the moment he came out, he would have a direct breakthrough. His heart calmed and he took in a deep breath of fresh air.

"Finally, after all this time." David was worried he might be stuck at 500cpm but with the heartlock out of the way, his blood revolution could finally be upped further.

And as by how much, it depends on his luck before another heart-lock sets in.

David gazed at the Scarlet-scaled Horse before him and then proceeded to mount the horse. The Scarlet-scaled horse is a special breed of horse perfectly engineered to run very fast with its streamlined body full of packed muscles.

It was said that the true Scarlet-scaled horse could transverse thousands of miles in a single day without rest. But the Scarlet-scaled horse with David wasn't even close to the original but it could run close to a hundred miles in a day.

Since he was going out on a mission to a far location, he temporary borrowed a Scarlet-scaled horse from the academy and would return it upon the completion of his mission.

Even though the academy had tamed the beast to be docile, if the horse isn't treated gently and with care, it could very much become really irritated and attack the rider. But the badge contains a special scent to avoid situations like that, making the Scarlet-scaled beast not attack the rider but the same couldn't be said for others without a badge.

Clipping his legs tightly in the waist of the two meter horse monster, David slapped the behind of the horse but instead of been irritated even with the scent on the badge the monster horse was strangely very docile instead and it started to move towards his destination.

• * * * *

By the side of a luxurious housing, a very large and clear field was being crowded by a group of men and weapon. They don't seem to belong to the same group as the seem slightly hostile to each other from the tense atmosphere.

The only common thing between them was that most of them were in robes which seem to be some sort of uniform. Judging by the style and the colour, most especially the badges on their breast, they were all from different academies, here to take on the mission posted by this family.

The sun cascaded its golden veil on the earth while bringing about its golden sheen to the grasses.

The little crickets hopped through the field. The dew from midnight must have seduced them out of hiding. The field was quiet and a little tense.

A few times, some other people would join the crowded field, increasing the number of people in the field.

Inside the luxurious fifteen meters building, a middle aged man and a young lady sat at the top floor of the building.

In their view was the field, filled with disciples from different academy.

"Father, I still don't understand why you would invite most of the nearby academy for the mission when you can just assign the ones nearer to us. Otherwise we would have gone by now and wouldn't have been delayed." The young lady grumbled in her seat.

The middle aged man dropped his tea cup and replied. "Your thinking is still a bit shallow. Inviting just the people from one academy will certainly seem like we are been biased and might incur the annoyance of other academy. It's best to avoid that if we can."

The young lady thought about it and then eventually nodded her head in response.

It was then she saw a man walking unit the clearing with his beastly horse.

"Father, I think this is the last of them." The young lady stood up and her white dress fluttered. Her beautiful eyes latched onto the people below as she scanned them.

"Which academy do you think is likely to win the escort mission father?" The middle aged man remained expressionless as he shrugged.

"Don't judge a book by its covers dear and don't base the strength of a person in his appearance, that might just be the last mistake one might make." The middle-aged man muttered as he smiled at his daughter.

"Alright, lets go down to address them. We don't have all day." The middle-aged man said as be proceeded downwards.

• * *

Upon getting to his destination, David was confused as he saw up to like twenty-five people with mostly different clothing in the field. But then, he saw someone with the same robe as he, seemingly from the same academy.

Realisation suddenly hit him. He wasn't the only person to accept the mission from the academy and it was mostly likely the same for the other academy close by.

Shrugging his shoulder, David tied the horse down and proceeded to join the queue and waited.

"Haha, another loser from 'academy' is here again." Someone suddenly laughed out loud. Also making the five people wearing the same robe laugh out loud with him.

"Haha, I guess they didn't think they have embarrassed themselves too much." One of them mocked.

"Hahaha! I think you guys are talking too much. I will make sure to teach them that they can't hope. To bully our academy without paying the price." Another of the five people replied as he cracked his knuckles, gazing ahead of him maliciously.

David shook his head upon hearing those malicious words land felt pity for the victim. "This people sure are violent, they will surely gang up on that poor fellow."

But it wasn't his business anyways, so he didn't even bother glancing at the direction of the voice.

Upon noticing the plain reaction from their prey, the five people with sky-blue badges on their robes instantly got triggered.

"You!!!" Their faces flushed red in anger. One of them managed to say something and as they were about to do something, a middle-aged man and a young lady walked down from the luxurious building and then cleared his throat as he began speaking.

"Ahem. I am Wu Feng welcome you all to my humble abode. I hope non of you found it difficult to locate this place of mine." The middle-aged man bowed as he smiled.

"We all know why we are gathered here at this moment and I won't delve into details to bore you. But then, we only requested the help of five people to help is with this herb-picking mission as the dangers within the forest isn't something an ordinary mortal like me can hope to endure." The middle-aged man shook his head and smiled in depreciation of his lack of talent as he couldn't even unlock his brain cells not to mention entering the mortal stage.

Waving his hands, he continued "According to the usual plan, since we need five people but there are thirty people in here, we would have to do a free for all battle. The last five standing in the circle at the centre if the field will be those who will follow us to the escort mission."

"As for the rules... " The man paused. He had no power to make rules for them, even if he said no killing there would Undoubtedly be people who will still kill, so instead of letting the weak one's lose guard upon hearing that there shouldn't be any kills, he would rather tell them the worse case scenario.

"There are no rules." The man said in sadness as he watch them. Leave for the circle at the middle of the field.

The circle was large enough to fit more than a hundred people within, so it was definitely enough for thrifty people to fight in.

Different types of blade floated up in mid-air like rain. David wasn't any different. His basic flying blade flew out from his sleeves and started circling around his body like a little kid.

He gazed expressionlessly at his opponents and also gazed at the two people with the same uniform as him. He had been expecting that the would want to team up with each other for better chances to win the escort mission but the two people even barely looked at each other and him too.

David was slightly surprised but he shrugged it off.

"Start!" An hoarse voice spoke out loud.

"Blood Wave!"

"THUMP!" The sound of an heartbeat seem to faintly echo as an illusion of a wave of blood cascaded down on a particular person. Stunned, the person had frozen due to fear and how fast the attack had being

The wave suddenly collapsed and then whoosh!

In a flash, a flying sword coated with jewels flashed past along with the wave and then returned to the owner's side as though it had teleported.

But in the next second, the person was split into perfect halves with blood and guts gushing out like a never ending river.

Just that one strike signifies the start of the battle.