"How did we get here?
Why did the people of the Purple Sword Sect call you 'master'?
Who on earth are you?"
Maple asked, her questions bombarding Austin.
"Maple, he is dangerous! We should stay away from him!"
her brother said, putting himself between Maple and Austin, his grip tightening on his sword as he glared at Austin.
"It doesn't matter who I am.
Your clan is in trouble and
I can help you get through this,"
Austin said, smiling faintly.
"What? Are you...
Are you saying you can help us?"
Maple and her brother were dumbfounded, disbelief written large on their faces.
"Our enemy is the Purple Sword Sect. Do you know who they are?
How do you think you are going to help us?
Do you think you can handle the Purple Sword Sect?
Okay, hold on! Let me guess. You are probably from a powerful force.
But only the Sky Sword Sect, the Xi'men Clan, the Flying Immortal Sword Sect, and the Long Sword Sect can defeat the Purple Sword Sect!
What's more, the Purple Sword Sect has sided with the Long Sword Sect for a long time now.
You can't help us!
Don't talk big when you can't do anything."
Maple ended her monologue with a sigh.
"Maple, we can't trust him. We don't even know him. Let's get out of here,"
the young man voiced out his thought.
"The Purple Sword Sect is nothing.
I'm not even afraid of the Long Sword Sect!
Let me put it this way. Now that you've met me, your clan is destined to survive all of this.
I can help you if you can find it in yourself to trust me,"
Austin said, flashing them a mysterious smile.
"Well..."
Maple looked Austin in the eye. She could tell that he was confident as he offered his help.
Despite this, she was not sure if this stranger could help her clan fight the Purple Sword Sect.
"Look, Maple! There's no point talking to him. You're just wasting time here!
We should leave right now!"
the young man said to his sister urgently.
But Maple hesitated, her eyes not leaving Austin.
"Even if
urple Sword Sect used to be equivalent to our clan in terms of strength.
But the Purple Sword Sect and our clan have been enemies since time immemorial.
However, later, the leader of the Purple Sword Sect began to fawn over the leader of the Long Sword Sect, and became one of the latter's subsidiary forces. And ever since, they have developed at an alarming rate.
In this process, it annexed many weaker sects and occupied many territories.
And since we are sworn enemies of the Purple Sword Sect, they couldn't let us go.
They made a move against us half a year ago and
went to great lengths to weaken our influence.
Today, they sent an army to ambush our headquarters and planned to rip us out, root and stem.
My father covered for us and we managed to escape.
There are a lot of people from the Purple Sword Sect searching for us at the moment."
Maple filled Austin in with the goings on.
"Oh?
So you are important members in your clan?"
Austin asked.
"Our father is the chief of the Lin Clan,"
Maple said, nodding.
"Oh, I see,"
Austin said pensively.
"Now our headquarters have been besieged by the troops of the Purple Sword Sect. Our people are in grave danger,"
Maple said, staring intently at Austin.
What she wasn't saying was that they needed to act now if they wanted to save her clan.