Chapter 212 - War (1)

The more one suppressed news, it would spread out like wildfire instead. The next day, the recent news that a war was at hand in Fengfu City was already out in the open and downright uncontrollable. This had reached other nearby cities in no time. 

In the capital city, the king's secret knights didn't waste time to inform him, and his armies had begun their march to the border city. 

Ming could not stop the people from fleeing. They were ready to make a riot, break the gates, and charge out. No point in keeping them. This was also convenient on their part. The lesser the casualties, the better. So Ming allowed them, but he only opened the south gate and admitted no one inside. Only those with the governor's approval could go in. 

Once the gate was opened, the people ran out in a frenzy, almost to the point of stampeding. The giant-like Lofey had to pull his sword out at the gate in order to scare them to cooperate and slowly walk out with their belongings. Families with children were the first to step out. The last were the carriages where rich men rode. This happened the whole day until twilight came and Ming ordered the gates' closure. It would open again the next morning.

Xian Lang had his men watch the prince's movements. So far, nothing in particular to take note with. The Chiangdas who left the cave had reunited with the rest before dusk. He sent scouts to communicate to the other countries to support their cause. Xinyi and Lifen had joined the rest in Cuxin Estate while they had their strategic plans.

This time, the Prime Minister had no plans on holding back. It was a do-or-die fight for him. No point of holding back if it meant the invaders would control them and would lead to the death of their world, Chiji. 

After the other Chiangdas arrived, Ming stationed some of them at the gate while Lofey's men transferred inward to protect the remaining citizens. Xinyi called those near spirit guardians to fight with her. The animals gathered at Anjing Pavilion and at the forest. This place and its surrounding areas became an animal sanctuary where variant animals, spirit beings or ordinary ones, had one common mission, to protect the caves in Cuxin Estate.

In the prince's camp, he had summoned his greatest warriors that waited for his commands in the Cleansing Fire's headquarters hundreds of kilometers from them. These thousand men owning powerful magic powers were now on their way to Fengfu. But he sent Galdriel with his coat of invincibility to avoid Ming's scouts from seeing him leave.

Lady Seliah arrived in the said headquarters and had learned that the prince called his entire fleet out for war. Without asking more questions, she journeyed with them to lend her aid to the prince.

Xinyi stood at Fengfu's wall, which was twice taller than before. She was partly heartbroken that she had to fight against her newfound uncle, but being the Chief Guardian came first. Also, if she wouldn't defend the power stones, her loved ones and Chiji would disappear, which she was afraid to lose more than anything else.

The heavily burdened prince left his shielded camp, thinking of Xinyi and Lifen. And when he looked up at the city gate, by chance he found Xinyi standing at the newly built commander's station above the gate. Their eyes locked and Xinyi heard the prince's voice in her mind. 

This startled her for a second there, but thought this was part of the powers of the royal bloods in his kingdom, mental communication. "Do we need to fight? What I'm doing is for me and your grandfather, the king, and your relatives in Cendarth. Don't you care about them? Don't you care about your mother's home world?" he said, seeking her sympathy.

"I care for human lives wherever they may be. And this world deserves to live the same as Platanna. There must be a way to save your world, Uncle. Why so adamant on emptying Chiji? Don't you know we can't make more stones? Once you take them, the power chain will entirely thin out and there will be no hope for us here. We're all going to die." She slammed a palm on the wall. "What you're doing is nothing but greediness. You care only for yourselves. Why not send your petition to the Great King in Vethilles for help?" 

"Don't think too highly of me. I may be a prince, but I don't have that much power to call on the Great King. Only kings could ask an audience from such a venerable persona." Then he sighed. "Regardless, our pleas won't still be heard. If he would really help, he should have answered the calls made by our ancestors, and Platanna would never have turned to what it is now. In fact, I'm not even sure if the Great King really exists. I feel that he's only a myth."

"I'm in no place to reprimand you. I also know nothing about the Great King. But I also have no desire to fight. If I can avoid it, I will. Why not let go of the power stones and let's find the solution for Platanna?"

"I'm sorry, Xinyi. What you could do when even the great minds of Platanna couldn't find a solution?"

"How about the Chief Guardian there?"

"The Great King stopped sending after the last Chief Guardian died." He frowned, feeling unpleasant with the topic. "Let's not talk about this. Most of all, this happened even before I was born." 

"Then I think there's nothing else for us to talk about, Uncle. Unfortunately." 

From a distance, both of them looked at one another with gloomy faces. It seemed their hearts distanced from each other more than their physical body. But before the prince went back in his shield, he said his last appeal. "Are you not really going to help me, even just this once?"

"I'm afraid, I can't." Xinyi said, which was more like a whisper. After the prince entered his shield, her gaze shifted to the skies and thought of the unseen biological mother of hers. Did she know her daughter would fight against her own brother? Would she be distressed and come if she learned of it?

Both of them went into their domains with heavy hearts.

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"Alva?" Xinyi appeared in her library, watching the head bowed Alva, deep in her reading.

The squatting girl looked up. "Yes?" 

"Do we have a book about the world, Platanna?" Xinyi pulled a floating book arranged with the rest as if they were on bookshelves and returned it after a glance at the title. 

"It's above you. We actually have for each world, but there's no translation. You can ask your Uncle to read it for you."

Xinyi's lips formed a straight line. "Is there a solution written there for that world?"

"I can't tell because I can't read them." Alva jumped and took the book she mentioned and threw it to Xinyi, then went back to where she sat, opening her book again.

Xinyi sighed, frustrated. Alva always answered directly, making her helpless all the more. 

In Ming's study.

Prime Minister Xian Lang stood tall in front of a wide map. "Men, let's stand strong and fight like hell because if these pompous aliens win, there will be no tomorrow." He lifted a fist and shouted, "Let's fight in unity for ourselves and our loved ones." 

Ming and the others stood upright and lifted their fists, echoing, "For ourselves and our loved ones!"

"And for Chiji!" Xian Lang shouted.

"For Chiji!!" And each person went to their assigned tasks. 

Lofey brought part of his men to assist the people's evacuation. Tyriece and his soldiers brought the families who stayed in the mountains at the back of Fengfu and set up a camp for them, complete with stocks of food, in case the fight would take them days to weeks.

Zhang Wei and the local soldiers secured their food warehouse and closed it with the protected by the orange stone for preservation while they slowly transported them to where the people would stay.

Zhai and the Lei clansmen worked with the weapons: spears, crossbows, cannons, and others. They attached power stones in each, either by drilling a hole or changing the arrowheads with the one with stones.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-sorceress-blossoming-power_14314881306034205/war-(1)_51151467968526244 for visiting.

Lifen and An prepared the Cuxin Estate to become a hospital. Lifen added more layers of defense and offense illusion formation in it.

Prime Minister Xian Lang and part of the Chiangdas protected the walls. They had round-the-clock shifts. But he was not sitting and waiting for the prince to attack. They would do the first move, and in the middle of the night.

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