The Golden Throne

Chapter 196: There was another fight?

“After this meal, I should look for Arad again. He needs to be with me. Never know when I will need him.”, Liu Feng said.

“But it looks like you are going hungry today.”, Amelia laughed.

“Well, who says that I wasn’t prepared? Who do you think you are talking to? I am Liu Feng. I am always prepared for anything.”, Liu Feng snickered as a piece of bread appeared in his hands. He took a bite and started munching. Steam started appearing from the bread.

“You have fresh bread?”, Amelia was shocked.

Liu Feng raised his hand, and showed off the ring on his middle finger.

“You are probably the only one in this world who would use something as precious as a spatial artifact as a food storage. This is just extravagant. So many people would kill for that, including the nobles.”, Amelia shook her head.

Behind the stall, the person was listening on to this conversation with widened eyes.

“Hey boy, are you an idiot? You are in the middle of so many people, and your first thought is to show off that you have a spatial artifact? What? Are you begging them to steal it from you. If this many people attack you, then even that girl next to you can’t save you even if she is a mage.”, the person warned.

“Thank you for your concern. I thought that you were going to be an unreasonable man when you refused to give me the food.”, Liu Feng smiled. 

“Rules are rules. I can’t break them.”, the person shrugged. 

Liu Feng nodded, and finished eating his bread. He glanced at Amelia, who was still eating her food from the parcel.

“I have some work to do, why don’t you go back to the camp on your own, I will be there with you after a while.”, Liu Feng said.

“Yeah, you probably have a lot of work, since you just arrived. I won’t take much of your valuable time or Royal Father will scold me.”, Amelia nodded.

Liu Feng nodded, although he was pleasantly surprised how graciously Amelia understood his intentions. He turned around and slowly walked away back into the crowd. For now, his first priority was getting back to Arad, and making sure that all was fine on his end.

Or so he thought. He continued to search for Arad for the rest of the afternoon, but he was nowhere to be found. He even tried mana sensing the entire camp, but no one powerful was within the camp. That meant that both the phoenix and Arad were not within the camp itself. They could only be in the city.

By now, the kings had given the order to completely pull out of the city, and give the civilians total control of the city. They took half of the granaries as their food supply replenishment but left the entire city to them.

The city was essentially empty, with few of the civilians left, all of them in their houses, hiding in fear that the army would change their minds.

Liu Feng looked in the direction of the city. It was visible in the mid day scorching light from where the camp was situated. He looked at the small buildings that populated it, as well as the noble’s section, with the grand mansions.

“They are in there? I have to go there again?”, Liu Feng sighed. “Well, guess I have no choice.”, he thought to himself as he walked back to the soldiers’ section of the camp. He had no intention of going to the city on his bare feet. He wanted to get a horse, and they were in the soldier’s section.

There was also the issue of his identity, that he could not prove that he was a crown prince, and a city lord did not have much authority. But one thing that was prevalent was the power of money over everything else. Liu Feng conveniently had a load of that, and using that, he got his hands on a brilliant and majestic black horse.

Riding it, he crossed the gap between the camp and the city, and entered the city after some time.

As Liu Feng expected, the city was sparse, and there was only one person in sight. The moment that person saw Liu Feng enter the city with his horse, he bolted, and ran to cover himself. 

Liu Feng shook his head, but he couldn’t blame anyone. This was the result of the siege, and the war that was going on. The civilians were already surprised that they weren’t being treated in inhumane conditions. 

Liu Feng trotted on his horse. This time, he did not go towards the section of the city that he already visited when he helped out the army. He went the exact opposite way, towards the side of the city for all the normal civilians, and the poor.

He could see an almost immediate difference in the quality of the buildings, and how bad the situation was to live in. Liu Feng then sat down in the lotus position, and closed his eyes. This time, with absolute concentration, he spread apart his mana sense through the widest area that he possibly could manage to.

He saw all the buildings empty, and maybe a few people here and there. Not a lot of people were in the city to begin with. But one thing that he could not notice was where Arad and Feng Huang were.

“Where the hell could they possibly be? I can’t sense them, nothing. It’s like they completely vanished. But that can’t be right. She helped with the first fight. She shouldn’t have disappeared off completely, could she?”, Liu Feng thought to himself as he got back up.

He got back on the horse, which was tied to a nearby pole, and he started going south, the opposite direction to the city gates from which he entered. 

He had a slight suspicion that they found something that was very important, and that they were tackling that problem. The south of the city was the only part of the city that he couldn’t reach with the mana sense, and it stopped just shy of the entire area.

Now, he wanted to make sure that nothing serious happened.

He brandished the reins, and kicked the horse’s stomach, willing it to go faster. And faster it did. The buildings, or rather, the small shacks just flew by him, and he could see nothing but a blur. He was moving through the city at an extraordinary pace.

“With horses like these, cars are basically pointless, aren’t they.”, Liu Feng laughed as he thought to himself.

He could see the city walls towering over the buildings on the south side of the city, which were puny. He could also see a few streaks of red and gold over there, and Liu Feng knew that this was where he was supposed to be. 

He tapped on the horse and screeched to a halt. He then jumped off the horse, and started running. To say that he was running like the wind was completely true. In fact, he was running with the wind. Mana was rushing to his feet, and a green glow appeared as well. He was running faster than the horse when it peaked.

He rushed to scene from where the sparks came, and he could see his suspicions confirmed. The people that he thought had been the cause of the sparks were present. 

Arad and Feng Huang were standing on one side with serious expressions. Liu Feng looked at what they were facing. What he saw bewildered him. In front of him was a huge tentacle monster, and it looked nothing like any of the demons that he faced before.

“There is a mandragora mother plant here? Impossible. Why would they bring such a precious demon to such a god forsaken place without any protection? Something is truly off here.”, Liu Feng heard Pyrus exclaim.

“The mandragora mother plant? What is that? Sounds like a cure for a disease.”, Liu Feng asked.

“What you see in front of your eyes is a demon captain ranked plant that is more precious to the demon army than even a demon general. This plant can spawn over a thousand demon soldiers over its life span, and it can do that while being completely inconspicuous at first.”, Pyrus said.

“Inconspicuous? This isn’t inconspicuous. I can’t believe I couldn’t hear this fight when I was within the city itself.”, Liu Feng said. 

“That which you see is a full grown plant which has clearly outlived its life span. They already used the mother plant, but seeing how much Feng Huang is struggling with the demon, it seems that the plant is about to give birth to a successor. That is truly surprising to me. Why would the demons leave such an asset here for us to kill?”, Pyrus wondered. 

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