The Golden Throne

Chapter 213: Holes Everywhere

The sky was falling, and by now, Liu Feng and Arad were almost at the first city which had been captured. They could see the city from where they were, and there were a lot of lights coming from there.

“Who is possibly staying in a city that has already been ransacked?”, Liu Feng wondered out loud.

“Why not? They might not have any food, so they could be forced to live there.”, Arad postulated.

“Well, we shall see.”, Liu Feng smiled as he pulled up the reins, trying to get the horse to go faster.

“That horse is tired. Exhausted. He has been running for almost five hours, six hours non stop, after the last break. It cannot go any faster. I suggest that you do not push him too hard. He has served you well, and he does not deserve any more pain.”, Arad said softly.

Hearing this, Liu Feng pulled on the reins and the horse slowed to a crawl. The horse was almost whimpering now.

Liu Feng got off the horse and rummaged through his spatial ring to take out some food and water. He offered it to the horse, which gobbled everything up in a few instants, only to cover Liu Feng’s hands in spit.

Liu Feng shook his head as he used some more water to clean his hands, and he hopped back onto the horse.

“Is your horse okay? Does it need some food and water too?”, Liu Feng asked Arad.

“She is fine. I have not pushed her as hard as you pushed him. She can gallop further.”, Arad shook his head.

“Then let us get going. Don’t want to be late after all.”, Liu Feng chuckled. 

The two horses trotted off at a slow pace, and after another twenty minutes, they were at the city gates.

“Stop! Identify yourselves.”, two guards were standing next to the gates, and were very cautious towards the two travelers who had just appeared.

“Who are you? I thought that the army went through here, and then passed by to the next city a few days ago. Why are there guards here?”, Liu Feng asked the guard.

“We are the ones who will be asking the questions. Not you.”, the guard snapped back.

“I really don’t think so.”, Liu Feng smiled as he produced the medallion that Arad returned to him.

The guard looked at it once and knew that he made a mistake.

“Forgive me, Your Highness. I had eyes, but I could not see. I hope that you will forgive me for the mistake I have made. You may pass. The whole city is your resting place.”, the guard bowed down ninety degrees almost immediately.

“Why are there soldiers here? I thought all of them left for the other city.”, Liu Feng asked.

“Your Highness, we were ordered to stay in the city and maintain law and order, because this was now Aegonian land, and we were in charge and responsible to maintain it.”, the guard said.

“Father already claimed all this land? What is he thinking? There is a war going on, but he is more concerned about the land that no one can take from him.”, Liu Feng thought to himself.

The two of them walked into the city. It was sparsely populated, and it seemed that all the lights were just for show. The city here was more cleanly and cozily laid out compared to the city that they had invaded a few days ago. The city manor was easy to find as it was in the center of the city, as compared to deep in a separate section for nobles.

Liu Feng went into the city lord’s manor, and took a room there to rest. No one in the city was a noble, so no one dared to occupy this manor as of yet.

“Let us get everything out tomorrow.”, Liu Feng said when he went to sleep.

Arad nodded, and he too, found a room to sleep in.

The next day,

“You have got to be f**king kidding me.”, Liu Feng was boiling with rage.

Indeed, what he had feared the most had turned out to be true. In the site where they had housed the bomb, there were holes dug out everywhere. All the trees that covered a canopy were gone.

“I was gone for just a few days. Who the hell knew that I even hid it here?”, Liu Feng asked.

“Someone could have passed by, and seen the slight disturbances in the trees, so they thought that they could find something valuable here.”, Arad said.

“The most important thing though, is, did they find it?”, Liu Feng said with a somber tone.

Liu Feng walked past all the holes that have been dug, and to where he remembered that he parked the truck, and where he had put the missile. They were strangely undisturbed.

“The man.. or woman who did this certainly did not have any mana sense, or she would have found the truck at the least. This is a normal person, who might have been following someone’s orders. I need to find who it was.”, Liu Feng said as he walked in front of the truck.

He then put his hand forward, and the air in front of him rippled. He then moved his hand across it, and the truck appeared all of a sudden.

“Now the truck is here. What about the missile.”, he murmured as he walked to where he had buried the missile.

“I might need some help digging all of this out.”, Liu Feng called out to Arad, but Arad was not even looking at Liu Feng. He was in front of a whole looking downwards. Liu Feng saw this peculiar scene and couldn’t help but feel curious. He rushed up to Arad to see what was going on.

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