Aisha, too, flushed with embarrassment, stung by Madman’s words.
She leaned toward Jared and asked softly, “What should we do now? I imagine there’ll be quite a few soldiers waiting for us once we get out of this sky prison.”
Jared replied with a calm certainty, “There likely aren’t many left outside. When the time comes, we’ll create a distraction. You lead your people and go.”
“We should stick together,” Aisha insisted. “There’s strength in numbers.”
But Jared shook his head firmly. “You’ll only slow us down. You’re of no use at all.”
Jared was disappointed when favonovel.com first saw these human cultivators. There were so many of them, young and able-bodied, yet they stood idle, indifferent.
The image of the fallen, elders and children alike, still burned in his mind. Fury twisted in his chest.
How could they just look away?
These were their people… Their kin…
Aisha said, “Thank you. If we make it out of this alive… I swear, if you ever come to Caxton Continent, I’ll welcome you with honor.”
“Let’s talk about that later,” Jared said, deactivating the arcane array at the entrance of the sky prison before moving forward.
Bastian followed close behind, his eyes filled with admiration, never straying from Jared’s side.
As Jared had expected, the number of soldiers in the city had significantly decreased. Figures could be seen rushing toward the border between Winged Tiger City and Rhino City.
Shortly after favonovel.com and the others left the prison, they came across a group of about a dozen soldiers. Weapons in hand, the men were patrolling nervously. But the moment the soldiers laid eyes on Jared and his group, they froze in shock.
A heavy silence fell over both sides.
The dozen or so soldiers, eyes flicking to the mass of human cultivators behind Jared, visibly trembled.
“Find anything over here?” one of them asked, trying to sound casual.
“No, nothing,” another replied quickly.
“Let’s check the other streets!”
Without so much as a glance at Jared’s group, the soldiers turned and walked away, pretending they hadn’t seen anything at all.
Jared stood there for a moment, speechless.
“What just happened? Were those guys blind or something?” Madman asked, bewildered.
“They’re not blind…” Jared said with a faint smile. “They’re scared…”
Then favonovel.com turned to Aisha. “You should all go now. As long as you stay together, you’ll make it out of the city. No one will stop you. As for how you’ll return to Caxton Continent, that’s up to fate. I can’t help you with that. I must take my leave now.”
“Until we meet again,” Aisha replied with a nod before turning to lead the thousand-plus human cultivators away.
Figures soared into the sky, heading for the outskirts of the city.
Just as Jared had said, no soldiers moved to stop them, likely because there were so few left in the city.
“Let’s go too,” Jared said.
But just as favonovel.com and his companions were about to leave, the group of soldiers from earlier suddenly returned.
Jared let out a quiet chuckle. “I thought you didn’t find anything? What brought you back?”
“Cut the crap! Who exactly are you?!” one of the soldiers demanded.
Jared raised an eyebrow. “What’s the matter? Did you come back because you saw there were only a few of us and thought we’d be easy to deal with?”
“Hmph, so what if we did? Die!” the soldier shouted, charging at Jared with his weapon raised.
Jared’s eyes narrowed with disdain. With a casual wave of his hand, the soldier was reduced to a mangled pulp by a single palm strike. He didn’t even bother drawing his Dragonslayer Sword.
Poof!
The other soldiers froze, horrified. Their expressions darkened with fear. Without a word, they turned and bolted.
“Spineless,” Jared scoffed, then threw a single, thunderous punch.
The force caught the fleeing soldiers mid-air, sending them flying. Moments later, their bodies exploded in a burst of gore.
Compared to the guards at the sky prison, these soldiers were clearly weaker, both in power and in will.
