Chapter 56: Prince Jing Pt. 1
On the Road to Leandore
As the Emperor made his dash to the Josper boarders. Wang F鑞 Y襫g and the warriors he bought along with him rode night and day in their gambit to catch Prince Jing of Josper. They stopped only to take care of their horses and when they came across a wagon full of melded ore.
F鑞 Y襫g wasted no time, energy, or manpower on the smugglers he came across escorting the wagons of melded ore. Instead, he immediately had the G騯 Army Archers full all the smugglers full of bolts and arrows swiftly killing them all.
He assigned a small team of warriors to escort each wagon back. Each team of warriors was tasked with burying the dead smugglers before escorting the wagons back to the Imperial City. The freed Shadow Warriors that shadowed each wagon were also sent back with each team to report to Wang F鑞 Y襫g`s Commander of his Shadow Warriors.
It took a few days for Wang F鑞 Y襫g to catch up with Prince Jing. Wang F鑞 Y襫g wasted no time in opening up an unnecessary dialog with Prince Jing. When Wang F鑞 Y襫g caught up with Prince Jing, it was high noon. Prince Jing and the group of warriors and smugglers totaled to approximately two hundred. This group was much bigger than the wagons that Wang F鑞 Y襫g had been coming across for the past few days.
Prince Jing and his group of warriors and smugglers had just stopped to water and feed the horse. Prince Jing was anxious. He sent off several messages and received no replies to any of the messages he sent. This boded ill all Prince Jing wanted was to make it safely back to Josper.
However, he couldn`t shake the feeling of foreboding. Prince Jing was an average-sized slender man. He wasn`t tall. Neither could he be called short. He had small deepest triangular cruel-looking eyes. A deep aura of arrogance surrounded him.
Wang F鑞 Y襫g gave the order for five thousand G騯 Archers to surround the clearing that Prince Jing and his group had stopped in. By the time Prince Jing and his warriors and smugglers realized that they were no longer alone. It was too late. They were already surrounded. The sound of swords being unsheathe filled the clearing as the warriors and smugglers all immediately rushed towards Prince Jing to protect him. They pushed Prince Jing into the center of the group. Using their bodies, they formed a wall of protection around him.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.
"Who are you? Identify yourselves!" Prince Jing screamed in rage from the center of the wall of bodies that ringed around him.
He asked that question of the wrong person. Wang F鑞 Y襫g was well known as a callous, cold person who would rather kill you then talk to you. Right now, Wang F鑞 Y襫g couldn`t be bothered with Prince Jing. He was focused on getting to Leandore.
Wang F鑞 Y襫g raised one hand in the air, signaling for the archers to prepare to fire. As his hand dropped, he uttered the word "Loose." The bolts and arrows of one thousand G騯 Archers were released from crossbows and bows.
Seeing the rain of bolts and arrows that was heading their way. The warriors and smugglers turned and threw themselves onto the Prince of Jing, burying him under their bodies, protecting him with their lives. Wang F鑞 Y襫g uttered the word "Loose," repetitively then order the G騯 Archers to fire at will turning the Josper warriors and smugglers into pincushions, and then he waited.
His patience was thin, and he wanted to get back on the road to Leandore. The Emperor had found an excellent short cut that significantly cut down his travel time. Wang F鑞 Y襫g knew the Emperor would waste no time in securing the garrisons of Josper. Wang F鑞 Y襫g was determined to get to Leandore before the Emperor and secure the garrison as the Emperor commanded of him.
However, he waited with the little patience that he had. He waited and waited. Finally, his patience ran out, and Wang F鑞 Y襫g said in his normal ice-cold voice, "Are you going to come out? Or do you want me to come in and pull you out?
The warriors who waited with Wang F鑞 Y襫g looked dubiously at the pile of bodies. Still, there was no action from the pile of bodies. Wang F鑞 Y襫g mercilessly and coldly gave the order to his Dark Blood Warriors, "Go detach the head of every person from their body in that pile."
Only then, to the astonishment of the warrior who waited with Wang F鑞 Y襫g did the pile of bodies began to move. Several people began to crawl out of the pile of bodies just as over five hundred Dark Blood Warriors started to carry out Wang F鑞 Y襫g`s order of detaching the heads from each body.