Aiden's hands trembled!
He could clearly feel the poor fellow's life diminishing bit by bit from his body – his organs had already begun to deteriorate!
At the end of his lifespan, the once proud massive oversized Skink captain did not have much time left and even deities won't be able to save him at this point!
"I'm late,"
Aiden slumped his head and said with a quivering tone.
"Young Master… It's not late, it's not."
The captain patted Aiden gently on the palm and consoled the latter, "I don't have any regrets now that I'm able to see you fine and well before my passing."
"Haih."
Immediately after, he sighed. "It's just a pity I can't get to see the others in the end. I wonder how they are. I wonder if they suffered outside."
"You know that the girls especially have a weaker personality. What is she going to do if she gets bullied without us around?"
Aiden said, "The girls joined a major sect in order to grow stronger as well as so that they can increase their lifespan. They won't suffer. They even said that you'll be the first one to take the elixir once she succeeds in refining it."
"Those lasses,"
The sick figure smiled.
Aiden's heart clenched at the sight of his captain's smile.
·?θm There was still slightly more than a month to go before the opening of the ancient battlefield.
He knew very well that given his brother's current condition, there was no way the latter could hold out until then!
This meant that this poor dying brother of his would never ever be able to meet the others again.
A moment later, he patted the back of Aiden's palm and said softly, "Send me back."
Aiden understood where he meant by 'back'.
It was most likely something that the captain was thinking about incessantly for the past several years!
A fox dies in its hole and a leaf lands at its roots.
More than longing, he felt a pang of deep guilt towards that piece of land and its inhabitants.
He had to return!
"Alright!"
Aiden nodded and carried the weak frail captain in his arms before walking to the entrance.
Sylvie Deva was waiting not far away and she hurried over, asking softly, "Where are you headed for?"
Aiden replied, "Let's leave the capital first."
There were many people in the capital of Great West and it would be easy for him to be exposed carrying the captain with him.
If anyone discovered their presence in the capital of Great West, the Great West Dynasty would be annihilated even before the allied army of the three dynasties struck!
Aiden supported him into Sylvie Deva's carriage.
The carriage was adorned with jewels and jade majestically and glowed with a bright spirit light. It rose slowly into the air and headed out of the capital.
The journey within the capital was mostly smooth when people saw that it was a carriage of the princess.
Before long, the three of them had already left the capital.
Aiden checked his surroundings and upon seeing that nobody was around, he said, "Thank you for your help, Sylvie Deva. I'll take my brother away from here. You can head on back."
"I don't have anything on. I'll send you guys wherever you want to go," Sylvie Deva said hurriedly.
Just as Aiden was about to decline, he frowned and his ears twitched.
"Someone's approaching!"
Aiden's expression turned cold.
The person chased after them at an extremely fast speed – it was clear that the intruder was not friendly!
Soon.
The sound of clothes fluttering could be heard in the air.
10 figures descended and surrounded Sylvie Deva's carriage.
The leader was a bald man clad in armor. His eyes were sharp as a vulture's – this was the commander of the Great West Dynasty's Scarlet Vulture guards, Bald Vulture!
The other nine wore scarlet robes with sect badges on their waists. They had mighty auras and did not look friendly.
All nine of them were Martial Masters of True Fire Sect!
Sylvie Deva pushed down Aiden's arm and shook her head, gesturing for him to calm down and not be reckless.
If he was exposed, he would definitely attract an endless pursuit!
The entire North Region would be shaken!
Aiden was expressionless and did not move.
Through the curtain, Sylvie Deva asked with a deep voice, "Bald Vulture, don't you know who I am? The guts of you to try and halt my carriage!"
"Hehe!"
Bald Vulture chuckled. "Where are you heading to, little princess?"
"It's none of your business! Get lost!"
Sylvie Deva's voice was laced with anger as she hollered.
"Humph!"
Bald Vulture retraced his smile and said darkly, "Little princess, I'm sure you're trying to pass a message to your sister after hearing some news, right?"
"What are you talking about?"
Sylvie Deva frowned – she did not understand what Bald Vulture meant by that.
When he heard that, Aiden already realized that Seetho Khouge was in a worse state than he had imagined!
The fact that the capital guards dared to obstruct a carriage of the princess of Great West was a clear sign of how messy things had become in the Great West Dynasty.
Furthermore, it was clear that Bald Vulture was implying something from his words!
Bald Vulture sneered, "Little princess, you don't have to act dumb in front of me. Even if you know nothing, please return to the capital!"
Sylvie Deva's killing intent rose!
She was no kind soul.
Her alter ego was the Pure Maiden of the fiend sects!
Right then, Sylvie Deva suddenly felt her vision blur – Aiden had already left the carriage.
"Bald Vulture, do you remember me?"
An indifferent voice sounded outside the carriage.
Bald Vulture gazed at the gray robed martial artist and was momentarily stunned.
Immediately after, his eyes widened and his pupils constricted as he yelped, "It's you!"
"H-How are you not dead?!"
Bald Vulture was flustered at the sight of Aiden.
A man's name grows like the shadow of a tree.
Aiden was notorious throughout the North Region after that battle in the Great Forbidden Ruins!
It was nothing if he had died just like that.
However, no Martial Master of the North Region would be able to compose themselves at the sight of Aiden alive before them!
"Who is that person?"
The True Fire Sect martial artists at the side used their Spirit Peering Art and noticed that the gray robed martial artist's core was empty. Upon realizing that he was only a mortal, their eyes filled with contempt.
"H-H-He is…"
"I am Aiden."
There was a momentary silence.
The martial artists of True Fire Sect exchanged glances and burst into laughter.
"Everyone knows that Aiden died at the bottom of the Dragon Burial Valley! You're saying that you're Aiden?"
"Hahaha! Interesting! He's trying to impersonate a dead man!"
Everyone from True Fire Sect laughed.
However, Bald Vulture wanted to cry as his body turned stiff while cold sweat poured down.
He had noticed something.
The moment the gray robed martial artist declared that he was Aiden, it meant that all of them were going to die!
"Is it funny?"
For a martial artist of True Fire Sect, before his laughter stopped, his vision blurred and a cold voice rang in his ears.
"So fast!"
That was the last thought that crossed the person's mind.
The next moment.
Right in front of everyone, Aiden reached out and tapped the person on the throat gently with his finger.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
His throat snapped and a Martial Master died on the spot.
"Audacious!"
"B*stard, how dare you!"
The other Martial Masters of True Fire Sect were enraged and hollered.
Clang! Clang!
Eight Martial Masters summoned their flying swords one after another.
The swords quivered and shone with bright spirit lights.
Eight of them rapidly formed an encirclement with Aiden in the center, summoning their flying swords with one hand while conjuring hand seals with the other to release True Fire Sect's spirit arts!
The attacks surged forth instantly!
Aiden's expression did not change as he opened his mouth.
"Om!"
He chanted in a prayer.
It was the first of six words of Daring prayer!
Instantly, it reverberated endlessly like thunder!
The void was filled with a shuddering power!
The flying swords that were aimed at Aiden froze in midair.
The spirit arts of the eight Mighty Lords from True Fire Sect dissipated in midair before they could even form.
All eight of them stood stiffly on the spot with bulged eyeballs that were bloodshot!
Bald Vulture could see it clearly.
Blood was already oozing from the ears, eyes, nose, and mouth of the eight people!
They were bleeding from all orifices!
"Ma!"
Aiden spoke once more.
The second a prayer had arrived!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Right in front of Bald Vulture, the bodies of the eight Mighty Lords from True Fire Sect exploded into blood mists without any corpse remaining!
Sylvie Deva was about to exit the carriage when she saw that.
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