"Are you alright?" Alex quickly flew over to Pearl and asked.
Pearl looked at the beasts that had just left for war. He turned toward Alex as he arrived next to him.
"Was I late, brother? I hope everything is alright still," Pearl said as he looked around, searching for people he cared about. He felt a relief when he saw Liz and Graham in the distance, wounded, but safe.
He tried looking for so other people he could recognize, but the war had restarted after his arrival, and everyone had started moving once more.
"We have a lot of losses," Alex said. "The numbers are not fully in yet, but we should have lost nearly 1500 soldiers in total. 3 of our elders have died as well."
Pearl gave a saddened look. "I'm sorry. I should have co earlier," he said.
"You weren't any later than I was," Alex said. "I only just brought the soldiers over from the Central Continent too. So don't think those deaths are because of you. Besides, we all ca because we decided to. To do what is right."
Pearl nodded.
Alex looked at the thousands of beasts that moved toward the war and took notice of their aura. Most of them were quite strong, with about 30 or so beasts in the Saint Transformation realm.
'Those are a good addition to the army,' Alex thought. The other soldiers who had turned against the Emperor were also a good addition now. He looked back at Pearl.
"What do you plan to do now?"
Pearl looked at the battlefield and said, "My mother made promise that I wouldn't go out looking for revenge, but I'm already here. I'm weak and don't have much of a cultivation base, but I must fight no matter what."
"After coming all this way, I cannot hide behind others still," Pearl said.
Alex nodded. "Go fight who you can, but take care of yourself. The mont you know you aren't safe, run away," he said.
Pearl nodded.
"Let's go."
Alex and Pearl went back into the war, joining it as everyone started fighting with full force.
"What is the situation?" Alex asked Yan Yating through Whisker.
"We have the upper hand in number, but the strength of the opposition still dwarfs us in most of the places," he said. "If we are to not suffer many casualties, we should imdiately begin attacking the upper echelon of the army and destroying the chain of command from the top."
Alex nodded to himself. "I'll go fight the stronger—"
His words cut off as 3 soldiers ca for him, flying past the beasts and other soldiers, specifically targeting him.
Alex pulled out Midnight imdiately and attacked back, destroying 2 of the three attacks that flew toward him imdiately.
As for the last attack, he simply took it to the face and ca out of it with no damage.
They seed to be ignoring Pearl, thankfully, who had joined the battle in the distance.
"It seems like I have found my opponents for now," Alex sent a ssage. "Keep inford about the situation."
"I will be joining the fight soon as well. I will have my subordinates replace in overseeing the war," Yan Yating said. "Given how strong I am, it makes no sense for to just sit around and—"
The man's words cut off.
Alex didn't know why he had stopped speaking, but this was no ti to give thought to those words. He turned around, swinging his sword as he let out an attack that flew toward one of the two n that were attacking him.
The man was in the Saint Transformation 6th realm and seed quite strong. What surprised Alex was the fact that the man was in fact the cultivation base he had, and didn't have any sort of aid for him.
It took him only a mont to realize that the man didn't have anyone protecting him.
The attack Alex threw the man's way was so strong that the man was forced to use his strongest attack to protect himself.
A gust of brown wind created sand all around the man, which coalesced into a spike of sorts that imdiately flew toward Alex's sword slash.
Alex felt the panic that he felt every ti soone attacked with Immortal Qi. Taking the cue, he imdiately moved out of the way, making his way toward the woman who was readying an attack.
He took a deep breath and sent out a Yang Palm attack that flew toward the woman. This woman too didn't have any support behind her and had to use a life-saving treasure to save herself.
Just then, Alex felt soone teleport behind him as he felt the aura of teleportation and the fluctuations of space in the air.
Other than that, Alex could not feel anything else about the person that appeared at all.
If not for his ability to recognize manipulations in space, he wouldn't have even known that the man was there. There was absolutely no aura that ca out of the man at all.
Alex's senses still caught onto the man and saw that he was already mid-swing with his sword even as he teleported. The attack had been so fast that Alex had no chance of defending himself at all.
Alex sensed the lack of aura and Qi in the attack in everything but the man himself. His sword glowed softly, but that didn't produce any aura at all.
The entire attack landed on the other person not noticing anything. This was an assassin's attack.
Alex saw the sword and the swing with his senses, and even as it was too late to do anything about it, he knew what he had to do in this case.
He let out a strong Intent, not to stop the man, but to stop the defensive energy deep inside him from surfacing. As for the attack itself, he took it head-on without any defenses.
The attacker felt the feedback on his sword as it seamlessly cut through Alex's neck, severing his head in that one single strike.
Blood spurted from Alex's headless torso while the head itself flew into the air to the side.
The man wasn't done just yet. Just to finish the attack, he sent his sword through Alex's chest, driving it into his heart.
As he stabbed, he felt sothing crunch within Alex's robes, almost like a tal that was very strong but brittle at the sa ti.
He felt little resistance again until after the sword ca out on the other side when it struck sothing and broke it through Alex's robes on the other side.
Tiny pieces of crystalline ruby seed to break off from Alex's body, confusing the man. He gave it a closer look and realized that it wasn't ruby at all, but sothing similar in color and yet perhaps harder than it.
He reached into Alex's back following his sword and took out what his sword had broken into. He pulled it out into the sun and saw the crimson translucent piece of a solid object that he had never seen before.
However, the sll of it told him exactly what it was.
"Is this... blood?"
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