BP - Chapter 78 - The Siege

The air was crisp as Hui Yue stood in front the city wall just outside the reach of their arrows. His breath could be seen in the early morning air as he squinted his eyes against the rising sun. In camp behind him, the beasts were slowly stirring. This morning no one woke them up. Hui Yue decided to let them sleep as long as possible, or cultivate if that was what they were doing. For today, he would need them to be at their peak; they would now start battling the high-ranked soldiers of the Siban Empire, alongside the fact that somehow they needed to enter the city.

The city in front of him was built into the side of a mountain, and his army was camped outside the walls by the only entrance in and out of the city. Wan Qiao stood by his side. The One-Horned Jasmine Eagle had spent the entire night flying outside the city searching for other exits but no matter where she had looked, she hadn’t seen any hidden entries nor tunnels.

Sighing, Hui Yue was aware that there would most likely be a few tunnels that she was incapable of detecting. These tunnels would most likely only allow a few people to pass through at a time, so there was no way the city could receive a sufficient amount of supplies through them. Had they been large enough to allow for many people to travel through them or the supply trains to enter than Wan Qiao, without a doubt, would have noticed them.

Hui Yue stood still enjoying the fresh air. He was nervous about the war, and he did not understand why everything had been so easy thus far. Why did their Grand Marshall allow the beasts to arrive at the walls so easily? He expected their army to be waiting for them in front of the walls to swarm them and weaken the beast horde, but this did not happen causing Hui Yue to feel uneasy.

Thinking about this, Hui Yue never once turned around to look behind him, but he felt one soldier after another fall into place. Soon the army had completely gathered, and they held their breath waiting for Hui Yue’s command to charge forward.

That, however, was not what Hu

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Blue Phoenix Chapter 78 - The Siege

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