467 DEVASTATED CITY

"Oh, my God!"

The city before their eyes wasn't like a city anymore.

The smell of something burned could be caught from miles away. Smoke, billowing into the sky as the glimmer of sunlight could be seen over the edge of the horizon, giving some light on the heartbreaking landscape.

It was an utter destruction.

Most part of the district had been completely burned to the ground and some still continued to burn. There was no citizen on the sight, presumably they had escaped from this ruin city.

"What they had done here?" Senja gasped in shock. Something terrible and horrify had happened. This district was utterly out of shape.

No sooner had the words fallen off her lips, Yun grabbed her hand and urged her to run the opposite direction.

Before both of them disappeared from the bloody scene of the entrance gates, Senja caught a glimpse of another bunch of soldiers were coming their way.

They could fight them off again of course, but it wasn't necessary. They had to keep their energy for something more important as both of them run out from the scene.

Yun took them to the stables and released a horse for himself while Senja did the same. Like there was a tacit understanding between them, they started to move toward the same direction.

Riding their horses through this devastated city, gave Senja and Yun the big picture just how horrible this place had turned.

Senja could feel her heart hammering in her chest as she thought about Xiao Tianyao and Xiao Jun's condition at this moment. They should be in this city, but looking from how the Emperor of Azura's armies swarmed all over the place in this district, made Senja thought about the worst thing that could be possible happened to them.

Her heart was tightening in worry.

"What happened here!?" Senja shouted at Yun to fight the winds as they ran their horse as fast as they could.

Yun shook his head. "I don't know!" He shouted back. "But, we will find out."

Senja didn't feel good about the things that they would find out.

They rode the horse through the forest to the other district and another, but it was all the same, destruction was everywhere as the smell of burning ambers in the air.

The sun has almost set in the horizon when they arrived in district 11, where the Roccaleaf Tea House located, but all they could see was a burning enormous building with fire on some part.

"Impossible…" Senja muttered under her breath when she saw the inn that almost couldn't be recognized anymore.

Beside her, Yun's eyes turned darker. "We need to find someone who can give us the detail…" He said.

"And you know who?" Senja snapped her head at him with expectant eyes. She didn't have connection here and didn't know what to do now.

"Yes, I do." Yun said firmly.

Both of them ran their horses to different direction. There was a time they were running into a bunch of soldiers, but it didn't stop them.

However, it didn't mean they were not alerted by the unexpected trespasser.

"Yun." Senja raised her voice to fight the wind that howling around them. "We alerted them."

"I am aware." Yun replied.

His white hair flared behind him as wind brushed past them. For a moment Senja admired the scene, it was surreal. Yun must be a handsome man in his young age.

"So? You have plan for this? Because I don't have anything inside my mind now." Honestly speaking, Senja wasn't in her right mind right now. She was too worried to think about Xiao Tianyao whereabouts.

"I do." Yun said.