Heavenly Dao Child 200 Entering the City

'~pitter patter pitter~', was the sound of rain falling from the darkened sky, and in a distance a red glow could be seen from the lava spouting out from the surfaces bosom. Boom a loud thunder struck the ground every now creating crater as the ground and the air shook with deafening roar of heaven's rage.

Even remembered it was during one such rainy day he created his first technique but unlike that day today it was different, the rain well if it called as such was not only highly toxic but acidic as well from the hiss it gave when it collided with the ground not to mention the toxic fumes it gave off, as such the trio found themselves inside the cave taking shelter for the rain, whose entrance had been sealed off by Ryuu to prevent any noxious gasses from entering their place of refuge.

Ryuu glanced down as he looked at his hand which had a slight discoloration in certain places only visible if someone looked closely, but when he looked at the two sisters he grimaced at seeing as if they suffered second degree in places where the rain water had hit them, he had used ointment on them and it would be better again but this proved how dangerous the climate was here.

Aliyah: "It seems we will be stuck here for the time being, if it were not for the thunder we would have tried using the special suits they lend us and try and make our way through the rain."

Alhma: "So true sister and now we have to wait, Daoist brother Ryuu what are you thinking about?"

Ryuu gave a sheepish smile as he spoke, "Nothing much sister I was just thinking that we are very near to the city, only half hour away from where we are if we can finish the inspection fast we can hurriedly make or way to the outside world unload our items there, and return back we can earn a lot if we could manage couple of trips with a month's time, we have reached this place within four days worth of time, that was because we had to navigate through the danger and what not, but since we already know the route it would be faster.

Aliyah: "So true now if only the blasted thunderstorm be over."

They tried spending time by gossiping only to find Alhma getting a bit depressed which did not go unnoticed by the other two.

Aliyah: "Sister is there any problem?"

Alhma: "Nothing I was just thinking how lucky we are, we have been able to ward off any danger till now very easily but others may not be so lucky such as us, just think what would happen if they were to face that flock of Yatagarasu. I doubt anyone would survive."

This caused their mood to plummet as they felt saddened by the thought some of the people who entered here will meet there end here.

Ryuu suddenly spoke, "When I arrived in this planet for the first time a few weeks my first stop was in Kitopia empire, I learned about this place there, the branch head of Kitopia branch of Shangri-la along with the King of Kitopia tried to coerce me into joining their expedition force, he wanted me to act as the personal attack dog for them, keep them safe and sound and bring them out of here."

Aliyah spoke in disbelieving tone, "That is unbelievable Shangri-la Pavilion is known for being neutral and honorable for one of its member acting like that is truly unbelievable."

Ryuu nodded as he spoke, "It is for such a gigantic organization to operate smoothly they have to maintain a level of trust and honesty with others the person acted on his own as he tried to repay the debt he had with the King. Kitopia kingdom was also not in proper condition as well as the last expedition their team went was disastrous their allies betrayed them, the male members of the team were wiped out, and the female members well the males were lucky to have died from what I have heard when they left this hidden space they paraded the females naked their mind broken because of them and eyes lifeless before killing them."

Hearing that the girls face turned green at that before growling with anger, "Such mongrels they ought to be put to death, did no one retaliate against them."

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, "Nope as far as I know no one did anything and if the King of Kitopia had approached me without trying to con me I would have helped him, in fact I did a free house cleaning for him."

Alhma: "House cleaning???"

Ryuu: "Well the finance minister of the King made it as such that he almost had the economy of the kingdom hostage through various schemes such as blackmailing bribery and what not to the point even the King was forced to bend his knees for him…..."

Aliyah interrupted him as she spoke with distaste in her voice, "What a worthless King, to have his kingdom being held hostage like that it is disgraceful."

Ryuu nodded as he spoke, "So true now I was told about this hidden space by none other than the branch head and he used the party held in honor of the marriage anniversary of the general to introduce me to the king, there I met the finance minister's only son, well an A grade douche, if you ask me just because he could cultivate he let it go over to his head pissed me off royally and at the end of the night became brain dead, now his father wanted revenge hired assassin's to kill me but unfortunately when he tried to attack me I was having a rather pleasant breakfast with one of my older sisters and the rest is history."

A few hours later the rain was over as Ryuu spoke, "Let us visit the city what do you say."

The two sisters nodded at that as they all wore the special protection suit provided by Shangri-la which they might have tweaked a bit.

"Well lets see what the city has to offer."

With that they flew towards the city as they neared the city Ryuu frowned as he spoke, "Whoever created it must be a gloomy person, mile long black walls, and full of towers and what not, the door seems to have been taken apart from outside I hope the things inside are intact."

The entered the doo to see tall buildings some of them damaged, but one thing that separated from everything was the fact that the windows were too small, more like a small ventilation outlet except for a few which were mostly high than the ground floor, there were signs of destruction but no bodies to be found.

Aliyah: "What is this place, it cannot be a city, it looks more like a…."

Alhma finished the sentence for her, "Prison, this is 'Black Rock Prison'."

Ryuu looked at her incredulously as he spoke, "How did you know it?"

Alhma raised her hand as she pointed up, and just above the gate through which they entered it was written in big letters, "BLACK ROCK PRISON"

Ryuu: "Cool we wasted so much for a prison if we loot the corpses outside at least we could have earned something."

Aliyah sighed as he spoke, "Well since we have already entered let us check it out."

As such they decided to check the prison, they were there for almost an hour but to their dismay they found nothing.

Alhma: "There is nothing here as if the whole place has been looted by others already, this is so annoying."

Ryuu: "Hey everyone over here I found something."

As they moved to the spot where Ryuu was crouching as they neared him they saw a couple of foot prints causing them to frown.

Aliyah: "It was raining cats and dogs couple of hours ago, and from what we are seeing this is recent."

Alhma: "But who could be here were there other teams here?"

Ryuu: "If there were we would have at least met them or they might have taken a different route than us who knows, but let us check who they are."

The twins gave their consent as the followed the tracks trying to blend into the surrounding as such as possible.

As they neared the spot they froze seeing the amount of blood on the floor as skeletons of various beings were placed in a heap, a mad laughter made them curious as well as a little bit cautious and with small reassuring nod from each of his teammates the trio started moving again.

As they turned a corner Ryuu's blood froze as he saw the person in front of him.

Chapter end

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