The Story of Dusk 308 THEY WERE TRAPPED

"It has taken a week for them to infiltrate the palace." She remarked. "If you are strong enough to keep Azura's troops outside…" Senja pointed at the direction of the city's gates. "…Then why it took so long for you to infiltrate the palace?"

Yang Yu's shoulder slumped when he couldn't avoid the answer that Senja wanted. "Because Modama's Troops are inside the palace, they are the last piece of The Emperor Xiao Zi's defence."

Yang Yu knew about Senja predicament when she was under Modama's hypnosis and his Master wouldn't be ecstatic to see her there. He thought it would be better if Senja stay away from the battlefield, regardless the reason.

"Modama's troops?" Senja was squinted her eyes, waiting for Yang Yu to elaborate further, but it was Ye Xiu who told her about it.

"You had met them in the Mountain Sui Sword Sect." Ye Xiu said. "Those teenagers with lack of emotion, right?" He directed his eyes at Yang Yu with this question.

Ye Xiu heard this from the other Senja, she had told him that she had met with someone who exactly looked like her with purple hair, the Senja who he had been looking for.

"Yes. Those teenagers." Yang Yu answered coldly. "Modama used those teenagers to fight again us till die. Many of our people couldn't bring themselves to kill them, as they are not aware about what they do."

That was made sense, Xiao Tianyao and Xiao Jun had the same concerned before. That their troops would lose for this very reason.

"Let's go." Ye Xiu urged Senja again, without giving another thought about Yang Yu reason.

Senja also didn't think it was a crucial thing to be concerned right now. She had another thing that she needed to do and Ye Xiu had been getting anxious the more they wasted time to meet Xiao Tianyao.

If it wasn't because he had promised Senja to let her saying goodbye to Xiao Tianyao and saw him for the last time, he would have dragged Senja to the opposite direction and would have been halfway to meet Riana.

Now, his patience was running out and she could feel it. Hence, when Ye Xiu started walk away, Senja followed him without hesitation.

"All of you follow them." Yang Yu gave his order to the five Crescent Moon Members there.

.....

A few meters away from the palace, Senja and Ye Xiu could see dozens of death body scattered on the street, most of them was teenagers.

Some of Xiao Jun's army was spare the poor teenagers by tying them to immobilize their movement. Because of the five Crescent Moon Members who escorted Senja and Ye Xiu, they weren't attacked or questioned to be there.

Senja walked a step behind Ye Xiu while examining the devastated city around her. The smell of death was in the air as she felt an agony in her heart.

The feeling of sorrow gnawed her heart.

"The fight had died down." One of the five Crescent Moon Members pointed to the entrance gates of the palace.

He was right, there was only death body and injured people there that Senja assumed was Xiao Jun's troops. They walked past them with questioning looked from the onlookers, but with the Crescent Moon Members were escorting them, no one asked anything.

They entered the enormous palace without difficulty and greeted with the same scene like the rest of the situation they had seen on the way to the palace.

"Prince Xiao Tianyao is in the palace hall." One of the Crescent Moon Members informed them after he asked his fellow comrade.

"It looks like Xiao Jun has dethroned the Emperor…" Senja muttered at Ye Xiu, but somehow she felt not right, there was something about this news that made her uneasy, however she didn't know what.

"Hmm." Ye Xiu only hummed in agreement. There was only one thing inside his mind; to meet Riana. He had been waiting for this moment for more than seventeen years and tolerated Senja this far, he just wanted this ended and met his woman. Only that.

"Has this war ended?" Senja asked with uncertainty.

***

Along the way to the palace hall Senja could see that the war has ended… seemingly. However there was still something unsettled in her heart. All of this was too suspicious, in spite of her uneasy feeling, Senja couldn't point out which part was wrong.

One of the Crescent Moon Members was pointing the palace hall in front of them before excused themselves to help their other fellow.

From afar, Senja saw the figure that she had missed the most. Warmth lingering in her heart when she saw him was fine. He was injured, because she caught a glimpse of the white bandage in his left arms, but overall he was fine.

Nothing could compare with the relieved that she felt right at this time, for a moment the uneasiness that she felt before was forgotten.

"I will wait here." Ye Xiu said in low voice.

It would only take a few moment… Ye Xiu tried to calm his impatient heart to drag Senja away from there and helped him to meet Riana, however he wouldn't do that.

That wasn't what he had promised her.

He agreed to give her time that she needed.

Ye Xiu looked at the back of the purple hair girl sorrowfully, he had to break the other hearts to settle down his own, what an ironic reality?

Ye Xiu was looking toward the girl direction and saw how she was crying in front of Xiao Tianyao, he didn't know what they were talking about, but apparently Xiao Tianyao chastised her for coming to the battlefield.

Ye Xiu thought he would do the same if he was in Xiao Tianyao's shoes and found out Riana was coming for him, however, aside from that, his heart would be warm because of her action.

Not long after that, they hugged each other and walked into the palace hall along with Xiao Jun and Ye Bai.

Ye Xiu should greet them, but he was anxious to wait for Senja to comeback, so they could go immediately.

However, something unpredictable happened and the palace hall was closed. It was like a heavy curtain closed the entire palace hall, trapped them inside.

Ye Xiu sensed something wasn't right with this, something was totally wrong with this.

"GATHER NOW!" Ye Xiu took charge and gathered all the soldiers.

Chapter end

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