Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 679

“Hey, there are some survivors here!”

“How many are there?”

“Not that many, not more than ten made it out alive...”

“If it wasn’t for the Patriarch, a lot of us would have perished with them.”

“So this is how the Long Clan does things?”

“Yeah and still those idiots flock to them ... “

Two soldiers were pushing some rubble out of the way to get to the survivors. What they found was not for the faint of heart. The people that were within the blast zone of the explosion had their souls destroyed. Their bodies looked like dried-up husks and several of those were on top of one survivor here.

“The people on top must have used something to protect this person...”

“Family?”

“Perhaps...”

One of the soldiers noticed a medallion around the woman’s neck that had survived the explosion. Three other people with similar accessories were on top of them. It seemed that they tossed themselves on top of her to protect her soul from getting devoured.

“Could have been their child or perhaps a sibling?”

“Such a terrible fate to be betrayed by your allies... will the world finally listen?”

“What do you think? They’ll try to pin the blame on us, I bet they’ll say that our Patriarch did it all just like the last time!”

“They have no honor or pride.”

One of the soldiers spit to the side while the other gently carried the survivor onto a floating platform. This platform produced a blue shield of light to protect the injured woman. It was a special stretcher that on the inside also produced golden light of healing to stabilize this patient. In the distance, similar devices were used to carry out the handful of survivors that could perhaps give some insights into the current Long Clan strategies.

Even though they were being rescued their status was still that of a prisoner of war. Perhaps after the betrayal from their side, it would be easier to convince them of the Long Clan’s devil-like nature. Yet, the fear of the old monster that had ruled over these lands for millenia was strong. It wouldn’t be that easy to change the mind of the citizens that grew up on the fact that the Long Clan was the strongest of them all.

“That is true but will anyone believe us?”

‘That’s a good question...’

Zhang Dong hovered up in the sky while looking around the area. His attention focused on the conversation of these soldiers. He was far up in the air but this didn’t stop him from using his senses to listen in. It brought a question to the forefront about how others would see this confrontation. Would they believe that the Long Clan abandoned their branching families or not?

“I tried to stop her but she came through!”

“Uh...”

His thoughts were interrupted by Huo Qiang who shouted in his direction. The person he was pointing to was flying his way and she didn’t look happy. Those furrowed brows made her usually cute face look ferocious. It was like a demon was coming his way and he had no place to run.

“How dare you lie to me!”

“I uh... please calm down my wife we are still out on the battlefield, what if there are any Long Clan survivors...”

“Then they will have to wait for you to explain yourself.”

Zhang Dong started backing away while Liena flew over to his location. The other sect members bowed their heads at the arrival of their matriarch and soon started listening in to the conversation. When arriving she was screaming out at the top of her lungs which made things somewhat obvious. To not have their private life be exposed, Zhang Dong quickly created a barrier to block out sounds from getting out.

“You were supposed to remain at the sect, what were you thinking? Disguising yourself as an elder? How long have you been doing this for?”

“I uh... it wasn’t that long...”

“It wasn’t? So if I look up your fake name in the records, I won’t find anything interesting?”

“Why would you do that dear... How about you calm down and we discuss things somewhere private.”

“Calm down? You want me to calm down?”

He had made a grave error in his wording. His lovely wife, who was usually calm, collected, and cute, started shouting at him. It was hard to refute her claims as he had done the things that she mentioned. Without telling anyone he endangered his life but the biggest problem was this, it was the lack of trust.

“Do you really trust us this little?”

“No, I was just worried that more people would die... please understand.”

After a little back and forth the shouting stopped. The crux of the issue was his lack of trust in his people that usually depended on his overwhelming might to get things done. He had come here to finish the battle faster and to conserve lives. While his plan had worked, if his enemies were able to figure out his true identity, this whole thing could have ended with a tragedy.

“No more lies from this point on, will you promise me this?”

“Of course!”

Liena squinted while Zhang Dong tried to put on his poker face. Her face moved in quite close to look for nervous ticks but there were none. Even though he just went through a large-scale battle, the fear he felt now was greater than he had when the flying stronghold was exploding.

‘I’ll be sleeping on the couch for a while...’