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A person was rushing towards the Song clan. And just as he was about to reach the gate.
“Stop where you are.”
A voice came and the person came to halt.
Then four people with a weapon on their hands appeared from within the gate and surrounded the person while being vigilant.
Seeing the familiarity of the uniform the person was wearing, they drop down their vigilance and one from among the four people questioned him,
“What is the purpose of your visit to the clan?”
The person being questioned was one of the guards stationed at the entrance of the town under Song clan.
The guard on being questioned replied, “I’ve brought an important news to the clan.”
“Oh! Then you can tell us and we’ll pass it to the clan master.” Said one of four people.
At this words, the guard made a difficult expression and without saying another word, he took out a red envelope from inside his breastplate and showed it to them.
Looking at red envelope, the four people made a hard expression and slowly came towards the guard to see whether it was fake or not.
On seeing that it was genuine one, they made a serious expression as they knew the importance of red envelope.
Then one person from among the four turned to the guard and said, “Follow me.”
Seeing that the person started walking towards the inside of the clan, the guard quickly followed from behind.
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Holding the red envelope on one hand and the letter on the other, the man in his forties frowned asked the guard who was kneeling onehis one knee,
“Is everything that is written here true?”
The guard replied, “Yes, clan master”
“Does anyone else knows about this matter?” The person addressed as clan master asked again.
“No” the guard replied, “The only ones who knew of this matter are the guards and the captain.”
“Okay. You may return.” Said the clan master.
The guard stood up and gave a respectful bow at the clan master before turning around and exiting the clan hall.
The man who was addressed as clan master was the clan master of the Song clan and his name was Harold Song.
His expression at the moment was that of a frown and fear as he sat on his seat quietly.
Then turning to the old servant standing on the corner besides him, he said while making a serious expression,
“Inform the respective clan master of the other clans about this matter and also tell them that I am requesting an emergency meeting at our Song clan and would like to have them attend it before the sun sets.”
The old servant, hearing the commands of the clan master, bowed and left the clan hall, leaving the clan master Harold Song alone in the clan hall, who sat on his chair in deep silence while his mind thought about the approaching calamity.
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The sky has just turned red as the sun began setting down behind the mountains. But the liveliness of the people in Green Rock town had yet to settle down.
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While these people were busy with their lives unaware of the approaching calamity that may befall upon them, the clan hall of the Song clan was filled in silence with heavy atmosphere that make it difficult for one to breathe.
Inside the clan hall, there sat a five individuals who were clan master of their respective clan. Those five clan master were Harold Song, Wushen Qin, Marhu Rin, Gary Feng and Darius Liu.
Finally breaking the silence, Marhu Rin, spoke up,
“So what do you think we should do then?”
“If the report is true, then there’s nothing we can do.” Said Wushen Qin with a sigh.
“Then should we evacuate with everyone?”, Gary Feng suggested.
“Evacuate to where? To the city?”, said Darius Liu with a slight anger in his tone, “Do you think those big clans in the city will agree to provide shelter for hundred thousands of people? Forget about sheltering us, they won’t even let us enter the city.”
Gary Feng greeted his teeth and said, “Then are you proposing that we fight a fifth level fire tiger by ourselves? Do we even have a chance?” Seeing that everyone was remaining quiet, he shook his head and continued, “Forget about thinking of fighting a fifth level beast, we will all be dead when those fourth level beasts attack us.”
“How about we ask for a help from the city Lord and from those big sects?” Suggested Harold Song who was staying quiet the entire time, “At least they might be interested in the fourth and fifth level beasts core and might be willing to help us?”
“That’s a great idea.” Said Wushen Qin, “I agree with the suggestion of brother Harold. What about the rest?” saying that, he turned to look at the others for their answer.
After hearing the suggestion, the other clan masters became silent and went into a deep thought. And then after a moment of thinking, they nodded their heads in approval of the suggestion.
Without further delay, the letter was quickly prepared for the nearest city Lord and for the sects requesting them of their help. And the Messengers were quickly dispatched to the city Lord and the sects.
After sending the messengers away, those clan masters gathered again in the clan hall of the Song clan to discuss about the next course of action.
“Now that we've sent for help. We can only wait until the messengers bring back their response.” Said Gary Feng and then suddenly changing his expression to that of a fear, he continued, “I just hope that they won’t turn down our request, if not then, we are doomed.”
Even though they've sent for the help, the atmosphere around them was still heavy and not even one of them had a relax expression.
“We can pray that they agree to our request.” Harold Song sighed with worried expression. Then looking at the other clan masters, he continued, “Anyway, what we should be doing is think about strengthening our defense to prepare ourselves an attack at any moment because, even though the information we got tell us that those desolate beasts would reach our town in 2-3 days, there is no telling of what will happen.”
“True.”, Darius Liu agreed as he continued, “As you all know, the entrances guarded by my Liu clan and brother Harold's Song clan are the closest to the wilderness. So it is likely that the desolate beasts will initiate their attack on those two entrances. So I think we should heavily guard those two entrances and the wall near the wilderness.”
The rest of them, on hearing what Darius Liu had said, had no other choice but to agree as the wall and entrances near the wilderness were the lifeline of the people of Green Rock town. And if the beasts were to breach through the wall and entrances, then their fate was doomed for sure.
“Then what do you suggest should we do about the people in the town?”, asked Gary Feng.
Wushen Qin spoke up, “I think we should move them to the central area of the town. And also, just in case we fail to hold off the attack of the desolate beasts, we should be prepared to escape from the entrance guarded by my Qin clan which is the farthest from the wilderness.”
At those words, there was a heavy silence among them which was followed by a light nod of the other clan masters.
“Then I suppose we should spread the news now and start taking action.”, breaking the silence, Darius Liu said.
“Indeed”, said some while the others gave a nod.
Like that the news was spread in the very night of the meeting of the respective clan masters. Even in the night, the news spread like wildfire bringing nightmares to the people of Green Rock town.
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In the next day, even before the sun had yet to rise, there were people everywhere on the streets with gloomy expression on their face.
There were some with red eyes clearly due to lack of sleep because of the terrible news they got in the previous night. There were some who were carrying all their precious belongings which they had packed right after they heard the news without even getting a wink of sleep and were now going to leave the town as quickly as possible.
Even though It was still a morning, the bars were already full with people discussing about the news. And not only in the bars, people everywhere in the town, whether men or women, young or old, were all discussing about the terrible news which gave them a horrible nightmares in the previous night.
In the White Clouds store, being woken up by the loud noise of the people, Ren was not in the mood to sleep anymore and was in the stores doing his daily cleaning duties. But curious at the weird behavior and the talk of the people, clearly unaware of the news because no one told him in the previous night, he stood by the window and quietly listened to the conversation of the people.
After listening to the conversation, he understood everything but without even making a panic expression like those of the people when they heard it for the first time, he silently went back to his duties and continued the cleaning of the store.