The Golden Throne

Chapter 187: Taking control of the siege

“Your Highness-“, General George wanted to refute this order, but seeing Liu Feng’s unwavering look, he sighed. “Yes, Your Highness. It will be done.”

“Alright. Now, that this is taken care of, just get rid of this unpleasant sight in front of me. There is so much to be done, yet here we are, wasting our time in front of an empty mansion. Where do you think all the civilians are held?”, Liu Feng asked George.

“Your Highness, they might be in a shelter within the city lord’s mansion. That is why I have come here. I even took care of the guards who were circling around the mansion. They have to be within the mansion.”, George said,

“Fine. Let us just entertain your idea for a while. But if it doesn’t work, then we will be following my orders for the rest of the day.”, Liu Feng said.

General George bit his lip with frustration, but he nodded. “Your Highness, we are waiting for the mage tower disciple to come so that we can start the raid.”

“We are waiting for Hu Long? Alright. I’ll bite. Where is he?”, Liu Feng asked.

“He is coming, Your Highness. There seems to be a problem. He is taking a lot of time to come. He seems to be recovering from a fight that had passed.”, George said.

“Then leave him. I think you are talking about the fight at the entrance of the city. He will need to recover if the fight was of that magnitude. Anyway, where is the phoenix? She clearly participated in the fight there. I don’t see her anywhere though.”, Liu Feng asked.

“Your Highness, the phoenix was no where to be seen after she killed the demon.”, George said.

“Well, she must be looking for the right place to go. Let us charge in. Any strong opponents like demons should be left to me. You will just forfeit your life by going up against them.”, Liu Feng said,.

“Yes, Your Highness.”, George nodded. He turned around and looked at the soldiers. 

“We charge!”, he shouted.

All the soldiers cheered as George took a horse next to him and got on it.

“Your Highness, do you wish to ride a horse?”, he asked.

“Of course.”, Liu Feng smiled.

George gestured towards a soldier, who quickly brought him a horse. Liu Feng got on it, and looked around. Yang Chen was still standing there in a gaze.

“I will talk to you later. Don’t worry, you are not in any trouble. In fact, you have helped me so much that you should be rewarded.”, Liu Feng told Yang Chen.

“Sherl- I mean, Your Highness, that is not necessary.”, Yang Chen hastily bowed.

“Don’t worry. I like being called Sherlock much more than being called Your Highness.”, Liu Feng laughed as he pulled in the reins and turned around.

“Let us get going, General. It has been a long walk here, and I really want a good rest. I want to purge this place of all demons first.”, Liu Feng said as his horse neighed.

“Yes, Your Highness.”, George nodded, as his horse started moving forward. Liu Feng quickly followed him at the same slow pace. They walked forwards into the city lord’s mansion. Not every soldier followed though. Having a huge army within such a small mansion was both disadvantageous, and completely stupid. Parts of the army also branched out into the other houses of the nobles.

Liu Feng stepped into the mansion, and looked around. There were courtyards, and a huge pathway into the mansion, but nowhere could a single person be visible. 

He looked forward, and closed his eyes. He could sense that there were a few people inside, bit know one of significance, because they did not have any protection, and there were no demons inside as well. He would be able to sense the sinister corrupted mana if there were.

“Remember, keep everyone alive. Don’t go off and kill everyone. We need information.”, Liu Feng said.

“But Your Highness, in the heat of the battle-“

“There is literally no one here. You can see it. Even inside, there are few present. This was all a big bait, and you took it without even questioning it. Now the only thing that we can do so that we get something out of this, is to extract information out of the few who are alive. Somewhere within this city, there are a group of demons and a lot of humans. We cannot afford to let them be.”, Liu Feng said.

“No one here? What are you talking about, Your Highness?”, George asked.

“You will see once we go into the mansion.”, Liu Feng sighed.

The two of them led about a thousand soldiers into the mansion. They entered the path way and into the doors. The could see many extravagant features, and so many sculptures, but not a single man yet. Liu Feng pointed towards one of the sculptures.

“Move this one a meter to the right.”, he told a soldier. The soldier glanced at George, and George nodded towards him.

The soldier went ahead and moved the sculpture. Lo and behold, there was a door right behind the sculpture.

“How were you able to find this, Your Highness?”, George asked.

“The same way that I know that there are only five people in this mansion, and none else.”, Liu Feng said, calmly avoiding the root of the question. He took the first step towards the door and opened it. There was darkness behind it, and what seemed to be a staircase spiralling down.

Liu Feng closed his eyes again, but this time, he opened his eyes with shock.

“I was mistaken. This city lord was truly careful. Oh my god, who would have a shelter this detailed and this deep? Truly marvellous.”, Liu Feng exclaimed.

“What happened, Your Highness?”, George asked.

“You are right, George. There are indeed, civilians and possibly demons in here. I ccouldn’t sense them because this is at least a few hundred meters underground. This is the first time I saw something like this here, in this worl- I mean, my life. The structure stability is so bad that I am surprised that someone actually did something like this.”, Liu Feng said.

George did not say anything.

He just nodded and started walking towards the door.

“I will go in first. It is better if I go in, because I can sense attacks that are coming towards us.”, Liu Feng said.

“No, Your Highness. You are the crown prince of Aegon. You cannot risk your life like this. This soldier will be going first. More powerful or not, your life is too precious to be risked like this.”, George refused immediately.

Liu Feng did not retort. He knew that this was a losing battle for him, because he had no points to refute George. He sighed and nodded to the arrangement.

Because of the limitations of width, everyone started going down in a single file. George and Liu Feng were somewhere in the middle. They slowly descended into darkness.

All of a sudden, a light appeared next to Liu Feng. Liu Feng looked to the side in shock, to see a light in George’s hand.

“You had a light with you?”, he asked.

George smiled and pointed towards his necklace, which only became prominent now.

“I have an artifact, Your Highness.”, he said.

“I see.”, Liu Feng nodded.

All of them continued their descent. For the majority of the walk, Liu Feng had his eyes closed. He was looking further than they were walking to make sure that nothing was going to hinder them. Finally, after a while of walking, they stopped.

They could see lights, and a door, and more stairs.

“Where do we go, General?”, a soldier asked.

“The door has five people within. They are who I saw when I was above ground. We need to take care of them first, before going down, or they might be able to alert the people who are down there.”, Liu Feng said.

“Just five?”, George asked.

“Just five, two among them armed.”, Liu Feng nodded.

“One, open the door, archers arrows ready, once the door is open, shoot the arrows continuously so that they won’t even have a chance to react.”, George said.

“Swift and decisive. Guess this is what makes a general.”, Liu Feng thought to himself.

The soldiers shuffled around. With a lot of room to move around, they were able to get into position quickly. About ten elves had their bowes drawn, and aimed at the door. One soldier was holding the handle.

He counted down with his hand. 

3,2,1

The door opened. Arrows whizzed past as they went through the door. The elves did not wait. They took another arrow and shot once more. After five reps, the elves stopped. The shrieks from the first rep were no more, and once Liu Feng peeked within the door, he saw that five men were all dead.

“I thought I wanted them alive?”, he said.

“But Your Highness, you also said that there were more downstairs.”, General George said.

“Fair enough.”, Liu Feng shrugged.

“We have to move further. Your Highness, how many people are in the floor below us?”, George asked.

“I cannot confirm. I can sense that there are demons below, and they will know of our presence if I try to bite off more than I can chew.”, Liu Feng said.

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