I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

The horizon gleamed with increasing intensity from the red aura encasing the giant blue whale.

"Judging by this, the blue whale is likely teleporting a large army here," Freya frowned as she looked skyward. She had encountered blue whales several times in the past and had a rough understanding of their teleportation mechanism.

With such a degree of radiance, the life forms being transported numbered at least three thousand, and their spiritual pressure state was at least not lower than Second Order, with probably quite a few at Fifth Rank.

Upon hearing Freya's explanation, everyone's faces involuntarily changed.

The old soldiers, with their rich experience, naturally knew what the appearance of such an army meant: their leader was surely a True Martial Realm powerhouse.

It seemed that the Ye Li Beizhou scum could haunt them even after death. Xia Feng's brows knitted tightly together.

Dealing with that small Ye Li Beizhou bunch was natural and easy for Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong.

But if the enemy was a True Martial Realm powerhouse, the difficulty would be multiplied by tenfold.

After all, a True Martial Realm powerhouse had a vast amount of spiritual particles and could use A-Grade Spiritual Clothes for much longer than the two of them.

And on top of that, they had an army with him.

Quite troublesome.

Quick thinking, Xia Feng rapidly devised a strategy and looked toward the group of old soldiers: "Gentlemen, leave this city first. Staying here is just too conspicuous. Enter the dense forest and try to conceal your traces as best you can."

"And you?" Li Zaisi asked, puzzled.

"We'll stay to defend the city."

"No way!" Li Zaisi's expression tensed up, "Based on my observations, this army has at least the strength of a brigade..."

He was speaking when suddenly, he recalled the scene where the two cloaked figures had slain left and right, and his voice began to falter.

Even in the same numbers, a well-trained human army was much stronger than a mindless Half-Evil one, but they would likely be no match for these two cloaked figures.

The real challenge was the True Martial Realm powerhouse.

However, now was not the time to hesitate and overthink. Li Zaisi quickly understood, "Alright, we'll leave the city!"

"Lord Li!" one soldier after another hurriedly stepped forward, unwilling to flee the battle.

"No need for more words," Li Zaisi shook his head and spoke gravely, "We are outmatched. If we stay, we'll just cause disarray. There's no need for senseless sacrifice."

"Travel light, depart immediately!"

Commanding with the urgency of a storm, Li Zaisi swiftly organized the departure, leading a group of soldiers and civilians fleeing outside the city.

The concentration of Evil Power outside the city was very high; their armor could resist for a maximum of two hours, but now they had no other choice.

The human army was not like the foolish Half-Evil one; this White Emperor City would soon be breached, and these demobilized old soldiers might not even last half an hour before dying.

The two cloaked figures had consumed a huge amount of spiritual particles and could not protect them.

As the old soldiers left, the deserted city was left with only Xia Mu and Freya, a party of three,

"What do we do now?" Freya looked at the two masked figures in confusion, "Do you have any plans?"

No sooner had she spoken when she found Xia Feng and Miss Q silently staring at her, causing her to step back, alarmed, "What are you doing looking at me like that?"

Xia Feng smiled slightly, "Ms. Fu, it seems we might need you to make another small sacrifice."

"...You want to take me hostage again?"

"Exactly."

"..." Freya felt helpless and rolled her eyes, arms crossed, she clicked her tongue, "Little Xia Feng, let me put it this way, although my status is... quite distinguished, the Lidong Army won't care if I get hurt."

"Even if I became a vegetable, disabled, or mentally challenged, as long as I'm not dead! They have plenty of ways to rescue me..."

Hearing Ms. Fu's words, Xia Feng could clearly feel that her relationship with the Ye Li Royal Family was quite distant, even with a hint of hatred.

Amidst the conversation, Mu Qingtong interjected with a puzzled and subdued voice, "But aren't you Lord Yeli Dong's wife?"

"Wife? Ha, I escaped right on the day of the wedding." Freya's eyes narrowed as she shook her head, explaining her situation to them...

It didn't take long for Xia Feng to grasp the gist: this was the story of an arranged marriage and a runaway bride.

Freya and Lord Yeli Dong were both members of the Yeli family; strictly speaking, they were siblings. Due to some unknown reason, they were arranged to be married ten years ago.

But Ms. Fu had made her plans early. As soon as she got off the wedding carriage, before even entering the wedding hall, she ran away using a special method, and this one escape lasted for ten years.

Oddly enough, the Yeli family hadn't come to retrieve her from Zone 51.

"Boom!!!"

Just then, thunderous roars echoed again in the distant sky.

The three of them looked up to see the giant blue whale emerge from the chaotic temporal flows, piercing through the barrier to enter the interior of the island.

It opened its massive mouth and bellowed, its enormous body beginning to dive toward the ground, wrapped in a fiery red aura trailing behind it like a meteor falling from heaven, buzzing—

With a sudden deceleration, it halted mid-air; from its gaping mouth, streams of human-shaped light emerged, forming arrays in the sky.

They were clad in hard, dark black armor with stern and majestic metallic masks, wrapped in red Spiritual Clothes and stood floating in the air with their swords, a full three thousand, split into ten arrays suspended in midair.

"These must be the Lidong Army Corps stationed on Xize Island."

Freya explained as she looked up at the spectacle in the sky,

"Every corps in the Empire is divided into the Army Corps and the Commander Army."

"The Army Corps consists of soldiers who specialize in physical strength and Fighting Skill, close-combat class Spirit Masters. They might have low ranks in spiritual pressure, but their physical qualities are a half or full rank higher than regular Spirit Masters."

"It is said that the three greater Church Courts can even make their Knights' flesh strength two full ranks higher than their spiritual pressure through something called the Fierce Battle Knight Project... "

"The Commander Army, on the other hand, is made up of Season Envoys. There are far fewer of them than the Army Corps, but to become a Season Envoy, one must have a certain talent in learning Spiritual Clothes."