Liu Bei POV

Ah…

I slowly regained my senses after breathing out. When I finally recovered, I realised that my arms were swinging in every which way.

What was going on?!

I hurriedly stopped and looked at my surroundings and at myself under the light of the torches.

I don’t have an accurate bio-clock and thus I can’t tell how much time has pa.s.sed since we were attacked. But no matter how much time has pa.s.sed what filled my eyes were people killing others and people being killed, and what filled my ears were the sounds of slaughter and coa.r.s.e shouting.

I looked at my arms and saw that they were dyed in blood up to the tip of my blades. I was very clear that, whether or not I was conscious of it, I had killed. And it wasn’t just one person.

As I stood there bathed in the light from the torches and soaked in blood, I realised that the twin swords in my hands didn’t seem very heavy anymore. My hands have also stopped shaking as well, perhaps from the adrenaline rush.

I felt hot from the heat from the torches and used my sleeves to wipe the sweat off my head but what came off were bloodstains.

Ah… My nearly 10,000 strong force has been completely swept away.

But that’s well within expectations since a large portion of them were originally from Meng De’s army and turning on us at this time was something natural.

I placed my now-trembling hand on my face and wiped the dust off.

What is it with me? Am I crying?

“I finally found you.”

“Eh?”

A once familiar cold voice came from behind me. I turned and saw a silver line that was aimed at my chest flying toward me.

Wa!

I instinctively stepped back but stumbled to the ground in my panic and my armour was dismantled by the silver line.

“What kind of form is that? I almost want to give you a negative score.” I heard a contemptuous voice as its owner dismounted. As my a.s.sailant got closer, I saw that it was a girl with long hair covering one eye, “It’s been a while, Lord Liu Bei.”

“You’re… Li Dian?”

“Oh? Lord Liu Bei has a pretty good memory huh.” She said as she pointed her long spear at my chest that scared me speechless, “Personally speaking, I think highly of Lord Liu Bei. But as a warrior, you are merely an enemy in my eyes on the battlefield. That is what I would consider to be a life worthy of 100 marks.”

That’s it.

Seems like that’s what she means but my ears seemed to have stopped working.

Is this where it all ends for me?

Yun Chang… Yi De…

— We’ll get married once this battle is over.

— When we get married, we’ll definitely have to have a grand and exuberant banquet!

…

I can’t close my eyes. Not now, not yet. There are still things I have to do.

Both official and personal things.

“Ya!!!”

As Li Dian stabbed at my chest, I turned and charged at Li Dian. In that instant, it felt like something tore my back but that did not stop my charge in the least.

Ya!!!!

“Ah… Ah!”

Perhaps she put all her strength into that stab or perhaps she was surprised by a sudden act from an amateur like me, Li Dian completely lost her balance from my body blow and landed on her back onto the ground.

“Ya!” I was about to swing my sword down but my arm stopped in mid-swing as the death throes I had been hearing up till now came back to me. This made me gave up my intent to kill, “Kuh…”

I swiftly stood up and used highly clumsy movement to mount the striped horse Li Dian was previously on and dug my heels in to make the horse gallop away.

I’d thought Li Dian would keep chasing after me but when I turned back to look, I saw that she stood motionlessly where she was as she looked at me but I could not see what expression she had on.

But never mind about that, what’s important is to find Yun Chang and Yi De… Eh?

I swung the horse’s reins fervently but the horse did not move as I commanded it to.

Eh?!!!

S-s-s-stop!

No, I have to get off. I need to find Yun Chang and Yi De…

But under these circ.u.mstances, I didn’t dare to throw myself off the horse and could only let it take me away. I swept my eyes across the battlefield but could not find either Yun Chang or Yi De.

What do I do now?!

It was now late at night and the heat from torches alit in every direction spread throughout my body.

But no one could tell me where to go, nor what to do.

Yun Chang POV

“Haa… Haa… Haa…”

*Dun*! I stuck the Green Dragon Crescent Blade into the ground and used it to support my drained body.

I looked at the surroundings but it was alit with torches as always. I couldn’t find Yi De or Xuan De and it seemed like the few pockets of resistance had disappeared.

Aiya! I cried in my heart as I looked at the troops behind me who numbered less than a hundred.

If I knew this would happen, I wouldn’t have tried to fight the enemy on the highlands which had the geographical advantage.

I wiped the sweat ln my head and just then, the footsteps of 2 people approaching could be heard.

Again huh… Eh! I put strength into my grip and pulled out the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. I searched for the 2 figures with my hazy glance– It was Xu Huang and Xu Chu.

“Guan Yu has been waiting for you 2 for a while now.” I ruffled my messy hair and looked at the 2 of them who were also visibly tired.

This couldn’t be helped after all. They have tried to attack us from all directions 5 times now and I have exchanged almost 100 bouts with them. It wouldn’t be strange for them to be tired after all that.

Though it’s probably not my place to say that since this is probably…

“Lord Guan Yu, the 2 of us are here not to fight this time.” Xu Huang said with seriousness as she saluted me.

“Thank your lucky stars,” Xu Chu said with her sonorous voice, “Come down quickly, my lord wishes to see you! She has even allowed you to continue bearing arms!”

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See me?