Then a figure ran out of the cave whilst sweating and panting heavily with almost all of his body bright red from being in close proximity with the immense heat that was within the cave;

"It is as we have heard, your highness… Someone really did set fire to the cave…"

The general commander spoke as King Tian felt three pairs of murderous gaze lock onto him from behind as he broke out in cold sweat…

Then in that moment at which they were all distracted, Dara and Elder Long abruptly rose his hangs into the sky before bringing it down halfway, as all 100 archers within his troop nocked their bows and took aim, by the time Dara's hand descended to the ground, these archers let loose;

Toof! Toosh!

Doosh!

The sounds of bowstrings returning to their length after being pulled taut resounded within the bush as hundreds of arrows took to the air approaching the troop of Royal Guards with the momentum of a heat seeking missile and the menace of a incensed viper;

"Ambush!"

One of the Royal Guard managed to blurt as all the Royal Guards expertly gathered themselves together in the blink of an eye...

Then those with shields amongst them moved over to the front; but was a little too late to put the shield in position as some of the arrows slipped past their defenses taking down some Royal Guards…

The moment the first arrow which managed to slip past the shields hit its target, Elder Long brought his hands down as well, as 300 Obuns burst out of the bush and rammed into the shields with hammers, staffs and other heavy weapons…

Some even used their bare physical body to ram into these shields, and the fact that they feel no pain meant that they could ram the shields with abandon;

Bang! Bam!

Slam! Dang!

The sounds of heavy object slamming aggressively into sturdy barriers resounded within the area, until the barrier abruptly gave way…

But the moment it did, several Royal Guards burst out from behind the broken barrier with sword strikes that decapitated some Obuns on contact as the First and Second Obun Elder cringed with pain when they saw their kin being slaughtered by these Royal Guards, as they looked to Dara who abruptly leapt atop his mount and pulled out his bow, before nocking a single arrow;

"Alright baby… Impress me…"

Dara whispered to the bow and arrow as he pulled with all the strength he could muster…

Instantly the bow and arrow glowed slightly, but unlike during testing when they glowed only white, this time, they glowed with white and black light as Dara felt all the Dark Qi within his body surge into the bow which then transferred it into the arrows before it then rested at the arrow head;

Huala!

Skadoosh!

The arrow left a sonic boom behind as the archers around were pushed slightly away from the sheer sonic boom the arrow left behind before it almost teleported towards its target, arriving in front of the unsuspecting King Tian almost instantaneously…

Catching everyone in the battle off guard, the only person who could manage to help the stunned King Tian on time was the General Commander who was the closest to him, as the commander simply jumped in front of King Tian before crossing his sabre right in front of his chest, but he was bound to be unluckily disappointed;

Kian!

Puchi!

Tia! Stuck!

The General Commander watched with wide eyes as the white glowing arrow with pitch black head pierced right through his steel sword, stabbed through his heart and out through his back before stabbing into King Tian's dominant right arm…

Blood sprayed like fountain as the three mysterious figures who were busy killing Obuns like as if they were chasing pests away looked in shock at the source of that arrow, and there, they found a little kid on what seemed to be a mount, donning a leathery fur hooded cloak, with a bow in his hand and a wailing mask on his face…

Then they looked back at the General Commander who was choking on his own blood as blood kept spraying like a fountain out of the human eye sized hole in his chest…

Then their gazes landed on King Tian and his arm which had been impaled by a unique type of arrow…

Then whilst the battle between the Obuns and the Royal Guards raged on, one of the hooded figures rushed over to King Tian, and spoke, but whilst Dara and the rest couldn't hear, King Tian could hear very clearly;

"Baby, are you alright!?" The anxious voice of a girl floated out of the hood;

"Hmmm… Hmmm!" King Tian could only grunt as he coughed out a mouthful of black blood;

"Unh!?"

The girl was stunned as she yanked out the arrow and looked at the tip to find what seemed to be the remnants of a black smoke which she inhaled, and instantly her head went giddy as the image of King Tian blurred in her eyes before she released three heavy coughs which came out with a little plumes of black smoke;

'So potent!' The girl blanched in shock as she mentally noted…

She then looked at King Tian's arm and realized that there was a deep black hole in his arm that was rotting and spreading the rot to other parts of King Tian's arms, as she quickly threw the arrow away, before whipping out a little dagger;

"Bite onto my arm, this will hurt…"

She said as King Tian bite onto her clothed arm as she sliced the rotten skin that was spreading the effects of the poison out and then poured some sort of ointment into the hole, and then tore a patch of King Tian's garment which she used to wrap the wound and bind it tight to prevent blood loss…

But despite all that, some of the poison had managed to seep into the King's veins and he was now sweating bullets and panting heavily as his core temperature rose to new heights…

She then laid King Tian to the side, and then stood up to look in Dara's direction; "So it was you!"