"How is he!?" Aunt Lin asked with a quaking voice which indicated how much she'd been crying;

"He is stable, my lady…"

"We just applied an antidote that would help stop the internal bleeding…"

"Do you think he would survive this?" Aunt Lin asked with pleading eyes;

"Do you want the truth?" Elder Ting asked as Aunt Lin nodded her head;

"We are not sure.. But the best we are hoping at this point is to at least get him into coma; at least by then we will still have a hope of him recovering… But-"

"But what?"

"But he has an extremely slim chance of even slipping into coma..."

"Whoever it was that attacked him obviously used some sort of explosion, because we found some flayed flesh, scorched skin, and there was a lot of internal bleeding…"

"But we figure the next seven hours would determine his fate; by then, if he manages to stay alive, we will do everything in our blood and sweat to make sure we save him…" Elder Ting revealed;

"Can I see him?" She asked as tears began to roll down her eyes again;

She felt really awful and a little guilty about everything;

Not only as she dressed him today, but she had also claimed he looked a lot like the heroes of her fantasies, and she had given him what her mother claimed was a good luck charm whist telling him to come back home, else she touches herself;

But not only did was he currently stark naked here, he was also looking nothing like the heroes in her fantasies, and the charm only seemed to have brought him potent bad luck, but finally, she gets to touch herself tonight;

Everything she did when he was leaving seemed to have done nothing other than to jinx him and almost take his life…

She felt guilty to some extent;

How would he feel when he awakens and realize these things she was currently thinking?

Would he flee for his dear life?

Or would he simply break up with her and forever ignore her?

All these were questions running through Aunt Lin's mind as she wept, and to add fuel to the fire; with the way everyone had been denying her from seeing him, it made her feel more like a criminal being prevented from a crime scene she had been suspected to have committed, and it was not a good feeling at all;

"He is in a critical state at the moment and we don't want disturbance around him, or any form of negative emotions and energy…"

Elder Ting sighed as she politely declined Aunt Lin who had to drop his clothes in there before leaving with rippling tears…

"~Hu~" Elder Ting sighed as she walked up to Dara's bandaged and strewn body;

"Young Lord, for the sake of the tribe, please return to us, we still need your protection in here…"

"We might seem like adults and even more so with our Elder Title, but that's only on the surface; we all draw our strength from you…"

"Your very deeds and accomplishments at such a tender age is why we all believe in you…"

"It is from the thought of having you on our side that makes us believe in the bright future of this tribe; you are the one who we draw our mental and emotional strength from..."

"You are the water to this sprout of a village; If you leave us now, the tribe would have no chance of reaching its peak potential in the future…" Elder Ting spoke softly at the unconscious Dara…

The two disciples on the other hand have become melancholic, thinking of the sheer sadness they would get to lose someone of his character, caliber, accomplishments and talent…

There are few people on the planet that could achieve all that Dara had achieved in the space of three years [since he left the Sang Village], not to mentions holding the survivors from the village back then together and ensuring they do not wander off or get lost within the Dark Lands…

He had also saved them from Obuns whilst strangely doing something to get the Obuns on his side…

Then there is the people he saved from the Qi Stone Farms, and the fact that the transformation he has brought to this tribe in terms of infrastructure, power and value alone is beyond the limits of most men, and he did this all at a tender age of ten…

What would happen if such a person managed to stay and lead the tribe for another ten more years; when his potential would be soaring to his peak…

Or if they are lucky and he managed to lead them for 20 years?

Though they might not be in the same vein as the royalties, but they were sure the tribe would be controlling the entire Dark and Grey Lands by then; and both lands combined are even greater than the Land of Light…

Thus they all felt a sense of strength whenever they see Dara, and if he was to die at this point, it would be an absolute morale breaker, because even the next most talented Ji Wang was also being inspired by Dara's presence…

It was even Uncle Min and Aunt Lin that felt it the most because they knew how his past was, the condition he was in when they first met him, the quality and value he had added to their lives when he started living in their lives…

They have seen him improve himself, themselves and everything around them; hell, the entire tribe had a 2000+ population and a ten year old was the managing the entire thing well;

"No, he is more talented than all men…"

This was the sentence every tribesmen arrived at as they thought of the possibilities of losing their source of hope, strength and happiness; Dara…

It showed just how bad Dara's condition was when they brought him in, and one can only imagine how they would feel when Elder Long or the Obun Elders reveal that a bomb actually went off at him from point blank range…

Meanwhile….

Several Miles away from the Ji Tribe…

A carriage was currently speeding towards the Royal Court as the guards at the main gate began to hear not only the sound of galloping beasts, but also human footsteps; Instantly, the guards took to their positions, readied their minds and look towards the source of the noise, preparing for battle…