Chapter 17.
The next day, morning Chen Rong woke us up, although I had already been awake before he called, getting out we cleaned ourselves beside the stream and then headed to the middle where everyone was having breakfast.
After everyone finished their breakfast, we started the next part of our journey, which went smoothly without any trouble. We reached Nanga city when the sun blazed in the middle and it was the afternoon, the Nanga city looked different from the rich Spring city, this city looked to be just a high-level town there was still a gap between this and a city but still, the city founder must have contributed highly to get the title of city.
We didn't stop much in this city and quickly moved towards the outskirts, we only came here because the city is built on the way to our next destination and we could only cross it. Crossing the city we reached the other part of the Gir forest and continued our journey, at the afternoon everyone had some light food they brought with themselves, so we didn't stop in between for lunch and continued. Quickly it was evening and we were still in the forest so like the last time Old-Lin asked for the spirit warriors to look for an open space for everyone to tent tonight.
They returned in a few minutes with the location of the place, then Old-Lin took everyone to the place and asked us to build our own tents, while he toured around to check if there are any spirit beasts here, if there are, he would kill it, to be safe, thankfully he didn't find any when Old-Ln everyone has already built their tents and are gathering in the middle waiting to get their part of the dinner. After everyone finished their dinner they headed back to rest for tonight, and like yesterday I slept in the same tent as the 2 boys that were assigned to our group last time, the other 2 girls slept on their own, Chen Rong was responsible for keeping the night.
When I asked doesn't he get tired how can he go continuously for 2 days without sleeping, he replied.
" We change our shifts, I'm not only responsible for our group but also the other 2 tents so we divide the night into three parts, first part of the night I will be guarding, for 2nd there would be other person coming out to guard while I return to sleep when his part of night watch is finished the 3rd one comes out to guard until the sunrises, like this everyone can get their sleep, and since we are spirit warriors only a few hours of sleep is enough to be refreshed for a whole day. You will know when you grow up."
Getting his reply I nodded and waved him goodnight, before returning to sleep.
At night, a few shadows brushed towards the tents encircling the camp, the 2 night watchers were sitting on two opposite ends of the camp didn't feel anything, while their face could be seen filled with slight drowsiness causing them to lose their which in return let them not know that the danger has already approached them and when they weren't able to hold on and wanted to call others to change their shifts, something jumped out from the shadow, and because boty of their guard was low, they couldn't respond until the shadow was already very close, seeing that it was impossible to dodge they slightly moved their bodies so as to not get any fatal injuries, and like with some luck and potential that came at the time of near death the shadow was only able scratch their chest. They felt a sharp pain as soon as the shadow scratched them, they didn't dare to think much about the injury and quickly moved back towards each other, while flaring the signal for everyone to wake up.
At this time I saw everything happening, I didn't know why, I felt some uneasiness in my sleep so I woke up and wanted to take a look outside for calming myself, but who would have thought that my uneasiness came because of these spirit beasts, yes it's a spirit beast, the shadow that attacked them is called shadow wolves and most of the time wolf like beasts move in groups which are same for shadow wolf since I can see more and more shadow wolves springing out of the forest moving yo encircle us in the middle while the spirit warriors have also rushed out to support.
Except for me no other child woke since the sound of the flare was low, but mostly it was about brightness, so only spirit warriors with keen senses and the ones who have experience in the wild will wake up because of this flare, and every spirit warrior even if he is young would have some experience of how things work in the wild, so this little flare is enough for them to wake up, as for the reason why those 2 spirit warriors were caught one is that because it was time to change the shift which caused their defense to relax and another fact is that shadow wolves are good at sneak attacks.
At this time every spirit warrior, including those carriage drivers jumped out to help deal with these beasts while Old-Lin asked a lady in the group to treat the two injured night watchers.
As she treated the two I took a good look her, she is beautiful and is a two-starred support system spirit chief, and her spirit looks like a white lily, another point is that she looks less than 20 years in age which mean she still hasn't fully grown, there is still room for her to show ger talents which makes her a low level genius.
After I finished taking a look at her, I turned to see Old Lin having a staring contest with a large shadow wolf which I think should be the king of this group, and using the knowledge taught by Grandma I can assume that this wolf is definitely more than 3000 years old. This wolf can be easily taken care of by a veteran spirit duke like Old Lin, but the problem is that it might take some time, which may cause some problems since although there is no 1000 years old shadow wolf among this group, other than the shadow wolf king, but there are still 2 wolves close to the 1000 years old ,which can make this situation slightly unbalanced, since on our side I only know Chen Rong who is only a 2 starred spirit while about others I don't, which is also the reason I said can because if there is one or two spirit general among them then this situation can be taken care of without much injuries, so I hope there are some Spirit generals mixed in the group to deal with these 2 wolves while the rest are enough to deal with the remaining twenty 100-year-old beasts.
Although I was musing the battle has started with the Shadow wolf roaringnad pouncingtowards Old Lin, hearing the roar the remaining wolves started to attack the spirit warriors close to them, while the group of spirit warriors quickly summoned their own spirits, and as soon as they summoned their sprits the area brightened with different lights with the combination of yellow and purple filling the surrounding and in between there would be a few flashes from some special spirits.
In these lights, 13 people could be seen with Spirit stars behind their heads as each of them is fighting against the shadow wolves, at this time I saw 3 spirit generals mixed in the group causing me to feel relief as I knew the matter can be handled without much effort because of the extra spirit duke expert, after sighing I turned to curiously look at the remaining ones and as expected there was no waste material among this group of warriors since everyone's first spirit star was of yellow-color, which is the best Star configuration and let them have the strength to deal with a few extra shadow wolves, because the empowerment brought by 100 years spirit star is greater than white making them better then those spirit warriors of the white star in the same ranks.
The battlefield became more fierce while I watched in zeal, next to me the kids are already awake and are shrinking in the corner with their but their eyes still didn't leave the battle field because this their destiny, destiny of humans and beasts to fight for eternity, At this time a lound boom sound could be heard, which came from the battlefield of Old-Lin and the wolf king, making the battlefield even more crazy and chaotic as the shadow wolves jumped at the spirit warriors irrespective of their own injuries and death.