Heated Encounter on a Sunny Beach

Akira and Vash followed Zhao: into the dusty, cobwebbed bowels of what had once been an old, abandoned Norn fort. Until it was seized by the occupying Cultivators, repurposed for use as a soldiers' barracks and prison.

At the entrance, one was greeted by the well-worn beds of the Cultivator soldiers, a long wooden chest placed at the foot of each. And it was here that Zhao halted, with Akira and Vash following him, while other soldiers could be seen, in the background, guiding the rest of the survivors deeper into the fort, down a set of stairs.

"Look around," Zhao said. "I'm sure there are some old pieces of armor you can wear."

The two nodded, then proceeded as told: with Vash swiftly retrieving individual pieces of brown leather armor from the numerous chests; as Akira's scanning gaze quickly fell upon a regular [Iron Sword], set upon a rack in a weapons rack leaned against the wall.