A few minutes earlier.
"Your time is up, What have you decided?" The cloaked figure with a red mask asked. He seemed like the leader of the bunch.
"We've decided that we won't be playing your games, if you want to kill us then so be it but we'll fight till our last breadth." Standing atop the gate Arnold shouted.
At his words, the archers pulled their bows and the other soldiers prepared for battle.
Most of the soldiers were standing behind the wall but they could see what was happening through the gate.
"So be it, don't say I didn't warn you." The leader said, he tuned around and looked at the new recruits .
"You guys focus on your mission and we'll take care of rest." The leader said to the recruits, he turned around and gave a battle cry.
The recruits in unison roared, "Dark cloud sect!". They ran past the figures wearing red masks, and charged towards the city gate.
Their voices carried so much power that the atmosphere shook. Debries danced as the earth shook with their steps.
Most of them were cultivators so their speed was faster then any regular human. Quickly the fastest took the lead and two groups were formed.
"On my signal." Arnold raised his hand and patiently waited.
Gradually the distance between the recruits and the city walls decreased.
"Fire!" Arnold shouted.
The twenty or so archers made it rain, after shooting an arrow all of them would fire another arrow and so on, creating the illusion of a scale attacking.
The arrows blanketed the sky and approached the recruits.
The first row of arrows flew out at a fast speed and arrived in front of the recruits.
At this moment, all ten of the figures with red masks disappeared from their spot and appeared in front of the showers of arrows.
The leader took out a red sword and swung it at the incoming arrows.
Wherever his sword went a raging fire followed closely behind, thus creating a flaming arch.
The arch flew towards the arrows. When the arrows met the fire, they were quickly turned into ashes.
The flaming slash continued and flew towards the oncoming arrows and destroyed them. It then continued it's journey and flew towards the group who were standing by the wall.
"I'll take care of this one."A figure standing besides arnold and wearing a green cloak said as he jumped off the wall with a sword in hand.
He slashed at the oncoming attack and a gust of wind was kicked up. The wind rushed towards the oncoming flame and extinguished it.
The figure from the Montague, Gavin, arrived in front of the red masked leader with a flaming sword and they both swung their swords.
*Bang*
The swords clashed and they both seemed evenly matched. They drew back their swords and swung again and again.
Their hands danced in the air at the speed faster then any normal human could keep up with.
The clash generated strong winds that pushed everyone back. They were standing in front of the gate so the recruits couldn't enter.
"Everyone, Reposition yourselves and jump over the wall."The leader said.
At his command the recruits quickly split into groups and rushed for the wall.
The wall wasn't that tall and was slightly taller then the houses. Most of the recruits were cultivators, so jumping over the wall wasn't an issue.
"Everyone engage, don't try and fight someone stronger then you, team up if need be." Arnold said as he sprinted towards the enemies.
To nurture strong cultivators, one needed a lot of resources such as; equipment, techniques, weapons and most importantly an area with a dense qi.
For some strange reason, the forest here had a low density of qi. The town of Samsu was not only poor but they even lacked the qi that most cultivators had.
So not only were the soldiers here weaker then average soldiers but they lacked necessary techniques and equipment.
This were the worries that Arnold had.
Arnold and his men quickly intercepted some of the recruits and a battle broke out.
Some of the recruits quickly found a spot and entered the city while others were blocked by guards.
"Quickly find them."Arnold who was standing on the wall shouted to some guards, when a he saw a few enemies in the distance, entering the town.
They were simply outnumbered and couldn't stop a great deal of them.
....
"You maybe strong but your heavily outnumbered" The leader said with a chuckle.
Just then, nine cloaked men with red masks also jumped in and they surrounded Gavin.
"Ten against one? All this just for little old me? You shouldn't have." Gavin said with a smile.
"I'm wondering why a cultivator at the peak of core formation would be doing in a place with no qi? " The leader asked, the other nine figures proceeded to equipped their weapons.
They had swords, spears, shields, each of which had a strong glow to it.
"Aren't you guys also at the core formation, so why are you here?."
Both parties looked at the each other for a while. Then suddenly the cloaked figures attacked simultaniously.
They moved quickly and arrived in front of their opponent in no time. They all swung their weapons at the same time.
Gavin showed his experience as he dodged, blocked and parried the attacks. He then retaliated with his own attack and sent a few sword slashes, everywhere his sword went strong wind blades would follow.
The ten attackers, jumped back to get some distance and then proceeded to attack again.
The battle continued for a while with neither side having the upper hand, when suddenly.
*Bang*
The leader finally landed a vicious kick to Gavin and sent him flying.
"Attack" The leader shouted. All ten of their weapons started to glow with a stronger hue and they swung. All of them used their ranged attacks.
*Bang*
The attacks landed and kicked up a dust cloud. The ten figures looked on as the dust was settling but to their surpris a round boulder was standing there motionlesslu.
The boulder slowly crumbled away and two men could be seen standing there wearing a green and brown cloak.
"You knew I was gonna jump in huh?" The man in a brown cloak, Brock said.
"As if you'd sit down and let me have all the fun." Gavin said with a smile.
"There's ten of them, how about we evenly split them?" Brock helped him get up. They behaved like old time friends.
"Yeah and the last one to five loses." Gavin said as he dust of his clothes.
"Why you! Kill them!" Suddenly the leader screamed, the sword in he hand was releasing a strong flame, he wasted no time and dashed towards the two men.
The man seemed twice as fast as he was before, he quickly covered the distance and swung his blade at Gavin but he blocked it."
"Did he use use some secrets technique or something." Gavin cried out, he could barely keep up with his eyes and blocking that attack caused his arms to go numb.
....
Elsewhere Ren and Joan had dragged the body to the north side of the town, here no one ever came here and even if they did, he'd just deny it.
"Lets start digging." Ren as he tossed a shovel to Joan.
They wrapped the body in a blanket to prevent any blood from dropping to the ground.