Chapter 58: Behind the mask

I woke up the next morning with a hunger that wasn’t sated until I ate enough for three people and drank a whole water boot.

Despite having stopped the battle from happening, plenty of the soldiers were very skittish around me, bowing with fear and awe, and not even daring to speak to me. It didn’t help that the General had revealed my true identity to them.

When I finished eating, I went to the same watchtower as before, and the sentry fell to one knee before me.

“At ease, soldier.” I stood at the edge of the building again, until I spied the same dust as before. And sure enough, riders appeared over the dunes not a minute later. “Call general Feng, and for the love of the ancestors, don’t shoot at them, do I make myself clear?”

“Yes, your majesty!”

I landed on the other side of the protections, just as the previous days, and walked twenty paces before stopping.