The time that Liu Kang spent in Lin Yu city was not spent in vain. He had grown stronger. He could fight more bravely now, as he has become numb to killing. People couldn't become numb to taking the lives of others unless you were put in a fight where only you or the enemy could survive, and even then, many people would suffer PTSD or would have to come to terms with the killing somehow.
Everyone has seen death and had associated it with something sad. Death is always a tragedy until you kill someone. Death would become your saviour, as you were the one delivering it to your enemies, but you still associate death with depressing emotions.
Everyone has different ways of adapting to death. Some just stop caring, some would rationalize, telling themselves that they were saving people while soldiers would believe they were their enemies, and they killed their enemies to protect their loved ones. There are many reasons but for Liu Kang, all the wailing, begging and watching all of the people getting executed one by one, just made him realise that this way the way of the world.
He had attacked and probably killed or disabled some of General Ling soldiers, and he could be the next person who was executed. I must get stronger, strong enough to wipe out this entire corps with a wave of my hand, Liu Kang reminds himself constantly.
As he travels with this corps to Lu Wang city, he is constantly awed by how disciplined they are. Fifty thousand soldiers, yet they are all marching orderly. He corps had left the other five thousand soldiers in Lin Yu city and He Jin city, to make sure that the city stays in lockdown until they are done with the entire operation. This is so that news of their actions do not spread and that the Society of the Heavens cannot escape.
Even when he was in Lin Yu city, the soldiers were all alert and there were only a couple of soldiers who stood guard in a lazy posture, but they were still alert and aware of their surroundings.
As a cultivator who had formed his core, he could sense that the soldiers were constantly spreading their spiritual sense all around them and they would lock onto him whenever he got near the soldiers. He also realised that the soldiers did not pillage or act out against the people at all.
The journey of this corps of fifty thousand soldiers took 5 weeks to reach Lu Wang city. Normally, it would only take people around two weeks to reach Lu Wang city from Lin Yu city if they had a fast horse, but as there were so many people in this group, they naturally took a longer time to march to Lu Wang city.
When they finally reached the gates of Lu Wang city, the city gates were closed and they did not want to open the gates for the massive amount of soldiers. They were scared. News of what happened to Lin Yu city and He Jin city was sure to spread.
There were rumours that when the army entered the gates, they locked the city and burned everything inside. While nobody really knew what happened inside the cities, when the black smoke came out from the city, they people all believed that the city was being sacked and ran away as far as possible. Some of the people ran towards Lu Wang city and the rumours spread.
On top of the city wall, the city defence force had their bows aimed at the massive army as one of the captains shouted: "State your purpose!"
The time that Liu Kang spent in Lin Yu city was not spent in vain. He had grown stronger. He could fight more bravely now, as he has become numb to killing. People couldn't become numb to taking the lives of others unless you were put in a fight where only you or the enemy could survive, and even then, many people would suffer PTSD or would have to come to terms with the killing somehow.
Everyone has seen death and had associated it with something sad. Death is always a tragedy until you kill someone. Death would become your saviour, as you were the one delivering it to your enemies, but you still associate death with depressing emotions.
Everyone has different ways of adapting to death. Some just stop caring, some would rationalize, telling themselves that they were saving people while soldiers would believe they were their enemies, and they killed their enemies to protect their loved ones. There are many reasons but for Liu Kang, all the wailing, begging and watching all of the people getting executed one by one, just made him realise that this way the way of the world.
He had attacked and probably killed or disabled some of General Ling soldiers, and he could be the next person who was executed. I must get stronger, strong enough to wipe out this entire corps with a wave of my hand, Liu Kang reminds himself constantly.
As he travels with this corps to Lu Wang city, he is constantly awed by how disciplined they are. Fifty thousand soldiers, yet they are all marching orderly. He corps had left the other five thousand soldiers in Lin Yu city and He Jin city, to make sure that the city stays in lockdown until they are done with the entire operation. This is so that news of their actions do not spread and that the Society of the Heavens cannot escape.
Even when he was in Lin Yu city, the soldiers were all alert and there were only a couple of soldiers who stood guard in a lazy posture, but they were still alert and aware of their surroundings.
As a cultivator who had formed his core, he could sense that the soldiers were constantly spreading their spiritual sense all around them and they would lock onto him whenever he got near the soldiers. He also realised that the soldiers did not pillage or act out against the people at all.
The journey of this corps of fifty thousand soldiers took 5 weeks to reach Lu Wang city. Normally, it would only take people around two weeks to reach Lu Wang city from Lin Yu city if they had a fast horse, but as there were so many people in this group, they naturally took a longer time to march to Lu Wang city.
When they finally reached the gates of Lu Wang city, the city gates were closed and they did not want to open the gates for the massive amount of soldiers. They were scared. News of what happened to Lin Yu city and He Jin city was sure to spread.
There were rumours that when the army entered the gates, they locked the city and burned everything inside. While nobody really knew what happened inside the cities, when the black smoke came out from the city, they people all believed that the city was being sacked and ran away as far as possible. Some of the people ran towards Lu Wang city and the rumours spread.
On top of the city wall, the city defence force had their bows aimed at the massive army as one of the captains shouted: "State your purpose!"
