Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

"It\'s a big deal," Amera seriously said, "if we didn\'t erase these slave marks off them then that bastard would simply activate them and kill everyone!"

"Don\'t worry," Arthur wasn\'t worried at all as he already gave his system the signal to go and erase every single slave mark. "We need to go out there and check the status of my city."

"Don\'t worry, everything was buried under the fortified spot the pillar just crushed," the crow said, "at least the mechanism would be damaged or left empty for us to destroy."

"I hope so," Arthur said before adding, "prepare everyone to move out now."

"What about them?" Amera pointed to the large army trapped, "are we going to leave them behind? Or take them with us?"

"They will stay here for now," Arthur replied after a few moments of pause. He asked his system about the time needed for the marks to be erased.

It would take at least a week to erase everything as these marks were much enhanced than the ones he dealt with before. One week here was simply less than a day outside, and so he wasn\'t worried and decided to go back and check things there.

He was still worried over his city\'s safety, also worried about that silver dragonair.

"By the way," Doaf suddenly said, "our enemy is a girl of the silver dragonairs."

"I know," Arthur sighed, and the gratified expression they held over their faces told him everything about how bad the current situation was.

"This clan… sigh, they act cocky and they deserve their reputation in gold," Amera sighed before adding, "I believe it won\'t be easy to conquer this world. The silver dragonairs are all cunning bitches who are very hard to deal with."

"Don\'t worry," Arthur said again, "I have you, and I won\'t stay silent. We bested her once, and we can conquer her many times already."

They didn\'t say a single word as Amera and the crow went to relay the orders of leaving while Doaf stayed behind.

"Want to say something to me?" Arthur had the feeling that Doaf didn\'t stay back to watch the scene around.

"We need to get in touch with the grandmaster," Doaf said before adding in a serious tone and attitude, "we need more reinforcements."

"More than what we already have?" Arthur was speechless.

"We need not only more here, but we need also some actions up there," Doaf said and Arthur understood what he was hinting at.

"That world the silver dragonair girl tried to connect with us?"

"Yes, we need to crush it," Doaf sighed, "this time we managed to stop everything barely at the last second. It was a lucky time and I doubt we would be this lucky everytime."

Arthur understood his meaning and he agreed totally with his vision and plan. "What do you need?"

"Lacking proper gears to use we have to use the same technique that girl used."

Arthur\'s eyes shone as he muttered, "that array?"

"We need every single ruin and flag of it so we can mimic it," he said before sighing, "unfortunately none of us here are well diversed in matters of arrays or else we could have created it on our own."

"I have who can do it," Arthur confidently said while thinking about Deem and Gor and others, "but the array… I think it was destroyed by the pillar."

"I hope it isn\'t," Doaf said, "at least not completely. We need part of its main components to mimic."

"Let\'s see things once we got out," Arthur couldn\'t judge now as he didn\'t know the real situation outside.

"We are ready," Amera said as she appeared with the crow. The werewolf of his also appeared with the two, and he was glad to see his personal guardian still alive.

"Stay here," he said to his werewolf, "once the marks are erased the shields would be dropped instantly. Lead this group and train them well. I want them to be the first guards I have under your leadership."

Arthur\'s words to the werewolf made the latter beam with a bright smile. "Don\'t worry master, I won\'t disappoint you," he simply said with a grin that made his face look more vicious than before.

"Sigh, it\'s like you said," Arthur said the moment he went outside and headed to the sky, "the arrays and traps were all damaged, but…"

He glanced over the place where the arrays were buried, "this pillar… it\'s really massive."

"We can destroy it," the crow suggested.

"I doubt we can," Doaf objected.

"We can try to push it by sheer  force," Amera suggested.

"This… we don\'t have enough manpower for that," Doaf also objected.

\'Simply take it inside,\' Gege suddenly said, \'just drop your blood over it and touch it to be taken.\'

\'Can I take them? Really? Like the bronzed pillars?\'

\'You can take them in, but I doubt you can use any,\' Gege said before adding, \'but I can.\'

Arthur didn\'t hesitate to move down towards the pillar. "Stop, this pillar is controlled by that girl. You can\'t…" Amera shouted at him but when she saw the pillar vanish the next instant, she swallowed what she was about to say.

"What were you just saying now?" he returned to her with a big grin over his face.

"Don\'t act cocky because you took it," she harrumphed, "you two… dragonairs are a really unpredictable race!"

"C\'mon, don\'t put me with them," Arthur laughed, "I\'ll go to take the pillars and you…" he gazed at her, "take the lead of the elite forces and scan the area around us. I don\'t want any army to jump all of sudden at us."

"I doubt she will come here soon," Doaf said.

"It\'s not her," Arthur shook his head before telling them what he knew about the armies heading towards here from the previous prisoners.

"Damn! That girl is really ruthless," the crow sighed, "I will go with you too."

"No, you will lead the forces here and go back to the city," Arthur stopped him before adding, "you\'ll be the leader of the defenses there."

"D… defense? I don\'t excel at any defense! Take Amera instead!" The crow seemed scared from the mere idea of staying behind and doing nothing but preparing the defenses.

"Me? C\'mon, talk only about yourself," Amera hurriedly shouted at the crow, "I have my own task, don\'t throw orders around like you are the boss!"

"I\'ll do it," Doaf had to step in to stop the about to occur fight between the two, "you two go now and make sure to scout everywhere."

The three glanced at Arthur who had no option here but to nod.

"First," after the two left in a hurry fearing Arthur would change up his mind, "we need to get those buried down there," he pointed towards the large smashed area of the ground which now had a deep and long groove that resembled the gigantic pillar.

"Leave it to me."

"Gather everything and give them to a mage called Deem in the city," Arthur said while he started moving towards the next pillar.

"Wait," Doaf stopped him, "are you planning to leave or what?"

"I have something to do," Arthur vaguely answered as he wanted to enter his garden world and start studying those pillars.

He knew Gege could benefit from them but he also was pretty sure as a dragonair he could also use them in some way. He didn\'t believe such mighty pillars had no power or use for him at all.

"Be careful then," Doaf mistook his answer and intentions for one of his unexpected crazy adventures. "take the werewolf out then."

"Don\'t worry," Arthur was tired already from repeating the same thing, "I won\'t easily die."

"I know," Doaf said before adding, "good luck young master."

Arthur felt like he was saying goodbye to him as if he was going to his death! Speechlessly he moved towards the pillars and started gathering them all one after another.

"They seemed more confident in my enemy\'s victory odds than mine… sigh," he helplessly muttered while flying towards another pillar.

However his plan to gather everything and go inside was interrupted all of sudden by the approach of his friends. He knew they were worried, anxious about what happened.

"Sigh, if I was inside and watched this brutal fight while doing nothing but pray then I would be very much agitated like them," he softly muttered while deciding to put his plans on hold.... for now.