Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

The three traveled back towards the portal. the place where the castle was now lied a normal stretch of the forest instead. Arthur glanced at the scene and found no mark or a sign of the presence of the castle for all so long. He marveled this as this wasn't a normal work of an array master.

"I must dig deep inside the library and take out all the array books to read," he muttered as he decided to focus more on the array knowledge, the most advanced knowledge of this lost civilization in his opinion.

The journey back took ten hours, during which Sara tried more than once to pry over the secret of the system, but he totally ignored her. He even didn't tell her anything about it being a system, making her curiosity unquenched.

Since the moment he stepped outside the garden world, the system stopped speaking to him and he didn't try to speak with it. so far he was yet feeling quite uncomfortable for someone to be inside his mind, knowing everything about him, and ordering him around.

'I have to find a way to assign my own tasks by my own will,' he thought to himself, as this was the only thing he would feel comfortable about.

'Ding! When you are strong enough, you can do it. but now you are weak, so try to get stronger faster.'

Arthur was speechless about the reply of the system, as he thought he had to speak out loud to communicate with it. 'Is this a complaint or a remark?' he thought.

'Ding! It's a desire and a goal.'

The reply of the system made him quite comfortable, but not too much. At least he knew the system didn't have that bitter personality, nitpicking on everything like an annoying granny!

As for Tina, she once asked about this treasure, after getting her curiosity aroused by Sara's persistence, but eventually she dropped it when Arthur evaded her as well.

As they got near the portal, they recognized many silhouettes standing outside the portal, numbering in large numbers, with much more coming from multiple directions.

"It seems they started to flood here not long after we left," Tina said as she saw some groups stationed near the portal, guiding people inside. "Will we move inside and close the gate?" Sara asked, as she didn't want to remain here anymore.

However, Arthur knew how hard the next fights would be, so he decided to gain every single ounce of strength he could, and not waste any opportunity no matter what.

"We will leave and come back after finishing clearing the other four remaining pillars on this side."

He made up his mind, as this place was like a treasure trove for the population he desperately needed. After all the earlier he finished building his city the better.

The two girls didn't object as they moved with him inside the portal. their appearance came to startle everyone, however Arthur spoke up while passing over:

"Spread the word, I have extended the duration here for four more days. anyone able to catch up is welcomed here."

He then entered the portal, while those standing over to organize the incoming migrants hurried to use their birds to spread out the word.

Four days were a very good duration to let everyone around here move and even some distant villages and towns might come as well.

As for Arthur and the two girls, they moved inside the pocket world, heading straight towards the warehouse, bypassing the pillar in the process.

They didn't stop for the pillar as they went to the star map, glancing at the last four stars.

These stars were in the centre of this group, which gave Arthur some eerie feeling.

"Shall we split up?" Tina asked.

"I think we will find great resistance in these stars, so let's stick together."

His answer was the most cautious one right now. He knew his enemies were well aware of his motions right now, and it would be logical to anticipate their preparations for his appearance.

The next pocket world was easy to handle, and it was in the middle of a forest, without any village, town, or mine near it. Arthur didn't delay and took the pillar before appearing again at the star map.

"That world was nothing, are you sure they will appear in the next stars?" Tina was still skeptical about this, as she wanted each to take one star to save time.

However Arthur preferred to be cautious, as speed wasn't an option here. "We will continue one star at a time," he said, before the three went to the next star and entered the world there.

Like the previous one, it was easy to handle, and it was also linked to the middle of nowhere. Arthur was surprised to find two consecutive pocket worlds connected to nothing, making him wonder why they did it this way.

At the third star, the moment they got near the portal, they found many warriors waiting for them there.

They were numbered in hundreds of thousands, with many monsters working under their orders, protected from the effect of the heavenly rock shard by a protective array.

"Oh, they are here indeed," Sara said, while giving Tina a side glance, while the latter just harrumphed. Arthur started to observe these warriors; they weren't moving away from the portal but standing around it, blocking any possible way to enter it without attacking them.

"Are they asking us to attack them?" he muttered, thinking about it before he shook his head, "if they are confident in stopping me, then let them try. Tina, Sara, you two will handle these warriors here," he said, before jumping off Tina's back, finally had the time to stretch some muscles.

"Roar!"

And his dragon form appeared again after a couple of days without using it. "What about you?" Sara asked, as she noticed he planned something else.

"I will go outside and scout the region. something seemed off here," he said before directly descending towards the portal.

From just the arrangements here, he was pretty sure that these enemies wanted one goal; to delay his advance and buy some time!

He was pretty confident that if he focused on killing these warriors, much more would arrive from the portal endlessly. So, he decided to cut the chase straight and head directly into the portal and see by himself what was going on at the other end.

As he passed through the portal, he heard the attacks of ice and wind coming from Tina and Sara. He knew the couple were more than enough to deal with things here, and he was pretty confident in his ability to handle things on the other side.

After all, his enemy wasn't that confident about himself yet, so he was trying to stop his advance until his preparations would end.

As he passed the portal, he exited it to find himself in a huge cluster of villages and towns, much more concentrated than the clusters he took so far.

As he flew up in the sky, he saw the endless stream of warriors coming from everywhere, even from the horizon. "As I thought, they are trying to waste my time here, but why?" that was the question that rang inside his mind, making him decide to avoid attacking anyone here, and started taking a tour around the place.

He flew a couple of times around the central large town, where other villages and towns were built and gathered around it. there was nothing wrong there, nothing to alert him, which was something annoying in itself.

As he was circling for the fourth time, he noticed a warrior standing on top of a defensive tower, waving a flag right and left like trying to send a message to someone. As he took notice of him, and started heading his direction, the warrior stopped waving the flags, and then pointed the two flags together, pointing towards a certain direction.

"Oh, you want me to go there?" Arthur muttered, while his words came as might roars. He glanced at the direction of the flags, and it pointed to a side of the cluster of buildings here, with nothing special about it.

He turned to glance at the warrior again, seeing him changing the direction of a flag, pointing to another direction. Arthur also followed his guidance with his eyesight, to see nothing special as well.

"What is going on here?" Arthur asked as he was feeling he was missing the point. And the warrior kept changing the flags' direction one time after another.

"Oh, it's a formation!" the eyes of Arthur shone when the warrior completely pointed towards twelve directions before returning to the first point he started off again. Arthur then didn't delay and moved towards one direction of the twelve this warrior had told him about.

"So you are using an array, a grand twelve points array. But for what purpose?" he was feeling confused about the answer to this question, however he decided to keep going and check these places, stopping the plot of his enemies.

After all, his enemies wouldn't do something good to him.