Chapter 287 - They Simply Ran Away!!
The next moment the sword returned, killing those who tried to hurriedly close this gap, this vital gap, before resting in the claw of Arthur who simply waved it left and right.
And those incoming to stop him were simply turned into ashes!
He moved towards the gap, and any monster tried to stop him was simply met by this indomitable sword. Arthur moved, while all the monsters jumped towards him, clustering over like it was honey and they were bees, but all they got in return was an ashen grey fate!
"Push forward, let's help him!" Tina shouted at Sara before she, without any thinking, threw herself into the crowd of monsters up ahead. Sara watched her crazy move before shaking off her head, while muttering: "Such crazy girl is really suited to be his match, but… she has a point though!"
The next moment she also followed suit, as their two sudden attacks caused the retaliation of the monsters over Arthur to falter. Arthur kept pushing forward, invading all the large numbers of monsters around him, while he then started to use his other card.
His fire breaths started to roar everywhere, hitting monster after monster, hunting them down.
He was attacking like he was arrogantly spitting down on them; one spit per monster did the job! On one side, his sword kept moving, hitting everything, and on the other his fire breaths kept hitting any daring monster to come so near to him.
And from behind, on two sides; one flying tigress and one flying dragon were raging havoc, cutting off the reinforcements coming from many stars on the periphery; relieving the pressure exerted over Arthur for a considerable amount.
"Sigh, if the scorpion was much stronger, she would love this fight for sure!" he sarcastically said, while closing up onto the central large green star. He knew this one others were desperately defending, trying to prevent him from reaching there; was the one linking to the clan main headquarter.
And as he once attacked this place, he wouldn't hesitate to attack it again!
The more he got closer, the resistance started to be fiercer, even they started to use their special attacks; an acid burning dark thick fluid attack that was like thick oil.
The moment this oil fell upon his body, it managed to clear away many scales, creating wounds everywhere. Arthur glanced briefly at the new wounds before noticing something.
These wounds resembled the ones over the bodies of these hideous monsters! That was strange, as he asked himself if they were cursed with their own powers!
As for the pain and wounds, he didn't care about them. He just focused on getting near that central star, and not such an attack would falter his steps. besides not all monsters could use this attack, as only a few did use this trick, making him more confident.
"Can you protect me for a moment?" Arthur suddenly asked his sword, like he was asking a partner!
"Buzz!" and the sword replied with this single hum, before it broke free from Arthur's hand, started to move in a large circle with Arthur its centre. "Time to pay back the debts you bastards!" He cancelled his transformation, took out his arrows and bow, and more than a hundred arrows were launched in no time towards the star, hitting it one time after another, and he waited for it to turn red!
The stars he hit so far all changed color from green to red, which made it obvious to him that the colors related to the stability of the Dorfis clan over these stars.
Did this mean these stars also contained pillars? Or something else? Arthur didn't know the answer, but he intended to know after finishing collecting all the pillars.
"Are you this mighty?" even after one hundred more arrows, the star didn't change color! He clenched his fist while shouting: "Keep protecting me for more," then he took out a five hundred arrows in one go!
He planned to go all out!
"Swoosh!"
The next moment, something was thrown out of the portal, while the next moment the star turned from green to black! "What the hell?!" Arthur didn't know what was going on, as he observed this ball that was thrown out of the portal before it was closed.
The moment this ball appeared, chaos erupted! All the monsters surviving had a panicked expression over their faces, and the next moment they didn't care about anything at all, jumped towards the nearest star to vanish inside.
Arthur didn't need anyone to tell him how dangerous this ball was, but even before he could do anything, his sword was first to hit it!
"It… is… delicious!"
Arthur's eyes widened from shock as his sword spoke up, with this rusty voice, like someone speaking from underground. "Can you contain it?" he hurried to ask, and the next moment the reply came by the sword buzzing and a simple broken sentence.
"I… can… need… time!"
"That's great, and I have the right place for you to spend all the time you want; get inside!"
Arthur then touched the sword, taking it with that strange ball inside his garden. The next moment he closed his eyes and went deeply to examine the situation in his garden.
It wouldn't be good for the ball to explode, damaging all what he craved for with great effort. When he went inside, he found the sword lying on a very strange spot; the top of a pillar!
And it wasn't just any pillar, it was the one which was recently added, the one which absorbed the energy of the arrow of extermination, making it quite unique. "Is this a coincidence?" he thought to himself, before shaking his head. "This stingy sword is even greedier than me!" he muttered to himself, as this sword intentionally selected the pillar.
Arthur didn't speak as he stood motionless observing the sword, with this ball at the tip of its blade. Despite the sword and the ball being big, they were like small dots over the huge surface of the pillar.
"I think an hour has passed here, so that means we are fine," he said to himself the moment he opened his eyes; exiting the garden world. the next moment he found Tina and Sara standing on his side, while the place ushered under strange heavy silence.
"Sigh, so they ran off? Just like that?" he asked, while glancing at the black star that once linked to the Dorfis clan headquarters.
"Yeah, simply like that, humph!" Tina seemed angry as she finally found the fun she wanted, but didn't have enough time to enjoy it. Arthur simply smiled, as he glanced over the other stars.
They were all still functioning.
"Don't be upset, we will have much more fun in the next stars," he said before heading towards one of the rear stars, as he added, "we will start invading from here; are you two ready?"
"Your wounds…" Sara said and added nothing more, while glancing over the deep and multiple wounds he currently had. "It's nothing, we need to hit them while they are still unbalanced," he replied while getting closer to the star he selected.
"Shouldn't we hit that one? Take them by order?" Tina asked as she flew by his side with Sara catching behind.
"It's what they expect, and so their defenses there would be the strongest. While here, they are either unprepared or unqualified to stop us," he calmly explained, hoping for her hot tempered head to get some wisdom; to be much like Sara.
But he was doomed to fail, as she was and would still the hot tempered snake he helped to transform into a dragon!
"Then send me into these heavily fortified stars, let me play to my heart content!"
"Sigh!"
"You are beyond hopeless!"
"Stop judging me, you coward tigress!!"
"Hey… stop fighting and be ready, we have a war to fight. Let's go!"