Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur just smiled as he watched the phantom of that huge deformed monster that was about to be summoned dimmed under the light of his master.

The light was cleansing away the monster like a dawn light sweeping the darkness of the night away. Arthur knew this fight was already near over, his biggest concern was about to be illuminated, and he gained a far stronger ally.

"Sorry, borrowed it," Arthur sneered in a reply to the angry and stupefied master before moving towards the next pillar.

"You filthy little thief! Give my pillar back, give it back now!" the leader seemed truly pissed off as he kept yelling and cursing from behind, but he did no more than that!

"So your presence here was just to scare me?" he muttered to himself as if the leader had something in his hand to do, then he would have already done it!

"Ding! They can fight in a certain range, so be careful next time."

"Thanks," Arthur appreciated the system of time remarks and help so far. The shouts of that leader with the sudden disappearance of the pillar made every single leader vigilant towards Arthur.

"What are you waiting for? Let's activate defensive shields around our pillars!" their leader spoke, and his words echoed in the whole place.

The next moment Arthur noticed the strange hand movements of these leaders, flashing fast in a way he never saw before.

"Sigh, I have no time to stand back and observe, sorry, this pillar is mine," he smirked as he landed a drop of blood over the pillar before the clan head standing on it managed to activate the shield on time.

"Rumble!"

The pillar was taken forcibly despite the defensive shield was about to close up to it. Arthur shook his head as he glanced over the others; all were now completely surrounded by the shields, preventing Arthur from getting near the pillars inside.

"Sigh, tell me you have a way to crack this!" he muttered, as he knew his time here was limited.

If he gave these dark clan heads enough time, they wouldn't hesitate to call back all the remaining pillars, making his efforts lie to waste!

"Ding! This formation is strange, never heard of before, so can't help here; sorry."

The response of his system made him very depressed, and this wasn't the end of it!

"We need to keep him in bay before we can secure the pillars. All clan heads heed to my orders and summon all the guards ranked fifth and below."

This shout came from the direction of their leader, making Arthur feel more pressured and his hope to get his hands over these pillars just blew to winds!

"Sigh, it seems I can only go this far!" he shook his head before watching many warriors appearing from every single direction of the pillars; even from the two clan heads he took their pillars.

"Kill him, whoever brings me his head will marry my daughter!"

"Kill him! whoever manages to bring me his dirty head will be appointed as my right arm man!"

The two leaders viciously shouted, instigating their fighters against Arthur, who just retreated and stole a brief glance over his master!

The pillar was still shining, and the huge monster kept dimming, but the fight wasn't over yet. That made him more helpless and hopeless, giving him the impression his aim wouldn't be reached this time.

"System, keep sending them into my garden, I'm not in the mood to fight them now," he said, as he didn't want to disturb himself from going for other pillars and try to crack this strange defensive formation.

So, he kept flying towards the third pillar, not totally losing hope regarding dealing with it.

"Let's see if it can handle my arrows and arrays!" he muttered as he took out his two arrays, one arrow, and his bow; intending to try all his strongest attacks towards this defensive shield to test it.

As for all the warriors getting near him, they all instantly vanished if they got near Arthur for a hundred meter radius. Like this his system created a free hundred meter radius zone for him to concentrate; a death zone for others.

"Rumble!"

"Rumble!"

"Rumble!"

He tried his three weapons; and none worked! The moment any one of them touched the surface of the defensive shields, they vanished, just like what his system did with the attacking warriors.

"Sigh, I knew I had a small chance here, but this is really frustrating!"

He shook his head as he glanced over the perfectly fine faint blue shield that extended along the whole pillar. "Let's examine it from every corner, there might be a weakness anywhere," he tried to raise his morale up as he moved around the pillar, seeking for anything that could help him break this impregnable defense here.

"Sigh, even on the top of the pillar the shield still covers it perfectly with no weakness whatsoever!" he finally started to be desperate, as the shield he saw covering the pillar was really perfect.

"Is the secret in these weird hand movements?" he asked himself, trying to get more clues to aid him.

Amidst his hard and desperate tries to recall what these moves were, his system stepped him, telling him a bizarre news.

"Ding! One of those who were captured and subdued by me inside the garden tells a strange thing."

"What?" he wasn't in the right mood to hear someone blabbery. His mind was busy trying to crack this puzzling shield.

"Ding! He says Olor wants to offer you peace, and in return he will accept any of your demands, plus a means to crack this shield."

"What the hell? Does he know how to crack the shield?" Arthur hurried to shout in his mind, as the words of his system, this strange offer that suddenly came from Olor, was something he never expected or dreamt of.

It was the straw he now desperately needed to escape his drowning in this failure.