Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

'You… you are restless and anxious,' Gege said, 'that foe is really formidable to make you feel this way.'

'Ding! I agree.'

"Sigh… you guys… can't you put another scenario for things?"

'A darker scenarios? I doubt it, this is the darkest one here,' the golden dragon said, 'this foe wants to disturb your mind and make you hesitant about what you should do. In my opinion you should aim towards the already known risk and ignore these useless decoys.'

'Ding! I agree too. You need to focus on the three arrays more than you think about other things.'

"Alright," Arthur nodded but inwardly he wasn't that much agreeing with their thoughts. Something kept bothering him, telling him he was missing something major here.

'What are you doing?' the golden dragon asked.

"Collecting the rings off their bodies," Arthur said, "if there is nothing in then you are right."

'Ding! Still distracted by your enemy's trap…sigh.'

"Just make sure to scan them all and find out what they had inside."

Arthur didn't stop collecting the rings off the dead bodies while the werewolf stood on the distance watching him in silence. His face told Arthur he was also thinking the same way as the three inside his head.

But Arthur decided to trust his instincts and try to find more about the hidden trap his enemy was waving for him. Or he would find nothing and he would be proven wrong.

After collecting everything he went to the air again and headed towards the next group. According to the map, the rest of the groups were scattered along a gigantic circle around the city.

And the last mysterious group lied just at the end of his journey.

"This… they are heading back already!"

When Arthur met the next group he was surprised to see them returned towards the city. This meant only one thing…

'I told you, this enemy wants you to waste time,' the golden dragon said.

"But the rings are much protected and can't be opened easily even after the death of their masters," Arthur argued, "they must contain some sort of protection like the one you used over the rings of mine."

'Probably it's just the true owner is still alive back there inside his army and laughing right now on you,' the golden dragon was rude but Arthur ignored him.

"Keep trying to crack them, I want to know what they have," he then started the fight against this group and after interrogating the survivors he had to go on the front, seeking the array part they buried in the ground.

He took with him three of the survivors who turned into one ground hippo and two flying eagles. Arthur was surprised to see these monsters as far as he knew these were part of different clans here.

"Are you from different academies or clans?" he couldn't help but to ask one of the two eagles. As for the hippo, he simply called him inside his garden as he would have delayed his trip by his low speed.

"We were summoned from many clans," one of the eagles said, "and as far as I know more armies are heading towards here in the next couple of weeks."

"Who arranged this?" Arthur asked while already knowing the answer.

"Some dude from the dragonair high up clan," the second eagle said, "he is the mastermind of everything and the absolute ruler over all the forces in this world."

"Ruler of all forces?" Arthur was surprised to hear that.

"At least the dark clans and academies here listen to him," the first eagle said, "he came a couple of days ago and in no time controlled everything. Everyone is answering to his call, and no one is brave enough to argue with him."

These words made Arthur have more doubts towards the true intentions of that dragonair. "Is he that strong?" he asked.

"He isn't," the second eagle sighed, "but he came with a strong entourage and many letters from higher up clans that ruled and protected every single clan and academy here."

"He also brings threats," the first eagle sighed, "for example at our clan he brought the head of a mighty mage who ascended high up in the past decade."

"Interesting," Arthur muttered before adding, "after getting in I want all of you to tell everything you know about this world and this dragonair."

"No problem," the two eagles said in unison before Arhtur went to silence and never asked them again.

'I told you,' the golden dragon suddenly said, 'your foe isn't simple at all.'

'You need to focus on the mission of ruining his best weapon here,' Gege said before adding, 'then you can mind other things like those incoming armies in the future.'

"I just hope to be wrong," Arthur honestly said, "but something keeps bothering me."

'Ding! Just ignore it for now, not everything one feels is proven to be right.'

Arthur didn't speak with them about this until he reached the place where the group buried the runes and the flag of the array. "Take them out," he simply said to the two eagles who instantly complied.

"Won't you destroy it?" one of the eagles asked in surprise when he saw Arthur taking away everything they took out.

"I will," Arthur lied, as he wanted to further study this rare array and get some knowledge from it. "Go in now," he took the two eagles before heading towards the next group.

"I wasted more hours, sigh," after the third group he muttered to himself. Each group he met was now returning towards the city and so he had to return and look for those buried array pieces again and take them all.

"I just hope they will make it in time," he thought of his scattered groups out there and prayed they could ruin these array pieces in time.

'Don't worry, after all you only need to ruin three points to demolish the array,' the golden dragon said, trying to reassure him.

"I just want to be sure," Arthur sighed, "dealing with this dragonair's youth had to be decisive."

'Still worried about these two groups yet?' Gege sighed, 'If I were you I would have been comfortable about what I did so far. After all you alone destroyed enough runes and flags to render the three arrays dysfunctional.'

"I won't rest until they all are ruined," Arthur didn't want to have any risks, "have you cracked more rings yet?" he asked.

'Ding! I cracked almost a hundred so far and let me tell you I'm not that much excited about cracking the rest.'

'They all have useless things,' the golden dragon said, 'it's a waste of time and effort. I totally agree with the system, he should stop doing that.'

"No," Arthur firmly shook his head, "you need to keep cracking them until the last one."

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