Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur kept jumping from one settlement to another while amassing all the dark objects he could lay his hands on. Each settlement had few remaining forces that didn't pose any threat to him or his men.

As for that dark angel mage, it seemed he lost hope in stopping him. Arthur thought he would try and summon more men when noticing what he was doing.

After all these dark objects seemed quite dangerous and not easy to handle.

However even when he finished the thirtieth settlement, nothing happened.

"Why am I bothered then?" he kept having this nagging feeling that something bad was going to happen.

However up till now he only got a lot of people and also thirty dark objects.

"How are others doing?" he asked for the tenth time about the other team.

'They are moving in two teams,' Gege said, 'as usual they are doing just like we are. As for people and dark objects, they are just waiting for us to go there and pick them up.'

"Hmm…" Arthur didn't feel relieved even when hearing the same answer for the tenth time. The team he left behind didn't go four ways, but in two.

They seemed to fear losing much of their forces if an ambush occurred.

"Alright, let's start heading towards their settlements then," Arthur and others already finished their settlements. And now Arthur had to visit the other forty settlements to take what he owned.

However as he was having a bad feeling about this, things started to go south from the first settlement he visited.

"What took you so long?" Amera stood side by side with the crow while she looked a bit annoyed. It seemed Gege kept updating them with the quota of each team, and still Arthur came on top of everyone.

"Humph, saying the loser of this bet," Arthur sneered and Amera couldn't help but scoff.

"It wasn't a bet," she corrected, "it was a challenge."

"A challenge or a bet, both are the same to me," Arthur moved around while portals kept appearing by Gege's help, "now we need to move to the basement of that building before leaving here."

Just as he pointed towards the direction of the biggest building here, his heart suddenly clenched without a reason.

"Watch out!" a sudden gush of wild purple energy erupted all of sudden. Arthur didn't wait to recognize what was going on.

He acted based on his darkest fears and instantly portals appeared all over and took all the forces alongside as many people as possible.

The portals threw them all miles away from this settlement. But no matter how hard and fast Gege acted, she wasn't even close to the calamity that befell that settlement.

It was like a dark hole opened its doors over this place. All Arthur could see was a small spark of purple fire that got instantly larger. The purple fire engulfed everything around in mere moments, killing everyone without exception.

A brutal wave of wind emerged all around the settlement in the eyes of everyone but Arthur. For him it wasn't a gale of wind, but purple fire.

When it hit the walls of the settlement, it stopped. There was like a hidden barrier stopping the fire from extending and spreading all over the world.

"What's going on here?" the crow couldn't help but nervously ask.

"My soul… I feel cold shivers assaulting and shaking my soul," Amera said in a shaky tone while her face turned pale.

And she wasn't the only one feeling this way. Everyone else felt the same while Arthur was the only one standing erect without anything but a serious look on his face.

"So… these dark objects are this brutal…" he couldn't believe it when Agnus told him before about it. However, hearing about it was much different than seeing it with his own eyes.

The world he was now seeing was much different that others were seeing. Fire kept blazing for a long minute before it suddenly died down.

"Is… it over?" Amera asked while her body kept trembling. Arthur couldn't help but pat over her big shoulder and try to reassure her.

If she wasn't giant, bigger than him, he would have held her in his embrace right now.

"Do you know what's going on?" The crow noticed the strange attitude of Arthur. He was afraid, but it was like he knew what was coming and so he wasn't even a bit shocked by it.

It seemed to the crow that Arthur knew all about what was going to happen even before it did.

"Yeah, I had a clue or two about it," Arthur slowly nodded before he gave a silent order to Gege through his mind.

He told her to warn everyone to leave the settlements for now. He also asked them to make the people leave the settlements and stay outside.

After all he wasn't sure what caused these dark objects to go berserk all of sudden.

"Is it you?" he couldn't help but think about his mortal enemy. This time he was lucky to get over it, but next time he might not be.

'Make sure to seal all the objects inside,' he said to Gege, 'surround them with pillars and walls. It seems they are weak against physical obstructions.'

'It can't be true,' the golden dragon objected, 'that gale of energy swept away buildings themselves.'

Arthur knew what the golden dragon said was true. He saw many buildings blazing with fire before. 'Alright, take the walls with you inside the garden then,' Arthur decided, 'make people analyze them. I'm now suspicious about them.'

'Ding! I don't think it's safe to take them,' the system warned, 'Ding! What if they had something inside to cause more trouble?'

Arthur couldn't help but sigh. On one hand he couldn't throw away the black objects. And on the other hand, it wasn't safe to keep the objects inside.

'It's the only way we have to solve this,' Arthur slowly said.

'What if…' the golden dragon suddenly came out with an idea.. After hearing it, Arthur couldn't help but agree upon this one.