Chapter 290 - Finally Finding The One!
Chapter 290 - Finally Finding The One!
"You did it on purpose, ain't you? Huh? Every Time I have my fun ruined by you! You bastard, fun destroyer, hater of any joy; I hate you!"
Arthur just heard her words but didn't care, he knew she would be this mad but there was no use in wasting time inside that pocket world, or even explain to such a thick head dragon the urgent situation they were currently at.
Dragons when getting angry would be very hard to reason with, especially a female fierce one like Tina!
"Let's go," he just said while turning into a dragon, flying towards a star surrounded with a group of others.
"Don't you dare walk away from me like this! What do you think yourself are? A dragon?!"
Arthur just smiled, while Sara followed silently from behind. "This must be it," he thought to himself as he stood at the star, glancing at the angry grumpy Tina at the back. "Won't you come? There is much more fun down there than up here," he said, while trying his best to control his laughs.
"…"
Despite her anger and arrogance, her rude behavior didn't stand in front of having more fun; so she complied and flew towards the star as the trio entered the next world.
"Sorry lad, this isn't one of the pillars you are seeking."
This simple reply came to make him sigh. He selected this star in the heart of other stars around it, and it wasn't that near to any pillar. The time when he showed up in the star map again he found Tina less angry and more amused. 'Are we going to hit and run like this?" she asked as she considered this as a game and started to have fun with it!
"Sigh, keep following me and don't slack behind," he muttered before glancing again at the remaining stars. It took him roughly two hours to finish that previous star, and if he continued like this then he would be able to secure all the pillars barely in time.
"They won't leave the important pillars without proper defenses," he muttered as this was something he would do if he was in their shoes.
The idea in his mind was something they must be aware of; such a wicked and very cunning enemy wouldn't miss this weakness; the only weakness in his plan without putting much counter defenses against any possible intervention of Arthur.
So, he knew if he depended only on these jumps from a star to another he wouldn't finish the task. He jumped into the next star, hoping it would be the one.
"Sorry lad, this isn't one of the pillars you are seeking."
"Sorry lad…"
"Again sorry."
"Not this time."
"Sigh, go for another one."
"This luck of yours is really admirably bad!"
For six stars he jumped into later he was fated to be disappointed. With each star taken and his aim still unfulfilled, he became more restless, less patient, and much angry!
"Seven down, nineteen are left to conquer. Please, the next one is the one, please," he pleaded to the will of this world, hoping he would have some mercy and sympathy upon his poor luck.
And this time his luck finally changed, and his prayers were answered!
"Wow, they are really much more energetic than the last ones," Tina cheered joyfully the moment she stepped outside the portal.
"They look stronger, be careful," Sara muttered after glancing around her before her eyes fell upon Arthur.
He wasn't surprised, he wasn't shocked to see all these numbers that filled the entire sky and extended to fill each gap in the ground. The whole world was covered under a veil of arrays, making taking a single step towards the distant pillar seemed mission impossible.
Even she had felt the challenge here, making her doubt if the trio alone would be able to clear all those well prepared enemies!
Arthur wasn't shocked or terrified; he was excited! Much excited that he couldn't even speak! He glanced at those numbers, all these preparations, and was trying to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
The ground was literally excavated out, turned into large circular pits that were totally surrounded by many arrays. The sky was filled with the excavated parts of the earth, suspended in the air with some sort of array, with many monsters standing on these floating islands, well protected by these defensive arrays.
The world, the entire world was turned into a fighting fortress, either in the sky or in the ground; but that didn't even make him feel any surprise, doubt, or fear.
His weird silence was noted even by Tina, who turned to glance at him as she asked: "Are you ok?"
He smiled, and his smile turned into a grin, before laughing. His laughs appeared like roars as he was finally believing his eyes; he was finally his one!
"I shall be death to this world!" he only muttered so before he flapped his wings, flew in the air for hundreds of meters without saying any more words even to his two girls; who stood motionless looking strangely towards him.
"Is her alright?" Tina turned to ask Sara who didn't know what to say. She was like her, feeling something was off with Arthur.
The two couldn't relate or understand his feelings; finding this world meant everything to him! his mission would be completed, he would obtain all the pillars, would amass many treasures and population, plus and access to many zones in this world.
The stress, that great heavy stress like a huge planet residing over his chest was finally removed. He was beyond excited that he couldn't even express his own mind except with his actions!
He would honor this moment and burn this entire world to the ground! He wouldn't stop and use all his powers to make sure nothing would be left here; nothing but only the pillar!
Plus he had no time to waste. As finding his deeply cherished world wasn't the end of anything; it was just the beginning of the end. He still had to travel for ten hours, fight outside the portal out there, before returning and taking all the pillars he could acquire before his enemies would activate their portals and sever the link with the star map.
As he reached high altitude, and under everyone's watchful eyes he took out two arrays with flags, opened his mouth before splashing the fire over them, melting the ores together around the flag poles, activating two arrows of destruction.
"What is he going to do? Has he lost his mind?!!!" Tina was beyond shock, as they were totally surrounded with the annoying deflective array, and now Arthur was preparing to use one of his strongest attacks ever!
Before even Sara could open her mouth, Arthur then took out his W-shaped longbow and a huge number of his own created arrows; the arrows of extermination!
"Oh my my!" Tina horrifyingly muttered, but the next moment Sara turned and shouted at her while flapping her wings: "Let's go, hurry!"
"To stop him? he totally lost it now! how can we shake his mind back to this world?!!" Tina hurried to shout back, but she didn't stay at the ground. Even if her man was crazy, and was about to invite death to them, she wouldn't let him stand out alone, not like this!
"No, you got it totally wrong," Sara hurried to say, before adding, "he is trying to overload the array with much more energy that its capacity to hold, turning it from such a defensive tool to a very frightening tool; unleashing all these energy out in a burst wave that would leave the effects of all his arrows and arrays ashamed! Hurry, we must help!"
Sara's words weren't loud, but Arthur over there heard them perfectly, and only loud, very excited roars erupted from him as he was laughing with his heart content.
"Swoosh!"
The next moment he held the bow, using his claws, forcibly opening it to go much beyond his usual ability to pull the strings. He didn't know if this bow would tolerate his full dragon powers or not, so he used only a small part of it and it seemed to be enough.
The next moment he turned into a firing machine, launching his arrows and activated arrays like a long connected line of arrows and arrays towards the deflective shield.
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
And the whole world shook under the mighty explosions that started to rage upon the deflective shield surrounding the trio.
"Throw arrays of destruction to use!" Sara hurriedly shouted at him, as she and Sara's breaths really paled in front of his mighty attacks. Arthur didn't say a word but took out a dozen of such arrays and threw them towards the two girls.
The deflective shield had two ways to overcome, one he used before as it was the easiest and less stressful. But here he was using the second method; overloading the array with an amount of energy it couldn't tolerate!
The trick here was not to stop attacking for even a single moment, not giving the array a chance to fully absorb the attack's energy, resulting in its decomposition from inside out, releasing the energy to the outside world in the form of a mighty bomb explosion!