Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Chapter 525 - Taking Hostages

And two groups stayed behind, one to secure the kids in the middle, and one was around Arthur right now.

And Arthur wasn't that much interested in them as he was busy in activating the pillar.

"Taking one hundred hits to be activated is so much troublesome," he sighed while watching many werewolves, vampires, and hyenas trying to sneak between his giants in futile attempts.

In the next five minutes, more enemies showed up, turning the fight more disadvantageous on paper on the giants.

Despite that no one of them ever managed to break through the tight defense of those bronzed giants.

'Can you handle one of them if I sent him inside?' Arthur was about to activate his pillar when he suddenly asked Gege.

'I can handle anyone,' she arrogantly said, 'but I can't affect their souls. They aren't monsters, but mages.'

'Leave this to me,' Arthur evilly sneered, 'I just want you to fix them in place motionless.'

'This I can do.'

'Great,' he then launched the last hit towards the pillar before muttering, "keep up with me boys."

Then he moved.

This sudden move startled everyone while his ten guards tried to stop him, he didn't listen to any calling.

He moved in the middle of the fight with his pillar emitting a large energy pulse. The energy hit everyone, and yet his guards weren't affected unlike the others.

Any hostile enemy that was hit by this pulse wave was sent flying instantly backwards with many injuries.

"Damn, it seems they are stronger than the ability of the pillar to handle," Arthur sighed when he noticed the energy pulse coming from the pillar became slightly weaker with time. "I need to hurry then."

The next instant he turned into a dragon, and then moved like a bolt of lightning to the front.

Just as he returned back again, the pillar seemed to die off. "Only last this time… weird," he was surprised to see that before he cancelled his transformation.

"What the hell did you think yourself doing?" The next instant the angry voice of Doaf appeared next to him.

"I just wanted to check on something," Arthur pointed to the pillar as he added, "I received this from my godfather."

"This won't work on them," Doaf sighed, "they have the perfect counter this time to minimize the damage of the pillar. They came prepared, learnt from the past mistakes."

"I thought this pillar was invincible," Arthur muttered while watching the pillar returning to its previous introverted state.

"That's true," Doaf sighed, "but they used an array to magnify the expenditure of the pillar. Yours can't handle all these numbers for a long time before exhausting its energy."

"So I need to activate it again?"

"You'll need time for that," Doaf seriously said, "and your enemies won't give you this privilege if you were alone."

"I understand," Arthur nodded in fake regret, "I won't act rash from now on."

"Good, I'll go to keep killing and chasing them around," Doaf then vanished the next instant while adding, "keep him safe or else I'll personally punish all of you."

His ten giant guards trembled faintly under the vision of Arthur when he heard these threatening words. They moved to surround Arthur while one of them pleaded:

"Please young master, don't make things hard on us."

"Don't worry," Arthur smiled in real content, as he already got what he aimed for.

Despite the weakness of that pillar right now, it served him right and bought him enough time to take in twenty injured werewolves who were now imprisoned inside his garden.

'Gege, keep them restricted,' he said while watching the fight all around in such a relaxed attitude.

'Bad news,' all of sudden Gege spoke, 'they are committing suicide right now.'

'What?!!' Arthur was speechless for a moment before glancing all around, 'all of them?' he asked.

'Up to now half already died, and the rest I think will do the same.'

'Can't you stop them?'

'I'm restricting their movements, but can't deal with their self-destruct methods.'

The helplessness in her voice told him everything he needed to know. 'Damn! When I thought everything was fine,' he sighed while glancing at everyone around, 'there are some wounded, but this method is a pain.'

He thought of going out again and taking some back, but he hesitated. This weird method of suicide was something he couldn't deal with at the moment.

He had to helplessly watch those wounded commit suicide in front of his eyes. Despite using simple techniques such as cutting their throats, he still felt quite pained.

The hostiles were driven back by the reinforcements that appeared all of sudden from nowhere. Around two hundred giants added more pressure on the enemies, making them retreat.

"The plan is a success," Doaf appeared next beside Arthur and noticed his change in mood, "what happened?"

"They committed a suicide," he pointed towards the dead bodies all around of the previously wounded enemies.

"You wanted to interrogate them?" he was speechless there for a moment, "they would prefer to die than to tell you anything."

"Tsk, they are dark mages, don't they value their lives?"

"It's not that," Doaf shook his head, "They have trained from little to not disclose any secret to anyone. It's nearly impossible for someone weak like you to try and interrogate them," he said before hurriedly adding, "even me is too weak to do that. This is a task left over for masters like ours."

"Tsk, am I not a young master?" he bitterly joked before speaking to Gege, 'How many are still alive?'

'Seven and the number is rapidly decreasing.'

'Move them apart from each other, and spread a rumor about someone of them willing to sell them out.'

'This is unlikely to work.'

'Just an attempt,' he inwardly sighed.

"I've sent some after them," Doaf said before adding, "shall we move out now?"

"Sure."

The caravan moved out while Arthur took in every single corpse here.. From time to time he would close his eyes, enter into his garden and summon his dragons using dragomancer ability.