Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Chapter 564 - A Crack In Time And Space

He waited for a couple of hours before Lie An came from far away running towards him.

"He seems restless," Amelia sneered while everyone just laughed shortly before he reached them.

"What?" Madly was the one to ask, "anything you wanna say?"

"Ahem," Lie An cleared his throat before saying, "I just want to make another offer for Mr…" he glanced at Arthur and paused but Arthur didn't speak back.

"And?" Madly crossed her arms before the nervous dean said:

"I… We agree on the idea of you leading us, but we need a reassurance you won't use it to steal away our heritage."

Arthur lifted one eyebrow in surprise while others just glanced weirdly towards the dean. "What heritage?" Madly said before adding, "we came here to take everything in your world, including your pathetic academy heritage."

"What is your hardly thought of guarantee?" Amelia asked after a few moments of silence to let the words of Madly cause the proper effect.

"I… we suggest that I will stay the de… the vice dean of the academy while Mr… will be the dean."

"Denied," Arthur simply said before turning to leave.

"We just want insurance."

"The insurance you seek should be towards your lives not the academy," Madly sneered before moving away from here following Arthur's steps.

"They are hopeless," Deem sighed.

"It's a waste of time staying here anymore," Omar added.

"Let's go and discover the surrounding area then," Arthur went into silence for brief moments before the next instant Lily appeared alongside a small group of a hundred.

"Phew, finally letting me out to play," Liliy took a deep breath before glancing all around, "this is a brand new world, right?"

"Take your birdy and start scouting the area with others," Arthur simply said before turning to a certain direction as he added, "we will gather again here if we didn't find anything."

"What if we do?" Lily asked.

"You have my bird's wings," Arthur smiled before rising to the sky, "Don't slack, we need to find ourselves a good place to start at."

"What place?" Lily turned to Madly as she asked.

"Will tell you everything on the way," Amelia said before she turned towards the rest, "take out your pets, we need to start moving instantly."

Arthur headed towards the direction he felt most ominous about. Since clearing all the hostiles here and starting to wait for the Hor academy's response, he sensed like someone was watching him.

'Can you scout the area again?' he said while feeling more puzzled after arriving at his destination.

'Ding! I'm scouting the area around me all the time. There is no living thing here.'

'Are you sure?' Arthur turned around again before adding, 'I have the feeling something seems off here.'

'Ding! There is nothing suspicious here except you.'

'Gege,' Arthur thought of something all of sudden, 'can you tell if I'm inside an illusion?'

'You are absolutely fine,' Gege simply said, 'there is not even an illusion nearby you.'

'Are you sure?'

'…'

She didn't answer and he just sighed. "Then why do I have this bizarre feeling?" he turned around again before rising to the sky and taking a wider tour here.

He was at a small hill that was covered with grey sand and some sparkling dirt that seemed strange. The hill was small, with no cavities or caves for anyone to hide.

He turned around it dozens of times before succumbing to the facts he was seeing. "Alright let's see the distant area then," he moved towards the horizon where he started scanning the area for any living people or good places to start his city.

The initial search gave out excellent results. In the next ten hours he kept receiving data from all search teams where they reported about many villages and towns here.

But there was a single report that came after twelve hours and it was delivered directly by Tina.

"There is a big city already established nearby," she said while motioning towards a certain direction, "they are strong. Big walls and high towers plus many armies stationed in and out the nearby castles surrounding the city."

"Castles?" he asked.

"Yup, big castles connected together by great walls."

"Interesting," Arthur muttered. "Where are Sara and the queen?"

"They both are there observing and scouting the regoing around," Tine smiled viciously as she added, "can we hit them now? It's a ready city with no need for us to start from scratch."

"What about citizens?" he asked.

"I didn't see much," she thought for a moment, "all I saw were those armed soldiers and some flying monsters."

"Strange," Arthur paused for a moment before deciding to go.

He took a bird's wing and sent a rough route from the place of their arrival towards the city to Amelia and other teams. He asked them to keep searching but to gather there at the city later on.

Arthur then went directly towards the city and castles. The flight took four hours until he finally reached the outer region of that city.

What met him in the distance was a gigantic city that had extensive buildings, long towers, and strong sturdy walls. He also noticed the castles and the castles formed angles for a seven headed star.

"They are arranged on a diagram," he noticed that it wasn't only the castles, but the walls, towers, and even the buildings inside the city were all arranged in specific order that formed many seven headed star diagrams everywhere.

"I thought this was for decoration purposes," Tina chuckled before adding, "can we attack them now?"

"Just wait a bit longer," he muttered before taking a wide tour on the outer perimeter of the city. "The more I looked the more puzzled I become," he muttered to himself before adding, 'Can you tell me anything from scouting the area?'

'Ding! There is something that interferes with my scout.'

'Gege?'

'I sense the presence of a weak illusive aura, but not too much to cause a real illusion.'

'I know something is weird here,' Arthur muttered before suddenly hearing the voice of the long silent golden dragon:

'This is a military base of an ancient clan.'

'Ancient clan?' Arthur muttered before glancing all around, 'but I can't see any symbol or flag of anything.'

'Because what you are seeing just now is a crack in time and place.'

'…'

'This isn't real,' the golden dragon said.

'It's not an illusion,' Gege stubbornly said, 'I can sense a weak illusive aura but it's not that strong or apparent to cause such a grand illusion.'

'Sigh, it's a crack in time and place darling.'

'Can you explain in plain words?'

'Ding! It's something that was here but not anymore. A glimpse of a past moment but it's not present.'

'This is something that happened in the past?' Arthur shockingly asked.

'Indeed,' the golden dragon sighed.

'How come?' Gege was also speechless.

'I don't know why, but I heard stories about such things from many resources when I was alive,' the golden dragon said, 'its mark is that you feel an illusion force but not too strong enough to make an illusion, and there is also one more important fact.'

'Which is?'

'They can't see you, so even if you stood inches away from them, they won't react to you as if you were a ghost.'

'But they are the ghosts!' Gege shouted, while Arthur ignored her remark as he asked:

'What would happen if I went directly towards them?'

'This peculiar moment will cease to exist,' the golden dragon said, 'some said these moments happen for a reason, like some force wants to deliver a message to those experiencing these moments. Some gained wisdom and others gained access to ancient buried treasures, while it's not rare to come out without getting anything.'

Arthur thought about his words before deciding, 'Let's wait then.. I'm curious to see what this will end up at.'