Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

The next thing he did astonished the girls, as he injured himself, took the blood somewhere before closing his eyes.

He knew he could enter the heavenly garden in ethereal form, so he needed to bring his blood with him. the blood and Arthur appeared just above the pillar with the drawing his master did from before.

"So I will harvest the light energy first, then start making the arrows," he muttered as he waved his hand to let a drop of his suspended blood fall upon the pillar.

"Rumble!"

This time the pillar itself shook, while its exterior dark surface started to brighten up. Arthur felt some sort of pressure being exerted over him, a pressure so similar to the venerable master's pressure but a lot weaker.

"Are you testing me or challenging me?" Arthur muttered, calmly as he wasn't worried at all. He waited, patiently enduring the weak pressure over him, and after a few long minutes; the pressure suddenly vanished.

In the middle of his eyebrows, a light dot appeared there, shining with white light. Its size was so small, not exceeding the needle tip, but it was shiny so anyone could see it.

However Arthur couldn't, but he felt its presence there, as a slightly burning sensation appeared in this area, making his hand move to touch and examine it.

"Weird, I can't feel anything abnormal there with my hand, but my soul is somehow linked to a dot there."

He then shook his head. "There is no time to examine it, I feel the link with the dot, and somehow I feel the link to that pillar… it seems quite… angry!"

He closed his eyes while trying to feel the pillar, and the emotions he got was only one; anger! The pillar was angry, and that seemed the cause of the pressure exerted over him.

"I hope the rest of the pillars would be as angry as you," he muttered, and what he got in response was…

"Rumble!"

The pillar shook again, like it had a sentient and could understand his words. Arthur glanced speechlessly for a moment towards the pillar before smiling widely.

"Ok, being able to understand me is something nice. I'm on your side, the one who saved you, and I intend to save every other pillar trapped out there. but I need your help. I want to harvest the light energy here, turn it into something I could use to build a weapon. Can you help me?"

This time silence was his only response. He waited for minutes but nothing happened, making him laugh shortly on himself. "Wow, I was just speaking to a stone right now, and thinking it could hear and aid me, sigh!"

Just as he was about to give up having the help of the pillar, the light dot in his forehead started to sting suddenly, causing him a stabbing pain!

"What is that?!"

The next moment he saw a bubble emerging from his forehead, from the place of that pain. The bubble had white coat, filled with nothing but air at first, expanding like a small balloon being inflated until it reached the size of double his body.

Then it stopped, and the transparent air inside started to be replaced by white fog. The fog was scanty at first, but gradually it started to thicken up, until it finally turned this balloon into a large ball of white opaque color, with nothing seen inside it.

"Tuck!"

The next thing happened was the sound of something being separated, as the balloon shook before it fell smoothly on the ground.

"Boom!"

Despite it falling like a feather, once it touched the ground an explosive sound occurred. A shock wave of rubbles and dust emerged, even clouding the vision of Arthur for a few moments, before everything settled up.

A small pit appeared under the balloon, giving him a hint about the real weight of this seemingly light thing.

"Is this the light energy?" he asked the pillar, as this time he was pretty sure the pillar was the one who helped him.

"Rumble!"

And the answer came swiftly in the usual manner of speaking by the pillar. Arthur just said nothing as he went towards the balloon to examine it. the moment he touched the balloon he was astonished to see his hand dig deeper inside the balloon, like there was nothing out there to hold the white material inside.

"Interesting," he muttered while taking his hand out, filled with white material; the white energy. "Like this I can do whatever I want, great," he smiled in content before returning the material he took inside the balloon again.

"Time to make these arrows then."

He went again to examine the drawings. "I need long thin wood taken from extremely high ranked trees, plus the ores like iron but with much higher quality than it, silver and gold refined ore, and all should be soaked first in this strange potion," he muttered as he summed everything drawn on the ground up.

For the potion thing he had many materials that he didn't even know their names; tree leaves, flowers, even seeds. However he wasn't worried, as he had a huge pile of materials harvested from the big clans and guilds from the time before entering the contest.

A time that felt happening from ages ago!

"So I should use some sort of special water, mixed with the blood of the bronzed giant and the white energy. Let's see if I have a substitute to this water," he muttered before starting to check up his rings.

Each time he found something worthy of using, he took it out and put it on the ground nearby. After a couple of hours, he managed to take out a large pile of materials, and just as he was about to start taking his cauldron out, he noticed something interesting.

"Never thought my garden can affect these materials," he smiled after examining a bunch of the materials he took from before; all had gotten some enhancements and started to show some upgrade signs.