Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

The next time he opened his eyes, an entire day had passed. Arthur tried to stand up, yet he felt his whole body ache.

"What happened?" he asked while assessing the damage.

"Ding! You depleted your energies with that simple attack," the system explained.

"This attack is good, but if you'll lose your consciousness for one day each time you try it, then you can't use it now," the golden dragon said.

"You have a point," Arthur nodded before sighing. Even after one day, his energies weren't recovered to the point to make him even move well. "My dragonair's energy was the first to crash, right?" he asked.

"Ding! Strangely yes, despite your cultivation energy lasted longer, yet both were depleted in matter of seconds apart," the system replied.

"I need to level up both," Arthur muttered before taking a deep breath. "How are things on the other side? How is my city doing?"

"Ding! The city is fine up till now, and your army of followers are training hard at the moment," the system answered.

"No news from masters?"

"Ding! Not a single word."

"Sigh, it seems they have run away, even Amanda," Arthur shook his head before thinking about it. "But you know, this is for the better. Next time they come they will be amazed," he smiled while taking a piece of meat and a replenishing pill and chewed them both.

"Why don't you try to use pills and meat with the sword strike?" the golden dragon asked.

"They aren't enough," Arthur felt some power finally in his body to stand, "I need to raise my base strength first before anything else."

He paused as he took another pill and meat before adding, "bring me the highest horned monster here with halo."

"Ding! Going to absorb organs again?"

"No, I'll hit the higher level in my dragonair path," Arthur said before adding, "hopefully I won't meet with those elders of the black dragonairs."

"I believe you won't," the golden dragon said, "those silver dragons always spoke about their unique way of leveling up."

"Like what? Any clue?" Arthur was curious to know more about his future path.

"It's not like I went there and saw everything myself," the golden dragon laughed before adding, "they told me once that they were transported into an ancient battlefield against weird monsters and were asked to kill or capture them all."

"Wow, are you sure of this?" Arthur's eyes shone brightly with blue light.

"I told you never saw the thing myself," the golden dragon said.

"Alright, I'm very excited now," he turned towards the monster the system brought to him. It was such a gigantic monster with two horns over its head in the center of the crown.

And double halos were there over each horn. "That looks strong," he commented before sighing, "Is there anymore like it? I feel regret already killing the only unique monster we have."

"Ding! Don't worry about it, the garden is developing more of such high monsters as we speak."

Arthur nodded as he went to grab his berserker sword. The moment he held it, he found the sword humming, like a baby crying for milk. "C'mon, I can't feed you now or else I'll pass out," Arthur laughed before pointing towards the monster, "we have to make some preparations first, so be ready, we will fight a lot later on."

Arthur started to make preparations to couple with this monster using the Golam's blood and runes. This time he even used another strengthening array to upgrade the monster and another array to absorb the heaven and earth energy from around.

"Ding! You plan to advance on both?" the system was speechless while watching Arthur using the unpurified Golam's blood in one array.

"I need to upgrade both energies as fast as I can," Arthur didn't deny it, "all I need is to make the best use of the time I have before the masters appear."

"I think they won't appear until the next test is about to happen," the golden dragon said.

"Ding! I think so too," and the system agreed.

"That's for the best," Arthur said while adding the final touches on the runes before finalizing everything. "Let's start," he pointed to the monster to come and stand in a specific location.

The monster complied, and Arthur just needed to mutter the magical word, "Activate." And the coupling process started right away.

Arthur felt the familiar traction force taking him the next moment to travel to another dimension. Once he reached there, he was met with a scene that wasn't that much different than what his golden dragon told before.

He stood on top of a giant hill, with green grass covering every inch of it and extending to curtain the entire world around. The world seemed vast, with no end in any direction he glanced at.

And this world was full of monsters, all resembling the tiger headed monster he just coupled with.

The monsters were gigantic in size, with bodies resembling bulls and four strong legs of a lion. Each monster had two horns with halos, and he even noticed some with three and four horns there.

"Kill or capture, do anything you can in one week. This world must be cleared and according to your performance, your advancement will have the appropriate boost accordingly. You have one minute to prepare."

Suddenly this majestic neutral voice came from the skies, like a god supervising what was going to happen here. Arthur smiled and the next moment he said:

"System, golden dragon, are you two here?"

"Ding! We are."

"What do you need?"

"Nothing much," Arthur smiled greedily before adding, "it's just a waste to kill all those strong monsters, don't you think?"

"…"

"…"

"Open portals all around, and lets have all of these monsters enter my garden."

"Ding! Are you sure?" the system asked, "Ding! I assume there are endless monsters here."

"No problem in that," Arthur laughed, "the more the better, I need those strong monsters to work for me. It's simply a waste of time, effort, and opportunity to kill them."

"Ding! As you wish."