Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Gege didn't take long to arrange everything. In mere ten minutes she said:

"It's done, now we can start."

"Good," Arthur smiled as he was as excited as her regarding this. "I'll start now, but it's not a rule to succeed at first time."

"Ding! Have a little faith in yourself," the system said, "there is still beginner's luck."

Arthur smiled before starting to take his position. His body started to move fast, moving like he was dancing while his hands took their position.

He used his normal spiritual energy to form a sword image in between his arms. Once there he didn't proceed as usual but started to slow down a bit while his body arched and he started to draw the pearl's energy.

Just as he did so he felt a great resistance forming in between his hands. The phantom started to rebel against his pearl's energy, yet after a couple of seconds and trembling of his body; the phantom was covered by his pearl's golden energy.

He already was feeling a great pressure doing that, yet he didn't stop there. The sword fire technique launched by his pearl's energy was truly domineering compared with his sword dance technique launched by his spiritual energy.

Just before he could do anything else, the brutal energy of his fire technique crushed the phantom image and he was sent flying by the explosion.

"Damn," he stood up while feeling sore all over his body.

"At least there are no visible wounds on your body," the golden dragon said.

"But… this doesn't feel good," he sighed before taking a healing pill, "the evolved sword fire energy is too much to handle."

"Ding! What if we controlled it?" the system suddenly suggested, "decreasing the flow rate so you can activate it and at the same time it won't be this domineering."

"I can't do that," Arthur honestly said, "not with my current strength."

"I can do it for you," Gege said, "I have total control over the pearl."

"Then the question is…" he paused before thinking about this, "how much energy needed for the fire sword to be properly activated?"

"You can't know without trying," the golden dragon said.

"Let's try it separately then," Arthur decided, "after we got a good grasp on the amount of energy needed to activate it then we can proceed with the merge again."

"No problem for me," Gege said.

Then Arthur stayed there for hours testing everything related to his sword fire technique. Achieving the amount of energy needed to activate it wasn't a problem, the real problem was the amount of energy needed to maintain the fire.

Just as he succeeded in determining the lowest amount of energy needed after many trials, he was surprised to discover that his sword fire technique required more energy to stabilize.

Or else another form of explosion would erupt and he would end up in the ground once more.

"Phew," he heaved a deep sigh of relief, "finally we managed to know the amount needed."

"That was…" Gege paused as she was exhausted by all these trials.

"I know," Arthur nodded, "but at least we managed to know how to stabilize it for minutes."

"Ding! You should be able to use the other techniques during these three and half minutes," the system said.

"That's the challenge," Arthur sighed, "I still dunno if other techniques would require more preparation before the merge or not."

"The question isn't about the sword dance technique, but the other one," the golden dragon said.

"Indeed," Arthur nodded, "so we need first to merge the first two and see what will happen in the end with the third one."

He took a deep breath and didn't yield to rest. He was short on time, as he was pretty much sure that sexy opponent of his wouldn't stay silent for too long.

As he formed his sword phantom in between his hands, he started to move slower while his body arched again. This time Gege injected the amount of energy needed to activate the fire, and the next thing happened was out of their entire expectations.

The two energies didn't compete, instead the fire started to coat the sword phantom like it was caressing it.

"Amazing," Gege remarked while Arthur only watched in surprise as well. He checked, and outside this mere coat of his fire there were no other changes at all.

"I didn't think they would work in harmony in such a way," the golden dragon commented.

"Ding! Maybe the golden pearl's energy is the key for the success of this merge," the system said before adding, "Ding! After all it was formed out of the merge of the two energies in your body."

"You don't mean…" Arthur's eyes shone in excitement before the golden dragon said in a harsh tone:

"Focus… you only have three minutes to finalize everything."

Arthur was jolted awake and the next instant his body started to move heavily stepping on the ground.

The sword image started to vibrate slowly before he cut his hand and let his blood filled with his dragonair energy soak the real sword.

"Rumble!"

The moment his blood touched the sword it started to move in unison towards the sword image. It was like there was a hidden attraction force that kept the blood going at the sword image and left the main sword.

And the moment the blood touched the sword image, a mighty explosion erupted that sent him further behind while his body was tattered with wounds.

"This was too much…" he muttered while standing on his feet, "the third energy needs refining as well," he remarked before taking out his healing pills alongside the meat to replenish his depleted energies.

"The merge was too violent for the sword image and other two energies to handle," the golden dragon said.

"I can't control your dragonair energy," Gege said while Arthur smiled while chewing over the piece of meat in his hand.

"Don't worry, I can do it myself," he said while waiting for a couple of minutes before his wounds healed up.

Then he started experimenting again over his third technique.

"This is really good," he sighed, "I missed this feeling a lot."