Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur felt like being crushed with unimaginable force coming from everywhere. His body kept spinning forcibly as he lost control over it.

There was no sign of when this would end. He couldn't see anything but blinding light and he lost track of everything around.

"Boom!"

All of sudden his body crashed heavily on the ground. His dragonair form started to wither away and his human form appeared inside the deep crater he created from his fall.

"Damn! It hurts!!"

He cursed in deep pain and anger while trying to stand. Every single muscle of his body was torturing him with severe pain.

When he tried to stand up, his arms shivered and he fell on the ground. He couldn't even stand and so all he could was to roll over the side and lay over his back.

"What happened?" he was panting and when he realized, he was also drenching in extensive sweat. He was in a mess without any reason for.

'Ding! I lost track of everything for a few seconds there,' the system was the first to speak, 'Ding! Gege and the golden dragon are still in shock. They need a couple of minutes to recover.'

"Are we home?" Arthur couldn't ask about anything else but this. "Have we returned to the same world I left from? Or did she pull another trick on me?"

'Ding! Let me check,' the system started to use the spiritual sense of Arthur to scan the surroundings.

It took him almost a minute before he returned to say:

'Ding! From the look of it, you crashed in a similar zone like the one you departed from.'

Arthur didn't feel any relief yet. "Is it the same world?"

'Ding! I can't confirm it,' the system said, 'Ding! My scan is limited, not like Gege. But I can tell this is a similar world to the one we left before.'

Arthur could only take a deep breath while closing up his eyes. He never imagined returning to such a mess. "What does time travel mean?" he finally recalled the last words he heard before everything went wrong.

'Ding! I feel it's a trick that Aemie pulled.'

"I know that," Arthur shouted in a nervous way, "she said this herself."

'Ding! Really? When?!' the system seemed to be oblivious to what Arthur heard.

"Don't tell me you didn't hear her voice earlier," Arthur couldn't help but laugh when the system answered him with silence. "Damn! Right now I'm feeling like a frog in the depths of a well."

He could only accept this fate before asking, "when Gege is going to wake up?"

'Ding! Couple more minutes, I hope.'

Arthur had nothing else to do but to wait. After a few minutes of silence he already managed to check his body thoroughly.

There was no visible wound there, yet his energy was all depleted. He couldn't move except with great difficulty and so he tried to get the best of this time and start cultivating.

That made him replenish a small portion of his energy enough to make him stand and get out of that crater.

"Yeah," he took a glance around, "this looks similar to the world I left from."

He was standing on one side of the mountain. The area around was filled with many mountains till the horizon.

It was the same topography of the world he left.

'What happened?'

All of a sudden Gege's voice came at last to make him happy.

"I never thought to be happy to hear your voice again like now," he smiled before adding, "There is no time to waste. Use the tree and scan the world. Tell me what you find."

She managed to read through his thoughts and figured out what he wanted. 'You doubt this is the world we are supposed to be?' she couldn't help but sigh, 'That bitch! Alright, leave this to me.'

Arthur didn't need to say anything to her as she went to do what he asked. He was dying from the inside to know the answer to his question.

He couldn't even think of what he would do if this wasn't the world he wanted to be at.

Or what he would do at Aemie's people if he figured out she betrayed him.

'There is good news and weird news,' Gege suddenly came after long minutes, 'which one do you want to hear first?'

Arthur was startled by what she said. "I know there is good and bad news, never heard of weird news before," he said with a sneer.

'You'll know why I said that when you hear it,' Gege didn't seem to be annoyed by his comment.

"Alright, tell me the most important thing first," Arthur took a deep breath and prepared himself for the worse, "where are we?"

'At the same world we left from,' Gege said and Arthur couldn't help but clench his fists and relax them at the next moment.

"That's... relieving," he muttered, "what about the weird news?"

'We... seem to come in a different time,' Gege slowly said.

"What?!!" Arthur's eyes widened, "what do you mean by that? Was the sect destroyed?"

'No,' Gege paused before adding, 'I dunno how to tell you that but I can see us racing towards that trap that sent us away.'

"What do you mean by seeing us?" Arthur felt weirder the more she talked.

'I told you this is weird, but there is another you in this world,' Gege said before adding, 'and if my memory serves me right, then this is just before you clashed with those hidden forces and was sent to the higher realm.'

Arthur was shocked at this moment before he finally connected all the dots.

"So that was what she meant by that... Time travel... Damn!" he muttered in deep shock before suddenly laughing. "That's amazing! We won't miss our window here to save this sect!"

'This... is Aemie's doing?' Gege could read his thoughts and knew what he was thinking about.

"Yeah," Arthur nodded, "that grandmaster is really something."

'Ding! But is time travel a thing?' the system couldn't help but ask.

'It is,' yet the answer came from the golden dragon, 'it was something related to the ancient originals.'

"Oh," Arthur's eyes shone, "you are awake at last."

'Hehehe, don't push an old dragon like me.'

"Yeah, you are an old man after all," Arthur sarcastically said and the golden dragon simply sneered.

'Now what should we do?' Gege asked with a loss.

"We have to wait," Arthur slowly said, "make everyone ready. We are going to land over those bastards and kill them in one full swoop."