Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Without the help of Aemie's forces he would take ages to achieve that. He wondered if she saw all this coming and did what she did to force him to accept her goals.

Yet he didn't know what goal exactly she was after. This was an intermediate realm, and he would return to a much lower realm.

Logic said she wouldn't be interested in the lower realms. Yet he was pretty confident she had an ulterior motive hidden from his eyes so far.

And she just paid him the price in advance for him to accept her goal and help her achieve it.

"What now?" Doaf didn't stop at this point and asked about their next step. "Will we go and kill those useless worms?"

"We will," Arthur nodded before adding, "but first I need something from you two."

"Anything," Amera instantly said, "we can raise this world to the ground if you wanted! We have the power to do that now and the army to support us."

"I know," Arthur took a deep breath, "but make no mistake. Our enemies must have gotten wind of what we did up there by now."

"No, you missed something," Doaf corrected him, "this will happen long days from now. Don't forget we travelled back in time, but they didn't."

Arthur gave him a deep glance before calmly asking:

"Are you sure what Aemie pulled can't be done by anyone else?"

His sudden question made the two faces in front of him change. They got darkened as they realized what it meant.

"No one would anticipate my grandmaster to use that," yet Amera was the first to regain her composure.

"Why?" Arthur asked in curiosity.

"Because doing this will require a hefty price," Amera simply said, "considering my grandmaster's stingy personality, no one would ever doubt she would do such a thing to a nameless mage coming from a lower realm."

Her words made Arthur quite sure about his earlier speculations. Aemie did that favor in advance to ask for something in return later on.

"Anyway we need to stay alert nonetheless," Arthur took a deep breath before adding, "besides I intend to sacrifice the sect shields in return to expose the traitor."

"All... the shields?!!" Doaf and Amera were shocked by his words as the former muttered.

"Yeah," Arthur said as if it was nothing, "I just want to make sure no one would stand against me except if he or she is a traitor."

The two knew what he was meaning by that, yet doing this also meant risking an open war against such an army.

"Let me bring everyone out then," Amera hurriedly said, "let's kill them at the doorsteps of the sect."

"No, this won't work," Arthur sighed, "we need to let the sect get damaged by them before we move to kill the enemy."

"..."

"..."

The two seemed to not believe what he was saying.

"Just trust me in this," Arthur slowly said, "however I need you two to prepare your men for this battle. Also I need to select trusted mages to be sent all over the place and act as our spies."

"Well," Amera exchanged silent glances with Doaf before adding, "we can do that now."

"Hurry up then," Arthur said while two portals appeared next to the two, "we have three hours at most to reach the sect. Send out the chosen ones and I'll spread them all over the world."

"The... world?!" Doaf asked to make sure, "not only here?"

"No," Arthur shook his head, "I want every single corner of this damned world to be turned upside down and searched for any sign of our enemies."

He didn't just want to win this fight, he wanted to be many steps ahead of his enemies and make sure to not miss any hint about his two girls' location.

"Alright then," Doaf nodded, "we'll select a larger group."

"Only the trusted ones," Arthur stressed before the two vanished from his sight. "Or else we will be facing bigger problems later on."

Arthur didn't want any complications from now on. Something deep inside his soul kept telling him that this sect hid something very crucial for his future.

At least it was the only physical evidence he had so far for the presence of his past life cultivation world.

"Is there any news from Jim?" After flying for one hour straight, he asked about the traitor.

'I'm following his steps... however it's not that easy to find those accomplices,' Gege said.

"Why is that?" Arthur didn't understand, "does he have anything to hide his presence from the tree?"

'No,' Gege denied, 'but he has met with so many so far... don't forget he is the acting leader of the sect.'

Arthur could only feel more anger towards this weird situation. "At least those he will conspire with will meet them in secret, right?"

'That's not something you can count on,' the golden dragon said, 'after all he must be sure you are gone from this world by that cloud.'

'Ding! He won't try to cover up his tracks, as he would never suspect being watched,' the system said before adding, 'Ding! But I have another way to know his accomplices.'

"Say it," Arthur was impatient at the moment. He was deeply frustrated from the fact that Jim was easily escaping his net.

'Ding! Make the tree monitor the teams we left behind,' the system said, 'Ding! If I was the traitor, then I would definitely start to target Gor and Deem.'

'That... makes sense,' the golden dragon agreed, 'If I was him, I would do that.'

"Alright," Arthur couldn't help but see the grander picture, "but trying to only watch and not help my men there is a mistake. Gor and Deem are very important to my future empire."

'Then we can warn them using the tree,' Gege suggested.

'No, this is risky,' yet the golden dragon disagreed.

'Ding! We can't give any sign for your presence here at all,' the system also agreed with the golden dragon.

"But leaving them to die is a foolish thing!" Arthur wasn't on the same line as these two.