Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

Tina and Sara at the distance noticed what he was doing. As they observed him for a time, they realized how stress free he became, making them heave a sigh of relief.

"So he made it!"

"He is my man, I am sure he will make it!"

"Yes, I know. You weren't stressful at all the past hours."

"At least I was worried about him, not like you cold heart tiger!"

"Humph, being silent doesn't mean I'm not worried. I don't need to be a drama dragon queen to show my worries to him."

"Tsk."

Despite leaving them for such a time, and working together to kill all these hostiles; they were still acting aggressive to each other.

Arthur didn't hear that, and even if he did he wouldn't do a thing. All he cared about was for the two to do their jobs perfectly. As for these skirmishes, he wasn't such a pacifist himself so he didn't mind them.

Arthur was busy talking with his system right now, especially when the number of the remaining worlds decreased to hit the low one third of their original numbers.

The endless armies of monsters and warriors started to falter, showing signs of decreasing without any fight. As for the intensity of the frontal battle; the heat got lowered there by noticeable degrees.

"Ding! Are you sure you want your evaluation now?"

"Sure, didn't I complete the task you gave to me?"

"Ding! That's correct, yet there is another thing you will miss."

"What is it?"

"Ding! A chance to get more of the world will favor and gain more rewards."

Arthur was having this debate with his system. He had completed the quest, and he waited for the rewards. Yet when he asked the system about this, the system asked him to wait.

And that made him confused, and even after this small talk with the system, he didn't feel much clear about it.

"Is there a room to make my rewards in any quest get a boost?"

"Ding! The quests I issue and the rewards come from the world's will. Your quests match the general desire of the world, so if you did much more than asked, and achieved more than required, your rewards would be much more. Understand?"

"Honestly? No."

"Ding! Your task was to liberate the pillars and weaken your enemies. your initial target was a hundred, and now you have the chance to turn them into hundreds more, or even a thousand. Your biggest enemy here is now a puppet in your hands, yet you didn't fully implement that to your advantage."

Arthur started to get a general view over what the system was talking about. "So I need first to move the pillars linked to the prime ones in my possession, and start using Olor in my favor, then my rewards will be more?"

"Ding! Yup!"

"Good, these won't take a day of me to complete," he nodded as despite having to time limit this time, he wanted to see the changes in his rewards.

If the changes satisfied him, then he wouldn't stop at anything to over fulfill each single task he accepted. If not, then he wouldn't bother doing that.

Arthur then took a couple more hours to completely annex all the portals inside. The moment he finished doing that, the world seemed more quiet; strangely quiet at this moment.

"Sigh, where are the drums of wars? The horns of attacks? The roars of monsters and the wail of injured? Sigh, I have become accustomed to war more than normal since coming to this world."

He shook his head while heading back towards the remaining army of warriors led by his two girls.

"You did great," Tina was the first to jump at him while warmly welcoming him. "Did I?" he replied while grinning as he added, "won't you come at me now to complain of interrupting your fun time?"

"Nah, I have my enough, even this little rascal over there had it well too," she pointed towards the scorpion queen, who was standing in the rear silent, not like her usual self.

"Is she alright?"

"She is about to evolve, so she is trying to minimize any sudden actions until you take her back," Sara replied, while pointing at the army down there, "they are now resting for quite some time. what should we do now?"

Arthur glanced at the warrior faces, feeling much happy of those who survived. As for those who died, he had no regret as their death wasn't in vain after all.

He got what he came here for, and much more than desired.

"It's time for us to go home," he said.

"Can we enter the star map again?" Sara seemed quite interested in this star map, and her question made Arthur confirm again with his system about this forgotten detail.

"Sure, we will go to another area inside and enter the star map from there," this was the explanation his system gave to him. As for returning home, he will have to go to the first star he used on the map to reappear again at the mine.

"Lead everyone inside."

"Will we seal this portal?" Tina asked.

"Well," he paused, while glancing at this place. He knew this was so much closer to the Dorfis headquarter than his own city, yet he was skeptical about sealing it.

He might need this place to be used later in his dealings with Olor. It was perfect, so close yet not too close to be noticed.

"We will leave it, but will assign guards to patrol these lands."

"Do you still plan on annexing the population from here?" Sara said in a dissatisfied tone, like she was saying he had already enough population and didn't need to take such risk.

"Yes, not only population, but resources. Anything that might help I won't hesitate to acquire."

It was a good idea for him to use this as a cover up to make his deal with Olor currently classified. He didn't intend on telling anyone about it; not his girls or his main aiders in the city.

"Alright, I will lead them in," Tina said before returning to fly low over the heads of the warriors, while shouting at them with many orders.

"Sigh, she seemed quite absorbed in being the leader of an army."

"She is quite aggressive, and foolish to be honest," Sara remarked.

"And you tend to be quite cautious and secretive, also a fool," Arthur gave his own remark on her attitude, and her reaction was just mere silence.

The two simply glanced at each other before she sighed. "It's not easy to trust a stranger," she said.

"A stranger holding your life in his hands? a stranger who saved your life to begin with?" Arthur just said these words before leisurely flapping his wings heading towards his scorpion while adding: "You might be one of my toppes warriors currently, but in the future many strong rivals will rise. If you don't solve your issues fast, you will miss your opportunity."

He then paused, while keeping moving slowly towards the scorpion queen before faintly adding, like whispering: "Chances never come more than once in the lifetime."