Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

"Agnus is really a genius," Arthur commended when he watched the new ore crafted mining equipment in the hands of everyone. This wasn't all, as there were many machines working on the power of fiery and watery ores to help in mining and lifting villagers to the ceiling to work.

When he entered his garden world, he commissioned Agnus with this task which he gladly accepted. Agnus now wasn't that lonely weak blacksmith he once knew; he was far stronger and had more authority over a large army of other blacksmiths who deeply admired him.

So in the brief hours Arthur stayed inside, Agnus managed to produce enough gears to arm those villagers whom Arthur collected from all over his garden world.

And there were still more pouring towards Agnus place, armed with his brilliant gear and inventions.

"You… you're more shameless than I thought," the dragon sighed.

"It's not shameless, it's wisdom."

"Hehehe," the dragon admired the response and laughed in amusement while staying on the side with Arthur watching his army working. Huge amount of different ores appeared in the first hour, and Arthur just had to move around and take them all inside his garden.

After six hours, his men managed to expand the size of this place, making him able to summon more.

The mining process didn't pass easily and safely like that, especially for those working on the ceiling. Many fallings occurred all of sudden, taking with them hundreds of lives and some machines.

Yet he gained a huge pile of ores in return, and helped in further expanding the place. Arthur had to go inside his garden and gave instructions to Agnus and his boys to focus mainly on these machines.

After all he was losing many of them with each passing hour, and they were really helpful in extracting the ores in a much faster and more efficient way.

This kept Arthur busy for the entire day. During this day, his boys managed to unearth huge amounts of ores. Everywhere they mined, they gained more ores than dirt.

"This place… is simply a treasure mining trove," Arthur laughed when he examined the ores extracted by them. The ores were of the highest and purest quality he ever witnessed before.

This made him quite excited and less reluctant to leave here.

"Ding! I'm back!"

Suddenly his system spoke and finally Arthur could heave a long sigh of relief. "Missed you, old buddy."

"Ding! That dragon… he just came uninvited and overloaded me with his enormous soul power," the system complained.

"It's you who is weak, don't blame others for your own weakness," the dragon sneered and the system just ignored him.

"The dragon… is it safe?" Arthur finally asked the question he had in mind.

"He is sly and greedy, yet he doesn't intend bad for you," the system admitted before adding, "he has the power to crush your soul and take over your body, yet he didn't."

"See? Told you, but you still wanted to hear this weakling's words, tsk," the dragon muttered and Arthur ignored him.

"Why didn't he take over my soul then?" Arthur asked his next far important question. "Isn't it better for him to take over and be the main ruler and controller of my body?"

"Ding! His soul has a seal, if he took over you then his former strength and knowledge will be wiped out. He will start weak and fragile, and he didn't want to experience this."

"Coward," Arthur muttered.

"This coward has saved your life by not crushing it!" the dragon retorted in discontent.

"Still a coward," Arthur laughed, "you're afraid of being weak, while taking it full over others for being so. That's so lame," Arthur shook his head while faking his disappointment.

"You…" the dragon was enraged, "let's see how far you can go, weakling," he harrumphed and Arthur just laughed.

"He asked me to be his disciple and offered his former energy, or what's left of it, to be wielded by me. Is this safe or has some tricky hand in between?" Arthur said as this was his third farmost important question in his mind.

"Ding! He wants to use his former power to unlock the seal," the system simply answered.

"Liar, I just want you to have my strength, turn into the golden dragon side. After all I can't take over another golden dragon soul, right?" the dragon shouted as if he was busted in crime.

"System?" Arthur didn't hurry to answer as he wanted to hear his system's opinion.

"Ding! That's also true, but that doesn't negate the fact that he is doing all this for his benefit."

"It's an exchange, you'll get much stronger way faster and I'll gain my freedom back," the dragon said before adding, "plus this would take years to happen, why bothering about it now?"

"What will happen after he breaks the seal?" Arthur asked.

"Ding! He can't take your soul, I can sense another deeper seal in his soul preventing him from harming other golden dragons' souls. Yet after he is free from the first seal, he might leave and look for a body to take over," the system said before adding, "Ding! Those close to you will be in danger by then."

"Oh," Arthur nodded as he got the full picture now.

"I promise I won't hurt anyone close to you," the dragon hurried to vow the moment he felt the discontent of Arthur towards this part.

"Words can be wiped easily," Arthur remarked.

"Not my vow," the dragon said, "I can use my innate soul seal to be a witness on that vow, and your system can testify for the truth of my words."

Arthur waited patiently, and leisurely for minutes. The dragon was already impatient, he wanted to guarantee his soul to be released from this humiliating seal he carried.

And for his luck, the one holding the key to this seal is this dark dragon weak boy that he was stuck inside his body!