Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur kept flying forward while his mind was busy by the current updates at the other fronts. Every now and then Gege would speak and tell him about the latest news from the sect and the crow.

The crow led his forces and took a route that would require at least four hours to reach the rapidly approaching army. As for the sect, Deem and Gor kept changing the arrays there without anyone noticing anything.

Yet he wasn't settled with all that. "One single mistake…" he muttered, "all it takes for me to lose is for one of them to commit a mistake."

'Ding! Or you make this mistake yourself,' the system said, 'Ding! After all, you are heading directly in the direction of a trap.'

"But they seemed not to be ready to welcome me yet," Arthur sneered, "or else why would they take the risk of exposing their spy this early."

'Ding! Good point,' the system agreed, 'Ding! But that doesn't mean they are that vulnerable.'

"I have less than half an hour and will meet them," Arthur said, "let's decide the best way to act when we are there."

Just as half an hour passed fast, he spotted a large army coming towards the direction of the sect. the enemy appeared like a giant black cloud from far, and that made him recall the words of the traitor.

"So they are forming the cloud by themselves," he said, "or they are just flying around, trying to cover it up?"

'The tree can't see through their forces,' Gege said, 'but we can take a closer look then.'

'Ding! Even my scout ability is forbidden to spy over them,' the system suddenly said, 'Ding! You have to approach them and see with your own eyes.'

"Make everyone ready," Arthur said in determination, "one way or another this force shall be annihilated here."

He flapped his wings and moved fast towards the approaching big dark cloud. The closer he got, the more he became astonished by the size of this cloud.

And as he got near the forces he realized the flying army wasn't that big, but they were flying around the cloud, as if they were protecting it.

"So they aren't that mighty after all," he found the main weakness there, "but if that was their entire force, then why did these mechas vanish?"

'Ding! Something seems off here,' the system warned, 'Ding! I believe you should send one mecha legion first and test this trap out.'

Arthur nodded as he said next, "Bring me one thousand mechas."

'At once.'

The next moment many portals appeared and one thousand mechas appeared from them. "Lord," they all said in greeting and deep respect before Arthur pointed towards the distant army and said:

"I want you to scout this force. Don't delve too deep and try to lure them away."

"At once," they all said in unison before moving fast towards the giant cloud and flying enemies.

The enemy didn't have more than five thousand at the moment, a force that wasn't too big to cause a threat to Arthur.

Yet something kept bothering him about them so he decided to stay back and watch in anticipation while his mechas were getting closer to their enemies.

Just as the mechas appeared in a big formation, the enemy started to show an activity. Suddenly a group moved higher in the air, few but with larger bodies than others.

Yet Arthur couldn't see their features quite well from such a far distance.

"Willy, I know you are here somewhere," suddenly one of them spoke up and strangely his voice was so loud to be heard by Arthur. "Come forth or else these two beauties will lose their lives here."

The next moment two smaller bodies appeared underneath that group of ten big monsters. Arthur didn't see clearly their faces yet from their general physiques he could tell who they were.

"Damn! They are using the two girls as a card against me," he couldn't help but curse out loud while clenching his two fists together in rage. "They want me to come out… they can't attack me directly then," he started to calm down himself while watching the fight between his mechas and the flying monsters erupt.

And the fight was very intense from the start while his forces had an upper hand over their enemies despite their smaller numbers.

"Stubborn as I heard… alright, say farewell to them then," that monster waved his hand and next the two bodies fell from such height and instantly vanished inside the big cloud.

And Arthur felt deep pain at this moment but he didn't move an inch. He knew this was done to lure him out, and that only would serve the purposes of his enemies, not his.

'Ding! The mechas are stronger, but they are fewer,' the system suddenly said.

"Send more mechas out," Arthur slowly said.

'And Doaf? Amera?' Gege asked in doubt.

"Make them ready, I doubt they would only learn such tactics alone without any other underhanded moves."

Gege didn't argue as she brought up many mechas and they started to move in a big move towards the front enemies.

"Not planning to move out?" the monster suddenly laughed, "alright, our mission in this pathetic realm is done. We will teach you how wars are waged in the higher realms."

He waved his hand and the next thing happened was for that black cloud to get enlarged fast. The speed it moved kept increasing while Arthur felt a bad omen from such a move.

'Retreat?' Gege asked.

'Ding! I doubt we can do that!'

"Make everyone ready… bring all the mechas home," he said before ruthlessly adding, "it's as that traitor said, I'll have to fight in another realm and that would only mean my godfather will finally arrive here."

'But it's still risky,' Gege warned.

"Who said it would be safe?" Arthur couldn't help but laugh while watching many portals flashing around, "I bet we are heading to the world with many higher realm mages and that distasteful monster Mera tried to summon before. It will be hard, but we will also be easily connected to higher realms."

'Ding! What's the plan?' the system asked while the cloud started to accelerate further and swept everything in its way, including the enemies.

"We'll all help Doaf to finish contacting him first," Arthur muttered with a gratified tone, "then we should try to stay alive until he arrives."

'That's… a bad plan!'

'Ding! It has many loopholes!'

"But it has a chance of success," Arthur smiled, "and in that vision I managed to pull such a feat at the end."

'I hope it won't cost us everything,' Gege sighed, 'what about the world here?'

"Just tell them this simple message… they are on their own… for now," Arthur stopped talking next while that giant cloud moved fast and instantly engulfed him.

Then all the lights of the world vanished while he was covered by black ash with thin fiery wisps dancing like he was inside a hurricane.