Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

"Then let's form a combined force of our mages and your mechas," Amera said while pointing towards a certain direction, "they'll act as our rear. They have to defend us against those weaklings, or else we would find ourselves entangled in unneeded fights."

"Good point," Arthur nodded.

"I'll gather a group of mine," Doaf said, "a couple of hundred is enough?"

"I'll move all the mechas to the rear," Arthur added, "so you don't need to worry much about numbers."

"Your mechas... They aren't weak nor strong, but they are many enough to even cause me a headache," Amera commended his forces and Arthur smiled back.

"Let's start moving then," he said, 'Gege, deploy the new orders and help in guiding them in the retreat.'

'Working on that.'

Arthur took a deep breath before adding, 'make the werewolf and his forces stay at the front. I don't want to waste their energy over such weak fries.'

'Got it.'

As the three of them expected, trying to organize their troops among this mess proved to be challenging.

The enemies of the lycans weren't strong, but they presented here in growing numbers without any signs of stopping.

And that just put extra pressure over all of their forces, making the retreat process more tiring. They lost many mages and mechas in the process, yet after half an hour they managed to start moving.

"I hope you are right," Amera's face was so dark now. She had to personally step in alongside Doaf and their elite forces to facilitate the retreat process.

"Let's maintain the current speed," Arthur didn't answer her as he waited for Gege to brief him about the current situation.

And what he got from her made him frown.

'This... all of those lycans are already in this world?' he couldn't help but mutter when he heard the estimated number of lycans waiting for them along this road.

Over fifty thousand extra lycans were moving fast from every corner of the world towards them. And according to Gege, more were coming with no signs of stop.

'Ding! You need to think of a way to reduce their numbers,' the system said.

'You need to ditch part of the forces behind,' the golden dragon was more direct than the system here, 'you need to delay their advance by sacrificing part of your forces.'

Arthur knew this was the best solution he and others got, but it was also the hardest one to decide.

After all, most of the forces here were already stressed and tired. Leaving part behind wouldn't work unless they got the ability to delay those lycans for enough time.

And he couldn't simply throw his best warriors in the fire like this without knowing what lay ahead.

The unseen part of the enemies' scheme worried him. He was quite sure the numbers of those elite lycans weren't on par with those attacking and pursuing them now, however they posed much more threat than anything else.

That was aside any other surprises that the old lady was preparing for them there.

'No,' he finally declined, 'not before I get a clear view over things out there.'

'But...' the golden dragon paused before adding, 'sigh, let's wait then. However, you should inform the other two about this plan.'

Arthur stole a silent and long glance towards Doaf and Amera. 'I bet they know,' he only said that and didn't open the topic with them.

The atmosphere around them was now so depressing. There was no other sound except the explosive exchanges between their rear forces and their pursuers.

Despite their organized retreat, they found great difficulty in maintaining their current course and direction.

The main threat didn't come from the back, but from the front. After two hours of flying this way, a sudden change appeared from the far front.

'Gege...' Arthur hurriedly said before even Doaf or Amera ask, 'how many?'

'Couple of thousands,' she answered, 'but they looked... strong.'

Despite this being a piece of bad news, yet Arthur couldn't help but sneer. His sudden reaction attracted the attention of the other two around.

"Any good news to share?" Amera seemed impatient to move out and meet those new enemies from front.

"They are elites," Arthur slowly said, "a couple of thousands of elites are coming from the same direction we are heading towards."

"So we are moving to the right spot," Doaf realized what Arthur tried to say.

"Exactly," Arthur nodded in agreement.

"But they seem very anxious to stop us from reaching there," Amera smiled in a vicious way, "it's time for me to move my muscles for a bit."

She seemed more anxious than those lycans to fight. Before even Doaf could offer his services, she vanished alongside many of her elite mages.

Like rays of fire they moved towards their enemies with fast momentum. "She won't change," Arthur couldn't help but chuckle, "get ready, more groups are coming after this one."

Doaf nodded without saying anything else. As Gege told him, while Amera and her elite forces were facing off those lycans, another group appeared not far from them.

"I'll go and finish them," Doaf said yet Arthur shouted to warn him:

"There are more coming, so don't play."

"As if I was playing before," Doaf sneered while leading a group of thousand elites. The survivors of his planet weren't that many, numbering only for less than ten thousands so far.

Yet Arthur knew they weren't any weaker than those elites from the cauldron clan.

"Keep me posted," he whispered to Gege while watching the two groups fight in a brutal way with their enemies, "also don't miss the rear. I hate to find any surprises coming from that direction, especially at this moment."

'Don't worry,' Gege reassured him, 'the rear forces are doing great in handling the situation there.'

"For now," Arthur corrected, "don't lower your guard, we don't know what gifts that old hag is preparing for us."

Gege didn't speak again for a few minutes while Arthur kept moving forward with his top speed.

In this world, his speed wasn't that superb compared with the elites of the bronzed giants and cauldron mages. Yet he was faster than the small fries sent by the lycans.

But the situation kept escalating from that point from bad to worse despite all these efforts from all sides.