Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

The crow was furiously attacking that shield.

At first when he left Arthur he was totally enraged by what happened. He knew part of this wasn't Arthur's fault, but the thought of everyone going back to the higher realms and fighting for their own clans except for him drove him mad.

After some time he started to chill out a bit. And yet he didn't totally believe what he heard. He started to follow Arthur from far, waiting to see if what he said was true or not.

If this world involved many great dark forces as he claimed or not.

When that pagoda appeared, his heart told him that Arthur was right. However even before he could act, Arthur already vanished along with that pagoda and portal.

He tried to look for him but there was no single trace left. It was like Arthur himself vanished.

Before he could settle on what happened or what he should do, the great war broke off and he saw them.

Leaders from all big dark clans were gathered. He saw everything from far, saw the brutal fight and the bravery of Amera and Doaf and others.

However just as he was thinking how he could join this war, the legendary dark angel mage appeared and opened that infamous portal.

It was the last evidence he was looking for. He became sure what Arthur said was true, this world had many dark clans, even the biggest, strongest, and rarest of them.

And that simply made his blood boil out of his desire for revenge.

Just the mere thought of killing that dark angel mage overwhelmed everything else. That was a dark angel mage, one of the rarest beings in the entire universe.

Killing one of those would simply mean dealing a great blow to the dark side. He found his salvation in doing that, however hoping was much easier than accomplishing such a feat.

The dark angels weren't just strong and obtained such nasty ability of linking worlds together. They were famed for their unique ability to run and evade anyone coming after them.

"But you made a grave mistake buddie," the crow sneered whenever he saw that great portal taking shape above the heads of everyone, "destroying this will kill you after all."

It was a double edged weapon. That portal contained the life force of any dark angel mage. Succeeding in that would mean giving great benefits to the dark angel mage, and failure meant death.

The crow didn't need to personally look for that dark angel or try to fight him. He simply needed to interrupt that portal through the leaders supporting it and... viola; the legendary dark angel mage would die.

"But you won't let me do it this easily, right?" The crow watched the tight defense of the leaders outside the protective shield. He knew getting near that shield was the desire of everyone, but none ever managed to do it.

And so he waited. He bided his time and looked for his window to interfere.

After watching Doaf and Nicole being thrown in the air along with their forces, he suddenly had an idea.

He didn't hesitate to take a bird's wing out and wrote the message to Doaf. He trusted Doaf would do the right thing at this moment.

And yet he didn't trust his ability to control everyone as he desired. So he took out another bird's wing and wrote another message to the other friend lying on the ground with deep wounds and extreme pain.

"It's time for you to rejoin the fight and stop the leaders from getting near the shield," he sent this to Amera who got startled by reading this message from him.

She thought he was already far away, and abandoned them. However at such a time of distress, and at this dire moment he appeared.

Without hesitation she endured her wounds and pain before returning to fly all over the place using her annoying spear technique.

Her addition came just in time to make sure every single one of those leaders would be cornered in that corner of the world.

As for the crow, he simply led his men towards the shield from the rear.

"Kill everyone standing before us," the crow arranged his forces into two groups, one big and one small. "The others come with me, use your ultimate techniques from the start," he led the bigger group directly towards the shield while leaving the mission of protecting everyone to the smaller group.

And things started to shift for their favor the moment he and his forces reached that annoying shield.

The shield took many hits already from Doaf and Nicole and their forces. Their ranged attacks landed all the time over it without any success to crush it or even cause a single crack there.

However they did a great job in weakening and depleting its energy over time.

And so when the crow appeared with his forces, the shield didn't pose much of a challenge to them. Their combined surprise attacks came swiftly and landed fiercely over the shield.

The shield started to show many cracks along its surface, and soon it was about to burst open and vanish.

"Keep attacking!" The crow kept demanding while the other leaders inside seemed to be restless.

Few started to abandon supporting that portal. In fact the portal didn't need all of their help to be formed. However the faster it could be formed.

And thus with the sudden appearance of the threat from the crow and his men, some had to drop their aid to the portal and stood erect, waiting for the shield to be opened to fight with the crow forces.

They could have simply got out and fought directly with them, but that would be futile. The other side had numerical advantage, high morale, and were already using their ultimate techniques.

If they were inside one of the highest realms, things would have been a bit different. The restrictions forced by this low realm made everyone slightly equal in power.

Making them unable to face the direct threat of the crow forces head on until it's too late.