At once, he sent a bird's wing to Amelia, asking her a favor, then he didn't delay and poured buckets of explosive oil from this height, soaking every single ore he threw from before.
Then he threw one fire pit towards the ground. "Let it burn!" he just muttered that, when an explosion suddenly occurred down there, with the tongues of fire escalating to an extreme degree, exceeding even his high place up there.
The fire lightened the whole place around him, to spot the faces of mages hiding in shadows from before, extremely anxious and very terrified in their look. "Good, this is just the beginning, let's see if you deserve my second move," he muttered with a satisfied smile over his face.
From his place up there he could see for a mile around him, with the light coming from fire which was spreading around him with no stop, he managed to spot his rival, finally.
"Oh, you are a beauty, leader," he shouted, towards the one who impostered Kin's identity. The face of her was greatly unsightly, as she knew how dire her situation was!
The perfect solution was to abandon this camp, but she knew she couldn't do that! she spent the last week preparing this camp, and her preparations here was the only thing preventing her enemies from attacking and annihilating her.
She wasn't a fool, as she knew monsters had gone berserk because of what Arthur had summoned here. so, the only logical move left for her now was to defend here, while trying to take Arthur down, and destroy this thing which made the monsters like this.
"Listen up, spread out and defend the camp, and give me one hundred of you," she then looked up with a vicious look on her face, which, strangely, made it more appealing to the eye, "let's kill this bastard!"
Her words were clearly heard by the mages around her, as well as Arthur on top of the carcass. "If you submitted to me, I promise I won't treat you badly," he shouted at her, with an evil smile of his.
"In your dreams!" she bellowed back, refusing to budge an inch in front of her enemy, especially being this close from gaining victory.
She knew, if she managed to endure this ordeal, killed Arthur here, then the whole region would usher under her rule.
Arthur, on his end, knew she wouldn't admit defeat this easily, even though he greatly doubted she would do that in this confrontation between the two. He was patient, though, as the art of hunting always required patience.
So, he started to prepare for his second move, which was really a very risky one!
'Come, tell me, aren't you tired of being locked up here, constantly being tortured by me?' he suddenly spoke to his first gained five horned monster inside his ring.
'Really tired, let me out so I can vent some anger on your pathetic human existence!' The scorpion was extremely exhausted, but it still had its spirit ignited with hatred and boiling with vengeance.
'Oh, it seems I should talk to that bird then,' Arthur said, as he went silent and didn't say another word to the scorpion.
'Wait, wait, tell me what you want to offer, and I might consider it,' the scorpion hurried to say, but Arthur didn't reply as well, as he started to watch the female leader organizing her mages, while the early attacks of the monsters started pouring in.
'Just tell me and I will agree on what you want to do and I will do it, anything just to get out of here and end this torture.'
When he seeped his mind again into his storage ring, he found the scorpion screaming and asking him to give him the offer. He just smiled, as his goal was almost achieved.
'Nothing much, just I want you to become my pet,' he said, expressing his offer.
'Pet? What does that mean?' The scorpion faked ignorance, which made Arthur say nothing at first, while he moved his attention to the whole going on war around him.
That female leader was quite capable, enjoying the respect of her mages. Every single word she said was executed without any mistake or hesitation. Around one hundred mages were now gathering around her, but she was distracted by the sudden appearance of a four horned monster leading the charge of others, trying to penetrate the camp from the opposite direction of here.
Arthur knew best how fervently the monsters desired the heavenly treasure he had. These monsters wouldn't think about anything, even their fellow monsters, as their top priority would be to reach faster to this treasure, and possess it before anyone else.
Arthur was pleased by that sudden diversion. Four horned monster wasn't that hard to deal with, for him or her, but for others it was quite challenging, especially if it came on head of a strong charge of many monsters.
So, she had to move out, heading to that direction, while giving Arthur a threatening glance. Arthur knew his time was tight here, and once she killed that monster, she would move to here and wouldn't stop until she killed him.
'Time to wrap things up,' he thought to himself, 'Is it a yes or no? I don't have time to waste on you. If you don't agree now, I would go to that bird then,' he said to that scorpion, getting tired of its mental, time wasting, games.
'Wait wait, I comply, but I have one request,' the scorpion hurried to say.
'What? Speak up and don't waste my time,' Arthur said, with some impatience, as he knew that four horned monster wouldn't last long in the hands of that brutal woman.
'I'm on the verge of evolving, just need a tiny boost to breakthrough, plus I'm a mother.. I had many eggs inside me, so I would ask to lay my eggs around the heavenly treasure, just like that python,' it said, before hurriedly adding, 'and I want to chew a tiny piece of that treasure, that's my condition.'
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