Arthur realized he was being taught by this master, and he was really excited by this gain. It was his first, really first, time since coming to this world to be taught by someone about it and its secrets. "This energy is neutral, far stronger than both combined. As the mother of all energies, it can supplement any other minor form of energy, giving it huge benefits in less time."
He stopped, and Arthur didn't need him to continue. He already understood the real implications of this ore, and he planned to seriously widen the usages of it, not just using it to build his city.
Also he realized he underestimated the importance of this place. his enemies wouldn't stand still against his interruption to their plans, and the chances for them to send an army to retrieve the mine was pretty high.
So, he decided to instantly order everyone in the city to come here and extract the ore, turning this mine empty in the shortest span of time.
"Thanks esteemed senior for the teachings, I really appreciate the guidance," he said, acting in enough courtesy, and even bowing his head.
"Hahaha, a polite lad like you isn't a loss to help, I'm sure he also saw the good future you will have, and thus decided to leave his mark on you for others to acknowledge. Work hard kid, and don't disappoint masters who put their faith in you."
The master then retreated his energy, only keeping it over the pillar, where Arthur let his blood drop over it. the next moment Arthur went to the ground, cancelled his transformation, and started controlling the sudden gush of dark energy into his body.
As previous time, he didn't waste the time and controlled the energy well, driving it all towards his hand holding the necklace. In less than half an hour, Arthur was ejected outside, with the rest of dark mages and warriors, and Tina who was now hovering over their heads.
"Surrender or die," Arthur simply said, and the scorpion queen had long arrived here with the rhinoceros, leading the first batch of prisoners to stay there.
The dark mages and warriors knew they were doomed for, so they all raised their hands, let their weapons fall, surrendering to Arthur and his small, yet mighty forces here.
"Keep an eye on them, and move to the next place I vanish into," he said, before jumping again over Tina's back, heading straight towards the next hidden forest.
It took him one more day to completely absorb the other three pillars. When he finished, he sneaked a peep into the heavenly garden, to find a huge war between the light and darkness energies ragin intensely there, with the darkness being constantly on the back foot.
The sounds of explosions alone were so deafening, and the rumbles occurring all the time made it look like an apocalyptic piece of land, not a place of plants and green.
He didn't hurry to retreat his gaze, as he checked on the monsters there. The three forests here had monsters, not huge in numbers but they had a decent amount indeed.
What he found made him chuckle with excitement, as some of these monsters were purified by the light energy, not losing an ounce of their current strength; instead, they got boosted again, being much stronger than before.
That was great news, as their total numbers exceeded a hundred thousand monster. he then recalled the huge number of wounded monsters in the real battlefield around the hills, and he decided to go and collect them all, send them into his garden.
"Give me your storage necklace so I can have the monsters inside," he said to Tina, who was now hovering over the whole place, checking the current situation of war down the hills.
The fight had long stopped, as their warriors managed to finally secure victory. They were now recuperating, taking long deserved rest after this long and tiring battle.
As for monsters, endless numbers of them were wounded, and they didn't lose the hope of going to the hills towards the heavenly treasure. Arthur glanced at their futile actions, and simply smiled. "Take me down there," he pointed towards the centre of the battlefield, where hundreds of thousands of monsters lay there wounded, piled one over another, covering a huge area of the forest.
"Take this, it's my own storage necklace," she said, as she threw off a long necklace. Arthur caught it, and without any hesitation he emptied what was inside directly into the heavenly garden, then gave the necklace back to her once his feet touched the ground.
"Need me to do anything more?" she asked, as the old bitterness of not being much help to him still lingering in her mind. "Sure, go and scout the mine area, if possible start massacring there, leave none alive," he said, as he pointed towards the direction of the mine.
She nodded, before simply taking off towards there, with much determination to directly infiltrate this weakened fortress, and kill anyone there showing resistance.
As for him, he started to send a huge amount of wounded monsters inside his heavenly garden. After quite some time, he sneaked again inside the garden, to be faced with a much stronger battle inside, with many monsters gaining the benefits of being purified, healed, and also he was astonished to see some starting to mate together, in a peaceful manner, with some being already pregnant there.
What also surprised him was the dead monsters he took from Tina's storage necklace. These monsters got partly purified, and then disappeared.
When he followed what was happening to them, he was astonished to see their bodies turn into soil, greatly increasing the size of the garden and enriching its energy.
"Great, even the dead monsters have such unexpected benefits," he muttered, while he retreated his gaze and consciousness, no longer selecting the wounded, taking everything inside his heavenly garden.
He planned to turn the bodies of these monsters into meat, to strengthen the bodies of his warriors here. However, the dead bodies of these monsters had much more benefits to his garden, which now had the top priority to him.
He wanted to strengthen the garden more, making it much stronger in facing these five dark huge pillars and their surrounding large dark forests. The rate the garden was purifying these dark places wasn't that satisfying to him, as he needed months to get them all cleaned.
And so, he decided to give a hand to his garden, trying to make her purify this darkness faster and more efficient.
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