He glanced at the ongoing fight raging here at the warehouse and there around the pillar; things were still quite hot and it seemed it would need hours for these mages and warriors to be overwhelmed by the monsters.
"Darkness is fighting against itself, why should I bother?" he shrugged as he flapped his wings hard and directly headed towards one direction, the one he had in mind about the portal. "I just hope this portal wouldn't be in another place, or else more hours will be lost," he muttered as he gave the same direction to the two girls.
After long hours of flying without doing anything, he was extremely bored. He was tempted more than once to go down there and kill some monsters, trying to move some muscles and energy, however he didn't.
He knew all these monsters would fall under his control sooner or later, so he endured this monotonous flying, maintaining his current speed and course towards the portal direction.
After four hours he finally found the portal. before even seeing it, he knew it was there; as the sounds of fight came from there showing the influx of reinforcements to here.
"They are fast," he muttered, and after a few minutes the portal appeared at the horizon, with a defensive shield lying there. The shield held thousands of mages and warriors inside, shielding them from the huge number of monsters around them.
"Stupid," he muttered as those mages and warriors didn't get what was happening so far. "They should totally ignore monsters and head directly towards the front," he shook his head, lamenting the stupidity of his enemies.
These monsters were now crazed by the heavenly treasure, not caring about anything but going to the warehouse and obtaining the treasure for themselves.
So, it was a foolish move trying to make a way in the sea of the monsters by fighting them! however he knew that his approach wasn't expected and arthodox to this world, and he didn't care about explaining anything to anyone.
"Let me give the monster a hand then," he then started using his energy piled up inside his body, and in the next half an hour, a huge fountain of fire rained over the shield, until it was shattered.
The next massacre was something he knew the result of, so he didn't participate in this battle, while hovering silently watching the ongoing massacre without interfering.
The outside world kept pouring large numbers of mages and warriors for hours, and after a couple of hours Arthur got sick of that, and decided to interfere.
He suddenly descended, fast, while heading straight towards the portal. Although he was seen easily by the warriors and mages on the ground, no one ever dared to shift his or her attention to fight him; they were all overwhelmed by the monsters, busy fighting them and defending themselves.
So, he passed the portal easily, finally entering the outside spacious world.
"Monster, kill him!"
"Activate formation!"
"Keep pushing forward, our allies are trapped inside!"
What welcomed him was such chaos that he never expected! Unlike the portals he conquered in the forest from before, this one was inside a huge town, with many small, large villages and towns connected to its border, forming a huge cluster of enemies here.
"Roar!"
Arthur wasn't surprised by the huge number of enemies here, but he was astonished by the huge stretch of towns and villages under their control. "I thought I would find a treasure trove here, and it seemed I underestimated them; it's apparent it's not a single treasure trove, but many!" he loudly laughed, while his laughs were heard as mighty roars.
The next thing he did was to spray his breath on separate places, killing large number of his enemies without focusing on a single place. he wasn't inexperienced fighter, as he knew their formation required certain number of groups, so he made sure not enough groups would be formed, and always there would be a missing couple needed for any formation.
Many attacks rained over his body, to be easily deflected by his strong thick scales. This invincible state and brutal attacks of his started to push fear fast in the souls of the warriors and mages behind, gradually losing any hope of conquering him.
Only few, select few kept shouting, relaying orders to those who stopped their trials against him. "So you are the rats of this clan here," he evilly smirked, before moving fast, targeting those who were shouting or ordering others.
In less than ten minutes, the place ushered under complete heavy silence, with only the sound of his flapping wings against the wind being heard everywhere. He hovered there for minutes, waiting for anyone foolish enough to stand against him.
And when he made sure there was no threat of resistance anymore, he headed towards the roof of the highest and biggest building in this town, stood over it before cancelling his transformation.
"I'm Willy, and I came to kill all the Dorfis dark rats here, freeing all of you from their enslavement. Hear me out, anyone wanting to be freed, live a life of a human should live, working for his own benefit, secured from any slavery, then come here and line in front of me."
His words thundered in the place, with no other sound heard there but some gasps. He waited, didn't move, while watching those around him.
"Lord, may I ask what will you do about our sealing slave mark?" one of those in front of him said, while shoving his way between the heavy lines of warriors gathered here.
"I have a way to permanently remove it," Arthur simply replied, "I have already freed hundreds of thousands, and can free endlessly as long as you desire," he added.
His words were the words of a single man, but to them it was the words of a mighty dragon, a one that appeared on top of their heads, killing all those who enslaved and terrorized them, promising them freedom and prosperity.
His words carried extreme weight, but what he claimed was a dream, a legend so hard to be true. "May I ask if you free me here in front of all of us so we can trust your words?" the man asked, as he hurriedly added, "I'm Merick, the leader of the coalition of villages and towns here. I promise you, lord, if your words were proved to be true, I promise we all will unconditionally follow you to any lengths."
"Come forth then," Arthur simply replied, transformed to a dragon in the next moment, headed down to the ground, before cancelling his dragon form.
He could jump to the ground, however he preferred this way so they would know he was always ready to turn into his dragon form; killing any funny thought anyone might already have in mind.
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