A vague promise and the next moment the eye vanished! "Damn! That lucky bastard!" and then Arthur cursed, as he now wasn't able to get his hands on the meal he wanted.
He hurried to retreat as the pillar's energy started entering his body. As there was no obstruction this time, he reached the portal in less minutes than he expected.
And just as he was there, he cancelled his transformation and started channeling the energy.
Once linked to his garden, he moved outside, returning again into the dragon form.
And the world outside was filled with destruction from his arrows attacks!
The monster guarded here was already killed, and his corpse lay on the ground motionless alongside all of his warriors.
"It's a waste to let this body rot here," he didn't delay and took the dead corpse into his garden before glancing at the other portals.
Some were hit in the middle of his last attack, and those were the closest to his place. "One down, hundreds left to take," he sneered as he went towards the next portal and repeated his assault.
These portals didn't have the same monster guarding them, and when he cleansed their pillars using his arrows; most of the warriors inside didn't die!
"Clear all their curses for me."
"Ding! This… this is just a large number! It will take time."
"I have time to spare," Arthur laughed, "after all they will reside inside my garden."
"Ding! Alright."
Arthur then spent hours jumping from one world to another, meeting a couple of masters in the process. He reached a conclusion; each group of pillars resided under the guarding of one master.
So when he cleansed and retrieved one pillar belonging to that master, this master would show up.
What puzzled him yet was these masters stand against the pillars and their fate. These pillars belonged to the dark clans for a long time; yet these masters did nothing to prevent this thing.
What he also noticed was the presence of different clans here. Not all the pocket worlds contained the same kind of dinosaur-like monsters. Some were like bats, and others were like hyenas. Some had snake bodies, and others had spider-like physique.
In the end, he managed to take all the worlds to his garden. This rich harvest went beyond his imagination, as all worlds contained pillars in them!
"These clans… they are really strong," he had to admit, this world wasn't freshly discovered. Instead it seemed a dark world resided under the dark clans' grasp. "What was their aim to grant this to the academy?" this was the question he didn't have an answer to.
Such a world, with all these rich and strong clans, shouldn't be sacrificed like this. "Did the higher ups want to punish the academy? Or the clans?" he muttered while heading back to Nara.
The fight there was over a long time ago. After taking more than half of the worlds, killing and cleansing everyone inside, the reinforcements were cut down to a great extent. This helped Sara and Nara and the army of warriors a lot.
So when he came back to the cluster of towns, everyone cheered loudly for his crushing victory. They lived their entire lives under the threat and humiliation of these dark clans, and today they tasted for the first time what it meant to be strong.
They tasted what vengeance was like.
And all this happened in their first days joining their new master, who turned in their eyes into a legendary master.
"Welcome back," Nara welcomed him with her big smile, before adding, "it was intense, and we lost many. Yet the gains overshadow these losses."
"That's good to hear," he chuckled before adding, "let everyone ready to enter my place," he said as there were too many already here.
"They are ready."
"Take them inside, can you?"
"Ding! You need to merge your scout with your garden, something that you can't do now," the system replied, disappointing him. If he was to take them one by one, then he would take forever to do so!
"Ding! Yet you can start a portal here linking to your garden. You will lose a small part of your strength to apply this ability, do you want me to do that for you?"
Arthur was hesitant for a moment, "Alright, do it," yet he decided to unlock this ability. After all, he needed such a thing so he could enter his garden anywhere!
"Ding! The portal creation ability is unlocked. Now you can create portals to your garden, but not to your star map."
"Why?"
"Ding! Your star map is much higher than your garden."
"Tsk," he shook his head before adding, "alright, create a few portals here for them to enter."
"Ding! Done!"
The next moment, over a hundred portals appeared out of nowhere, startling everyone around them.
"Don't panic, just enter there and you will be safe," he shouted, and Nara then started to relay her orders.
"Did you gain many pillars?" As for Sara, she knew how much Arthur yearned for the pillars. From the smile over his face since coming back, she realized he must have acquired a lot of them.
"Hehehe," and he only laughed.
"Ding! Big news! There is a trace of suction force coming to here."
Suddenly his system said these words after a couple of hours and most of the warriors here managed to enter his garden. "What do you mean by that?" Arthur didn't understand the words of his system.
"Ding! The outer world, the academy, it's calling upon everyone they sent inside."
"Now?!!!" Arthur was shocked, yet he recalled something. "That damn week," he cursed, and the next moment his body felt heavy, like bathing in a pool of lead.
"Ding! I can resist this for you, but not for long. Only one hour."
"That's… not even enough!"
Arthur had a scary thought right now, he didn't manage to establish a link between this world and the academy world. He had a link between his star map and this world, yet he didn't have such a link to the academy world.
"Ding! This is fate, besides you can use your new ability. It will take much longer and be much harder, yet it's a secure way to come here."
"You mean establishing a portal from my garden to the academy world, then through my garden I go here via these portals?" he pointed towards the portals warriors were going into.
"Ding! No, you can't come here by that," the system said, before correcting him, "you will need to go to the star map first then here."
"But where does the portal of the star map lie?"
"Ding! You need a building to link the portal to."
"I'm way off the city now!"
"Ding! Use the buildings here then."
"Here?!!" Arthur glanced around before sighing, "is there no other option?"
"Ding! Unfortunately not. When you come back here again you can correct things."
"Sigh," he then didn't delay and took out many bird's wings. He wrote to all of his team leaders and the city high people. He didn't know if his team was still in the city or gone, yet he simply tried to explain what was going on and what they needed to arrange.
And most of all, he stressed many times on his ability to return here soon.
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