Arthur was interested in such items. "But you can't use it while being inside a formation," she warned.
"It's fine by me," he agreed, after all the pillars would come with their pocket worlds that would integrate itself inside the garden; expanding it.
"It's a deal then," she chuckled before taking out a pair of gloves. "Here, take them," she threw them over and he examined them after.
They were normally looking black and gold leather gloves. "Are these…?" he asked, while not believing these normally looking ones had the ability to transport him.
"Yes, and they have a bonus effect on any weapon you have. They will add more speed to it, so if you hold a sword, your strikes will become like shades."
"And a bow?"
"The arrow release rate will be doubled at least, and the speed of the arrows will change."
He nodded in satisfaction while wearing them off. He didn't feel anything special. "You just need to think of moving around and they will take you instantly into a random spot," she said before pointing to the ceiling, "yet you are inside an array, so they won't work right now and you will feel nothing."
"Then I will move back to my residence," he smiled while standing and clubbing his hands in respectful move, "thanks for the help."
"It's a trade, so don't feel this touch," she chuckled before adding, "tomorrow I will prepare the pillars. Don't be late, I will be your first teacher."
"May I bring some of my followers as well?"
"Greedy person you are! Sure, little rascal," she laughed before pointing to the door and he just left.
As he went outside the mansion, she seemed to be looking at him still. "I'm sure you will use my seed to move now. I should go as well to that world and see what you are doing, little one," she smiled softly before snapping her fingers, and a clone appeared directly out of thin air.
"Keep watching the little rascal's mansion for me," she said before snapping again and her comfortable clothes changed showing her armor, a sword and a staff. "I have a journey to make," and the next moment she vanished from her place.
Arthur went directly towards his mansion, and through the way he had a conversation with his system.
'Ding! You have been followed.'
'By Amanda?'
'Ding! She is one of those following you, but that's no surprise. Yet others are following you closely.'
'Elders?'
'Ding! I think from their age and strength they are disciples. They are weak.'
'Cannon fodders,' Arthur smiled, before throwing this topic off his shoulders, 'let them follow, I have nothing to hide,' he smiled as he planned to create a protective array once reached the mansion. 'Tell me, have you opened the box?'
'Ding! It's a seed, and you don't need to plant it inside your mansion,' the system said before adding, 'Ding! I'm now planting it inside the star map. With all the powers inside it, this seed will grow to a tall tree in less than an hour.'
'Perfect,' Arthur then went silent for a moment before asking, 'How are things inside the world?'
'Ding! How can I know that? You need to go yourself and explore things there.'
'Tsk,' he shook his head before adding, 'I need to find a way to always be in touch with that world.'
'Ding! You need to consider that. I think the academy will dispatch mages soon, and a big war will erupt.'
'That's… good or bad?' he didn't know if this was good for him or not. 'I think it's good.'
'Ding! It's both! Access to that world will be available to many, and the dark clans in the academy world will do their best to stop the attempts of the academy.'
'A big war you mean.'
'Ding! An all out war, and with your current strength and limitations you have, you won't stand a chance in this upcoming war.'
'So I need to push further and hone my top aiders' abilities,' he thought seriously about this while linking it to the five masters he had. 'I have to benefit from the access I have right now.'
'Ding! You should, plus you have to annex another giant dark clan if you wanted to secure yourself in this war.'
'For resources and population?'
'Ding! For securing the backyard of your city and keeping the big wars away from your doorsteps.'
Arthur understood the logic behind the system words, so he just nodded and said nothing. In an hour he managed to reach the mansion where his hundred followers were already sitting in the garden and resting.
"How does it go?" Omar asked, as he was the first to meet him at the door.
"Wait a moment," and Arthur just said before going to a corner covered by the wall and then took out his tools. He started making runes, and he doubled the number of runes used to establish three sealing arrays; blocking sight, blocking ears, and blocking senses.
After he put them all around the mansion under the silent watchful gazes of the team, the arrays were activated and finally he had some privacy.
'Ding! The seed grew into a towering tree already,' and the system just said, before adding, 'you need to plant a seed also here.'
'A seed? Again?!'
'Ding! That's how it works! Seeds from that tree are connected together beyond the boundaries of the worlds.'
The words of the system enlightened Arthur about an issue. 'Does this mean whoever gave Amanda this seed can use it to come to me?'
'Ding! It's possible, yet you have no other option. This is the direct form to transfer from here to your city world and be back again.'
'Tsk,' Arthur knew his system had a point here, and there was no other option. 'Alright, give me the seed.'
The next moment he felt something rounded in his palm. He checked and found a white silver seed, in the size of a finger tip in his palm.
'Ding! Plant it and then use the blood of monsters you have to nourish it.'
'The old blood? Can I use the bronzed giant blood then?'
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