Just as the system spoke, the one minute ended and all the monsters in this world became aware of his existence.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
"C'mon boys, let's kill this intruder!"
Suddenly a strong harsh voice appeared all of sudden, startling Arthur who glanced at the direction of it.
"It's time for another meal boys, let's show these higher ups our worth to be advanced."
Another voice came from a different direction. Yet Arthur managed to spot both. They were slightly smaller in size than the other monsters, with another difference between them and others.
They had their faces to be more human like, not just tiger heads like other monsters. "There are some unique monsters here," Arthur muttered.
"Slightly advanced monsters," the golden dragon said, "these monsters are higher than the human stage I spoke about before with you," he added, and Arthur realized how hard this fight would be.
And how special this opportunity was.
"I want them all," he laughed before waving his sword as he added, "the sword won't be suitable to make them mine," he put the sword away before taking his bow and arrows the next instant. "Time to cause some explosions. Open the portals everywhere, let those hit by the shockwaves enter my garden."
"Ding! That's cheap," the system complained.
"That's a good strategy," the golden dragon laughed.
"This is war," Arthur simply said before taking a dozen of arrows and the next moment he let them all loose, heading towards a certain direction before turning around and launching another hit. "Just make sure to move the portals to the highly condensed places."
"…"
"C'mon, don't waste the chance when it's ripe," Arthur laughed as he noticed the effect of his arrows which made him pause all of sudden. "The arrows… they aren't causing even one tenth of their usual effect here," he muttered.
The arrows exploded and caused a strong devastation, yet the area they covered wasn't more than half a mile in radius. He watched for a moment in daze while the golden dragon explained:
"This might be one of those special worlds left behind by the ancient beings."
"What do you even mean?" Arthur overcame his shock and started to release more arrows all around.
If the arrows were weakened to such extent, then he would prefer to use numbers to compensate for this. Luckily he had a large storage of arrows right now to use, plus some other tricks to add in the mix.
"This universe… it has many more secrets than you think," the golden dragon said before adding, "we aren't the only ones inhabiting it. Many runes were found all over the universe indicating the presence of a much higher civilization that was much stronger than us. This world is one of these ruins, where our energy will be considered insufficient to portray its full strength."
"Have they died? Where are they now?" Arthur asked while throwing as many arrows as he could accommodate while his system started to move around portals everywhere.
"No one knows," the golden dragon said, "but we used to call them the originals, and so this is called the original world."
"Interesting," Arthur muttered before focusing totally on using his arrows.
"Come forth," despite the combined efforts of his system and him, many monsters finally started to climb the hill. The next moment his three pets appeared for the first time since long.
"Don, take these ores and use them to throw over these monsters," Arthur waved and the next instant the old and unused for long explosive ores appeared again.
"As for you," he turned to his rhinoceros, "you have to hit anything coming near me and make it drop off the hill."
He then turned to his scorpion as he added, "you can move freely and do as much as you want."
The three monsters nodded and they started working at once.
"You know what, this place can help them advance," the golden dragon suddenly said.
"How?" Arthur was so busy that he only asked with one word.
"This place's rules are different from any normal world. Here monsters can grow stronger by killing other hostile enemies, either monsters, humans, or any other race."
"That's interesting," Arthur muttered before adding, "system, keep an eye for me on the three monsters and tell me if there are any changes at all."
"Ding! Alright, but you need to release more arrows."
"I'm," Arthur gritted his teeth as he kept releasing arrows as much as he could. After ten minutes he couldn't keep up with the high influx of monsters, even his portals couldn't cover everywhere at the moment.
"Turning into a dragon is a must," he channeled his energy and when he waited for his dragonair's form to appear; nothing happened.
"What the hell…?!!" he was shocked and his golden dragon said:
"It seems you are forbidden to turn into a dragon here."
"How come?! Isn't my trial to advance my dragonair's energy?"
"Dunno actually," the golden dragon sighed, "but this is the only possible explanation here."
Arthur didn't know what to say, and he realized he was forced to fight in such an adversary environment against this huge flood of monsters. "I need to turn more serious then," he clenched his fists as the next moment he took the arrays his followers made.
Before coming here he asked his system to grab everything useful; pills and arrays included. Just as he took the array out, he simply ran to the edges of the hill and scattered the array there.
He also throws a bunch all around, without any care about their landing.
"Rumble!"
This time the moment the arrays hit any monster, they were activated. The world rumbles all around him and the explosions that followed were much stronger than what he caused by his arrows.
"Better than the arrows indeed," he nodded as he watched huge areas being cleared of monsters, ranging to a five mile radius, and the shock wave alone cleared another five all around.
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