"Don't bother," Arthur said, "I have already cracked the general layout of the tower powers and determined the place of the lycans."
"The one backing the academy?" Doaf hurried to ask, "but there are still four more."
"Four including three allies and one enemy," Arthur said before narrating what happened and then he pointed towards the tower of the lycans as he said, "Away from this one here, we need to start visiting the other four."
"Didn't you say there is one enemy in between?"
"I know," Arthur sighed, "but if things are bad as you described we need to make hasty moves here."
"That's not hasty… it's risky."
"It's the same for me," Arthur shrugged before adding, "Also start scouting the two mountains thoroughly. We need to see if there is a way to deactivate this portal."
"Or reach grandmaster," Doaf sighed, "if he was here, I wouldn't have been so worried at all."
"Me too," Arthur muttered before taking a deep breath, "go and send envoys to the four towers. They asked for my pill. Just use this as an excuse and try to gather more info."
"What if they truly asked for your pill?"
"Invite their envoys here then. If we can't decide who is with us and who is against, we have to go bold and directly speak with them about that portal."
"Do you think they can help stop this scheme?"
"At least they will form some sort of pressure over the academy," Arthur decided to go and continue his training as he sat on the ground. "Go now and come back with good news."
"I hope so," Doaf moved next to the outside, leaving Arthur all alone.
'This is kind of bad news for you,' the golden dragon sighed, 'your allies are weak, and your enemies are much stronger. You need to be sure you won't go into that portal.'
'I know,' Arthur sighed, 'but if I didn't go, I would lose the contest.'
'Ding! Losing a fight is better than losing a life.'
'Guys…' Arthur took a deep breath, 'we need to think about this as if we can't escape. Also there is a possibility that the kidnapped girls of mine are there inside the portal.'
'You need to let them go if you want to survive,' Gege said, 'living another day to fight is much better than fighting and losing everything today.'
'I agree with lady garden,' the golden dragon said.
'It's Gege!'
'Whatever.'
'Alright… let me train and you three keep chatting about this. I need options and solutions away from just running,' he closed his eyes and started regulating his breaths.
His mind was filled with many disturbing thoughts, but he eventually managed to calm it and started his training.
'Being weak is the reason for all this, I need to grow stronger. Far stronger than anyone can handle,' he muttered to himself before deeply immersing into training.
As for his current team, they felt something was off when Doaf appeared with such a nervous look over his face. They thought of going inside and speaking to him, but Amelia asked them to go in their rooms and train.
Arthur kept trying to break through the sixth base but he was destined to be interrupted later by Amelia.
She came in and started to gently shake his body. Once opened his eyes, she noticed the blue glow in them before hearing his voice, calming her fear: "What happened?"
He knew something bad must have happened for her to interrupt his training like that. She took a deep breath before handing a piece of paper to him as she said: "This came a couple of minutes ago."
He took the paper and there he found a bold declaration of challenge. The owner of this paper didn't bother to write his name or refer to anything by his identity.
He only wrote this short message:
"All the other teams of the weak Dorgazire academy have been killed. Now you are the only surviving ones. Your girls are in my possession, and if you didn't show up in the final test, I'll make sure for them to suffer before they die."
Arthur softly read these words while his face kept his calm. He knew that his enemy realized the escape of Doaf's man, and so he assumed for Arthur to learn about the truth.
"They are so restless then," he put the paper aside before glancing over Amelia. "Don't worry yourself, go back and train."
"Why do I feel things aren't that good?" she asked before hesitating, "you should tell me the truth."
He glanced at her while she nodded, waiting for him to tell her everything.
"All you need to know is that the next competition is very dangerous," Arthur opened his mouth and said this before caressing her cheeks with his hand, "but don't you worry, I'm here and I won't let anything to harm you."
She knew he was lying, and only he lied to protect her from worrying and fear. She just nodded with teary eyes before standing up as she wiped her tears. "I'm sure you won't renege on that promise then."
"I won't," he promised before watching her leave.
"Things are getting more complicated," he muttered to himself while clenching his fists, "I need to be more prepared for that fight. Have you found anything?"
He asked his three voices and the answers he got didn't appeal to him.
'Run?!' he inwardly bitterly laughed, 'this is all you can say for me?'
'Fighting there is very disadvantageous to you,' the golden dragon said before adding, 'you don't have any aiders strong enough to protect you there.'
'But I won't be alone inside, other teams will be there as well,' he said.
'But you will be the focus of everyone there,' the golden dragon said before the system warned:
'Ding! Going inside without any plan or strength to back up this plan won't be good.'
'hmm…' Arthur thought for a long time before he said, 'I can have backups there, but the main help must come from outside.'
'What do you mean?' the golden dragon said.
'Being there will make me able to contact my godfather easily,' Arthur said before adding, 'Gege, once inside I want you to hurry and take a group of pillars out. We need to get in touch with George as soon as possible.'
'This isn't even considered a plan!' Gege remarked.
'This is a very bad plan!' the golden dragon said.
'But this is the only plan,' Arthur sighed, 'if they think I will sit back and watch them killing me or my girls then they are mistaken, plus…' he sneered before adding, 'I want to take a glimpse on things in the higher up planes.'
'You… are crazy,' the golden dragon sighed.
'I'm just being stronger than ever,' Arthur cracked a smile before adding, "strong people don't run from challenges, instead they run into it."
His mind started to devise a plan, a plan that would serve best as the counterplan, a surprise from him to his enemies.
"You want to hunt me? Hahaha, I'll hunt you down instead.. Time for me to taste the monsters' meat of the higher realms."
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