Arthur walked amidst the ruins while feeling conflicted inside. "Such a strong city was simply destroyed by the pillar," he glanced at the sky where his mind still had the picture of it being penetrated by the pillar fresh like it was still there.
'There must have been something we missed,' the golden dragon said, 'it's not normal for just the pillar to be activated from its own will.'
'We already saw two pillars before,' Gege added.
"I think these two were depleted from their inner energy," Arthur muttered while heading towards the center of this place, "and that means we are in grave danger if we get hit by such a pillar."
'Your city is protected by strong walls,' Gege said, 'the walls are fortified by bronze giant pillars.'
"I doubt that would be enough," he shook his head, "I must seek another way… system, do you have any solution for this?"
'Ding! Up till now no,' the system said the truth, 'Ding! But as long as you continue to upgrade your power, I'm sure you'll find something in the future to safeguard against such an attack.'
"I hope so," Arthur sighed before he finally reached the place where the pillar landed. "It should be here."
'There is a huge amount of dirt under your feet,' the golden dragon said.
'Should you use the arrows to clear the dirt?' Gege asked.
"No, bring all the miners and villagers available to work here," Arthur muttered, "this place must be excavated with utmost care."
'Alright.'
The next half an hour a huge number of villagers appeared with their axes and pickaxes. Arthur just cleared the path for them to work after marking the area he wanted to excavate by flying over it in a big circle.
The villagers started to work under his instructions. He kept his vigilance as he was still in such unknown territory. "Those idiots from Hor academy… they should have agreed on cooperating without being so high and arrogant like this."
He was still skeptical of losing his starting point like this. He was starting below the level of zero, with no proper guidance or even the basic info regarding this world.
As he stayed in the air, his villagers started to take huge amounts of dirt faster than he thought. Before ten hours passed, they already excavated a large area that made the place look like a bottomless pit was there from the start.
"Keep looking," he wrote this in one bird's wing as he replied to Lily's message. This wasn't the first message he received about them finding a small number of villages and towns, and he always wrote to keep looking.
He also sent one bird's wing to Sara, giving her instructions about the newly discovered villages and towns. "I hope they will get enough numbers this time," he muttered before turning his head towards the villagers, "sigh, I can use them but that would be like cutting a hand to replace a missing leg."
He watched his villagers work for a couple more hours before he spotted distant shadows coming fast towards him.
'Ding! There are a group of five intruders coming towards here fast,' the system said.
"Thanks, I already noticed them."
Arthur went towards the edge of his villagers while he kept himself flying in the air and his gaze turned all over the place. "Only these five?" he muttered as he noticed their shape. "Aren't they…" he paused before he muttered, "interesting."
He watched those flying lions coming so fast towards him. Each one wasn't any less than him in size, with scaled armored skin with scales that looked more like short thick feathers.
"Stand down and retreat at once or else you will face the wrath of the entire clan."
This sudden and loud shout came from the middle lion, one that had two curved horns above his head unlike the one horn others had.
"Clan?" Arthur muttered before laughing, "I don't mean disrespect here but there is a weapon left by an enemy of mine and I have to take it away."
"Weapon?" one of the lions muttered while the middle one shouted: "He is lying, there is no such weapon here and he has no enemy at all."
"Really?" Arthur sneered while the five lions stood tens of meters away. "Retreat before it's too late for you and your weak peasants."
"Or I will face the wrath of the clan, right?" Arthur cracked a vicious smile before adding, "alright, go and bring me this clan of yours."
"What did you just say?" one of the lions exclaimed in surprise.
"Like what you just heard," Arthur simply said, "I want to see this clan of yours. If I like them, then you can all work for me."
"Work for you?" the middle flying lion said in a faint anger but before anyone could say anything more, one of the villagers down below shouted:
"Lord, we found what you are looking for."
This shout made the faces of the lions change while Arthur turned to them and said:
"Excuse me, I have business to do. After I take that weapon you can choose either to stick to the devastated land of your ancestors or come to work for me and have a chance to retaliate against those who caused this to you and your clan."
Arthur then turned around and let his body float in the air by spreading out his wings. He seemed leisurely flying and casually heading towards the pit, like he didn't even care about those lions.
"Stop right there," one of them shouted.
"Stop or else…"
"Or… what?" Arthur turned slowly midair before he added, "I respect your clan and the prosperous city and force they once were. But don't test my patience so much, or else you'll see my wrath."
"Lies," the leading lion shouted, "you are a dragon, just like those who were mentioned in the old legends.. The one who came, invaded our world and caused great stories of pain and agony."
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