"So near… yet still so far," Arthur shook his head while bitterly glancing at the large number of monsters blocking his way to the mountains up ahead.
He managed to push himself and speed up his run all the way through the forest. Eventually he had to give up evading trees as this consumed time and slowed him down.
And so he turned into a rocket, moving in an indomitable speed towards the front, not caring about anything and smashing everything he met.
But all went into nothing when he finally was trapped by this large number of monsters of different kinds.
'They went faster than you,' Gege said, 'and I'm still amazed by their ability to track you down despite your fast speed.'
'Ding! There is a leader to these monsters, there should be one,' the system said.
"I agree with that," Arthur nodded, "but I can't tell where or which is the leader."
'Ding! Such one won't show itself to us now, at least not early on. It would remain hidden and stay shielded and safe from any harm.'
'Should I bring everyone then?' Gege asked and Arthur didn't have a choice but to comply.
"Alright, bring Amera and her boys out," he said, "leave Doaf in his own matters."
'He should be about to finish,' Gege said, 'should I bring him as well?'
"No, Amera is enough."
'As you wish.'
The next moment many portals flashed while the roars of the monsters filled the entire world. The monsters didn't stop and watched their prey like he did, as they started running towards him.
Like racing with each other about who would be the first one to reach him, and who would be the lucky one to kill him.
"You really are something in selecting the right places to summon me," Amera came out and laughed when she noticed the large number of rapidly approaching monsters.
"I hope this can satisfy my girl," Arthur joked and she seemed to enjoy his joke and laughed.
"Alright, stand in formation and kill as much as you want," she suddenly shouted before turning to him, "is it safe to use all of our powers? It feels like ages to be in such a high realm."
She took a deep breath and seemed to enjoy the feeling of being here. "No restrictions or power sealed… I'm finally able to fight to my heart content."
Yet she didn't move and waited for his call.
And Arthur realized that Doaf must have spoken with her before about the circumstances here. "Do whatever you like, after all our final front will be these mountains."
He pointed to the nearby mountains and she viciously smiled. "That's much better," she then vanished as she moved at very fast speed, even creating an afterimage before slamming her spear on the nearest monster, instantly killing it.
"I shouldn't be left behind my girl," he laughed before moving as well and joined the fight.
For him, it was a hard fight. He needed a couple of strikes, many maneuvers, and utmost concentration to deal with these monsters.
Always aimed towards their weak points, and from all the fight and run so far he generally had a view over the weak points of these monsters.
"Either hit them on the tail or use their own attacks against each other," he muttered before turning to glance in envy towards Amera and her army.
For them fighting here was like a walk in the park. The monsters never caused a challenge to them, as they only needed one hit each time to kill a monster.
"Sigh, those coming from the higher realms are real monsters," he couldn't help but sigh while recalling the large army of his enemy approaching slowly over here, "I hope Doaf can find a way in time or else…"
He doubted his ability to defend for a long time against such assault. Even against seemingly weak monsters like these, he found extreme difficulty to kill them.
Yet for Amera and others, they never broke a sweat even after half an hour of constant fighting.
"I told you she is enough," Arthur couldn't help but say when he saw the devastated ground around, littered with dead monster bodies.
'She… I never saw her this strong before!' Gege said as an excuse.
'Ding! This is their real realm, and she and others just regained their full powers back,' the system said and Arthur simply nodded.
"Now what?" Amera appeared instantly in front of him while her men were chasing what remained of such a great monster army.
"We shall go up there and fortify ourselves," Arthur motioned to the mountains which he was now at their feet.
"Y'know this won't stop anyone from this realm, right?" Amera said in doubt, "they won't find a problem in flying and attacking us from the sky."
"At least they won't attack easily from the ground," Arthur said, "and the sky can be protected by many arrays and defensive towers."
"You have towers?" Amera asked in doubt, "and don't tell me you plan to use those weak things from your realm."
And her words made Arthur pause without saying a single word.
"Oh boy… this is a higher realm," she shook her head, "you can't deal with this world using the knowledge of the weaker realms. Here everything is far stronger, even the energy itself is much different."
"I… know that," he bitterly said, "but I have nothing else to do except to use what I have."
She glanced for a moment before asking, "how long do we have?"
"Less than five days," Arthur said based on the estimation of the tree.
"And the number of our enemies?"
"More than five hundred thousand," he said, "at least."
"That's…" her face changed before abruptly saying, "oh, so that's why you sent him wrecking havoc inside… I now understand."
She meant Doaf and her words made him wonder what he was doing down there. "But it's the only hope we have," she sighed, "I doubt we appeared in a world with any allying forces nearby."
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