Arthur was shocked by the amount of spiritual energy gushing into his body. He didn't account for that, yet that was still a pleasant surprise for him.
"And the quality here… it's much higher than ever!"
He watched the energy not only rapidly filling his mind dantian and meridians, but also starting to strengthen them.
"I should keep it coming," he muttered while keeping his breaths regular and slow.
The more he inhaled, the more energy he got. His meridians were already wide enough to sustain such pressure, and with the current benefits they started to grow sturdier and wider.
He stayed in such a state for an hour until he felt a sudden shock coming from the outside world.
'Ding! You better open your eyes,' the system said, 'Ding! They have finally started.'
"Finally," Arthur opened his eyes while a faint blue glow appeared in both of them. His dragon tattoo over his wrist started to shine as well, alongside his body.
This gave him a very intimidating feeling. "They have started indeed," he noticed the wisps of energy aggregating all around the far distance… the place where Doaf and Amera went.
'Ding! Be ready to control the array,' the system said, 'Ding! I believe it's about to break.'
"I know," Arthur took a deep breath before adding, "keep an eye for me here. I doubt I can sense the outside world while working on that array."
Arthur hurriedly closed his eyes and delved deeper into the ground with his consciousness. "Not yet," he noticed the array was still surrounded by that berserk energy of the world, "it needs more time."
He didn't leave and patiently waited on the side, watching the ongoing ferocious battle between the array and the world's energy.
He knew if not for the constant supply of monster energy, the array would have been crushed a long time ago. Yet this energy seemed not to be enough to even heal the current scars all over the array.
"The energy… it's getting weaker!"
After an unknown amount of time he finally noticed the world's energy getting paler. That was an obvious indication that the array the other two were making was getting stronger.
And it was starting to be effective.
"My turn."
He didn't hesitate to move forward, getting nearer to that surrounded array. The closer he got, the more heat he felt.
Yet with the constant supply of the spiritual energy gushing into his body he didn't feel much discomfort. The energy kept his body safe, at least for now.
"I hope I'm not too late," as he reached the damaged array he didn't hesitate to throw himself directly inside it.
The array was like a gigantic galaxy, shining dimly as if it was about to die. "I need to get to the core," he knew controlling the array would be much easier if he reached that spot. "But where is that core?"
He glanced at all the twirling dim wisps of bronze energy of that array. The entire array was formed of long intertwining energy wisps with no place to consider as the core.
'Ding! Recall the drawing of the array and go for the core,' the system gave a golden advice per usual and Arthur couldn't help but feel appreciated for his words.
The array diagram appeared next in his mind and he started to compare the two together.
"It should be… that way," he selected a direction and moved his consciousness to it. the deeper he went the weaker and dimmer the energy around became.
"It got more damaged than I initially thought," as he reached the place he desired, he saw a small spot that was like a candle flame getting extinguished. "I need to act soon," he threw himself at this spot and suddenly felt hit with massive force.
"Damn!" he gritted his teeth before thinking of how to calm down this raging energy.
'Ding! Use your blood drop,' the system said, 'Ding! It should recognize its master by that.'
Arthur didn't hesitate to injure his palm, yet instead of blood a blue energy drop fell over the array, soaking it at once.
"Rumble!"
The array started to shiver before the color of that dark spot started to change. Instead of the extremely dark bronze color, it started to shine with bright blue.
"Oops… it seems I made some changes in the array," Arthru couldn't help but say the next moment he felt that aggressive energy turning docile. "At least I can control the array now," he muttered.
'Ding! These changes won't be enough to affect the entire array… I hope,' the system said and Arthur could only pray for that.
"Time to replenish the energy and repair the damage," he started to emit his energy outside non-stop. At first he felt like throwing a few drops in an ocean, as he didn't feel he changed or affected anything.
Yet with the passage of time, the array started to show signs of change. The deep and long extended cracks all over it began to heal. The energy itself became brighter, thicker, and he could tell it was getting stronger.
"It's finally catching up," he muttered, "accumulating energy from the monsters… the next stop is to try to crush the surrounding energy and break free."
He didn't hurry to do that. Despite the weakening of the energy around, he knew it was just a reflexive reaction from the energy towards the other array.
The moment he would act here, he was absolutely sure that the world's energy would converge again and try to crush him.
So he patiently waited.
'Ding! The other array isn't doing so well,' the system suddenly said after an hour, 'Ding! It seems their energy can't challenge the world's energy.'
"That's expected," Arthur nodded, "we need to act sooner than I expected then."
He knew the moment the other array failed, this array would be relentlessly attacked. Having no other option, he started to control the enormous amount of energy here and directed it towards the surface.
He wanted to break through fast, and so he didn't even care if the surrounding energy started to destroy parts of the array at this moment.
All he cared about was to carry the current array and forcibly open a portal in the sky.
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