"Then we can do nothing but remain here and wait for the godfather to come."
'I'll try to awaken that sleeping old man,' Gege suddenly said.
"That… would take a long time to accomplish," Arthur bitterly said.
'If they failed, we will have only him to help,' Gege said the bitter truth and Arthur couldn't disagree with her.
'Ding! there is also another way to do it,' the system suddenly said, 'Ding! the world's will.'
"Oh," Arthur realized what his system was referring to, "'the old plan, huh?"
'Ding! it's still a good plan.'
Arthur glanced all around before saying, "Prepare then for this plan, but I won't proceed in it unless Amera and others fail."
'Ding! I'm sure they won't be able to do a thing to the array,' the system said, 'Ding! It's something quite old and complicated. Changing anything in it would result in disastrous things.'
"I believe in them."
'Ding! don't hope too much,' the system said, 'Ding! besides that array got many changes when it faced the world's berserk energy.'
Arthur felt bad when he heard these words. "What do you mean?" he asked.
'Ding! The previous fight you witnessed and took part in had changed the array already,' the system said, 'Ding! go and see for yourself. Many parts were damaged and other parts began to transform to adapt to the new situation.'
Arthur didn't have anything else to do right now so he closed up his eyes and let a wisp of his consciousness go deeply into the ground.
The next moment he saw the grand array from before in front of his eyes. At first glance he couldn't spot anything different but after some time he started to see the changes there.
"Damn it!" he opened his eyes before adding, "the entire array got changed beyond recognition."
'Ding! it's natural for it to change, after all that fight with the world's energy from before wasn't easy.'
"Now what?" Arthur took a deep breath.
'Ding! you know the answer.'
Arthur then took a bird's wing and wrote something to Amera before saying, "Let's do it then. What should I do?"
'Ding! first you have to take that sleeping beauty out,' the system said, 'Ding! then you need to start awakening her. I dunno what to do to make her awake, but I believe it has something to do with your other form of energy.'
"My cultivation?" Arthur asked.
'Ding! I believe so,' the system confirmed, 'Ding! then you have to go to the world's will shrine.'
"What is that?" Arthur asked in doubt. It was his first time to hear about such a place.
'Ding! it's the place the world will live,' the system vaguely said, 'Ding! and it's the place I always go to when trying to contact her.'
"Where is it?" Arthur asked, "up there?"
'Ding! wrong,' the system firmly said, 'Ding! it's situated on the opposite side… deep down the ground.'
Arthur turned his eyes to the ground before asking, "Do you want me to dig?"
'Ding! if that was the case then it would be an easy thing to do,' the system sighed, 'Ding! but you'll have to move in the ground using your soul.'
"My… soul?" Arthur was speechless for a moment there, "that sounds a bit risky."
'Ding! that's the only way,' the system said, 'Ding! The world's will shrine is deeply situated in a place that no physical thing can touch.'
"Then how was she killed?" Arthur asked with more doubt.
'Ding! I can't answer that question without getting there and checking things,' the system said, 'Ding! but I believe she was lured out of her lair, or else it would be extremely difficult to kill her.'
Arthur knew what the system was talking about. He recalled a fight he witnessed before where the world's will he had inside his garden fought the Golam with him.
"I hope that's the case," he muttered, "or else getting there and finding an unexpected enemy would be the last thing I'd hope to find down there."
'Ding! let's hope that won't be true,' the system said, 'Ding! but first let's try and wake that sleeping beauty up. She slept for too long already.'
"She was supposed to join me in this expedition," Arthur deeply said, "I now couldn't help but question what we thought about back then… we might have thought it all wrong."
'Ding! that would be the case especially since she never woke up till now.'
"Sigh," Arthur sighed before adding, "it seems she is already imprisoned to be a world's will no matter what."
The system didn't speak about this anymore as he wasn't that understandable of the meaning of all this.
As for Arthur, he was now more afraid than before to end up the same fate she had. After all, living such a life was much worse than death for him.
Just before he could do anything else, Amera came from far and appeared the next moment next to him.
"That jerk… he even threatened to destroy the array," she said in anger while her body trembled. "If not for Doaf I wouldn't hesitate to kill him on the spot!"
"He did… what?" Arthur was distracted by her words and couldn't help but ask.
"He said if he laid his hands over the array then he wouldn't hesitate to ruin it," she said, "he was so daring to threaten even Doaf with mutiny."
"That bastard!" Arthur felt more anger before adding, "what Doaf is planning to do?"
"He sent me back," she shrugged, "he promised to deal with him and solve this issue fast."
Arthur went to silence before feeling more danger. His plans depended entirely over that array and now he wasn't sure if he could keep it till the end.
He glanced at the place where Doaf and Marcos were supposed to be. There were many of the bronzed giant mages scattered all over the place.
"The question now is… are they loyal to Doaf or to Marcos?" he muttered.
"I… can't tell," Amera hesitated as she knew what he was thinking about, "but if Marcos wasn't taken down fast, more trouble would come… I can assure you that."
"Screw that bastard," Arthur clenched his fists in rage, "I saved his ass and this is the thanks he would give to me!"
"He… is just stubborn," Amera said before pausing and said no more.
"What?" Arthur noticed her hesitation, "say what you have in mind."
"I went around and let my boys befriend those survivors," she slowly said, "and I received more news about what happened back there."
"And?" Arthur felt a bomb was about to be thrown directly on his face right now.
"The size of the army that attacked them wasn't that big or mighty as Marcos claimed," she said, "some even doubted what happened. They all thought they could defend their homeland and wait for the grandmaster to return. But…"
Arthur didn't need to hear more as he turned to the Marcos and Doaf direction. "Does Doaf know about this?" he asked.
"Didn't have time to tell him anything."
"That's bad," Arthur didn't hesitate to call Gege out, "Gege, send a word to Doaf. Alarm him of Marcos and he could be a traitor."
"Isn't it… a bit too much?" Amera hurriedly stopped him, "we have no concrete clue about what happened back there. We can't risk turning everyone against us."
"Gege… wait a second," he said as the words of Amera seemed a bit logical to him.
'I'm busy waking that old man up, so when you make up your mind let me know,' Gege said in frustration of being called out and being disturbed for nothing.
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