Arthur noted Amira's expression, which appeared also over Doaf's face. "I… believe so," he slowly said before turning his head towards the sky, "I hope what I did will be enough."
The two beside him remained silent and didn't speak while the clock kept ticking without pause. Arthur knew if he missed his chance now he would be doomed to die in this world.
Many thoughts flashed in his mind, thoughts of his ambitious plan, his cities that he built in two different worlds, plus the plans he had for the original world he came from.
But he also was concerned about the words the world's will told him. "A higher realm…" he slowly muttered.
"What?" Doaf asked as he didn't hear him well.
"Is there a higher world than here?" Arthur suddenly asked.
"A higher realm? No, this is one of the highest realms in the entire universe," Amera was the one to speak, "this is where everyone gets after rising up."
"Oh," Arthur slowly said, yet he wasn't convinced this was true.
"Is there anything bothering you?" Doaf asked.
"Nothing," Arthur diplomatically smiled while putting an end to this topic.
"Rumble!"
And the next rumbling that occurred in the sky above was enough to distract the other two from what he was speaking about.
"Don't tell me the array is working," Amera was alarmed by this, "I can already sense terrible danger approaching."
"Me too," Doaf sternly said, "we need to prepare for the worst."
Arthur was about to speak before a second rumbling occurred. This one was much closer and far stronger than the first. Even the earth underneath their feet trembled violently in a way that he couldn't keep himself standing anymore.
"Look!" Yet as he stood up while adapting to the violent trembling coming from the ground, Amera shouted as she pointed towards the sky.
She pointed towards a different spot than the doubt array of the traitor. "The portal… It's changing," Doaf slowly said before the two of them turned to Arthur who simply smiled.
"Let's get ready to leave," he simply said before spreading up his wings and soared to the sky. "We have a short span of time to leave. Don't leave anyone behind."
"We won't," Amera's voice came as an answer while Arthur said:
"Relay my orders to everyone around… we are going to leave this place now."
Leave it to me,' Gege hurriedly contacted the tree and started to relay Arthur's words to everyone. No matter who, anyone on their side got the message fast.
And the message was simple; go up there and let's leave this plane.
As for Arthur, he had another thing to do at the moment.
'That array will hold for half an hour max,' the golden dragon said.
"I don't want it to hold that much," Arthur said before turning his eyes towards the direction he just came from. "That bastard can't find a way to cross the portal to that world or we would be in trouble."
'Even if he passes we can handle him,' Gege said in confidence.
"I don't want to bring any trouble there," Arthur said, "I bet they already have their share of problems. Plus that portal links us directly towards the inner zone of the protective shield."
'Ding! You are afraid that he might use something to break the shield,' the system could already guess what Arthur was worrying about.
"Don't tell me I'm overreacting, as I'm not."
'It's a good point actually,' the golden dragon said, 'it's better if we kept that traitor here. But how do you plan to do that exactly?'
'He plans to be the last one to move over,' Gege could already read his thoughts, 'he will devastate the array before leaving.'
'Ding! That sounds… like a terrible plan,' the system said.
"I know," Arthur knew the risks of his plan, "but we need to destroy the array before reaching there."
'How will you cross all that distance and pass the portal without getting crushed in the middle?' The golden dragon tried to remain calm while asking the most logical question.
'He plans to use her help,' Gege read his mind again.
"Y'know it's not a good habit praying on my thoughts like this," Arthur said before smiling, "you might see something inappropriate inside."
'Like you sleeping over with me?' Gege said in a playful tone.
'Can we focus here, please?' the golden dragon had to intervene and stop this before the discussion would take an awkward turn.
Arthur went directly towards the array while every single one of his forces started to fly up to the sky. His pet went towards there as well, leading a grand army of monsters who were following its lead.
"I think they need at least ten minutes to cross the portal," Arthur landed over the center of the array.
'Ding! You also need that time to leave here.'
'Hopefully that girl knows what to do,' the golden dragon said.
"We'll see about that."
Arthur then sat on the ground, closed his eyes and started sending his consciousness deep down the ground. This time the world's energy wasn't in any state of berserk like before.
And that meant his girl was already controlling everything.
'Why aren't you leaving?'
Just as his consciousness seeped deeply in the ground, the voice of the world's will rang in his head.
"I need a hand here," Arthur hurriedly said, "I need to destroy the array once we all passed."
'Afraid of that traitor to follow you? That's interesting,' she chuckled as if she was enjoying this situation, 'I didn't think he would be this scary.'
"He isn't that scary but he can cause troubles not needed up there," Arthur said before adding, "can you do that?"
'Sure, go now and leave this entire world for me,' she said before adding, 'after destroying the array and killing every single one of those dark clan mages I'll leave the world entirely and ascend. Don't be late and try to ascend fast to meet again.'
Arthur wanted to ask more about this but the next moment his consciousness was kicked without room to negotiate and returned to his body.
"She seems impatient," he muttered, "can you talk to her and see if she knows what the hell is that higher realm she kept mentioning?"
'Ding! I'll try my best,' the system slowly said before adding, 'however I doubt she will comply.'
"Any info will help," Arthur sighed before spreading up his wings and started to fly high in the air.
The sky of this place of the world seemed crowded with immigrants coming from all around. Monsters, mages, and mechas were passing through the portal led by Amera and Doaf.
Amera went first as far as Arthur noticed. She seemed to be concerned about the reaction of her master and fellow mages up there towards all these new faces entering her world.
As for Doaf, he followed her in the next wave leading many mages of his kin.
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