"Stop!"
All of sudden Amera stopped as she shouted at him. Arthur couldn't help but stop with a frightened expression over his face.
He wasn't in any better shape than hers at this moment. He glanced at the deadly wave of darkness that was coming fast at him.
"Shouldn't we keep running?"
"No," she firmly shook her head, "that array has a limited area to cover. We just crossed that threshold moments ago."
"Are you sure?" The screams of death filled the entire world around me. The array didn't distinguish between foes or allies; it kept killing everyone in a full brutal swoop.
"Trust me," she turned to him while panting, "this array won't touch us, yet we shouldn't be far away from its edge."
"May I know why?" Arthur didn't think it was a good idea to bet his life by sitting this near to that deadly wave of energy. "'What if you are wrong?" He couldn't help but express his doubts.
"Just trust me, I know what I'm doing," she firmly said, "but what you don't know is that array is considered a suicidal move."
"For us?"
"For the ones who activated it," Amera took a deep breath before adding, "didn't you see? It appeared as a single ray of energy that swept everything after."
Arthur's eyes turned wide instantly. He understood at last what she wanted to say. "The tower..." he turned his gaze up to the distance yet he couldn't see anything through that darkness.
"Don't worry," she tried to reassure him, "this array won't last more than a few seconds after hitting its distance."
"I'm worried about the supporting array," Arthur shouted in anger, "screw them! They died and wanted to take everyone else down with them!"
"They had no choice," Amera said, "we pressed them too hard."
"Damn!" Arthur hit the ground with his dragon punch. He was so frustrated at this moment. "I tried to make them not to do anything stupid until we reach the array."
"There is no point in regretting what you've done," Amera said, "you did what you have to do... and now we have to follow this through till the end."
Arthur gazed at the distance separating him from the tower. At this moment more mages started to cross that threshold, and they all stood with panting breaths next to them.
"How much distance is there to that tower?" Arthur stood erect before he flew a few tens of meters in the air. "Around two miles?" he asked.
"Three," Amera slowly said, "we have one mile before reaching that damn tower."
"Then we have a very narrow window to reach there, right?" he turned around, "and that array requires more than one to operate."
"I can reach there in no time," Amera said in confidence, "I had to slow down myself while dragging you back there."
Arthur gave her a long face before saying:
"Still you are one... we need more if we want that world to survive."
"Well," Amera turned around before she took out her cube. It was the one she and Doaf had from Aemie before.
The moment it appeared in her palm his eyes shone brightly in blue light. "That's right... you have a hidden realm," he said in excitement as this became their only way to survive.
"All will enter it now," she instantly hit the ground with it. The long rays erupted out of it showing cracks in the world around. "We have no time... everyone goes inside now, including you."
"Me?" Arthur pointed to himself in surprise.
"Don't tell me you came all the way here just to keep the array working," she said in a wide smile. Her gaze and tone told him that she already saw through what he planned all along.
"I know you must have a way to deal with the energy stored in that tower. Frankly I don't care about how you are going to do it, just take away that bomb off my world and keep everyone safe."
She then motioned her head to the cracks around, "go now, we have limited time before that array vanishes."
Arthur was surprised yet he was also appreciating her stance. She seemed not interested at all towards the energy stored in that tower.
"Alright," Arthur started to move alongside everyone else, "just promise me to keep yourself safe."
"And here I was thinking you totally forgot about me," she smirked before nodding to him. He crossed the crack to find himself inside a new world.
It wasn't like his garden world, not vast as it at least. Yet it was as green as his garden world, or even filled with more green than his world.
"Line up here," one mage said in a harsh way, "the lady will ask us to come out at any seco..."
"Traitors!"
Just before that mage could continue his words, a loud alarming scream echoed from one side.
Then all of a sudden some of those standing here turned their blades at their comrades.
"What the hell?!!" Arthur glanced at this unexpected turn of events and was paralyzed for one second.
Yet one second was all he needed to get over this betrayal. His mind didn't care about the reason, or even the identity of those traitors.
"Take everyone out," he didn't hesitate to issue this order, "take the mechas and the werewolf forces... Do it now!"
He flew high in the air instantly to have a better view on things here. The next moment a portal opened next to him before his forces started to appear.
It seemed Gege acted on her own and told everyone about the situation in brief. It didn't require a genius to understand what to do in such a situation.
Yet the main issue was how to distinguish the traitors from the loyalists. The scale of fight didn't enlarge out yet to cover everyone, but it took at least half of those surviving mages here.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The sudden appearance of Arthur's forces seemed to come out of the traitors' expectations. The moment they attacked, many of those fighting together were caught in the middle and loud explosions erupted.
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