Amera nodded. "You can get them out now."
Arthur gave Nicole a side glance before he let Gege open her portals. Hundreds of the cauldron mages appeared in front of him before they all saluted Nicole and Amera.
Then they spread out all over the place.
"They will give me news through bird's wings," Amera said before adding, "so I'll need to be out there to receive them all the time."
"Me too," Doaf added.
Arthur knew that they were referring to the fact that his world was separated from this world. So not a single bird's wing would be able to reach them if they remained inside.
"Alright," Arthur shrugged without care, "suit yourselves then. But give me more bird's wings," he stretched his hand and they handed over a large number of papers.
"And you as well," Arthur also stretched his hand to Nicole who took a deep breath and controlled her rage before giving him a few of her bird's wings.
Arthur took them and didn't complain. He also took out a large number of his own bird's wings and gave them to the three.
"Now, are your boys ready?"
"They are mages!" Nicole said in an aloof tone.
"Are they ready?" Arthur didn't want to enter into any fight again with her.
"They are," Nicole said, "where is that army anyway?"
Arthur pointed to the north before saying, "they are marching towards one of the bases I own. They want to demolish it and my job is to prevent them."
"Then why not march all together and crush them at once?" Nicole sneered before shaking off her head. "You low realmers are always like this," she muttered in complaint but Arthur didn't care or explain himself to her.
He still didn't trust her, and never would.
"Woosh!"
The next moment portals started to appear all over the place. This time the size of the army was something else. At least tens of thousands appeared all around, standing in wait while Arthur gazed up at this entire army.
And his mind had one question inside; if this was only half of the forces, then did Aemie send all her elites here with him?
What was she really after?
"Alright," Amera spoke to the army, "you'll take your orders from me and Nicole. Don't break the lines and be ready to fight at any time. We are in hostile lands."
Her words made Arthur raise his eyebrows while watching her turn to him and calmly say:
"I'm out here anyway, why not go and help them instead?"
Arthur didn't know if her request from earlier was on purpose or this all was just a mere coincidence.
"I think it's wise not to let them be off our eyes," Doaf softly said while Nicole stood silently watching all of this happening like she was watching a silly play.
"Alright," Arthur didn't disagree but he promised to give Amera a harsh response after coming back, "you know what to do and what are the risks here."
"Don't worry big boy," Amera seemed to enjoy forcing his hand this time as she even laughed, "at the first sight of any new higher realmers I'll inform you."
Arthur didn't say any farewell words to her or Nicole while watching the grand army fly so fast towards the distant horizon.
And in a matter of a few minutes they also vanished off his sight.
"Shouldn't we go now?" Doaf asked as he noticed Arthur was still standing still and not moving.
"Y'know," Arthur suddenly turned and said, "there is a thing I still couldn't get."
"What is it?" Doaf asked, "is it about them?" he pointed at the army that just vanished. "You know we know nothing about the real purpose of them here."
"I know," Arthur nodded, "and I didn't mean them. I meant my godfather."
"My grandmaster?!!" the face of Doaf changed, "what happened? Did you get any news from him?"
Arthur shrugged, "that's the point I'm referring to," he said before turning his gaze up to the sky, "we tried to get in contact with him more than once. We told him our locations here, up there, and even when we reached Aemie's world. However, not a single time did we get a response from him."
"He is... Alive!" Doaf mistook Arthur's words for something else and that agitated him. He said those words while clenching his fists out of anger. "How can you even think about that?" he couldn't help but ask.
Arthur could only glance at him and feel some sorry at his reaction. He never indicated anything regarding his godfather being dead.
"I'm thinking about something else," Arthur calmly said, "what if he is waiting."
"W... Waiting?!!" Doaf's face changed abruptly, "waiting for what?"
"The right moment to interfere," Arthur moved his eyes to the sky as if he was looking at someone, "I can't shake off this feeling, the feeling that I'm watched by someone from time to time."
He turned to Doaf, "do you also feel that?"
Doaf felt weird at this moment. "I don't," he said, "but what if it was an enemy?"
Arthur shook his head before adding, "it's not an enemy, it's the same person here like it was up there. Anyway," he turned to his destination and added, "let's go. We have a few hours until reaching the sect."
Doaf felt Arthur was ending this weird conversation fast. He also felt Arthur hid more things off him. And he was right.
Arthur didn't give any care to such feelings at all until he came back here. At first he thought it was his mistake to feel that.
Then when he went to Aemie's world and the shield was shattered after burning all the invading forces outside it, he also got a glimpse of that feeling.
And again when he just took out Nicole's army and sent them to their mission, he got the same feeling again.
It was like the first time he met his grandmaster. As if two gigantic eyes flashed and took a glimpse over the world, freezing everything and everyone except for him.
And he was the focus of these gazes.
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