"What can we do?" Arthur calmly asked, "and also alert Amera and others… I need them to be ready to be teleported away from there…"
Just as he was saying his orders, a sudden change happened.
A pagoda appeared all of sudden from that portal. Its appearance came without warning, surrounded by dense purple electrical arcs that kept dancing around its base.
It looked like it came to this world carrying over the arcs of lightning.
"A pagoda?" Arthur couldn't help but mutter, "first a tower and now a pagoda?"
'They are the same,' the golden dragon said in warning, 'the two can destroy worlds.'
"I can tell that," Arthur slowly nodded, "but I can't let such a thing be activated. They need many mages to be sacrificed first to be activated."
'Ding! The world's will says it's activated already,' yet the system said something shocking, 'Ding! all it needs is to appear fully in this world before being detonated.'
Arthur's eyes widened for a brief second. "Can I absorb its energy like before?" he couldn't help but feel greedy towards that form of power he gained before.
It helped him to advance his golden pearl energy. It also helped Gege and his tree to evolve.
'It lacks the supporting array,' the golden dragon said, 'without it we can do nothing at all.'
"Then let's do the array," Arthur decided.
'Wait,' the golden dragon stopped him, 'that's in the middle of the enemy territory. We can't just establish an array there without getting harassed by them.'
'Ding! Plus that portal must be shut down or else its energy influx itself will be enough to destroy the world.'
'Plus it can bring forth many mages to attack you,' Gege said her worried thoughts out loud, 'we need to shut it down.'
"Alright then," Arthur nodded, "any brilliant ideas for me?"
'…'
'…'
'…'
Yet the three went into silence while he waited patiently for any opinion to solve this crisis.
The pagoda was so massive. It alone could cover the entire battlefield and flatten anyone underneath it.
It alone could destroy this part of the world without the need to release any energy.
The tower he dealt with before seemed like a tiny thing in front of such a gigantic pagoda.
'Ding! I consulted with the world's will just now,' the system suddenly said, 'Ding! she said we need to teleport it to another place.'
"Teleport it?" Arthur slowly thought about it, "can't we just seal or destroy it?"
'We have no power of means to do that right now,' the golden dragon sighed, 'if we have time to prepare then we can. But we need to act in the next half an hour or else we are doomed.'
So we need to teleport such a thing using… what?' Gege couldn't help but ask.
'Ding! She says she will do the teleportation array herself,' the system said, 'Ding! but she wants a place where this portal wouldn't get so far to be and won't affect this world at all.'
"Like what exactly?" Arthur slowly asked, "a higher or lower realm? Or perhaps a nearby realm?"
'Ding! Neither,' the system said, 'Ding! according to her, this portal can be transported for miles away only using her way.'
"Miles?!!" Arthur was shocked to hear that, "How possibly we can find such a world in this near distance?"
'Can you use mine?' Gege suddenly said, 'Arthur can teleport and we can absorb the portal.'
'Ding! It's dangerous,' the system said, 'the portal's energy is coming from a higher world directly. If it enters your world, then it's doomed to be lost.'
'We need a world that after losing it won't matter too much for us,' the golden dragon said.
'But I can handle such energy,' Gege argued, 'why can't I try it?'
"No, you can't," Arthur had to deny her gesture, "you can't just let that thing inside. If so then even if you stabilized the portal, the mages pouring out from it won't let this world stand anymore."
'…'
Gege wanted to speak but she paused. She didn't know what to say and yet Arthur asked again:
"Can a hidden world like those in Amera and Doaf's possession work?"
'Ding! Let me ask her,' the system went into silent for few moments before returning to say, 'Ding! No, these are just fractions of worlds. They won't be able to fully accept the portal. Failing in such a procedure will result in destroying the portal and releasing an endless gush of power that's enough to kill anything in this world.'
"Oh," Arthur took a deep breath before an idea suddenly popped up in his mind, "give me a minute."
Without saying anything, Arthur sat on the ground and closed his eyes again. He wasn't meditating or training, instead he went to a place he hardly went to since ages.
His mental dantian.
There everything started to take a serius turn for him. At one point he cared a lot about this dantian but now he hardly visited this place at all.
And at some point he sent one of his own treasures to inside that dantian; his star map.
And since then he never paid his treasured artifact a visit, not even once.
But this time he needed to make sure it could help in solving this crisis for him. His star map was a place connecting many far apart worlds together within his reach.
The last time he was there, he led the masters of his academy to exterminate the evil powerhouses from the world he went to at the admission test.
He hardly used this place anymore despite its significance. He simply didn't have time to do that.
However he never forgot about this place at all. He had long plans depending on this artifact.
After all, he had to dominate ten worlds and link them together using the star map. Impeding the star map in his dantian was a mandatory step to stabilize and advance his cultivation base and help in establishing the golden pearl.
But he was so sure putting the star map there wasn't going to destroy it. In fact Gege told him more than once that his star map got many advantages from being there and was upgraded a couple of times already.
However he didn't know that the biggest advancement came from his last upgrade, when he absorbed the tower's destructive energy.
Gege couldn't handle the energy on her own while he advanced his golden pearl. So she had to share a lot of energy with her world, with the tree of mirrors, and with the star map.
And frankly the star map acted like a glutinous monster that didn't show any sign of stopping to accept the energy.
Even Gege doubted that if she let the entire tower energy to gush solo into the star map it would be barely enough to make it upgrade to the max.
Yet she didn't have time to tell Arthur anything about it. And now he was about to discover everything on his own.
A pleasant surprise indeed, something he never expected from before.
As he went inside his mind dantian, he first noticed how spacious it turned out to be. it was filled with endless whirlpools that were circulating around each other and all together like a single unit.
For him, it looked like a marvelous piece of the cosmos lying just inside his dantian.
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