'C'mon, take this damn thing inside!' the golden dragon was losing his calm, 'there is no time!'
'Ding! the one minute help of the world's will is going to end now,' the system brought more bad news, 'Ding! you need to take it in! Like… Now
!!'
"I'm… trying!!!" Arthur gritted his teeth and used all the power he could muster. He even used the spiritual energy and the golden pearl energy.
Yet he couldn't make any difference.
And the moment the minute passed, the portal shook while the pillar of silver light started to fade away.
"Damn! It's ending!" Arthur couldn't help but get an instant scare when that happened. The size of the portal didn't stop shrinking though, but another development occurred at this moment.
The pagoda!
The moment the ray of light vanished, the pagoda shook. The air all around started to vibrate like boiling waters.
Arthur could feel the air around getting thicker, and before he knew it he felt a more intimidating force coming fast towards him.
It was as if another meteorite was falling just on top of the one he was trying to stop.
"Damn it! What's coming at me now?!!" he couldn't help but mutter in deep shock while his mind refused to believe the answer he had there.
'It's… the pagoda…' yet Gege couldn't help but stutter while answering him, 'it's… coming down!'
"Towards me?"
Arthur took a fast glance around. The portal seemed to be about to get to a size he could possibly control. It wasn't that small either, at the size of a small hill or something.
Covering an area of two hundred meters at least, the portal kept pushing him downwards.
And yet Arthur felt he was so close to taking it in.
'No,' Gege couldn't help but say in a bitter tone, 'it's heading towards the portal.'
"…"
Arthur couldn't just delude himself anymore. He knew this was heading south for him, but he didn't want to believe it would happen in such a way.
"If the two got connected together…" he couldn't even imagine the result. He planned to get rid of the portal first, before he would start dealing with that pagoda.
'Ding! The good thing though is the supporting array is working,' the system tried to give a silver lining here.
"It's not enough," Arthur closed his eyes and tried to muster his energy once more, "c'mon you piece of shit… get inside now!"
Just as he was trying his best to race against time, his body was getting so near to the ground at such a fast speed. He couldn't control his fall and after sometime he stopped even trying.
All his effort was now upon stopping this portal, and nothing more.
The portal started to tremble at last. It started to give signs of giving in to him. Yet the incoming falling force of that pagoda seemed like hell. He couldn't even breathe normally now, and the air around started to heat up.
It seemed like a living hell around him. Even mages and monsters poured out from the portal started to be assaulted by such aura.
And then they would be swept away by the falling portal.
"C'mon…" he was racing against such fate and yet he was hoping to make it in time.
Gege didn't need his orders as she was ready to pull him away the moment he took the portal inside.
She prepared a lot of portals for him to move him away even if there was just one small inch between him and the ground, between him and his death.
He trusted her on that. He only thought about it for once and he knew Gege wouldn't miss that… he hoped so.
The portal kept trembling violently the more it shrank in size. At one point a big puff occurred just fifty meters away from the ground.
"Now!"
He didn't need to yell as the moment the portal vanished, Arthur was shrouded by a portal and was instantly teleported away.
"I… did it!" he couldn't help but take deep breaths while every part of his body aches. He stood midair while his wings started to work perfectly fine once more.
"Wh… Where the hell is that pagoda?!!!"
Yet the moment he turned to check the falling pagoda, he found only thin air there. The area that was supposed to have the pagoda had a wide white cloud of air and dust.
Just like the area that had the portal moments ago.
"Don't tell me…" he couldn't help but jump to one scary conclusion. And the next moment he closed his eyes and didn't dare to even take a single moment of rest.
"Gege…" he only shouted that in distress.
'I know,' and she instantly acted. She opened a portal and he instantly entered it and vanished from this world.
He appeared inside the garden world where he landed just beside the vast Golam lake.
As for him, he had another life threatening situation to deal with at the current moment.
As he went inside his mental dantian, he couldn't help but feel an already ominous aura coming from one direction.
"Don't tell me it's going to explode," he couldn't help but instantly move inside his star map. The moment he appeared there he found his calm star map boiling with thick waves of energy.
Even the dense fog around and the monsters hiding inside were having a hard time dealing with that.
The moment he sat foot in there, he was lashed with successive hot waves of energy that made him feel extreme pain and panic.
It wasn't a hostile energy at all. It was coming from one direction where the portal was there with the pagoda linked to one of its sides.
The two seemed small compared to what he witnessed them a moment ago. However he didn't underestimate the two of them.
Size never mattered, what really mattered was the insane amount of energy the two stored.
The portal also added one more challenging variable for him; it never stopped pouring out mages and monsters even in here!
Yet under the hot slashes of energy coming from the pagoda and coupled with the merciless monsters hiding in the shadows, waiting for any trespassers; no one ever lived a second after coming here.
"What should I do now?!" he hesitated while watching all this unfolding and accelerating fast towards a dead end.
He needed to act, yet he didn't know things would reach such a stage. He planned to have the portal only here, then throw it inside one of the worlds he has and just forget about it.
However he had now to deal with the ticking bomb that forced itself upon this place without invitation.
And that pagoda was about to get out of control at any moment.
"Can we bring the array and the mages controlling it here?" he couldn't help but think about controlling the bomb first.
'I… don't think they can withstand such a situation,' Gege sighed before adding, 'the array would be fried to shreds. Plus the space here won't help.'
'You need to push them inside one of the stars here,' the golden dragon urged, 'and you need to do it now!'
Yet Arthur couldn't believe he could do it!
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