At this moment, Arthur didn't feel he was fighting a normal war. It seemed like he was playing a great game of Go with that dark angel mage, one which only grandmaster would play.
Both were fighting over territories and dominance for now. After this would be all settled, and the dust would clear out; this Go game would turn into a grand chess game.
A chess game where only one would emerge victorious by killing the other king in the end.
Arthur didn't delay and kept moving towards the next settlement. As he reached the fourth settlement, news of the crushing defeat of his enemies reached his ears at last.
'Jud and Doaf killed most of the forces there, also the crow is about to do the same,' Gege said.
"What about Amera?"
'She is still fighting her way towards the grandmasters,' Gege said before adding after a moment of pause, 'but there are a lot of reinforcements coming from everywhere.'
"I knew it," Arthur wasn't surprised to hear that. After all, just an hour ago a group of dark mages tried to sneak in the gaps between the three armies and tried to destroy the cities being built.
However a small group of elites were dispatched alongside a few dragons using portals. This kind of attack started to be repeated every now and then, and that told Arthur that his enemy already sat his gaze upon his cities.
The dark angel mage already moved as he anticipated.
"What about Sara, Tina, and the scorpion queen?" he asked while imagining the timely arrival of these three when things got bad.
'Wait a moment…' Gege didn't have the answer before she returned after a few minutes with disturbed voice, 'they… are facing great resistance while coming here.'
Her words made Arthur's heart clench all of sudden. He frowned and realized the weakest link in his plan.
It wasn't a surprise for his enemy to aim at this weak spot, but it was still a remarkable feat. "So he read deeper through my plan than I thought," Arthur slowly muttered before asking, "how long will they take to arrive here at this rate?"
'Around a day… or perhaps even more…'
"A day… That's a lot," Arthur knew that his enemy already prepared a counter to his plan. And now it was his time to find a way to turn tables upside down.
"Alright, prepare the dead grandmasters' bodies now!"
Arthur suddenly landed on the ground before he closed his eyes and entered his garden world.
If he would be pushed against the wall in such a way, then he would prefer to have more of his deadly dragons by his side. As he kept resurrecting his dragons, a new piece of good news appeared from Gege.
'The monsters from before… they have changed into… something else!' she said in fear that was obviously apparent in her tone.
"Oh, they are awake now?" Arthur couldn't help but feel excited when heard this. He had high expectations for these monsters, and even he already thought of another way, a better way, to use the original seed to his advantage.
'They are… and they are making quite a scene now!'
Arthur couldn't help but move at faster speed to turn every single corpse here into a dragon. He didn't even wait for all of them to finish transforming before he hurriedly said:
"Take me there!"
A portal appeared next and he simply passed through it. The next moment he appeared in a special place, where it was all lined by pillars and the ores he got so far.
The ores were scattered everywhere, on top of the pillars, in between them, and also inside the big circle that these pillars marked.
And inside these, a group of twelve giants appeared in Arthur's eyes.
They were so big to exceed the grandmasters he met before by five folds at least. Their skin was covered in a dark charcoaled layer, while thin purple lines ran along their bodies.
These purple lines looked like deep grooves in the surface of their skin, and they were shimmering with purple light. They had three eyes on each side of their heads, while they had a long and curved thick band of hair extending from their ears.
Their hair was like iron rods, forming a spiked appearance in Arthur's eyes. The moment he appeared, he could clearly see the waves of purple fire emitted from their bodies and even from their mouths when they breathed.
They didn't need to do anything and yet the amount of fire emitted from their bodies was fiercer than the fire waves he spotted when removing the black fabric away.
"They… are strong!" Arthur said in a greedy tone and blue light shone brightly from his eyes. As he saw all this, he also sensed the connection he had between him and them.
He was their master! He could feel that link binding him with their brutal souls.
And the moment he appeared, they also noticed his presence. They all turned in unison to watch him. Their faces didn't show any human expression at all, but Arthur felt their anger towards him.
They weren't accepting what he did to them, and he knew if they had the chance they wouldn't hesitate to kill him.
"Kneel!" and yet he didn't worry himself about that for now. They just came in time, in such a time he desperately needed a move to bring back victory on his side.
He rose up high in the air and stood even higher than their heights. He looked upon them like a lord looking at his subjects, like a god looking at his creation.
"A weak ant is trying to control gods… I never heard of this before!" one of them said in a funny tone while acting oblivion to the fact his soul was bound by Arthur.
Arthur stood in midair watching them all laughing and pointing in mockery to him before they started to turn around and give him their backs.
"Oh, so you want to die after just being reborn?" Arthur's tone wasn't loud or didn't show any anger at all.. In fact he said it with a laugh to return their favor.
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