Arthur stood midair while watching the aftermath of this fight. He felt bad whenever he felt the pain he experienced just before. However right now he could feel his power getting stronger with each passing second.
The white-blue pillar never ceased to expand. Even when there was no enemy around, the pillar kept present without showing any sign of going away.
"So this time I will be stuck with such a pillar for the rest of my life?" Arthur watched this and couldn't help but sigh. He didn't like the fact that he was surrounded by this energy, especially when he felt he couldn't control it anymore.
At least when he thought about retracting it and making it vanish, it didn't follow his orders.
'It's not bad to have it around,' the golden dragon said, 'this way you can fight anyone without the need to be alert to their intentions.'
Arthur understood what the golden dragon was referring to. That hidden traitor among his ranks was such a headache to him.
But not anymore.
Now even if that enemy was only meters away from him and decided to make a move, Arthur would emerge unscathed from it.
After all, his pillar of energy would act docile towards his allies, and very aggressive towards his enemies.
"It's still not a thing to be proud of," Arthur then started to fly towards the main building in this settlement, "take all the corpses inside my garden. Also take out the miners and take in everyone else."
'Leave it to me,' Gege was feeling relieved that everything finally ended in such a good way. She was dead worried over Arthur in this fight.
This war was getting more complicated, especially when their enemy was someone so resourceful like that dark angel mage.
Each time they faced him, that distasteful enemy would show a new weapon and use a new tactic.
However this time Arthur felt he dealt a good blow to such an enemy. That dark angel mage wouldn't show up his face soon, that was what Arthur believed.
"What about other battles?" he asked after one hour. He managed to claim three more original seeds and was now ready to move on.
'They are still fighting,' Gege said, 'but Amera's front isn't stable.'
"Oh, why is that?" Arthur suddenly felt curious.
He knew in the current state of Amera, no enemy would stand a chance against her. Only those real monsters from the higher realms would pose a threat and challenge towards her.
'Her energy… she looks more exhausted now,' Gege said something that made Arthur's heart clench.
"What do you mean?" Arthur stopped in his tracks, "get me in. I want to see everything with my eyes."
"Woosh!"
The next moment a portal appeared next to him. He simply passed through it and appeared next in front of his tree of mirrors.
The tree was still towering like a mountain. Beside it many smaller trees were still growing, without showing any signs of maturation so far.
None of them had mirrors like the mother tree. Arthur didn't care about these for now as he stepped inside the mirror world of the tree.
There he saw the reflection of things going on at Amera's side. She was still fighting a large number of mages, monsters, and grandmasters without any problems.
However from what Arthur could see, her facial expression told him she was tired. It seemed she wasn't feeling that way due to the continuous fight with these dark forces.
However this was mainly due to her reliance over her energy all this time. It seemed her body couldn't take it anymore and started to show signs of exhaustion.
'She wasn't like this an hour ago,' Gege said, 'but she is pushing herself too far. She didn't take a single moment of rest after all this fight.'
"She needs to rest from time to time then… That's not a bad side effect after all," Arthur deeply thought before adding, "take me out."
He walked outside the tree world before passing through the portal waiting for him outside. When he went outside he took out a bird's wing and wrote something to Amera.
It wasn't a request, but a warning. He warned her that her energy was getting out of control. Soon if she didn't listen to his words and get some rest, she would end up unable to move a finger.
And that would be deadly to her.
Amera was in the middle of her brutal fighting against all these dark enemies. In fact she felt tired hours before Gege noticed this. However she kept pushing herself over and tried to kill as many as she could.
The more she killed, the more appeared out of nowhere. That just kept irritating her, making her feel like she did nothing at all by fighting for this long.
However, in the middle of all that, a bird's wing suddenly appeared in front of her.
"Oh, so he is worried about me?" she read Arthur's words before she crushed the paper and let it turn into ash. "Tsk, if you are so worried then you should come and help me instead."
She shook her head and against her will she decided to retreat. She first thought this exhaustion was related to her constant use of her special fiery technique with her spear.
But even when she stopped using this brutal way of fighting, she was still getting tired at the same rate.
And now with Arthur's words she realized she had to stop and get some rest.
She hated this. She wasn't so close to wiping out her enemies either. However, as long as she could kill some, she didn't want to leave.
As such she retreated while fighting her way through the densest parts of the enemy ranks.
During her fight here she managed to slay a large number of grandmasters. However it seemed like the dark side had an endless number of such unique mages.
The total number of the grandmasters now was slightly over the number she faced at the beginning.. The persistence action of the dark angel mage was pressing over her nerves actually.
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