"It's alright," he turned to face her, "the fire died down."
"I… Only saw wind," she seemed a bit startled by what happened, and greatly feared that fire.
"It's a hidden form of fire," Arthur slowly explained, "and this fire is what we have to work hard to contain inside our currency."
"That's impossible," she blurted out, "you are crazy, y'know that?"
Her words made Arthur laugh over her reaction. She didn't overreact towards this. In fact Arthur's reaction towards this fire when he first witnessed it was similar.
Shock, doubt, disbelief, and above all… Intimidating fear! He gazed up at her before giving her a warm smile. Even in his dragon form, his smile that always looked vicious and savage seemed warm to Sara's eyes at the moment.
"Let's go," he started to fly while Sara didn't stop looking at the ore in her hand like she was holding poison.
"How did you come up with this idea?" After a long time of silence she finally spoke.
"My empire will become the most terrifying force in the entire universe," Arthur explained his own view, "so my empire's currency shouldn't be any less domineering than my empire."
"But…"
"Don't think of it as a way to die," Arthur interrupted her negative line of thoughts, "you should think of it as a way to show our power. Also at times of distress we can use it to inflict damage to our enemies."
Sara went into silence for a minute before saying her thoughts.
"You know currencies' greatest influence and power come from others adopting it. So if we are talking about it being a weapon, we should say it's a double edged sword."
"Not if we incorporate something within that only our empire dwellers can use to activate its hidden power," Arthur said to clarify this point. He wanted to show her that he had given this matter much thought already.
"Like what?" Sara didn't know how she would consider such a bomb as a currency. She couldn't even totally fathom its power or strength, nor could she grasp Arthur's thoughts so far.
"Like my own energy," Arthur said before adding, "or a form of power that only our people can use."
"Like what?" Sara was still oblivious to what Arthur was trying to state.
"Spiritual energy for instance," Arthur had to spill it out, "this form of energy is only unique to our people."
Sara witnessed Arthur using this special form of energy before. She also saw how many mages turned out to become such strong fighters after unlocking this form of energy.
And she also knew this was all possible thanks to his own teachings and potions. If not for these, no one would be able to have this power.
"So… this power will only be accessible to our mages, a selected group of them, right?" She said what she understood so far.
"It's not a small group," Arthur corrected her, "after all I'm going to fully train my mages into this form of energy."
"So it will be limited to mages only," Sara adjusted her earlier words.
"I can't trust normal people to wield such power inside my empire," Arthur shrugged before adding, "imagine a normal clash between two people. If they use this power, then this clash will turn into a wide ranged massacre. I surely won't ask for this."
"Indeed," Sara nodded, "but talking about this is a thing, and trying to accomplish it is totally different."
"That's why I brought you with me," Arthur said, "after all you have a different form of experience than others and also have a good brain to use to solve this."
"…"
Sara didn't know what to say. However Arthur intended to bring her alongside others from the sky castle.
Sara wanted for a long time already to gather with these people. Before he was seeing them as his strongest weapon.
But that was a long time ago. Now he didn't see anything special about them except for their various talents and brilliant minds.
They could solve problems like these, but they lost their important place as his mightiest weapon.
Now he had various forces who could be best described as monsters compared to these people.
Plus that would give Sara some satisfaction. Arthur was to some extent wary of her. But now, and after gaining so much power and strength, he didn't see any kind of threat in her.
She was like a little cat jumping around and causing some funny mess in his home. Despite the mess, it would be entertaining for him to keep her around.
"Do you have any idea of how to do that?" Sara finally gave in and decided to ask for what he had in mind.
"I think using small arrays will do the trick," Arthur slowly said while trying to describe what he had in mind, "using words as seals overlying on each other would be better."
"Writing words over the ore… Like making runes, right?" she asked while trying to imagine what he was speaking about. As he nodded in agreement, she added, "but that would require a special form of ink. Plus the words we are using must be quite powerful."
"Not only that," Arthur interrupted her, "we need to find a way to make different kinds of words link together at the same core."
"You mean like combining their forces, not just adding them in layers, right?"
And Arthur nodded again. He had this idea a long time ago. Words were a powerful source of energy and strength. Using them individually gave strong energy.
But what if he managed to make them intertwined together. Not just adding words over each other but mixing them together and making them add to each other's value.
This way he might have even multiplied effect from the same number of words used. This would greatly help against this berserk purple fire.
But there was a catch.
"This fire came from a special source," Arthur suddenly said, "and to better contain it and make it docile, we need something from that source."
"What source?" Sara asked, but Arthur wasn't listening to her. In fact he didn't say these words to her but to himself. Thinking deeply about this made him realize one fact.
The fire came from the originals. In fact the fire was the power source of the originals, and might even be parts of their souls.
He recalled the scenes where the originals fought before. They simply waved their hands and unleashed purple fire. It looked like their bodies were carved out of this special ore.
But he believed things were much more complicated than this!
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