Strong gust of wind came out and hit Arthur in the face. But it was only that.
"I failed!" Sara came out with a bitter expression before getting knocked down by the strong wind. The scene looked funny and Arthur couldn't prevent himself from smiling.
Just as the explosion died, the wind stopped and he went to help her stand up on her feet.
"That's expected," Arthur said in a neutral tone, "don't push yourselves like this."
"I didn't know what went wrong," Sara said in a loss before her tone changed to show her determination, "but I'll make sure to find out my fault before starting over."
"Good girl," Arthur said in praise before following her inside the ring. He didn't want to meddle with what she was doing, but he wanted to check the ores.
"So the ores have a limit against the purple fire… That's new," he held one purple ore in his hand and thoroughly examined it.
The ore looked dimmer and colder than before. Also the energy he once felt as fiery blaze went weak as if it was dying.
Then a flash of thought shone brightly inside his mind.
"Sara," he turned to her before adding, "take this one and try to test on it instead."
He threw the cold and exhausted ore to her. The moment she checked it out, her features changed.
"Where did you get this from?" she turned to him in shock while he only kept smiling.
"It's from here," he pointed at the circle, "they got exhausted by the two explosions from before."
"That's… This ore… It's like the energy inside got its nature changed as I wanted!" she shouted in joy as she discovered a solution to this dilemma. "Let me test on it first," she said before giving him her back.
Arthur only sighed. He knew how absorbed any scientist would be when being on the verge of reaching a discovery.
So he switched all the ores in silence before stepping outside the ring and waited.
This time he had this feeling that Sara would crack this puzzle and give him a proper way to control the purple ores.
"Even in the middle of our failures, hope lies there!" he muttered to himself while his eyes shone in blue light out of his expectations.
Arthur stood on the side while watching Sara diligently working. She was drawing the earlier symbols again. But this time her spirit and face looked different.
It was like Arthur, she also felt the same hope and could see the light. As she kept working, the ore started to show signs of getting docile and being tamed.
"Done!" at last she drew the last symbol there, she raised her head and took a deep breath. She turned then to Arthur before throwing the ore towards him. "Test it out for me, will you?"
"Sure," Arthur said with a smile before stepping inside the ring. "Get out," he said.
"No, I'll wait," but she was so confident this time that she refused to leave. She had this feeling that she had already cracked the hard formula for this ore.
"As you like," Arthur nodded before he started activating his sword technique. The next moment of activating his sword, he threw the ore in the air before slamming heavily over it with his sword.
"Crack!"
The ore didn't explode like before. It only got smashed like any rock without causing anything. "Cool," Arthur said in content before leaning on the ground and examining the tiny pieces of the ore in concentration.
"It still has the energy stores inside," he looked at Sara before asking, "how can I unleash the energy there?"
"You need to have a symbol," Sara said before taking out a piece of paper, "this symbol."
Arthur looked at the lightning-like symbol. It didn't give him any insights so he had to ask, "what does it mean?"
"Unleash," Sara said with a big smile over her face, "do you want to try it?"
"Sure."
"But you need to return to your human form first," she said, "also where do you want it to be?"
Arthur didn't hesitate to cancel his dragon transformation. Sara also did the same. The ore pieces he held in his hand looked cool as always. "On my back, please," Arthur removed his top clothes before showing his back to Sara.
"As you like," she said with a chuckle before adding, "but this might hurt a little."
"No problem."
As she warned, he felt sting pain in his back with her brushes. The pain came from the blood she was using. However his body was already superb to begin with.
So such weak pain didn't hurt him at all. After a few minutes she finished. "Done," she said with prideful tone, "I drew it all over your back."
Arthur couldn't see the symbol for now but he put his clothes on again. "I'll thank you letter for that," and without any warning he grabbed the soft body of Sara's human form and painted a soft kiss over her lips.
"What… was that for?!" She was flustered and startled by his sudden move. He looked at her with a wide smile while shrugging.
"Nothing, it's just a piece of reward for you," he said, "later you'll have a bigger reward," he winked at her and that made her face turn rosy without any control.
"Let's… see Agnus," she was feeling shy at the moment so she tried to change the subject.
"He is ready," Arthur said, "he was waiting for us to finish here."
"We are ready as well," Sara said in confidence.
"Wrong," but Arthur corrected her by adding, "we unlocked the formula but we lack the exhausted ores."
She looked at him in a weird and funny way that made him laugh. "C'mon, we need to release more explosions from the ores first to have more of these exhausted ones."
"Aha," she nodded in realization, "why not use many ores at the ring then? This way we can save a lot of time."
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