It was such a big day in Arthur's life. The currency wasn't that important to him like the meaning of it.
He now solved a big issue of his empire. Plus he also gained a weapon for his people to use. Now he could lay his back and watch his empire thrive.
As the trial was such a success, Agnus and Sara started to be busy alongside their followers. The two were smiling all the time in pride and happiness.
Agnus was very happy about solving this mystery regarding the purple ore. The symbols he learnt about opened a new world to him.
He listened attentively to the explanation Sara personally gave. Then her kids started to draw symbols and teach others how to do it.
Aside from Agnus, only a few blacksmiths here managed to grab the symbols in a short time. Others seemed to lack the talent to do so and would require a long time to learn such drawings.
Sara was happy about gaining her lost empire kids at last. Her joy about having and using them in work was unparalleled! Even the joy of cracking the mystery of the currency and casting it at last wasn't on par with her joy of the kids.
Arthur stayed on the peak of the mountain watching everything working in his favor. Deem and Gor already laid down a great deal of the foundation of his city.
This meant they would start working on the body of the city soon. "I guess it will require a week or two to finish this," Arthur estimated roughly the duration needed for his city to come to light. "Any news from the frontlines?"
As he was totally absorbed here, he didn't miss following the news of the ongoing battles from time to time.
'Like usual,' Gege said before adding, 'they started to expand and are winning everywhere.'
"And the skeleton army?" Arthur asked.
'They are gaining more numbers plus evolving.'
"Any dragons?"
'Not yet!'
"Sigh," Arthur shook his head in disappointment. He wanted to see a true bony dragon to assess its value to him.
'Don't be hasty,' the golden dragon laughed, 'having a dragon isn't like planting weeds.'
'Ding! He is just used to summoning his dragons using his power,' the system jokingly said.
Arthur laughed with them before Gege suddenly said:
'I detected a hidden base of the enemy by the help of the tree.'
"Base?" Arthur didn't get it at first before his eyes shone brightly in blue light. "Don't tell me… Like the ones having the black curtain?"
'Yeah, and it's not just one base,' Gege said, 'they are a cluster. I believe they thought no one would ever find them.'
Arthur found her words a bit strange. "Where are these bases located?" he couldn't help but ask. After all from Gege's words he could tell their location was well hidden.
'Under the ground?' the golden dragon asked.
'Ding! Under water?' the system guessed.
'No, they are over the clouds!' but Gege's answer surprised everyone for a second. No one here even considered looking up and searching for a base over the clouds!
"How can they build something like this over the fragile clouds?" Arthur couldn't get how this was done.
'Come and see for yourself then,' Gege didn't explain as it was hard to give such an answer.
Arthur entered his garden world before he reached inside the mirror tree world. The small mirror trees were looking fine, but they were far from being grown up like the big and gigantic mother tree.
Inside the mirror world, Arthur looked at the big mirror inside while watching the grand scene projected from the surface of the mirror.
"They are using special arrays for that!" The first thing he noticed was the dense arrays.
The bases he saw were all like the settlements he conquered before. However they were lying peacefully over flying islands that were fixed over gigantic clouds.
Clouds there looked weird. They were dense, black in color, and seemed to be clustered there against the will of nature.
Arthur couldn't see any lightning arcs coming from such clouds, which was even more bizarre!
But he could see flashes of light passing in long lines in the depth of the clouds. Just looking at this image from far gave him the general layout of dense arrays inside the clouds.
He also saw large pillars at the islands to create more arrays and control them. "So they made such a great hideout just under our noses… Pretty much interesting," Arthur commented.
The location of this large group of bases, which reached fifty under his initial observation, wasn't that far from the borders of his empire.
'They weren't there a couple of days ago,' Gege said when Arthur returned to the real world, 'but I noticed the strange movement of such clouds against the wind. So I decided to check them.'
"They can move too…" Arthur paused while thinking about this. "Coming from such height and hidden in such a way means only one thing; they want to attack some place in the empire."
'I believe they are after the newly built cities,' the golden dragon said.
'Ding! I think they will attack well built cities and conquer them,' the system said before further elaborating, 'Ding! They need a strong foundation to support their presence here. Having both strong bases on the ground and in the sky will make their presence here unshakable.'
"And from this point they can expand further using their hidden bases," Arthur said while agreeing over the system's viewpoint. "Then we can't let them have it their way."
``We need to scan and search for more like these bases,'' the golden dragon said, ``I don't think they'll just send one group here.'
"Gege… Scan the entire sky of my empire first," Arthur's tone became cold, "I don't want any dirty bastard to be inside my empire. Then expand outwards and see if there are other bases like this coming towards my empire."
'Alright,' Gege went to start her search while the golden dragon said:
'We need the army to get them!'
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