Arthur's intentions were clear. As he exposed the enemy's dirty plans ahead, why not use the plans to defeat them?
He knew if he acted in another way, then his enemy would be alarmed. That was the drawback of having such a sneaky and cautious enemy to fight.
'Ding! Do you plan to let them approach the empire?' the system asked in doubt.
"And might also let them in," Arthur evilly said, "if I attack now, I'll hit a couple of these bases. But most of these little birds will fly away. Who knows what that enemy will do later on."
'So you want to kill as many of these as possible?' the golden dragon asked just to make sure he perfectly understood Arthur's aim here.
"No," as expected, this wasn't Arthur's goal from the start, "I'm going to capture as many islands as I can before destroying the rest."
'…'
'…'
'…'
His words silenced the three beings in his mind.
"It is a waste to let such brilliant weapons be destroyed without getting some for myself," he elaborated, "it's not just to obtain one more elite weapon to my arsenal. I'll let my boys study it, and try to make something similar."
'Ah, you want to mass produce these islands… Impressive!' The golden dragon liked the idea.
"These islands solve a great deal of problems for me. Now I can't only build my cities on the ground, but I'll also build them on the clouds!" Arthur declared and by these words he marked the lines of his counterplan.
'Ding! But how will you fight all of them with the few flying forces you have?'
"My flyin forces aren't as few as you think," Arthur laughed, "did you forget my mechas? And my dragons? I have a myriad of strong soldiers under my command."
'But these forts must have higher realmers as well,' Gege didn't get his point here, 'how can these forces fight them?'
"First I doubt that the treacherous enemy had many high realmers here," Arthur said, "only those weak grandmasters will be here. Also their forces might join as well."
'But this is a force not easily beaten by mechas and weak dragons!' the golden dragon objected.
"That's why I need to do something first," Arthur didn't declare his intentions clearly, but Gege got what he was thinking about.
'This…' She shockingly muttered, 'Is this even safe?'
"We'll test and see," Arthur simply shrugged, "if it's not possible then I'll have to face them head on. Take me in."
A portal appeared in front of Arthur. He didn't go inside his garden world first, but appeared in the originals' world.
The original once saw him mistook his visit for the flower. Their expectations over their faces painted Arthur a lot.
Their reaction reminded him of the bitter result of using the flower before. Despite getting a broad black curtain from that, he wasn't pleased by the end result or the process of events.
"Lord," they all bowed while Arthur was lost in his own thoughts.
"I want to ask you about something," he came here specifically for that, "how can I obtain more of the black curtain?"
The originals looked to each other in puzzlement before Arthur took out one of the black curtains he had.
The moment the black curtain was out, the originals got what he wanted to ask.
"You want more of the chains of death?" one of them asked. And his words made Arthur's face change a bit.
"Chains of death? Is this its name?"
"Yes," the originals nodded all in unison in agreement.
"I don't like this name," Arthur shrugged, "I'll keep calling it the black curtain. Now how can I obtain more of it?"
Despite his words, their faces didn't change. It showed great hatred towards this black curtain as if they had a death feud with it.
"Lord can have as many as he wants as long as he uses the purple ore," one of the originals said.
"The ores..." Arthur was lost in thoughts for a long minute, "but I used the ore and even melted it down with no sign of transforming into this."
"That's because lord missed our blood," another one said, "using our blood will react with the purple ore and result in forming this... curtain."
It seemed difficult for them to say another name, a nicer name, over the black curtain. For them they couldn't overcome their hatred simply like that.
"Oh, then give me your blood then," Arthur snapped his fingers before big bowls appeared all around the originals.
However none stepped forward to comply.
"What's wrong?" Arthur couldn't help but ask.
"Well... If we do that, we'll be rendered weak for a long time," one of the originals said before another added, "we need meat, lots of meat to replenish our blood loss."
"Meat is nothing to me," Arthur simply stated, "just give me your blood and I'll bring you a fine cooked high grade monster meat to you."
The originals' faces beamed with joy before they started to donate their blood in the bowls.
"Bring all the chiefs inside the garden world," Arthur said while watching his originals doing their part, "make them cook the meat of the old monsters inside you."
'Ok,' Gege complied. By this Arthur watched on the side and waited while a bowl after another got filled with the originals' blood.
In return for this, all the stock of his cooked meat appeared and were given to them. His meat was made by many monsters. Some were cooked from low, mid, and high grade monsters. Also few were cooked by special monsters lying inside Gege's garden world.
But in front of his eyes, all the meat was consumed by the originals without saying a word of discontent or a single comment. That made Arthur realize they just pulled a trick over him.
"Make them cook normal monsters from now on," he couldn't help but sigh, "these giants... what did they take me for?"
And the three beings in his mind laughed on what these originals did to him.
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