Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Chapter 1002 – Soul Crystals

Arthur didn't know how long he was unconscious there. However the moment he opened his eyes, he noticed that the scenery was totally different than before.

And he wasn't alone.

"You guys…" 

He stood up to feel some pain in his body to stop him from standing in one go. His army leaders were all here in this bright world. The entire world was radiant with light like it was midday here. 

Arthur looked at the sky to see no sun there. The light was coming from the sky itself like it was formed by the coalition of many stars.

"We were called here by you, don't you remember?" Amera asked while she was holding a large crystal on her back.

"That…" Arthur noticed that she wasn't the only one holding crystals, everyone else was doing the same. From the expressions over their faces, it seemed like they were holding great treasure.

"They are the legendary soul crystals of the higher realms," Doaf said in excited tone, "using it in training will increase one's speed by folds!"

"Training in the techniques is a very hard process," Jude explained, "but with these we can bring better results using less time."

"And this world seems to be filled with them," the crow said in a rare excited tone, "it's like the ground itself is made entirely of it."

"Well well well… That grandmaster is really generous," Arthur stood up at last before turning around. 'Gege, can you link this world to my star map?'

'I already did,' Gege said.

'The core is the link to this place,' the golden dragon said.

'Ding! Gege moved it to the star map and linked this world to it. Now this world is separate from that island.'

'Oh, what happened to that island then?' Arthur recalled the fight, 'is it still standing?'

'It collapsed after taking the core away,' Gege said, 'the enemy now lost all the communications he had.'

"Great," Arthur said in pleasure, "let's go out then."

"B… But…" the crow seemed to be reluctant to leave.

"Don't worry," Arthur couldn't help but grin, "this world belongs now to me. You can come here anytime to get whatever you want."

"Really master?" Jude seemed touched by Arthur's words while the others showed happy expressions.

'It seems these useless crystals hold more benefit to them than I thought,' Arthur muttered to himself before a portal opened and he passed through.

Others also joined him and went to the outside world. The battle was over, but the war was still raging between his forces and the enemies.

"Go," Arthur wasn't interested in these small fries anymore, "control these islands and make sure to kill everyone inside."

As he cut the link between the grandmaster and this world, these islands lost most of their danger. And now Arthur could easily take control over them.

His aim was to build a grand army of flying islands, obtain as many islands as he could to hasten the steps of ruling this world.

"Building cities is a long and tiring process," he sighed, "but if I wiped out all the enemies here, then this world is already mine."

He planned first to spread the cities slowly and encroach over the entire world. But after crushing his enemy more than once, and with his last overwhelming victory; taking over this world seemed like a breeze to him.

The fight over the islands didn't last for long. The main resistance was wiped out before Arthur crushed the base island.

"Now let's go and hunt more islands, shall we?" He stood on top of one of the islands while Agnus and other geniuses were trying their best to control them.

After all, such knowledge wasn't available to people living in this part of the world. Arthur had many prisoners who could control the islands, and in return for their lives he let them work for him.

But their number dwelled in front of the needed manpower to operate these giant behemoths. So Arthur instructed Agnus and other geniuses from the sky castle to learn how to drive these islands.

Then he would start a big academy to let other people join and learn. His aim wasn't only towards a handful of islands after all.

"Any news?" he asked while watching the distant fights going on between his forces and the islands.

Gege already marked the places of the flying islands for him in a map. He gave a copy to each of his generals to hasten the steps of overcoming these islands.

As for Sara, she kept working her best to make the diagrams needed to nullify the danger of each island.

However Arthur was looking for another thing. He knew he got rid of the main threat here by defeating the dark angel mage before. However that didn't mean this world was safe yet.

From the look of things, he knew there must be a strong force of mages hiding somewhere around. All he wanted was to find and crush them to secure this part of the world.

However no matter how hard Gege looked around, she couldn't find such a force.

'Are you sure they exist?' Gege asked in doubt.

"They must be using an illusion array," Arthur knew this was the only answer, "it can't be helped then. I'll send ground troops to search for every corner around us. They can't be far away from the main force of these islands anyway."

Arthur believed in that. After all, if he was in the shoes of that grandmaster, he wouldn't let this chance slip off his hands.

The islands were very good at offense, but they lacked enough manpower to dominate his forces. In his eyes, the dark angel grandmaster planned to first invade his territory using these islands.

Then that mage would send in swarms of dark forces to take his shaky empire by surprise.

"Is there any free army now?" he asked while the battle up front led by Jud was still hot.

'Amera is free,' Gege said, 'also Doaf.'

"These two are enough then," Arthur nodded, "send the word to them. Make them move outwards in an expanding arc. Once they spotted the enemy, let them notify me first."

He knew such a force wouldn't be composed of large numbers only. Big names would be there, even strong grandmasters as well.

Letting these two handle things on their own would be hard.. He wanted to minimize his casualties at this stage, especially when he held the upper hand in this war.