Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur found the words of his system logical. "I have gained something in that world that might interest you," he said.

"Then tell, I'm all ears," she waited to see how lucky this disciple of her was.

"I had a pillar, black in color and polluted with dark energy."

"Tsk," she showed a depressed expression over her face, "these pillars are worth nothing to me. They would to any dark clan, but to me and others in the other camp; we can't use these!"

Arthur's eyes shone, as he knew what would make her interested in helping him. "What if I say I will give you a purified one?"

This time the look over her face changed. She seemed interested, and Arthur couldn't hold his smile from showing up. "You little rascal, you have a means to purify them? Damn your lucky boy, it's even greater than me!"

He laughed and said nothing. This wasn't luck, as he gained them in very risky encounters. Paying the price was something he didn't mind, yet he couldn't agree on calling it luck.

"This is interesting," she said, and just as his hopes went high, she added, "but not enough."

He was about to speak, adding more pillars to the mix before she said, "I'm not interested in a pillar or two, if you told me your own way of purifying the pillars, I might consider giving you what you desire."

"This…" he went silent, not knowing what to say.

"Oh, I thought this was something you truly desire," she chuckled, enjoying the face of disturbed Arthur in front of her. "C'mon Willy it's a technique, right? Just tell it to me and I promise no one else would know about it."

He sighed, before saying: "It's not that I don't want to teach you the technique; there is no technique at all."

"Then it's an item?" she asked, "this might be problematic," she knew it wouldn't be appropriate to ask for her disciple gadgets.

'Ding! Offer to help her in purifying what she has!'

As usual, the system timing and words of advice couldn't be anymore perfect!

"I can give a nice offer," he said.

"Helping me purify mine?" she already read his mind, "that won't do, as I have many, really many. You will waste time in clearing them."

"Don't worry, I'm the man for this task," he confidently said, while patting his chest.

"Are you sure?" she asked, before adding, "raiding the dark clans' stronghold is a hobby of mine. I have really a large number of pillars. Just how much time your item needs to purify one?"

"It can purify a large number over an extended period of time," he said before adding, but these pillars must be in pocket worlds of their own."

"Sure, each pillar I had comes with a world," she said before giving him a deep glance. "What item do you have to do that?"

"One Day I will tell you."

"Really? When is this day? Soon?"

"I hope."

She chuckled before saying, "If you did me this favor, then I can make a portal for you. But this portal won't last more than one month."

"Isn't there an item that can help me go there at any time?" he asked, while adding, "and another one for the return journey."

"Hahaha, you talk like you will move all the time between the two worlds," she laughed, yet her eyes were sizing him up. 'You do really want to focus on that world, huh!' she muttered to herself while knowing what was in Arthur's mind.

For her, he was just an impulsive youth. "After what you did here today, your name will be known far and wide. Going off too much will put you in too much danger," she honestly advised, yet he didn't take her words to heart.

He was already on the dark clans blacklist. His academy score here didn't wouldn't add much to his troubles. "Don't worry, I will be discrete and careful."

"Sure you are," she said while not believing a single word of what he just said. "But an item to go and one to return will cost you more than the pillars," and her request revealed the greedy nature of her.

'C'mon, show me what you held dear and precious to you,' she said to herself while waiting for the big trophy.

She was pretty sure now, Arthur didn't live through a normal experience inside the world. 'A mere settlement that can't be compared to a village? What was the elder responsible for checking the test results doing?!!' she was feeling much doubt towards the report she received as part of the upper echelon of the academy.

'I have to go there personally and see for myself,' she decided, as the attitude Arthur exposed right now proved to her what he built wasn't just a mere settlement, or even a village!

She knew he was a clan master himself, so he wouldn't value a mere village or even a town. 'A city perhaps like he claimed?' she thought, yet even this seemed enticing to such a youth, her gut feeling told her it was something bigger.

"You want something more?" he asked, "can you give me some hints?"

He didn't know what she wanted, and she herself didn't know the answer. "Just anything precious and rare will do," she said.

"Hmm…" he thought deeply at what he had inside his garden. He had many populations, great talents, pillars and monsters. Yet he didn't have many rare things there.

'Ding! Offer her part of the monster you helped the world's will to kill.'

The system offered him advice. 'Wasn't it integrated into my garden already?' Arthur was surprised by the offer.

'Ding! I can extract a tiny piece of it, let's say a finger size piece would do.'

He glanced at her, thinking for a moment about the importance of the item she had to him. "I have something, a piece of a strong monster that I found by chance inside the world," he said.

"Monster?" She seemed not interested in that.

"It isn't just any type of monster," he added, it's a great monster, something I never saw before."

"You speak of something I couldn't understand," she said before adding, "bring it forth and let me assess it myself to judge."

'Take it out,' Arthur said to his system and the next moment a large piece of flesh covered in green liquid appeared in the room.

"Rumble!"

The moment it appeared, the entire atmosphere changed. A rumble sound erupted not from the piece but from the defensive shield Amanda used before entering the mansion.

"What is that?!" her eyes shone brightly while she hurried to move and inspect this piece of finger. "This is… how did you come by something like this?" she expressed her great shock in her loud tone and facial features. "I will accept it, hehehe," she then touched the piece and took it inside one of her storage items.

This brief moment of contact with the finger left a wound over her hand. "Impressive," she commented before mumbling something and the wound healed, yet slower than usual. "It has some toxic effect, plus deep dark energy, partially purified," she muttered while returning to her seat.

"You deserve what you asked for," she said, while putting her hand on the ground, and a small box appeared. "Take it, there is a seed inside. Plant it inside the mansion you have. You will need some instructions to link it to the world, do you know formations?" she asked.

'Ding! Linking it is a task you will leave to me,' and the system said, solving this minor problem for him.

"Sure, I know a thing or two about arrays," and Arthur replied, expressing falsely his ability to link the two worlds together.

"Great, then you won't find a problem going back and forth to your dear world," she said before glancing deeply at him. "This gift alone is worth the item you asked for. So, our pillar deal…"

"You can provide some of your treasures in return," and he just played with her the same game she played with him just now.

"Fast learner you are," she laughed before adding, "Alright, I can give you… let's see… an item to defend or an item to offend?"

"Is there another option than these two?" he didn't lack offensive tools, and defense wasn't his area of interest.

"Hmm… a unique item then… what about an item that can move you freely in a radius of ten miles?"

"Sporadically?" he asked.

"Sure, an item that can specify location will be much higher and more expensive."