Chapter 419 - Go Back And Don't Come Inside For Now
"What if there was a mole there? My garden and my star map are my top secrets!"
'Ding! C'mon, literally all the dark clans here are aware of you having access to the star map. There is nothing to lose by letting some know, while they are destined to know sooner or later.'
Arthur paused and his rage calmed down while the system added:
'Ding! And I scouted your city as far as I can reach; they aren't forcing themselves and taking control there. They are trying to help defend and secure your city and people.'
"Hmm…" Arthur stopped entirely in his place while thinking about his system words. "Sigh, you are right," he shook his head, "sooner or later they will know about everything either from my masters or from others."
He still hated the idea of being exposed like this. "Can you lead them directly to here?" he asked, "as they are in my city, they can use the portal to reach my main star map directly, right?"
'Ding! This I can do.'
Arthur waited for couple of minutes before the system said again:
'Ding! They are on your main map.'
"Good," Arthur moved towards the distant end of this map as he jumped through one big star to appear next at his main star map.
As he reached there, he found a group of hundred standing together with the fear of moving a single step forward. "Should I scare them a little?" he thought to himself, yet he dropped the idea despite feeling tempted to do it.
"Hi there," he suddenly showed up in front of them all. The group was led by Mr. E and Amanda plus all the other masters he had. There were also a handful of others that he didn't know.
"What is this place?" Cesile instantly shouted at him.
"What took you so long to appear?" Mr. E said before Amanda jumped in:
"You little rascal! You made me go away and sealed the door back! And now you've got the guts to call for my help?"
"She missed you," Mr. E pointed to her as he said, before adding under her glaring looks, "a lot!"
"Humph," she didn't yell as usual as she wasn't alone with the two of them. Arthur just smiled as he avoided explaining the nature of his star map as he said:
"Follow me, and make sure not to wander anywhere I didn't step at."
"This place is even dangerous for its master," Mr. E said while his words and gaze conveyed a clear warning to others.
Arthur led them towards a big star before appearing again at the other star map.
"Wow, there is another one!" Otman muttered before adding, "I can feel this place is much more dangerous than the rest."
Arthur turned towards the one hundred masters and said:
"There are fifty pocket worlds remaining with the main headquarter of the clan owning these worlds," he said while pointing towards the direction of the deadly fog around them.
"Do you want us to help you kill them all?" Mr. E said before adding, "why do I feel there is something more to this?"
"Well," Arthur didn't know how to best describe what he felt before adding, "I have this restless feeling about a deadly danger eyeing me there."
He noticed that most of the master's eyes met him in a strange way, yet Otman stepped in again to say: 'I also have this feeling, and you know me."
Everyone glanced at Otman for a moment before Mr. E said:
"Otman's intuition is the best among us with no rival. If he also had such a feeling, then we should treat this as serious as we can," he turned towards Arthur as he added:
"Do you need us to attack the main clan first?"
"I think it's better to gain more intel about this danger before heading there first," Otman was the one to answer as he started to grow restless as Arthur.
"Alright, we'll hit those fifty worlds first," Amanda said before adding, "are they all filled with pillars like the other ones?"
"They are," Arthur nodded before adding, "yet this time they secured these pillars inside worlds that are sealed and connected to hundreds of others filled with endless armies."
"Wow, you have your touch even on them boy," Mr. E laughed, while winking to Amanda. "Alright, let's now waste time here, show us the way."
Arthur walked and everyone recalled his and Mr. E's warning, so no one followed his curiosity to see what lies behind this thick fog.
Despite that, everyone of them had many questions regarding this map of Arthur.
Just as they reached one of those fifty stars here, Arthur simply jumped and the next thing he did was to turn into a dragon.
He got used to fighting alone for such a long time already, yet the next moment he saw a grand scene where all the masters appeared, summoned their pets, and started the fight alongside him.
Each master had at least eighty pets, and most had over ninety with a handful having a hundred. Arthur knew at this moment what his system meant by the power of the allies, the power of his masters.
The time he took to reach the sealed portal usually took three hours, but this time he managed to reach there in less than half an hour.
Beside that, the rate he consumed his arrows obviously decreased than usual. "Sigh, they are really stronger than me," he sighed to himself while watching the brutal fights and destruction those masters did with their pets and weapons.
Despite that, Mr. E didn't use his strong spear attacks while Amanda refrained from using all her strength. "And they are holding back, sigh," he added.
"Otman," when they reached the sealed portal, Mr. E shouted at Otman who nodded and moved without any further ado towards the seal.
Arthur watched as the seal that took half an hour at least from him to be unlocked and might take an hour was instantly shattered using a strange long and slender staff with bells over its rounded and hollow end.
Otman noticed Arthur's fixed gaze upon his black staff, yet he just smiled and said nothing.
"Let's go, half here and half will go with us inside," Amanda shouted while Arthur went towards the world first.
And just as he appeared there, he wasn't that surprised to see something new there.
The entire world was filled with flying and ground monsters leading endless armies of warriors surrounding themselves with defensive arrays.
In the middle of that world, the pillar stood with its gigantic height and dark color.
All looked the same at first glance, except for that dreadful feeling coming from one direction. He was forcibly changing back to human form out of his control, giving him a surprise. "So they have new reinforcements," Arhtur muttered.
"Reinforcements from higher planes," Mr. E muttered while turning to Amanda, "is this the one?" he asked.
"Not quite sure, but I think he isn't," she hesitated for a moment before adding, "but I feel the same vibe coming from him."
"Good," Mr. E laughed before glancing over Arthur as he added, "Wise decision to call for us or else you wouldn't have the chance to do that if you entered here alone."
His facial features changed to show his seriousness while he added: "Return back to the safer world."
"But…" Arthur was about to complain yet Amanda interrupted him: "This level of fight is way above you."
"It's marvelous what you did so far, so retreat and stay back until we come out," Cesile said, trying to curry for his favor after noticing the strange intimacy he had with Amanda, "don't come in no matter what," she added.
"And don't try other worlds for now," Mr. E said, "I can sniff the presence of a grand plot in these worlds."
Arthur had no choice but to retreat. In fact he wanted to stay here, but he couldn't summon his dragon form no matter how much he tried. "Send the others back, we might need them," Mr. E added before Arthur returned through the portal back to the first world.
As he returned, he instantly changed back to dragon. "What's wrong?" he asked and his system instantly replied:
'Ding! Even I was sealed the moment you entered there!'
"What?!!" Arthur was speechless and this time he realized he really escaped a death trap.
"Go inside, Mr. E wants your help at once," the next second he changed back to human, shouted at the masters nearby before turning back to a dragon as he added, "leave these weaklings to me."
There were around thirty masters here led by Otman, who hurried to relay the orders and all didn't delay to move inside the portal.
As for Arthur, he simply took out his bow and arrows before returning again to his solo fight with these monsters.