Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

"You don't understand the significance of this contest," Olor sighed, "this isn't a mere contest between academies and clans in your world. I heard many representatives of higher clans and academies will be present there, scouting for talents."

"Your meaning?"

"Those assassins will be helpless there," Olor said, "the chances of them attacking you in the contest is so miniscule."

"If so then why were they sent there?" Arthur asked for more info.

"They thought you were hiding inside your academy. I even heard they attacked it once, searched far and wide there with no result."

Arthur nodded as he realized everything now. It was good luck for him to stay inside his garden all this time.

"Do you have a map of the weak places with no guards inside your world?" Arthur suddenly asked.

"This…" Olor seemed to be hesitant.

"What? I thought we got over the part where you were still loyal to the dark world here," Arthur sneered.

"You misunderstood me," Olor sighed, "the entire world is vacant of any guarding right now. If you wish, you can send off your troops east and west and accumulate all the resources and people you desire."

"Is this true?" Arthur asked to make sure he wasn't exaggerating.

And Olor simply nodded with a bitter smile over his face. "I can tell you if you moved now, you'll be able to rise beyond any control. This world will be yours eventually."

"It was initially mine to begin with," Arthur laughed before adding, "I'll keep in touch with you from time to time. If anything happens, you should hurry and deliver me the news."

"I will."

Arthur then moved outside his garden before standing inside his city once more. "It's a rare chance then… I shouldn't let this golden egg roll away from my reach."

He then went around the city in his dragon form, attracting the attention of Tina and Sara in no time.

"Wow, you came so fast," Tina laughed.

"What happened?" Sara wasn't like Tina, she felt something was off.

"I have a tip," he said, "the entire world is now without any guarding."

"I told you," Tina excitedly said as she guessed what she would say next.

"Meaning?" Sara asked.

"We need to send more armies out and claim all the riches we can have."

"We already sent everyone," Tina said.

"There is none more to send," Sara sighed.

"Leave this to me."

The next moment many portals appeared around the three cities while large armies of warriors started to show up. Before coming here, Arthur asked his system and Gege to arrange everyone, even the normal villagers who can withstand travelling and some fight to come to this world.

He planned to move everything he had and try to seize this rare opportunity with all his effort.

"Wow, all of these…" Tina was astonished before she went and took a wide tour around.

"Many aren't warriors," Sara noticed this, "can they fight?" she asked.

"There is no fight out there to begin with," Arthur smiled before taking out some maps, the ones he drew before from Olor. "Take these, they are the detailed maps of the entire world. Send convoys everywhere, I want our messengers to reach every corner of this world."

"No war?" Tina came fast with a frustrated tone, "can't we hit those clans then? They must have many riches within."

"The priority is to annex the population and resources, then if you have time and manpower then sure. Go towards many clans and harass them for me."

"Kekeke, this a plan I like," Tina laughed.

"But the three cities won't hold all these numbers," Sara pointed out the flaw here.

"Build more then," Arthur simply said, "those living here and those coming from far can work together to expand our small number of cities into a huge empire, right?"

Sara nodded while Tina pledged, "Don't worry, I won't leave a single inch here untouched by us. Even those weak and clumsy clans won't be safe from my breaths, hahaha."

Arthur sighed before he waited there for three days until everything was settled. The number of his villagers inside the garden world was astronomical, enough to build five more cities and might need more.

"Alright, you have a general grasp of things now," he said as during the past days he revised the plans of moving out, war, and how to expand and where. "Just remember, there are two clans still having their full power untouched. Be sure not to stir them up please," he stressed before adding, "I won't have time to come to your rescue. Plus there is a huge war about to erupt in the academy world. So I need you to wrap things up here fast and be ready to move out at any notice."

"Don't worry," Tina said while Sara helplessly sighed while glancing over her. "I'll try to keep her in check," Sara said.

"Keep who in check? I want to vent out my suppressed fighting spirit!" Tina exploded at Sara who just answered with a helpless sigh.

"Just be safe and make sure not to drag things for too long," Arthur said before vanishing inside a portal and returning again to his mansion at the academy world.

The moment he went outside the tree gate, he saw his team standing there waiting for him, with bitter expression over their faces.

"What happened?" he asked with a smile as he already guessed many of the things they knew.

"The clan…" Madly suddenly said with tears welling up in her eyes, "It's… destroyed."

"What?!!" Arthur was shocked to hear that. "What happened? Are you sure? What about our people there?" he asked, with a tone full of grief, yet his soul wasn't.

"It's those mercenaries," Amelia said, "They landed here and caused enough devastation in the academy and the clan."

"And?" Arthur asked, "any survivors?"

"Many escaped," Madly sadly said before breaking out in crying, "but grandpa Regil stood by to defend the clan base and… he…" she stuttered and couldn't speak before breaking in a long weeping while Amelia held her in her embrace.

"They were looking for you," Omar said in a low tone, "they thought you were hiding here or at the clan. The academy was breached and Mr. E was gravely wounded."

"What the hell?" Arthur was enraged this time. "And others?"

"They are also wounded, but not that severe," Deem said before adding, "but we lost one master of ours."

"Who?" Arthur had bad premonition about this.

"Master Otman paid his life in return for holding the defenses for long," Amelia said before adding, "and Amanda was taken hostage with Cesile."

"What?!!!" his rage swelled up to a terrifying level, "do you know where those bastards are?" he asked, and when no one answered he added, "is there anyone knowing their place?"

"What can we do against them?" Omar said before adding, "even our masters were hit this severe, taken hostages, and died."

"Mr. E suggests we return back and drop this competition," Amelia said before adding, "most of the disciples participating were greatly injured or died in the assault. It was a massacre and if not for someone's timely help, they would have killed everyone like they did with the clan."

"Damn!" Arthur's body trembled as he knew this wasn't far from the truth. He was weak, so much weaker compared to those assassins. "We won't drop this competition," he said before decisively adding, "and I won't rest until I take my revenge on them… all of them," he vowed in front of his team despite him only caring about his two masters.

For him, he considered them his girls, not just masters.