Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

'So ten days here means one hundred day inside my garden,' Gege said, trying to calculate things, 'that means one hundred grand dragon ready plus a grand army of originals… Wow!'

'But waiting for that long might endanger our empire,' the golden dragon warned, 'the enemy won't wait this long for us, especially when he already is close by.'

"Hmm… We can throw in a bait for him then," Arthur gave the matter deep thinking before adding, "we can send an army towards the direction of his base. This way he will freak out for us to know his plan and will be forced to fight this army."

'Ding! But he will move his flying base away,' the system didn't get the idea fully.

"We can always follow them wherever they go," Arthur said.

'Throwing in one army won't do,' the golden dragon said, 'if that army can't be a threat to him. Plus won't he be suspicious of our attack?'

"We have a broad map filled with settlements and enemy forces here," Arthur laughed, "we can send our armies towards the closest cluster to the base. This way he won't suspect anything. Plus…"

Arthur paused before adding, "we can send in a few originals to make him know he is in danger. Plus those from high realms, he won't sit idle and watch the army getting closer to him."

'Ding! But moving the army suddenly away to that direction will be suspicious as well!'

"Then we shall move the army to hit all the settlements in the path towards the base. This way he won't suspect anything," Arthur was already fixed on doing this. After all, and as the golden dragon said, trying to wait for ten days was a risk.

The enemy already infiltrated his empire. That meant the enemy would only wait for a couple days more at most before moving.

"Also ask Agnus and other geniuses to think about a way to detect the flying islands in the sky," Arthur suddenly said before adding, "but don't make them discover anything. Let these devices be obvious to tell anyone about their use."

'You want to scare him away?' the golden dragon laughed, 'nice tactic!'

"I have to force him to move against my army, not my empire," Arthur explained. "I believe if anything can be added to the already existing cities to help in discovering the air field will be a great addition as well."

'On it,' Gege said before adding, 'but I can't guarantee anything.'

"I trust my boys to find something interesting to use," Arthur wasn't a bit doubtful about this. He had great minds inside his grand empire, and surely one of them must have something to solve this problem.

"Take me in."

As he wouldn't go and hit the flying base now, Arthur thought to enter his world instead. The garden world had many advantages for him at the moment. Without it he wouldn't be able to pull this fight or win it.

"Make sure to keep a close eye over the places of the islands," he said before he added, "did you prepare the place I asked for?"

'I'll take you there now,' a portal opened and Arthur simply passed through it.

There he found himself in a broad space where it was lined totally with dense groups of purple ores. The ores kept flooding the place from many portals, as Gege wasn't sure if what Arthur was doing would exhaust the ores or not.

In the middle he found a small house that had an underground space. 'I tried to mimic those bases for you to my fullest abilities,' she said while he was content with what he had.

"Bring the curtains here," he said before adding, "and also prepare the monsters to be sacrificed."

"Woosh!"

"Woosh!"

"Woosh!"

The next moment many portals opened and a lot of curtains appeared. "Sigh, I forgot they are much bigger than the ones I conquered before," he took out his sword and started to act like a tailor here.

He cut down those curtains into smaller pieces. The more he worked, the smaller curtains piled up next to him. But that didn't make the amount of the large curtains drop. Instead they kept piling up.

"That's enough," after an hour of working diligently, the entire space was filled with large curtains. "Take those smaller ones and store them nearby."

'Ok,' Gege started to take the ready curtains away while Arthur needed five more hours to finish cutting everything into smaller pieces.

Each big curtain gave him around fifty smaller ones. This was much bigger than what he initially thought. But he didn't find anything bad about this.

After all, his most precious currency now in the entire empire was these curtains. No matter how much he had, he wouldn't be ever satisfied.

He looked at the curtains he piled so far and were teleported away using portals in satisfaction. 

Despite having so much, he knew they weren't even enough to cover the needs of his army.

Putting the military forces aside, he also wanted to try them over the citizens of his empire. In his eyes, the strength of any force wasn't measured by their military, but the strength of their civilians.

Having an empire with civilians on par with normal mages was something scary indeed. But to do so he needed an endless supply of these curtains. 

He had a way to get many curtains but the only problem still lay in the purple ores. 

"I need to find more of those flowers," he said to himself. Despite having many reserves of the purple ores, a day would come when he would exhaust them all.

After all the ores were now not limited to the use in making curtains. He needed them to make his currency as well. Plus he was quite sure if he gave Agnus the permission and time, he would find more uses for these wild rocks.

Besides he could use them in making runes and building his forts and cities.

Just thinking about this made him realize how poor and greatly limited in resources he was. Everything precious was precious not only for their uses, but for the hardships to gain them.

With the presence of the flowers, he could simply attract as many purple ores from that hidden prison in the sky as he would desire.

"If I failed, I would have to find a way to go up there myself," the more he thought about it, the more he realized the day of him visiting that prison was drawing near.

Despite him not believing in the fairy tales or the prophecies he heard of, he couldn't help but inwardly sigh. After all, his fate was leading him step by step towards getting there.

"I hope things won't complicate further when I go there," he muttered before adding, "let's start."