Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

As he flew towards the first point, he bypassed several towns and villages underneath him. this place was really clustered by many, much more than he got even from the previous clusters combined.

Behind the large compound of the villages and towns, a forest lied up ahead; short thick layered trees that made the area look like being covered in green painting.

"Where are you little rats?" he muttered to himself, as he went flying to the direction he was guided to. He knew that this warrior couldn't open up his mouth, or else he would be killed instantly by the slave curse.

Just as he flew for five minutes without finding any clue, he found the main place he was looking for! As of sudden, a small area of trees were cleared, showing a group of dark cloaked men working on some ores and a long flag with a word written on it.

"Incinerate?" he muttered, before he decided to incinerate them down below with his fire. The fight didn't take more than couple of seconds as his fire was really domineering.

After killing them all he descended to the ground, where he found the ores and flag intact from his fire. "A life sealed array? No way!" he muttered as he took with him the ores and the flag to examine while flying to the next point looking for other spots.

He took out one ore and carefully examined it, tried to smash it with his claws with no avail. "Sigh, it's really a life sealed array. That's quite disturbing," he muttered before putting the ore away, picking up the speed to find the next array point.

The life sealed array was something famous back at his time, and quite rare indeed. It was a technique when making the array runes, linking them together with some sort of soul bond; so no one could destroy these runes unless they were grouped together as a whole and were crushed at the same time.

"I just hope there won't be some sly bastard here," he thought to himself, as the main problem was when a small group of runes, even if a single rune, was taken away by someone. That would render the runes indestructible.

The next hour he consumed it in traveling across the other eleven points, killing all those cloaked dark warriors and mages he met, taking out all the runes with him, before finally collecting all of the runes and flags together.

He returned to the centre of this huge cluster, which was surrounded by other scattered villages and towns in the distance. "It seems this is a very important place for the Dorfis clan," he muttered, as this looked like a slave colony, and finding a war camp nearby or a clan stronghold wouldn't be surprising.

As he stood in the middle of the sky, above the central large town here, he took out all the runes and flags and then crushed them all with his fire.

"Sizzle!"

They all burnt! Nothing remains except for that strange black and red smoke that rose in thick waves like the whole town was on fire!

"This array… it seems they planned something very dark this time," he muttered to himself, before shifting his glance towards the one warrior that helped him, the one who stood above the tower still, glancing over him without shifting his gaze anywhere.

"I should ask more of him," he descended directly towards the man, and the moment he reached him, he cancelled his transformation. "Should I say thanks to whom?" he said first when his legs touched the ground of the tower.

"I'm Erick, and our time is little. They are still out there observing us, and if they suspect my help to you, they won't hesitate to kill all of us and our families as well."

The youth who was slightly over Arthur's age by couple of years said, hurrying in his own words, and didn't wait for Arthur to speak as he instantly added:

"There is a stronghold where many of Dorfis clansmen art stationed; their numbers are in tens of thousands and they have fortified their castle well enough. the array in your hand was meant to be activated several hours later, burning all of us here, creating a mighty wave of death directed towards the portal and the world inside. So, you have only these few hours window to save all of us here."

Arthur knew his time with this youth was limited, so he didn't hassle about anything and got straight to the point. "Why don't you come inside the portal and I will seal it!"

"We can't!" the youth shook his head before opening an opening in the base of the tower, with a thick robe extended down all the way to the ground. "This isn't our home, this is just the military camp dedicated to guard the ancient ruins on the opposite side. Our homes, families, friends, everyone will be killed if we go with you. We can't!"

He jumped and disappeared from the sight of Arthur while his sound vibrated through the deep tunnel: "You have to choose," he said.

Arthur sighed, as this seemed to be a very hard mission to accomplish. Despite the rich meal in front of him, eating it would waste much effort and time, risking everything. He thought of the better choice here, to retreat, seal the portal and forget about this place like he once did with Tina before.

However…

"Ding! Erick has given you a chance to gain many benefits from here. The stronghold here is ranked third in the Dorfis clan; wiping it out will result in greatly weakening their strength beyond your imagination. The ruins this place is guarding had a very significant importance, not to Dorfis clan but to you."

"Ding! A task is issued to you, and the system strongly advises you to take it."

Arthur felt skeptical about this, but he was curious about this task so he shrugged and said:

"Show me the task."