Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur stood in his place motionless while Gege kept delivering the news for him.

'The crow is leading his forces now and is going after the ground army.'

"What about me?"

'You are going to face the flying one and that cloud.'

Arthur took a deep breath. It felt really weird standing here and listening to what he already did.

"What about that traitor? Jim?" he suddenly asked.

'Well, he returned to the sect a long time ago,' Gege said, 'do you want me to look for his location now?'

"Yeah," Arthur knew it was still hard to topple that traitor off his seat as the sect leader, "also try to make the tree listen to any of his meetings. We need to know how deeply rooted this treason is."

'Got it.'

"I... also need something else from you," Arthur seemed a bit hesitant yet Gege read through his thoughts.

Before he was forcibly teleported from this world to the higher realm, the leader of the flying monster army threatened him with his two captured girls.

'The cloud obscures my powers, y'know that,' Gege slowly said.

"But you got upgraded, right?" Arthur still had hope, "just try and see."

Gege went into silence for a while before finally agreeing. 'I'll need you to move closer to the cloud then.'

Arthur didn't hesitate to start flying. At the previous time he felt deeply regretful for not moving to save the two girls. Yet he never knew things would reach such a stage and he would have his chance again.

Yet he also knew he couldn't expose himself. He now knew this army was coming from the higher realm. He also knew he would have the chance to fight part of it and kill it.

However he didn't want to change anything of the past. He didn't know what would happen if he did that.

After all, he didn't regret getting into that cloud. In fact he appreciated that and wanted none of these things to happen differently.

Except for the two girls who were thrown into the cloud before his eyes.

'Ding! So we will use the portals secretly to save them,' the system said, 'Ding! What if that exposed you?'

'We can use a sealing array,' the golden dragon said.

'I have a better idea,' yet Gege suddenly proposed, 'how can they find you if you weren't actually here?'

Arthur didn't get her meaning at first. "What do you mean by that? Didn't you just ask for me to come closer?"

'Yeah, but if you entered into my world, then they won't be able to find you, right?' Gege explained her plan in more detail as she added, 'you will reach the place where we know the cloud will be near to it. Then you'll just leave here and I'll do the rest.'

'Wow,' the golden dragon commended, 'I like this plan!'

'Ding! I still have the place where the girls were thrown at,' the system said, 'Ding! I'll guide you to reach there faster and vanish.'

Arthur felt things were finally falling in his favor at last. His eyes shone ain blue light while he flew like a rocket towards the front.

The system kept guiding him until he reached an empty spot. He knew in less than five minutes this place would turn into a giant battlefield.

"Do it now!" he said and instantly a portal appeared before he vanished inside.

'I'll start monitoring the surface,' Gege said.

"No, I'll watch everything with my own two eyes," Arthur instantly moved fast towards the location of his tree.

"Wow! The tree got new smaller ones around?!!" It was his first time to check the tree after Gege got the upgrade.

The previously single towering tree now had a group of smaller ones around. The smaller trees were nothing compared to the original one, yet all had mirrors in their branches like leaves.

'Since the upgrade,' Gege said, 'I wasn't the only one to gain benefits, y'know!'

Arthur couldn't help but laugh in contempt. "Things are just getting better and better," he didn't hesitate to land on the ground just next to the mother tree.

"Long time no see."

The moment he stepped into the tree world he heard the soft voice of the tree once again. This time he felt even his energy getting replenished and his soul in great peace.

"I see you got a lot of upgrades yourself," he said with a chuckle.

"As you are," the tree softly laughed at the short one in a very sweet way. Arthur couldn't help but have his smile wider.

"I assume you are here for the outside battle," the tree softly said before a gigantic mirror appeared and things started to show up on its surface.

"Isn't it a bit weird to watch yourself doing the same thing?" she suddenly asked in interest.

"I think it's a twist of fate," Arthur slowly said, "or perhaps this was my fate from the beginning."

Arthur didn't know why but at this moment all he could think of was his entire life. He saw his life extending as a grey long thread where there were some points marked in red.

These were the fingerprints fate left on his life, things he thought he did or was forced to do according to circumstances.

Like coming to this world instead of succeeding the tribulation and ascending to be an immortal.

Like forced into that gigantic portal taking the shape of the cloud to enter the higher realm.

To end up here, standing inside his garden world safe and sound watching everything playing again in the same sequence.

Yet this time he had the power to change the outcome... to save those who matter to him.

"Was fate... intending to take things off me and give me time to grow powerful enough to take them back?" he couldn't help but mutter slowly to himself, asking only himself this troubled question.

Yet he had to interrupt his line of thoughts. At this precise moment, two things appeared on the mirror screen in front of him.

He saw the gigantic cloud approaching from one end, and he saw himself flying towards it from the other end.

"And so it begins," he took a deep breath while hoping things would end up being right this time.