Chapter 325 - A Tough Situation
"Ding! You know by helping the world\'s will more she will be generous with you."
"Don\'t… just don\'t!" Arthur wasn\'t in the mood to hear any excuse right now. He was dead set on this, In addition, he was madly furious.
His city was the base of everything he worked for and aimed to achieve. He thought joining hands with that world\'s will was going to be without losses, yet he was mistaken.
And that made him quite angry at himself! He was blinded for a moment by greed. If he knew this from the beginning, he wouldn\'t have chosen this way!
Sealing and sending the Golam back home seemed quite a plan to him right now. But it was too late for regret. "No matter what, I have accomplished my part and all that\'s left is for the world\'s will to come and do her part," he said, addressing himself and the system.
He glanced over his broad shoulders to spot his city. "Scattering the pillars alone isn\'t enough," he muttered before taking out a bird\'s wing and started writing something to Amelia.
Once done, he changed his vision to focus entirely on Ronald; that bastard was the only thing standing between staying here and going there to secure his city.
"You know you can\'t even run away from this. The master I called upon isn\'t your today\'s monster. He won\'t leave here without a big bang that would devastate the entire world!"
Arthur squinted his eyes, instigating Ronald\'s weak and bitter laughs. He knew he was doomed now, as the monster he summoned was sealed in place like that!
He was now quite nervous about his future, and death appealed to him. But his only way to reach that was for his wound to bleed him to death.
To bleed out before the ticking contract clock reached zero, or else his own future would be already decided as a slave. He couldn\'t deepen his injuries as the immense pressure exerted from the Golam also pressured him.
Even the blood coming out of his wound slowed down long time ago, further moving his death dream far away.
As for Arthur, the bitter said words out of despair coming from Ronald rang alarming bells in his mind. "The girls," he muttered before hurrying to take out one bird\'s wing and wrote to Lily.
The paper had one order; retreat, abandon mine and follow Tina and Sara to inside the star map. He also gave some instructions to the tigress and the dragon for what the two should do.
He would let them move everyone through the star map to his garden. He knew this was going to take much time, so he stressed on speed or death would await all.
He just hoped the thick headed Tina to follow the orders, and Sara wouldn\'t run for herself first abandoning everyone. After all, Sara was the only one who knew the star map details beside him.
"Ding! The world\'s will will come here in an hour."
"She gave you a time? That\'s relieving."
Arthur knew this wasn\'t out of pure good will. He knew this hour was his own responsibility to handle, and thus if the Golam broke free during this, so all his efforts from before would be rendered pointless.
Yet he wasn\'t stressed or worried. If the pillars couldn\'t control the Golam, then he would launch more arrows to the pillars.
And the time for that Ronald to yield to him would approach one hour. He didn\'t know that from the contract he started, but from the time frame the world\'s will gave to him.
She must have chosen the time appropriate for her own benefits, meaning the contract would end around one hour.
"Do you think I don\'t have something in mind?" he smirked before he injured himself with his claw, letting his blood ooze out slowly. Ronald stared with widened eyes towards him, not knowing what he intended to do.
Unlike him, Arthur could move with much ease, and he then moved around the circle he once drew by Ronald\'s blood.
"Ding! What are you doing?" the system felt something was odd here, so it asked.
"Doing what I should do," Arthur just replied without giving more info to the system. The system didn\'t ask more, as it delved deeply inside Arthur\'s mind, and after a few moments it said: "Ding! You are speeding up the contract!!"
Arthur was almost finished as this time he didn\'t need to fake anything. Once finished, he took out a group of ores before he started drawing characters on it; Haste!
"Ding! Moving away from the Golam in this delicate timing isn\'t good."
Arthur continued to work on his runes, ignoring the system. He only made one group of eighty-nine runes before putting it in the center of the circle.
The moment he did so, Ronald\'s features changed. It seemed he was resisting something, but in the end his struggle stopped and he looked like an obedient child.
"Good, five more minutes and it will be finished."
"Ding! What about the Golam?"
"Isn\'t it under the control of the pillars?"
"Ding! This is temporarily! It\'s so strong and the fight with the pillars is raging hot."
Arthur didn\'t know if he could trust the system words or not, but he just smiled as he said:
"When it\'s about to break free from the pillars\' confinement, tell me."
"Ding! It is! It\'s trying all the time!"
"Sigh," Arthur was already annoyed by this system. He didn\'t speak again as he took out his bow and sent a group of arrows fast to hit the pillars once again.
And like before, the arrows caused a surge of wave of energy. The Golam was again hit with newly developed waves, while Arthur said: "Happy now? I can seal him for eternity, so tell your precious princess to hurry. Her little scheme will not work."
"Ding! She isn\'t scheming anything!"
"Stop being defensive and inform her."
Arthur then kept firing more arrows to hit the pillars once more. The reassuring thing about pillars was the fact they couldn\'t be destroyed.
So one less thing to worry about.