Chapter 326 - Want Population? Take These!
As the new rune showed up its magic, Arthur had already fired over a hundred arrow. That was less than one eighth of the total number of pillars out there around the Golam, but these recent waves kept that Golam in check.
"Master!" in less than ten minutes the contracting process finished and Ronald stood there, helplessly saluting Arthur.
"Finally, you knew your right place in this world," Arthur smirked before adding, "from now on you will be my loyal dog," he said while pointing out to the new tattoo on his left hand.
It was a dragon tattoo, and Ronald had the other twin of it on his chest. Arthur then glanced at the Golam before muttering, "it\'s time for us to go back."
"Master, I have depleted my energy so I can\'t be helpful right now."
"Your help isn\'t in strength. Don\'t worry, I crave about something else from you."
The calm smile on Arthur\'s face wasn\'t pleasant to Ronald, who didn\'t know what Arthur planned out for him. "Go inside and recuperate," Arthur said as he put his hand over him, taking him inside his garden.
"I hope they retreated," He then closed his eyes to check on the garden. He spotted Tina, whom were leading her own warriors and the warriors and villagers of the mine into the garden world from one portal.
He smiled in content, before appearing suddenly in front of her.
"Gosh, you gave me a scare here," she bellowed out as his appearance startled her. "What\'s going on? Is there really such a danger?" she asked.
"You have half an hour to retreat. Tell this to Sara and Lilly, I don\'t need them to be caught in the middle of this."
She didn\'t reply at once, as she was sure he wouldn\'t exaggerate something in such a way. "Is it this dangerous?" she asked, "are you going to be alright?" she added.
"Don\'t worry about me. There is no time, make everyone evacuate instantly," he said before reopening his eyes. "Good, I think most of them slipped through in these past minutes. That\'s reassuring."
He then flapped his wings, rising from the deep pit he was inside. "I won\'t let you go away!" the Golam roared, and Arthur just ignored it.
If the Golam had something to do, then it would have done it long time ago!
"Ding! Don\'t underestimate it, it\'s not that easy to kill!"
"Glad to be not my task, but your sweet princess."
"…"
Arthur went directly towards his city. The defensive barrier there was the weakest, yet he didn\'t plan to concede anything in this fight except if he was forced to do so.
When he approached the city, he noticed the hostile forces weren\'t anywhere to be seen. "They know how to run fast," he sighed as he spotted Amelia in front of all his main mages.
They were standing on top of a gate. As he descended there, he passed through the shield easily to land in front of them. As he canceled his transformation, he was surrounded with everyone, as they seemed quite worried.
"Are you alright?"
"What\'s going to happen?"
"Why are those pillars here?"
"What is that gigantic monster?"
"Are we going to die?"
Many questions and worries were thrown at him instantly from everyone. The only one standing calm and collected was Amelia and Ron. The first knew more about this situation from the beginning, despite the sudden appearance of that Golam startled her.
As for Ron, he was totally confident that his new master\'s version was quite resourceful and able to deal with any calamity.
"Cam down everyone, we will not perish, and we won\'t leave the city to be ruined. We are here to win our right to go into the academy, and we will do it no matter what!"
He then glanced over the enormous distant Golam that looked like a mountain. "This is the weapon our enemies desperately prepared for us. This isn\'t the first of its kind to face, and like the previous one, I\'m planning to slay it."
"Y- You met something terrible like this already?"
The shocked tone of Amelia expressed everyone\'s thoughts. "Yes, and as you can see, I\'m still alive. We need to be well prepared for the next explosion."
"Explosion?!!"
Omar exclaimed in more shock. "This monster won\'t fall without a big bang. And that bang would kill anything in its way," he didn\'t add more, as he turned to glance among the people here as he asked, "where is Gor? Where is Deem?"
"Here."
"It\'s me."
The two moved from the crowd of mages to stand in front of him. One handled his defenses, and the other was asked with laying down the Fey Lines diagram.
"I want to activate the defensive shield by its mightiest power when the explosion happens. Just don\'t activate everything at the start, wait for my signal and use anything you need from the city."
Gor exchanged silent glances with Deem and then with Amelia as he said:
"This will not be a problem, but we lack population."
"We have one million and half here, but a million is needed to activate one layer of the defensive shields," Amelia stepped in to explain. "Because of this we couldn\'t activate over one layer."
"Population isn\'t a problem," Arthur smiled with complete confidence before closing his eyes and entering his garden.
Aside from the pillars, the second most gained benefit he had from all the recent adventures was the population he snatched so far! "Million? Huh, I have millions here," he smirked while taking a general tour inside the garden world and giving out simple instruction to everyone.
All were about to be transported into his major base, yet they don\'t need to take everything with them. He asked them to take any war related items only. Aside from that, they needed nothing else.
In less than ten minutes he had already arranged everything inside his garden. When he opened his eyes, only one minute passed. "Make space for the new population," he said as he pointed towards the vacant and spacious area behind the walls as he said: "Bring them here."
He was speaking to his system, and the next moment the space got crowded with many people appearing out of thin air. This scene, this grand scene startled and deeply touched everyone here.
"These…" Gor didn\'t know what to say, except he swallowed his dried up throat and the rest of his shocked words.
"Don\'t stand here, there are more coming. Hurry and arrange things with him," Arthur gave the order to everyone standing around him, and instantly they were all jolted awake by his words and then went down to the ground.
Dealing with such an influx of people wasn\'t a simple task, especially if the end of the world was going to happen soon.