Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

Some teams started to work over the ground to prepare the foundations of the city, while others started to wander aimlessly everywhere, seemingly looking for ores.

There was a series of hills and mountains on one side of here, away from the lake by tens of miles. Arthur went there to check on things, and he only found some wild monsters taking from these harsh environment places to live.

"Sigh, it was such a long time to get some decent pets," he glanced over these strong looking monsters and thought not to kill them.

\'I can help with opening portals everywhere,\' Gege said, \'and inside me I can nourish them and turn them stronger.\'

\'But this would take much time,\' the golden dragon seemed not to support the idea.

\'Ding! You and your men are in desperate need of strong pets,\' the system supported Gege\'s idea.

"Let\'s do it on Gege\'s way," Arthur decided to get his hands over this missed treasure trove.

Gege spread out a huge number of portals all of sudden all around the series of hills and mountains. "Your strength grew," Arthur noted and she only chuckled. \'It\'s not my power, it\'s the power of the star map,\' she said.

"Does my training in the cultivation realms help her?"

\'Indeed, and the golden pearl energy helps as well,\' Gege thought for a moment before adding, \'I don\'t know what is the end of the map evolution, but I hope she can gain sentience like me.\'

\'I think she is destined to be a great ally for you in the years to come,\' the golden dragon said before adding, \'after all she is a relic of those ancient clans.\'

Arthur nodded while glancing over the restless monsters down below. The sudden emergence of these portals startled them, and that helped in making them move in a chaotic way, leading many inside the portals.

"Can you control the portals? Move them around?" he asked as he expected that after some point many monsters would escape the reach of the portals.

\'I can\'t,\' Gege said, \'but I can recall and redistribute them.\'

"Good," Arthur smiled, "make sure not to let a single one escapes."

\'Don\'t worry,\' she confidently said, \'but this might take some time.\'

Arthur glanced back at the city as he spotted deep grooves on the ground starting to appear like long and thin dark lines from his place, "no problem, I\'m not in a hurry."

Arthur waited for the entire day and had to change his location several times already. Each time he would stay there for a few hours before nearly all the monsters would be taken inside his garden before moving to another location.

He kept doing that until he finally reached a place with no monster. "Strange…" he muttered as he moved fast over many mountain tops and couldn\'t spot any trace of monsters here.

\'I can\'t sense anything here via the tree,\' Gege said.

\'Ding! Neither do I!\'

\'That\'s weird,\' the golden dragon muttered, \'either monsters here heard about your doing and decided to run away before you arrive or…\'

"There is a hidden treasure here or a special monster," Arthur\'s eyes shone brightly before deciding to search deeper along these mountains.

He wasn\'t in a hurry as he knew building his city would require a long time already. The nearest places of this mountainous series were now void of any monster, safe for his workers to look for mines.

And so he started to dive lower and scan every valley and big cave here.

"There is not a single trace of any monster living here," after hours of searching he reached this conclusion.

\'That\'s even weirder,\' the golden dragon said, \'according to Gege, this mountain series stretches deeply inside the lands of this planet. If there are monsters living at part of it, then it\'s normal for monsters to take this place as their dwelling.\'

"Can you ask the tree to run another scan here?" Arthur was still unsettled about this situation.

And he was right to ask for another search from his tree.

\'There is something,\' Gege suddenly said, \'I believe it\'s some sort of a garden or a relic of the ancient races.\'

"The originals?" Arthur asked in urgency as he was already curious about anything related to them.

\'I think so,\' she muttered before adding, \'according to the tree, there is a spot with strange fluctuations that resemble defensive shields but slightly different.\'

\'In which way?\' the golden dragon asked.

\'I dunno but she already is aware of the defensive shields as she saw them around the city before,\' Gege explained before adding, \'but she said these fluctuations weren\'t like these shields.\'

"Which way?" Arthur didn\'t want to waste more time here and decided to go and see that place by his own eyes.

\'I\'ll guide you,\' Gege then started to relay directions towards the spot. Arthur wasn\'t too far away from it, and when he got near there he was stopped by the amazing scene he saw from far.

"Damn! All these clouds and lightning!" he cursed out loud when he spotted those dense clustered dark clouds and thick tongues of lighting raining over a large piece of the ground down below. "They look like the old tribulation clouds and lightning of mine."

This scene brought back many memories where he triumphed over all the tribulations except one challenge; the last challenge.

\'Are you sure you want to go there?\' Gege was the one able to read out his mind among the others, and so she knew his intention about going there.

"I came all this way here not to retreat now, right?" he smiled before flapping his wings and heading towards the front, "I survived the old lightning of mine, and I can survive this."

\'But…\'

\'What the tree told you?\' the golden dragon seemed hesitant as well.

\'She can\'t spy over the center of this place,\' she said before adding, \'but she is quite sure these lightning and clouds are only an outer shell to what\'s inside.\'

\'Ding! Are these clouds and lightning the fluctuations she talked about?\' the system asked.

\'No, she says the fluctuations are still deep inside.\'

\'I don\'t like this,\' the golden dragon said before adding, \'I can already smell the scent of those originals here.\'

\'Ding! I think it\'s best to avoid this place,\' the system said, \'Ding! Always trust the primitive instincts of the monsters. If there is any absolute danger here then they won\'t hesitate to run far away.\'

\'I think they have a good point here,\' Gege also objected.

"What\'s wrong?" Arthur laughed, "are you worried I won\'t survive this?"