Under Arthur’s keen observation and special vision, he could see this as a green fire, just like the fire that helped him advance greatly in his dragonair power from before.
“They are the same…” he was shocked to discover this. Up till now he didn’t know the origin of that green fire, or that strange pillar that he still kept inside his garden world.
Yet after enveloping the team with the fire for a few breaths, they vanished as if they passed some sort of a test.
“Gege,” however Arthur felt this process wasn’t as simple as it looked, “bring that team back now.”
‘What team?’
But the next answer made Arthur’s scalp go instantly numb. “The team that just passed this sphere, didn’t you see it?”
‘Well, I saw a group of people passing through the sphere,’ Gege’s tone seemed uncertain before adding, ‘but they never appeared on the next side of it.’
“…”
As Arthur expected, this place wasn’t as easy as it looked. Getting in was really smooth, suspiciously easy. Yet leaving it seemed to have more tricks than it looked from the surface.
“If I guessed right, then that green fire took them away, into the real prison then,” Arthur’s tone was deep and his heart dropped.
“So we need to pass through it to get to the real prison?” Doaf heard what Arthur said and could already link the dots.
“Let me go and test it then,” the crow was as impulsive as ever. He wanted to throw himself into such uncertain conditions, feeling over confident in his ability to sustain anything on the other side.
“No, don’t ever touch that thing,” but Arthur’s firm tone stopped him and everyone from thinking about doing that.
After all Arthur knew this might be the real entrance towards the real prison, but that didn’t mean they would have any freedom once appearing there.
In his opinion, once they got engulfed with that green fire, their strength and powers would get sealed by some unknown method. Entering the real prison through this path meant only one end, death!
One path was blocked, meaning they had only to advance and explore this world to get a way out of here. Away from that, Arthur had a vague feeling that the only possible way to get out of here would be through crushing the prison and dominating this world.
However when he thought about this situation from the perspective of his enemies, he frowned. If he was his enemy, then he would use this situation in another way.
“Doaf, I want you to test another thing,” as the teams were already formed from his generals, Arthur said to Doaf while adding: “Gege, stop anyone from coming through that sphere for now.”
‘What? All of them?’ Gege was shocked before adding, ‘What about the necromancers then? I’ve already summoned the three and they are almost here.’
Arthur thought for a moment before saying, “let only one of them pass, as for the others they had to stay standby.”
‘Ding! Are you afraid they might trap the lion to raid his den?’ The system was smart, smart enough to link the dots behind Arthur’s weird arrangement.
“If this was true, then it might be a disaster,’ even the golden dragon already saw through this, ‘the mightiest people of the empire forces are gathered here. If they send out any strong lineup like grandmasters or elites from higher realms, then things out there will turn ugly.’
Arthur knew all this already, so he didn’t comment and only snapped his fingers.
The next instant a portal appeared. Gege wasn’t familiar with Arthur just yesterday. Out of habit she instantly opened a portal once Arthur flickered his fingers.
“Doaf, go inside,” Arthur said while Gege understood what he wanted from the other two and through reading his mind. Doaf, on the other hand, looked a bit confused.
“What should I do?” he asked with a tone filled with doubts.
“You’ll get inside the garden world then through a portal to the world outside,” Arthur slowly explained.
“Going back?” Yet Doaf seemed to not get what Arthur wanted, “isn’t the fight going on here?”
Arthur gazed up towards his trusted man. From the look of it, it seemed this trick wasn’t even noticeable for anyone but him. The more the trick was well covered, the more likely it was to happen.
“You’ll understand once there,” Arthur didn’t further explain. After all, he still didn’t have the confidence in sending people back to the real world.
“Alright,” Doaf had no authority to question his emperor. If Arthur ordered him to get back, then he had nothing else to do but to retreat.
Once vanished the portal couldn’t stand there and was crushed down into specks of light. Arthur got the feeling that a hidden strength just passed down over the portal and crushed it without any warning.
He even couldn’t see any change of the energy until the portal started cracking. Under his keen eyes, he spotted wisps of green fire eating the portal and crumbling it into powder.
“Gege, send him back,” he said to make sure Gege wouldn’t delay out of her lack of understanding.
‘I got this,’ yet Gege’s tone told him she finally understood his meaning.
However, the next moment, something new happened.
Just before any group could reach any of the two lands, a tornado of green fire suddenly erupted above Arthur. It started with waves of green fire accumulating from the green fog like something drew its attention.
The tornado appeared all of sudden and its appearance startled everyone. Yet it was formed tens of miles above Arthur, giving him precious time to react.
“Everyone, go away from me right now!” without any useless commands, he instantly ordered everyone to stay away. Compared to them, he had more than one card up his sleeve to use in defense against this attack.
Under his watch, everyone first frowned then retreated a mile away from him.
As they retreated, his face changed and showed a defiant look. “Let’s see how you plan on crushing me down.”
The next moment he started to circulate his most suited form of energy to sustain this attack, his dragonair energy.