"I''m excited already," Arthur said before heading towards the portal, to reappear again in the star map. The map was covered in fog as usual, and as he imagined the map of it in his mind, things began to be clear in front of his eyes.


    "It feels like I didn''te here for a decade!"


    Every single star here was covered in ck color. "Are they still functioning?" he asked.


    "Ding! All are either severed from here or being transferred into your garden. So your garden is acting like your middle world, supporting the map and helping organize things here."


    "I don''t fully understand it, but soon I will," he smiled before ncing over the back, where the first star, the one that began all this was lying there.


    "Time to go back."


    He moved leisurely without any stress or worries, towards thest star. The moment he reached there, he jumped into it, appearing again in the spacious warehouse.


    "Wow, Amelia and the others did a great job here," heughed the moment he exited the portal. the warehouse that once was filled with the ores extracted from the mine was nowpletely empty.


    He walked in between the empty shelves while feeling much proud in this silence. "I''m wondering how much advanced my city has be!"


    He went outside, and the moment he reached there he found Lily''s pet, Birdy, flying over the sky, with many silhouettes over its back. As Arthur was standing there, he noticed the new advancements and modifications this ce had witnessed.


    Instead of being opened and linked to the forest, a great space of trees was cleaned, creating arge empty ce surroundingrge and strong looking walls. The walls surrounded the ce in a circr fashion, and to the end of Arthur''s sight there were many towers standing watch there.


    "Impressive," he remarked as these walls and towers were strong enough to hold a city not a small mine like this one. "It seems Amelia did a brilliant job here," he was content, yet he felt something strange in the atmosphere.


    The ce was quite, strangely quiet. There was no sound of vigers working their pickaxes on the stones down there, or the sounds of their superiors ordering them to work.


    "What''s wrong here?" he muttered before he squinted his eyes, and at the distant walls he saw many lines of warriors standing there, waiting.


    Like waiting for an enemy to approach!


    "Sigh, no moment of peace for me, right?" he shook his head as he hoped toy down for some days and enjoy his hard earned rewards. "But what enemy could possibly be there to make them alert?" he wondered as he noticed the whole vigers and workers inside the mine were now standing behind the walls, preparing to aid the frontline warriors.


    "I willy low and see what''sing."


    He then went to a tree in the vicinity before jumping over it andy on one of its branches. The view there wasn''t much different than what he had seen from the ground.


    Yet he wasn''t that exposed.


    "Be ready, they areing!'''' The shout of Lily made him realize how dangerous this situation was. The tone of her was filled with worry and tension; something he rarely heard from such a little angel like her.


    "So, what are you?" he muttered as he focused over the horizon, where trees started to sway. It was like there was a huge monster tideing towards here, the same he experienced before when he used his treasure.


    "Roar!"


    "Roar!"


    "Roar!"


    The next moment the entire world was filled with roarsing from every direction around the mine. "Sh*t! these aren''t monsters! I was slightly careless and totally forgot about them!" he hurried to curse loudly when he saw the first batch of monsters jumping off the forest.


    "Son of b*tches! So they used the mages of the big ns and guilds loyal to them to hit me?" he shouted with much anger as he heard the same noisesing from the back of the mine. "And they areing with a real monster tide and many hideous monsters as well!" he was feeling irritated by this.


    "Damn you, Olor! How can you not warn me about this?!!" he was really enraged, as from the shape of it he realized this wasn''t the first time such an attack befell on here.


    "If they came this far, then my city… damn it!" he cursed again before deciding to show up. He was really furious, yet before jumping and transforming he went inside his garden first.


    The scorpion queen was sozy right there, starting her evolution sleeping while benefiting from the rich energy environment here and the service those youths were giving to her.


    At the portal leading to the outside world, Tina and Sara were there leading everyone to the inside again. "Be ready, a war is erupting outside."


    "Oh, you are so kind these days! I love you a ton!"


    "Tsk!"


    "Don''t underestimate this, as there are other battlesin the near distance."


    He then exited the garden, transformed into a dragon, as he summoned his two girls here.


    "Wow, this is a great fight! I love it!" Tina turned to him as she begged, "can I bring my boys here? please? They are strong and well disciplined. They will help."


    "Sigh, they just finished fighting. Give them time to recuperate at least."


    "Don''t worry, I know what''s best for my boys."


    Arthur sighed, and the next moment he waved his hand, and a huge number of warriors suddenly appeared.


    "Roar!"


    The next moment Arthur roared, before soaring to the sky, attracting every single attention on this battlefield.


    "The lord is back!"


    "Our mighty lord is back!"


    These shouts started to emerge here and there, while Arthur picked up height, reaching to Lily and her Birdy. He nced at the world from his ce, seeing therge and strong defensive shields stopping the hordes of ground monsters everywhere. While the arrows of the warriors on the walls kept harvesting their lives.


    "Finally, I was starting to lose hope of youing back," Lily weed him with this long sigh of relief and thisining tone. "What took you so long? Are you alright?" she asked, while not waiting for him to respond.


    "Roar!"


    And the only response he gave her was with this long mighty roar that startled even Birdy. "He is telling you to wait forter. He wanted to know what is going on here? how about the city?" Tina said, exining the roars of Arthur.


    "These… sigh, these monster transforming mages popped up out of nowhere recently. They started harassing out borders here and back in the city. a couple of times tried to attack our ground caravans and a single rare asion of attacking the air caravans.


    All ended with their failures. Then suddenly three days ago they started to show up inrge numbers, attacking in a suicide manner. They attacked us here and the city there, yet they didn''t seed to bypass our defenses.


    I lead the defenses here, while the others are leading the defenses at the city. the walls there are partiallypleted, so there are many weak spots needing their attention."


    Arthur nced at the world down below and had some understanding. "I will visit you soon, you bastard," heughed mockingly on the promising words of the framed n head.


    Hisughs went to others like mighty roars, giving much scare to many monsters down below.. "Don''t worry, we will handle it from here," Tina said, and this time she wasn''t tranting Arthur''s roars, but expressing her own words.