"What should we do now?" Arthur asked as he was very conflicted at the mont.
"If he is a traitor…" Ara carefully chose her words before adding, "then he won't allow us to execute our plans."
"He will attack the array," Arthur nodded, "but that's hard…" he turned to glance at all the surrounding mages who followed Marcos to here.
"Yeah, who knows who is already involved in such treason and who is fool enough to follow their leader," Ara got his point and muttered in obvious worry.
"What about taking them inside your garden?" she turned to ask with hope in her eyes.
"I… can't do that right now," Arthur couldn't help but bitterly say, "I had to sacrifice sothing to save the rest of us back then."
"That gigantic portal… I see," she muttered before adding, "then all we can do now is to try and separate him from his n."
"That would be an issue," Arthur said before adding, "if he is the traitor then he will be smart enough to know how important these mages are."
"Doaf is higher in rank than him," Ara suggested but Arthur glanced at her for a long minute in a aningful way. "Yeah, I also doubt he can control them on his own."
Arthur was lost in silence before he got an idea. "Let's set up a trap for him," he said, "like saying you have a way to summon the grandmaster in the flesh here."
Ara glanced in interest at him as she nodded, motioning him to continue.
"We'll let Doaf know about our doubts," he said before hurriedly adding to stop Ara from objecting, "but we won't specify who the traitor is."
"Hmm… that might work," she nodded, "but this way we'll have to establish this trap far from here."
"That's given," Arthur nodded, "we need to separate him from any mages here in the first place."
She gave the idea so thoughts before nodding. "Alright, I'll do it now. I'll go to the two and inform them about this."
"Ask Doaf to co to see while you select a handful of your team and go to that side."
He pointed towards the part of the forest he first ca from.
"Only a handful of them?" she asked in doubt.
"If you selected a lot he would be suspicious," Arthur explained, "but don't worry, you'll inform your n to follow my lead at any mont and I'll always keep an eye on you and him."
"What if he can shield what he was doing?" she suddenly asked.
"Like those dark mages?"
"He is now considered one of them, right?"
Arthur realized this simple yet fatal flaw in the plan. "Well… I'll keep an eye on him then. If he moved, or sent anyone after you then I'll dispatch so of your n first. If he vanishes then I'll co at him with all we got."
"I doubt I won't last long enough until you guys arrive," she said, "but don't be late, or else you'll lose your previous reward."
She winked at him and he recalled the promise she once gave him. "C'mon, you owe a kiss," he laughed.
"After all this moron," she chuckled before turning around to leave, "who knows, it might go beyond just one kiss."
He couldn't help but smile while watching her move so fast towards the direction of Doaf and Marcos.
"Things are getting more complicated," he sighed, "I hope we can pull everything together just in ti."
'Ding! don't worry, we'll be fine.'
"Now how about that world's plan?" Arthur thought for a mont, "It's better to tell what's needed so I can prepare."
'Ding! As I previously said, you need to go to the shrine with your soul.'
"Sothing I can't do now, huh?" Arthur took a deep breath, "but what next? I don't believe I would only take her out and let her take the empty throne, right?"
'Ding! well… to be honest I never tried sothing like this before.'
"And?" Arthur wasn't satisfied with such an answer.
'Ding! in theory you'll need a power far greater than all the power in the entire world to put soone on that throne.'
"This…" Arthur was shocked to hear what the system said but the system's next words made him realize the hope there.
'Ding! but you have sothing that can overco any form of power in this world… That tribulation you kept postponing over and over again.'
"Oh… you an I should use the tribulation power to disturb the world's energy and so she can ascend the throne?" he muttered in a deep voice before adding, "but…"
'Ding! I know… I know… that will make things much harder for us in the next few days. However we will go to that world and be surrounded with a lot of strong mages. What possibly could go wrong?'
Arthur was lost in thought for a long ti before sighing. "My old friend, you are underestimating the tribulation so much," he couldn't help but shake his head, "doing such a thing will bring a disaster upon my head, that's a given."
'Ding! and you might be wrong!'
"Nothing about the tribulation is wrong," Arthur firmly said, "We'll have it hard, and you should be prepared for it."
'Ding! but we don't have another choice,' the system sighed, 'Ding! after all this is the only way to see this through.'
"Yeah… that I can't argue with," Arthur took a deep breath before adding, "alright. First things first. I'll see the trap plan then I'll go to that shrine and start the ascension there."
'Ding! What about Gege? Should I call her?'
"Not now," Arthur slowly said, "let's wait an hour before he takes the bait."
'Ding! Will he wait this long?' The system seed to doubt this arrangent of Arthur.
"Soone like him won't be impulsive," Arthur said, "he will act as cautious and plan ticulously for each action of his. He knows better than any of us that a single mistake here and he will be exposed."
'Ding! I hope Ara will be convincing then,' the system said, 'Ding! or else he might not move a muscle at all.'
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