William's spirit power already surged and grew up fast. As he was in Lara's city, he had access to an endless supply of outer world's material.
He used his two monstrous weapons frequently, and he knew how extremely valuable they were. But he made these when he was much weaker than now!
He planned not only to repair these two, but also make at least three more of them, if he got the time.
"I hope they take much longer before getting these crystals," he muttered to himself, before lying his body on a bed, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep, "it's really nice sleeping on a normal bed from time to time," and this was the last words he said before the world vanished from his perception and entered the dream world.
As he hoped for, the task of looking for the crystals wasn't that easy on his friends. They went out, visited lots of places where Thomas pointed at, and found nothing in the end.
"This is getting silly… Where the hell did they hide these crystals?" John was growing restless, and he wasn't alone. Everyone here was feeling the pressure already.
The city leaders didn't show their real intentions towards the five traitors. They asked Lara to find at least one of these proclaimed crystals, so they'd be able to confront these five with solid and concrete proof. Without it, they didn't intend to face them with anything.
At the same time, their options were growing thin, and the list of places that Thomas provided got most of its content marked as empty.
"We still have few places to visit," Lara still held to that little hope, "if not… Then we know what to do, right?"
"I don't like this thief plan," Berry complained, and many supported her thoughts. And yet all knew there was no other possible option to them but to do that.
"We already gathered those darkness based folks back there," Sara sighed, "I hope we don't need such a plan. But if it's a must, we'll see it through."
"I still prefer to knock on their doors, fight their masters, rather than doing this," Berry still objected, and Lara shook her head without saying anything.
Either option was bad, but at least the darkness based master plan, the one many called as the Grand Theft plan, held little risks compared to the other one.
Gambling an internal war when there was a crystal out there that could bring forth tons of monsters inside the city wasn't the ideal situation Lara or anyone here wanted to see.
"Let's keep searching then," Thomas paused, before adding, "I got a good feeling about finding one crystal there."
"I hope you are right this time," Peter rolled his eyes, "this is the fifth time you said these words, mate!"
"I got a very good feeling this time, I'm sure we'll find a crystal in one of these areas…"
Thomas persisted in his opinion, and no one had anything to say to him. He said this a few times already, and they found nothing in the end.
The next stop was supposed to be towards an empty place in a group of mountains and hills. Every time they heard about the presence of hills, they recalled the bad reputation of these. Yet according to the general and known knowledge about this place, it was empty and without anything suspicious.
"What's going on here?!!" But the moment they drew closer, the first thing they saw wasn't an empty place, but a place that was filled with tons of masters, walls, trenches, and other fortifications.
"Did the masters come here to establish a defensive zone or what?" It wasn't a rare thing to see nowadays. With the influx of all these masters, the city leaders and grand masters already dispatched lots of them to build forts and defensive points at lots of places.
They already met many while looking for the crystals. But this was a bit different than what they used to see.
The defences they saw before were still in the process of getting constructed, mainly formed of a hastily built circular wall, with shallow trench and few traps here and there. This one looked different, way different and advanced than any of these rudimentary defences.
It had a very well established thick and grand wall, one that stretched for tens of kilometres right and left, and went beyond what their spirit senses could detect. Out of it, a very deep and wide trench was there, filled with tons of green liquid, emitting green and black vapour all the time, releasing bubbles all over its surface.
It went without testing it that this liquid was toxic, corrosive, and quite lethal to anything trespassing over it. There were two big gates with two huge dropped bridges connected to them. Without these bridges, no one could trespass this.
Inside the walls was another tale of densely packed defences, lots of grand towers, and even small-sized trenches were there. William's friends were sure this place was filled with tons of traps and wasn't a place friendly to any master.
"This is weird…" Lara looked at all this from afar, using her spirit sense, "I never heard of something grand being built here before…"
"Told ya, I got a great feeling about this place, hahaha!" Thomas laughed, but for a reason, he felt quite nervous and lacking self-confidence, not like how he tried to show using his words and attitude.
But no one cared truly about what he was doing. They all looked at that fortified zone, trying to get a head or tail about it.
The place was filled to the brim with tons of masters, all were wearing cloaks that hid their faces. They weren't wearing black cloaks, or else everyone here would mistake them for being dark masters. These cloaks were blue in colour, without any emblem or symbol placed or drawn there.
"Hmm… I better relay this over to William and them."
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