As the dark master was entrapped with that blue lightning cloud like being squeezed by it, he felt like all the lightning strikes were aiming specifically and perfectly for him.
He tried to resist and fight back, but everything he used got negated and evaporated under the brutality of lightning. He suffered one hit after another, and this time his body showed its advantage as being a high-end dark gold master.
He didn't suffer much damage actually, yet with each lightning strike he felt like part of his spirit power would get burnt away, and there was an additional annoying numbing effect that assaulted him, accumulated with each strike, ending up greatly impacting his reactions and responses.
William didn't need to use his spirit sense to know how bad that master was experiencing right now. He knew his current level of power wasn't enough to badly hurt that dark master, but he was aiming at putting him into a long sleep.
The moment the formation got activated, he and the other four had to remain in their locations, not move an inch. They provided the formation with more lightning spirit elements and power, while William controlled the lightning falling on top of that dark master's head.
Using spirit sense, he could see how that man's responses started to grow sluggish and slow. Soon enough, the man couldn't stand erect, fell on one knee, then on two. And when that happened, William didn't need to strike a wide area and focused over the head of that master.
If anyone was looking at this scene from afar, the thing that many masters on both sides were doing right now, they'd get both scared and shocked.
His friends and guild masters shouted in triumph, gained a huge push from seeing their boss dealing with such a scary dark master without suffering much, and he even was crushing him!
They pushed harder, killed more of their enemies, and destroyed more of the annoying ballistae. They even managed to claim many of these, and stored them in their rings, alongside the loot they collected from the dead dark master which became a naturally gifted habit and talent for all of them.
What made their task much easier was the negative blow of watching their leader of this area get crushed like this in front of a mere early-stage dark gold-grade master. They lost their will to fight, and many already ran back and retreated to join other forces around the place.
In the next five minutes, the task William asked his friends and guild masters to do got done. And yet there was a new challenge awaiting them.
A dense number of dark masters appeared a couple of minutes ago. They gathered up, regrouped under the lead of a new leader, and were coming towards William and them from all directions.
"Let us handle the hills," Sara shouted, "let our mighty boss handle the ground, and we'll keep these hills secure."
"It's his way out after dealing with that dark master and weird tower," Berry shouted, "let's make it clear and safe for him!"
As they started to shift their attention to fight the incoming large number of dark masters, it was time to let them suffer from the same bitter medicine they gave to them before.
They took all the ballistae they got so far, and started to attack the enemies from high ground. This was something new for all of them, and they experienced how deadly and impressively effective such a war weapon was in the face of a large number of enemies.
William was closely watching his enemy, but he was also paying attention to the world around him. When he spotted the incoming dark masters, he knew this was going to be tough. The dark master entrapped in the middle of his formation didn't issue a single sound or a move for more than a minute now. But he knew he was just faking it.
It wasn't hard for such an experienced dark master to guess William's true aim from doing this. And so he tried to trick the youngster about the success of his move, pushing him to end it a bit earlier than it should be.
William didn't fall for such a trick, but the incoming dark masters were something he had to deal with soon enough. Before he'd make the hard decision of shutting down his formation, he saw what his friends and guild masters did.
"Great job! Just in time, hahaha!" He spotted them using ballistae, and raining down deadly arrows over the heads of their enemies. Just by using these ballistae, the dark master's fierce momentum got halted and they couldn't get close to the valley he was in.
They focused most of their fire to stop the enemies from getting close to him. He did this to buy them little time, and they were now repaying the favour.
As he got nothing to worry about for now, he returned to totally attack that dark master with everything he had. The dark master inside could tell his enemy didn't fall for his little scheme, so he decided to try something futile.
He tried to run! Yet William was prepared for this. The moment that dark master tried to dash out, moving like an arrow released from a bow, he got slammed heavily by a fierce blow of lightning that appeared just on the trajectory he selected.
There weren't many targets here anyway. That dark master had to select between William and his four monstrous weapons. And the target he selected was quite clear to William from the start; it was him.
So the moment that dark master finally opened his eyes and was about to make his move, William instantly shifted the direction of his lightning strikes, letting them fall over the path leading towards him.
The dark master went speechless from such a timely response. He underestimated William, and the last thing he thought about before losing his consciousness for real this time was how could such a young master have such vast and rich battle experience.
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