"He is down… Phew! I thought this was going to take forever," William was about to heave a sigh of relief when he noticed something, "damn! That tower… go deep, get me that damn heart now!"
The top of the tower suddenly started to shine out of the blue. This meant the tower was getting close to releasing its deadly attack. William knew he had little time left, and he even jumped into the tunnel with his four monstrous weapons, all five of them were fighting against the sturdy rocks and ground to get deeper.
He planned to let the four monstrous weapons handle that heart, but there was no time for such a thing now. All he could do was to try and store this heart away, hopefully, this would help.
As he joined the digging team, the speed to dig the ground increased by a huge margin. They kept getting deeper and crossing ten metres every few seconds. "Please just wait, wait until I'm there," William muttered while he didn't know where that damn heart was.
The next minute was really stressful, not only for him but for everyone. The moment the tower shone brightly and all the dark masters turned around, made a run for their lives. They didn't care anymore about these enemies, didn't care about the orders coming from their leaders. They all witnessed how deadly that tower strike was, and they wouldn't dare to stick close to it when that strike would land.
"William…'' As their enemies retreated on their own accord, everyone moved their eyes away from them, looking at the deathly quiet tunnel next to the tower base while the tower's ball on top of it was shining brighter with every passing second.
They all saw this scene from afar, and being this close made them realise how scary such an incoming attack was going to be. They didn't know if they were going to get in the middle of this hit or not, but all they could do right now was to trust their friend, boss, and trust William.
William was racing against time here, using everything he had to dig deeper. He didn't know how long he had, but he felt like the attack would land over him at any given second.
"There!" just when he reached deep enough to spot the heart, he felt like the ground around was shining with bright blue light, "damn! It's attacking! Come back here!"
The first thing he did was to call back his monstrous weapons, then he threw himself over that brightly shining grand diamond piece, releasing different lights.
He didn't have time to check over this heart, and simply threw himself and took it away in his ring.
"Damn! It's not moving!" William tried to pull it, but that large diamond didn't budge an inch, "don't tell me I have to dig all the ground around…"
He just managed to expose part of it, while the rest was still attached to the rocks around. When he failed to move it away, he started to rain down his techniques over it without restraint.
No matter what technique it was, as long as it got an offensive power, he used it. The ground around started to crack, showing something like a spider web, while he kept hitting everything he got.
He knew this wasn't even close to half of his fighting prowess before using that formation. But it was still worth the attempt. He had to stop that dark master, or else he'd be barbecued up there with that deadly strike.
The ground all around shone in bright blue colour, and William knew sooner or later a hole would appear and he'd get a direct hit from that weapon.
What he didn't know was that this wasn't a simple strike from the Troll Tower. The ones controlling it knew all the ins and outs of it, and knew about the weak spot it had.
That was why they sent such a high-end dark master to stop him and get stationed there. But when that dark master failed, they tried to keep him busy by sending tons of their forces.
They never expected their forces to get cold feet, and run away the moment they spotted the earliest sign of that tower getting activated. They also didn't place the small team on the hills in their eyes, not until they used the ballistae and managed to stop the huge influx of masters towards them.
As everything failed, and they watched William going into the deep tunnel, they decided to give it all. They didn't just release a single strike, but continuously poured their spirit power to fire up a long shot of this tower.
William was already deep enough to be safe from a normal strike. But right now, things were heading down a dangerous path ahead. And the worst thing was that he didn't know that, and his friends and guild masters couldn't help.
The only way out was by taking down that heart as soon as possible. But the task of digging the ground alone was quite tiring and took much longer than what he initially expected.
"The rocks around it are really sturdy! But it's now clear… Oh, it's connected to the tower by this pillar? Is that why I couldn't move it?"
When he just removed the last piece of rock around that heart, the one on top of it, he found a thick rod coming down towards the diamond heart, fixing it in place.
He didn't need to try to know this rod was the thing that stopped him from taking the heart away. "Fine! I find it hard that such a silly rod can stop my Holy Sword…"
He examined that rod and found out it was made of special alloy but it didn't look that hard. It was indeed more difficult than the rocks he crushed before, but it wasn't that indestructible!
The only problem he had was that he lacked enough space to arm up his technique.
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