William was sure if he got enough space and time, he'd be able to take it down without any hustle.
But he lacked both. And so he decided to go straight forward, attacking this rod one time after another. As he lacked the scary stacking ability of his, he decided to use all the weapons he could, the best of all.
Even that scythe he collected from the unconscious dark master above was used. Per habit, he didn't miss collecting his loot, the gears, and rings from that dark master.
*Bang!* *Bang!*
One hit after another issued loud banging noises. Yet the loudest came from high above. The attack was cutting the ground layer by layer, melting the rocks, and turning them into weird red-blue lava. The lava fell through the tunnel and gaps in the rocks around, and he had to take Charley out to shield him.
"Keep this filth away!" he left Charley to do this, while he continued batting his weapons against that pillar.
At first, nothing much happened except for the loud noises. But after twenty attacks, fine cracks started to appear there. The moment he spotted these, he focused all his attacks on that point, further weakening it.
He kept dashing around non-stop and didn't even take a single moment of rest. He gulped three elixir bottles just in one minute, a scary consumption rate indeed. But he wanted to push his depleted and currently low spirit power up, trying to make up for the lost power from the lightning formation he used.
*Sizzle!*
Just when the cracks deepened and thickened, he heard loud sizzling noises coming from the rocks above his head. "It's coming… Smash to pieces, dammit!" He knew he had little time left, and in the middle of such a critical moment, he summed up power he didn't know where it came from.
If he was looking at himself right now, he'd be shocked to see the shadow everyone spoke about and he didn't see it getting brighter. The sudden surge of power came from that spirit he got himself connected to, and it felt like his life was linked to that spirit's, and it got forced to help him in such a disastrous moment.
*Boom!*
With just two strikes, that rod smashed into tiny pieces. William didn't even heave a sigh of relief, didn't even shout for celebration, as the world around was turning brightly blue. He could feel his body getting hotter as if it was subjected to a star directly or something.
Once he spotted that rod smashed into tiny pieces, he extended both arms and touched the diamond heart. "Get in!" he roared, and then everything went blank in front of him.
He managed to grab that heart, but it was a bit too late. The deadly attack coming from the tower landed on top of him and Charley. The latter got destroyed and melted in mere seconds, while the former fell to the ground unconscious.
If not for that bright golden shadow enveloping him, William would have died at this moment. Yet he lost his consciousness, and everyone watching this knew about it.
"We need to hurry!" The moment his friends and guild masters saw the tower crack and fall on its own, and saw that scary blue light fading away, they moved their spirit sense toward the tunnel. They couldn't see anything before thanks to the brutality of that blue laser-like beam of light. And now they could see it clearly.
They saw the moment when William's body slammed and hit the ground. He remained there, not moving a muscle. Even his breath looked a bit ragged and irregular, giving all of them a scare.
They didn't feel themselves, and shouted at each other before running directly towards that tunnel. At the same time, the leaders of the dark master forces here knew this was the chance to take these annoying flies down.
They instantly gave the order, and even before William's friends and guild masters would cross half distance downwards, they spotted the huge number of dark masters coming.
"I'm staying back!"
"Go, I'll keep them busy!"
"Hurry up and save the boss!"
The males shouted while Willaim's girls didn't stop for even one second. Bringing William back wasn't that hard a task to pull. And so most of the masters here returned back to the top of the hills, controlled their ballistae, and fired tons of arrows toward the incoming enemies.
They didn't wait for them to get close this time, launched the arrows far and fast, hitting the army thousands of metres away from William's place.
"Easy, let's carry him together," when the girls arrived at the depth of that tunnel, which now turned out to be a big hole, they first examined him. Anjie took out a top-class healing elixir, while Lara gave him one made out of the materials found in the underground city.
Sara and Berry stuffed spirit power regeneration elixirs into his mouth, as the two knew him the longest. They knew how addicted William was to such elixirs, and the first thing that popped into their heads was to use these.
Then they started to slowly lift him, before running as they could, with the most care to not let his body tremble or feel anything while climbing up their way to the top.
When they arrived up there, all they could see was densely packed dark masters trying to barge their way toward the valley. If not for the ballistae, things would have gone south for them and William.
Yet they all knew this was a temporary solution. They got limited ammo in the first place. They just looted the few dark masters they killed on top of the hills, while most of them were thrown off to die from the fall.
"You go, we'll gather the arrows from the dead," as they saw the current situation, Anjie took the first step, while Lara, Ro, Lina, and the other girls followed suit.
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