Yet the enemies were too much to handle, too strong to stop, and the incoming masters covered up a huge area that was impossible to cover.
But the moment everyone who had these weird circles surrounding their bodies started to unleash their techniques, they got shocked and scared by what happened.
Previously, no matter how they tried, they couldn't even leave a single scratch over the enemies. This was true, especially for the incoming Fox guild masters, the ones who got a large gap between them and their enemies.
But now? When they released a volley of their techniques, they watched their enemies get thrown away, with their bodies getting shredded into many pieces, dying right on the spot!
It felt like they weren't fighting dark gold masters, but bronze-grade masters or something!
"Don't stop attacking, I can't hold this formation for long," William's next shout jolted everyone on his side awake. But the same shock they had was also experienced by the enemies, on a higher scale in fact.
The humans they were crushing before like weeds transformed! It felt like they gained two grades at least, and became as strong as them, even a bit stronger.
This was the magical effect of this formation. It would suck all the spirit power, elements, and techniques of everyone taking part of it, gather all this together to form a grand pool of spirit power, one that would be used to augment and strengthen ten thousand masters selected by the one controlling the formation.
This was a real game-changer! But it has its own downsides as well. The masters making this formation would suffer from a backlash at the end, suffering a great period of weakness, and wouldn't be able to fight for a long time.
They wouldn't be in grave danger, but their fighting prowess would be greatly diminished, even sealed! Yet that didn't matter, as in this battle, these masters couldn't hold a candle in front of their enemies.
William also knew the time he could lend aid to everyone was limited by the amount of spirit power these masters had. That was why he asked them to use their potions and elixirs if they got any.
In his best estimate, the longest they could last on their own spirit power would be no more than five minutes. If they got potions, this could reach seven minutes. If they had elixirs, then it could take up to ten minutes.
As he knew this, he didn't want the masters he supported to waste time. And the moment they heard his shout, they all returned to kill their enemies.
"Push towards the monster army, you have five minutes then retreat!" William shouted, and this time his orders were directed at the masters fighting at the forefront line. They heard him, and without any hesitation dashed forward.
They could see their techniques reap more lives much faster than before. They knew they had grown stronger, and this was the moment to kill more enemies to relieve the pressure later on.
Armed with the weird formation of William, everyone fought like lions in the face of lamps. They killed and dashed forward, didn't stop even for one second to check on their target, knowing that all were dead.
Things grew much better for the newly arrived masters for the next ten minutes. They sprinted into the fort, and went directly towards the already heavily wounded enemies lying on the ground, leftovers by the boosted ones at the forefront, and killed them!
"All the newcomers, gather up around me, We need to make another formation," William knew he had little time here, but he planned to make a second, a third, and even a tenth formation like this one to keep things under check.
He knew this formation wasn't enough to let them win the war, and it was impossible for such a low number and weak masters to make a difference here.
Yet his main goal was to buy time. He knew there were two more monster tides coming, and the masters in the city were making preparations for the upcoming war.
He planned to wait until the masters at the city would arrange everything, then send an army to free them from this trap. During this, he'd try to cause all the damage he could bring to these enemies.
Yet things were destined to head towards a different path.
The Fox guild masters came and arranged themselves in different teams. They took different positions than the ones others took before, just surrounding them from the outside. And then they waited.
As more masters came, William made them line up and take their positions to make the formation. Like this, he ended up having four complete circles, each having ten thousand masters.
"Next!" As the masters who made the first formation finally depleted their spirit powers, William instantly shifted towards the masters standing next to them. The formation got instantly activated, and things continued like before.
"Rest, don't do anything," in the middle of all this, William said to the ones who exhausted their spirit powers already, "As for the extra masters, go inside and make arrows and grenades based on this!"
William took a scroll out and threw it towards Sara and Berry. He didn't need to say anything and the two got what he wanted.
They copied the scroll fast, then distributed its content over the newly arrived masters.
Each formation used ten thousand masters and took roughly from five up to ten minutes. He intended to use the formation ten times at most, and that would leave behind hundreds of thousands of masters without anything to do.
He didn't plan to keep depleting their spirit powers to make this formation. If he ever did so, he'd issue the sentence of death to them. He was preparing for their upcoming retreat and didn't want to have many monsters as a burden.
He also wanted these masters to craft the grenades and arrows the ballistae needed.
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