Per the city leaders orders, they had to stand their ground and not do anything for now. The leaders knew there was one crystal missing, and they were desperately looking for it!
The mission William gave to Sloth was this, to go back and look for this crystal. If it was here, then the enemy would have activated it a long time ago. And so there was only one place left for them to find it; the city!
Sloth didn't move there alone, grabbed Thomas alongside. The two arrived in the city, to learn about the desperate search of the leaders for the missing crystals.
Everyone in the upper circle was sure this last crystal was here. And that meant one thing; the city was under grave danger at any given moment!
When Sloth and Thomas arrived there, they got to know about everything the city leaders did. After all, they had to use the help of everyone here, invade the bases of the five traitors, and kill any master who objected or stood in their way.
Many things have changed since they first heard about it from Lara. they were now quite aggressive, especially after discovering that hidden base outside the city.
Many innocent people didn't know a thing about what their dirty leaders did, but others were involved in this. So it was expected how things turned out, quite bloody in the end.
Many turned out to be dark masters, and that made it quite hard to crack through these bases. And yet they managed to infiltrate three main bases, and fifteen affiliative ones. And yet they didn't find anything worthy there.
They didn't find any crystal, didn't find anything that could be used to help them defend the city. Be it elixirs, potions, and even good gears or weapons. All they found were tons of materials, mostly those which came from the underground city and the outer world.
There were still two remaining main bases left, and yet Sloth and Thomas didn't care about them.
"Boss predicted it, like usual," Thomas sighed, while Sloth kept walking in the city, without saying anything. There were lots of masters here, but all were serious and either running towards somewhere or carrying something to help in strengthening the defences.
The two passed unnoticed by all, headed straight towards one direction.
"I hope his guesses will be true," Sloth looked around, while seeing much more using his spirit sense, "or else the crystal will be activated if the ones inside the last two bases felt threatened."
"If boss it's inside the underground city, then it's there," Thomas had zero percent doubt at William, "we need to go there using our guild's access door."
"First time for me to be there, is it dangerous down below?" Sloth reminded Thomas of this problem, and the latter couldn't help but sigh.
He explained to Sloth about the weird monsters present there, how to detect and how to kill them. Sloth grew far more interested in these monsters, and yet when he met them, he couldn't help but feel Thomas didn't give any right at all when he spoke about them.
They were quite ferocious and deadly, the type that even someone like Sloth struggled to kill them. And yet that wasn't the main concern here.
"Your boss said we'll find the crystals where we find masters here, but the entire place is empty!" Sloth already spread his spirit all over the city, and yet he found no one there.
"That's because they are hiding," Thomas knew more than Sloth, "let's check all the buildings and places, using attacks…"
"That will take forever!" Sloth was eager to finish his task here and return back to help everyone else, "let me find them my way!"
As he was fighting against lots of bubble monsters, he started to not limit his techniques. He released them freely, without any care or concern, ending up engulfing lots of buildings in the middle of his attacks.
He didn't get what Thomas meant, but just in a few hours, he managed to find and crack open lots of sealed places. These were made by various forces in the city, and they were all vacant.
He crushed them all, and slowly started to get what William meant. Everyone got summoned up there, and the only masters who would be left here would be the ones with a mission to do. And there was only a single mission here.
"Something doesn't add up," in the middle of doing this, Sloth suddenly muttered to himself, "if they want to release monsters to take down the city, why would they focus on this place then? This doesn't make any sense…"
He got a point here indeed. The entrance to the underground city was sealed and couldn't easily get in or out without permission. If they released a monster tide here, then monsters would just roam in this city and lock any entrance for anyone to get inside without putting a deadly fight against.
In the end, the monsters would be all killed. Even if the city masters had to pay a hefty price, they'd end up crushing all of them and reclaiming the city.
So Sloth was questioning why in the first place they'd do this? And why did William even consider such a possibility in the first place?
Sloth didn't know much about this underground city. It has an interworld portal, one that could lead to the outer world. William was sure the mysterious man would place high importance on securing this portal. If things became shitty for him, he'd at least secure a way out from this world and vanish forever.
Not to mention that man already had confidence in crushing the masters at the surface. If that happened, then there would be only one safe place for the masters to run and hide at, which was the underground city. Sealing it like this would deprive the city masters from their last place to hide, a move that would end logically by checkmate for all of the city masters.
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