For all these reasons, William was positive the last crystal would be left here. Even if it was kept at one of the bases up there, it must have been relocated and hidden in the underground city.
"I don't know," as the two were all alone in the middle of this grand city, Thomas already heard what Sloth said in a low tone, "But if the boss said it will be here, then it'll be here."
"Tsk! You are stubbornly loyal to that youngster, do you know that?" Sloth rolled his eyes, before adding, "I heard you have a unique talent, one that's very rare to find. Why not…"
"I don't have any interest in serving anyone but William."
"Even if…"
"Even if the king himself came and asked me to join him, I won't," Thomas wasn't acting disrespectful, didn't speak in any ill or mean way about the king or anything. He casually said it, interrupting Sloth's words, and made sure the latter would get what he truly believed in. He only believed in William, and that made Sloth feel a little envious of that youngster.
"He really did a great job, knowing a king is by knowing his subordinates," Sloth muttered to himself again, before releasing much fiercer attacks, venting the frustration he had inside, "why not use your ability then? William told me you already memorised their karma threads, whatever does that even mean."
"I'll look," Thomas rolled his eyes, "if you just gave me a break and stopped smashing things around."
"I now know why you like William this much, tsk!" Sloth rolled his eyes and didn't like how Thomas spoke back to him. And yet he remained silent, waiting on the side, and kept watching in interest.
He heard about Thomas' ability from others, but he didn't get the chance to thoroughly inspect him. The only person who got his total focus before was William, and now he got the chance to witness what Thomas could do.
Thomas didn't mind using his techniques in front of Sloth. As he did, Sloth tried to feel or sense anything abnormal about him, trying to see if there was something that could help him and others back in the kingdom to find such rare talent.
But he was disappointed to notice nothing aside from the physical and outer changes that happened to Thomas. "Tsk! It seems I need to dig deeper about that weird way to assess masters that he uses… I'll ask Anjie to spill the beans then," he muttered to himself while waiting on the side for Thomas to finish what he was doing.
"There," and when he thought Thomas would fail to find anything useful, the latter suddenly stopped what he was doing, and returned to look normal again, while pointing towards one direction.
"What's there?" Sloth didn't get what Thomas meant.
"There are lots of traces of these traitors over there," Thomas said in weird confidence, "however…"
"What?"
"I can tell there are too many masters hiding out there, and…"
"Don't take me for a walk, kid!" Sloth felt like he got slapped on the face or something, "if you are afraid, feel free to remain behind then."
"I will," Thomas didn't fall for such a cheap trick and instantly agreed on Sloth's idea. The latter was speechless when he heard what Thomas said. And when the latter moved towards the direction they came from, he knew this man was a coward at the end of the day.
Yet his opinion changed the moment he drew closer to the area Thomas pointed towards. That spot was located at the edge of the city, at a place that was close to where William once took shelter during the big battle that he experienced a long time ago here.
The moment Sloth went closer to that place, he spotted around a hundred masters running towards him. He could tell they weren't at the pinnacle stage like him, but they were all at a high stage, and on top of that they were all dark masters!
They were using the darkness element, and that made them quite hard to deal with. In general, the dark masters usually could cross gaps with stronger masters, especially when they got the numerical advantage.
"It's good that brat gave me grenades," Sloth knew this was going to be a tough fight. He felt like this group of dark masters was just the tip of the iceberg, and there were still many more dark masters hiding inside that sealing place.
As they sent just part of their forces out, that meant they needed to buy some time to do something. And without the need to speculate, Sloth could tell they were going to activate the crystal.
He didn't know why they needed time to do so, but he planned to not retreat or fight carefully and safely against them. He started clashing with them using William's grenades. Violent explosions erupted, covering a large area, taking down lots of these masters, and even attacking the concealed area behind them.
When the concealment array went down, it exposed what lay behind. Sloth spotted around a few hundred dark masters, sitting on the ground cross-legged, with one crystal in the middle.
"They are trying to activate it!" Sloth knew the moment he saw that scene that his earlier guesses were true. He didn't care about the remaining dark masters from the team who came to stop him, dashed with everything he had, and threw more grenades toward them.
He didn't flash the grenades toward these dark masters, as he could do it easily from his spot. But he charged forward, and that to secure that crystal before it'd be too late.
The moment the dark masters sitting on the ground saw the grenades flying towards them they flushed away. One of them held on to the crystal and tried to run away but he couldn't outrun the bull that was coming towards him.
The moment Sloth spotted that dark master taking the crystal away, he instantly changed his trajectory and headed directly towards him.
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