Chapter 1072 The Kingdom's Army
William rolled his eyes, and turned to the ones who argued on his theory, "There isn't a single monster or dark master around in that region, not any close by region. So how come that army will show up here then?"
"They may come out from a portal…"
"That won't do," William interrupted Panther, "the vision you got showed we are going to open something and pass through it. You may have missed the flash appearing next after opening that gate, but we'll end up in a new place, not here at least. So we have to plan accordingly, and be ready for such a possibility."
His words landed as if a bomb exploded here. Everyone exchanged silent glances and didn't say anything. They were all experienced masters, and they could tell he got a point there.
"Let's put such a crazy possibility into our consideration then," the king slowly said, turning to all as he added, "We have our plans for a battle in this area. So let's plan what we shall do if we go to new terrain…"
"We have little time for that," Sloth sighed, "and we have no clue about that area we are jumping into…"
He didn't question William's insane words like others. In fact, he felt he was telling the truth here. William always managed to spot things like these, without following any logic, and he ended up quite right every single time.
Plus what he said made perfect sense. If the enemy was lurking here, why wasn't there a single sign of them before? This area was considered the safest spot in the entire world for many years now, and there wasn't a single sign of any monster intrusion or a hidden base of dark masters or something.
"Then let's go there and trust our army leaders," the king decided to listen to the hidden messages in Sloth's words, "William, your guild didn't send anyone, saying they won't move until you give them the order. Do you want them here?"
"No need," William knew this was by far the most dangerous move he was going to make against the enemies in this world. It was enough for the one thousand masters who decided to join him, and he didn't want more to throw away their lives.
Especially when the guild just came out from a severe war, one that they lost too many in. They needed them to close on themselves, train, and get stronger. More battles were ahead of them, and it wasn't like he needed them here.
"Quite protective and thoughtful master, good point indeed," the king saw through William's line of thoughts, and appreciated them, "let's go then. Who is going to be in the lead?"
"Me!"
"I'll go too!"
"Add me in the line," Three issued their willingness to go, Sloth, Panther, and William.
The first two were quite expected to go. One was acting as the general leader of all armies here, which was Sloth. He wanted to go and check the new terrain first, get to know the odds awaiting them there, before adjusting their plans, or throwing them away and making new ones.
As for Panther, he wanted to go there and check what his vision was going to cause to everyone.
As for William, he wanted to be in the first lines to check everything. He knew this was going way beyond what other masters here experienced before. He wanted to be there to spot any differences and warn them against any hidden dangers or things new to them.
After all, such a tactic wasn't known in this world. In this world, dark masters always prepared huge armies and sent them toward their targets using portals and monster gates. But doing the opposite was the trend in the outer world.
And that meant whatever was going on here, it had a strong connection with lots of tactics of the outer world.
"Ok, the three of you can go," the king slowly nodded, stopping for a long minute over William, then over his daughter, "I'll send my kingdom's army in the first batch, Make sure to explore the enemy lines and ranks, that expected new terrain, got it?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The three said it in unison before William left with the other two. And as everyone expected, Anjie tagged along.
"Will we summon our newly recruited members?" she asked the moment they came out from the main tent of the king.
"No, let them stay behind, come later on," he stressed on, "Things are going to be quite hectic at the beginning. Do you want to come?"
"Anywhere you go, I'll go," she insisted, and he didn't say anything else except ask her to tag on his side all the time, never getting away from him.
The four of them went out, and the older two took care of the orders and summoned the kingdom's army.
The army was quite massive, well organised, properly trained, and well-equipped. Seeing them made William want to do the same with his guild's masters.
He only had two teams with brand names and uniforms, and that was barely enough considering the huge number of master pools he had out there.
"I have to ask them to take care of this," he muttered to himself while looking at the grand army of the kingdom's masters marching all around him.
"Pretty impressive, right?" Anjie was feeling happy about this, as she could tell William was touched by such a scene.
"I will make my guild like that…"
"Don't tell me you are dreaming about building a kingdom now!" she rolled her eyes, and he simply laughed and said nothing.
His aim wasn't to do something like that, he just wanted to reach the outer world with as many strong potential masters as possible.
They were ten hours' march away from the place where things were supposed to start. During the march, Sloth and Panther sent lots of scouts, trying to spot any potential enemies there, but there were none.
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