Chapter 1083 The Harsh Battle Against Fog
For a moment there, the king felt curious about this fog and wanted to leave a single valley untouched to see what was going to happen. But when Sloth stressed against this, he finally dropped such a thought.
"It's risky to try things out in wars, let's kill all the monsters and burn the fog then…" he relayed his orders, and Sloth heaved a sigh of relief.
He also was curious about this fog, but the way William said his last words made him drop such an idea as well. He and others worked their best to orchestrate this counterattack, while other masters started to help the selected ones, killing monsters that dared to come closer to them.
Soon enough, they started to feel something weird. The monsters that were easily killed before started to put up a good fight against the masters. This started at a few locations first, before it spread out like plaque.
"A plaque… That fog… It can increase the power of monsters… Damn!" it wasn't just Sloth or Panther who realised this, but all of the high-end masters did almost at the same time.
Seeing such weird changes happening at the frontlines had no other explanation but that. And when they coupled the urge William showed before, they realised this was indeed a disaster.
Realising this made many send lots of stronger masters to the frontlines, and even a few of them personally joined to stabilise the situation. At the same time, they now understood why William kept walking forward, attacking the deeply situated monsters and fog.
He knew if he stood at the front, then much stronger monsters would appear from the rear. He had to reach all the way to the beginning point of all this, burn away all the fog, even if he had to throw himself in the middle of such a scary amount of monsters.
They all saw how tons of masters struggled to keep the balance against these monsters. So it was expected how immense the pressure on him was.
In fact, William wasn't suffering from such pressure as they mistook. He first used his grenades and explosive arrows to wear down the monsters around. Then he used the shockwaves created from the continuous explosions to let a dense amount of rocks fall on the heads of these monsters.
Then he released his flying weapons, adding the last touch to all this. Things weren't that bad for him, yet he wasn't having it nice as well.
"An earth-based monster? For god sake! Come on!" Just as he advanced a bit deeper, the ground started to crack open, releasing tons of monsters from the depths of the earth.
William could tell these monsters were hidden underground. They might pose a threat thanks to their earth elements, thanks to the surprise attacks they launched, but they were far away from the fog.
They didn't get blessed, and that made them pretty weak in front of William.
"Die you bastards!" he didn't hesitate to direct all of his flying weapons to kill those monsters that popped from the ground. And yet he kept walking forward, didn't even pause for a single moment.
No matter what happened, be it monsters, falling rocks, or even the tsunami of fire he released, nothing could stop him! He kept moving forward like a king, like an asura, while his body started to get soaked with the blood and ash of his killed and burnt enemies.
Monsters kept dying from fire, falling rocks, his weapons, and even from each other. At some point, William started to release his techniques, taking down a few large groups of monsters that tried to block his path forward.
These were all high-grade monsters, and he needed to take care of them quite fast before getting supported by the fog. Yet the moment he released his techniques under such stress, he accidentally used the hidden power of the Black Phantom. Even if he used a small amount, wasn't aware of its presence or what it did, the monsters around got petrified out of fear.
He didn't get what went wrong with them, but he was glad they stopped and let him butcher them like cattle and sheep.
As he got rid of those few obstacles, he returned to release his arrows and grenades again. The path he had to traverse would take him almost two hours using this pace, and yet he couldn't help but lean towards caution and not rush things out.
He knew he was far upfront from the mainstream of masters, separated from them by a raging ocean of fire and deadly blockage of huge amounts of rocks. There was no saving for him if he ever faced a deadly enemy, or fell into a trap or something.
So he played it safely and didn't think about moving fast or using his dash technique even once. As he progressed here, smoothly in the eyes of everyone, things were getting heated up at other valleys.
Masters didn't think about mimicking his actions, didn't take the initiative to go deeper into the valleys. They thought by staying at the front, they could burn down the entire fog, and take all the monsters down, without risking anything.
But after one hour, they all realised how foolish they were. They realised William did the right thing from the start, a thing that meant he knew what he was doing, not just following his instincts or something.
They learned this the hard way though, after facing the scarily growing stronger paced monsters, ending up suffering a ton against them.
Even the high-end masters had to put it all together to kill the high-end monsters appearing from far behind.
"Let's push forward! Let's do like him!"
"Bring all the water-based masters here, bring all the earth-based masters as well!"
"Let's push forward! This won't stop until we burn all the damn fog!"
They all got the point of what William was doing from the beginning.
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