Chapter 1103 The Underground Battle
"We need to take care of monsters and dark masters he couldn't handle," Sloth slowly explained everything to her like she was a five year old kid.
The idea was simple. Everyone knew William wasn't able to continue pulling such a grand technique for a long time. So they had to protect him when that moment would come, the moment of him losing control over his spirit power, unable to continue releasing that grand technique.
Instead of letting him get in danger, as tons of enemies would flood him from all directions, they'd stop these enemies instead.
So William had to just worry about enemies around him and a few more who'd come here from places they didn't visit.
"Ok, let's do it," Anjie finally got what they meant. In a mere five minutes, they arranged themselves into three teams. The bulk of these teams were made of the newly joined guild masters, led by a group of scary masters.
If not for knowing the bad temper Fang had, Sloth and others would have formed a fourth team and sent it for Fang to lead.
"Keep close to me all the time," Sloth was of course leading the team Anjie was in. They just ran for twenty minutes, before finally meeting up with enemies running towards their direction.
It was just like what Sloth and others said. The moment William's scary technique's aura faded away from a region, an endless stream of enemies flooded that region, trying to close on him.
The end of all this was just the same as all the high-end masters predicted. If they didn't interfere, then William would be entrapped inside an endless ocean of enemies, coming from all directions around.
"Let's fight, let's protect the guild master!" Once they spotted the enemies, Anjie raised her sword high in the air, shouting as if she were leading a fierce army.
And when the old masters were prepared to protect these youngsters, they were surprised to see how well they performed against their enemies.
Their morale was very high, and they weren't that weak to begin with. They killed monsters and dark masters while suffering little wounds in return.
What helped more in this was the general low level of the monsters and dark masters. That was expected, as the stronger ones were sent before to stop William before they all got massacred and killed.
"Don't forget to collect everything from monsters and dark masters," Anjie got infected by such a habit of the Fox guild and shouted to everyone from the guild to do this. Looting during fighting, there wasn't any crazy group of masters other than the Fox guild masters to do such a thing.
The older masters took the lead, dealing with any strong foes they faced. If they didn't find anyone strong or threatening to deal with, they focused on causing more damage, scattering the enemies into smaller groups, leaving the task of killing them to the following younger masters.
Like a closed fist, they all marched together, all the teams did the same. Fang was already watching everything, and couldn't help but mutter in bitterness:
"Couldn't you have sent a little hand to help this old man?" he shook his head while fighting solo against the hordes of monsters and dark masters, "if not for that damn sly little fox, I'd have retreated and joined others a long time ago… Tsk! William, he makes me feel bad just by thinking about it!"
He wasn't the only one fighting solo here, as William was doing the same, and he was doing great. So if he tried to retreat, it'd look bad on his name.
Fang wouldn't have rejected any help at such a critical time. Even if the enemies around were weak, he knew by being alone, the enemies would place him as an easy target to eliminate and would send tons of strong forces to kill him.
Yet he didn't stop killing and advancing, trying to take down as many monsters as he could. At the same time, he and other high-end masters kept watching William all the time, seeing how he was doing back there.
William was indeed getting close to his limits after two hours. The enemies seemed to have no end, always coming at him. Yet they all ended up getting frozen in place. But William that'd all change the moment he'd stop releasing his grand technique.
"I need to find a place to fortify myself," he spread his spirit sense and could see what others were doing. He knew they were trying to help, in their way. And even so, he still had too many to deal with at the moment he'd stop using his grand technique.
He knew he had close to half an hour before he'd run dry of his spirit power, and his mental fatigue would reach a stage he wouldn't be able to handle. This mental fatigue was the worst of all, as he needed to control the ten monstrous weapons all the time using his mind, or else they wouldn't be able to fight on their own.
"If I have those mind-enhancing elixirs from the outer world… It's a regret that such materials aren't here, and I never found them in Lara's city."
He started to not blindly fight and move around, instead looking for any place suiting to be considered as a temporary keep for him. Yet this wasn't the surface of the ground, this was underground. And for a reason, the place was formed of an extensively large open space, without any hills or mountains, without any buildings, or even walls and forts.
"If there isn't anything like this here, then I have to improvise and make something similar…" As he didn't find anything for ten minutes while spreading his spirit sense to look for such a special location without avail, he decided to use his techniques to create something like that.
The first idea that came into his mind was to use earth-based techniques.
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