Making new grenades wasn't an issue, and all he needed was just enough time to make more.
He kept pushing forward, and the enemies finally started to take him as a real threat. All of sudden, he started to face stronger enemies, a sign that much more formidable enemies were about to move and meet him.
"It's time to wait for others then," he knew his limits. Even if he grew stronger, he didn't think he could face high-end enemies right now.
A single one would be quite the headache for him. He was sure he could keep his life against him, but if more appeared, he wasn't sure about that.
So instead of pushing forward, he stopped, even retreated for a few kilometres while fighting the enemies he met.
The moment he did that, the enemy leader knew he wasn't going to keep pestering them. Yet the Nightmare monster tried its best to push everyone to send the high-end masters to take William down.
"It's a chance! We need to kill him before others join!" he shouted in the face of all the statues around, but no matter how he tried, they didn't like this plan.
"We are this close to crushing the master's army at the surface. Once they are taken care of, we can divert all of our attention over this mere fly," the statue with the wolf head said, seemingly giving the final answer to the Nightmare monster in front of it.
"You'll all regret this decision later, I promise you this!"
"Is this a threat?!" the statues looked in vigilance towards the Nightmare monster. The latter knew he could handle one or a few statues, but with such a huge gathering of them, hundreds of these Transformers, he had no way to force them to do anything.
The Nightmare monster hated the fact that it had to work with others on this. It thought highly of this chance and felt how it was close to taking William down. Yet in the end, the Transformers here decided to take care of the king and his forces.
The Nightmare monster knew taking the king was a good move, but it still needed a long time for such a high figure and tons of the kingdom's best masters to fall up there.
Even if they were surrounded, infiltrated by endless enemies, and many of their fortifications got crushed, the king and high-end masters were still safe at the peaks and valleys.
There was still a long road ahead to cleave the king's and other high-end masters' heads. The Nightmare monster knew how crucial it was to crush the current masters at the plains above, and then they'd end up squeezing the masters in between two deadly fronts.
Yet that required time, and he could tell what William was trying to do here. He didn't drop the idea of going forward and stopping the enemies, just took a step back to regroup with others, before he came and caused trouble again.
As the Nightmare monster expected, William kept fighting until he grouped with Sloth and other high-end masters. The moment they met, and they moved like a single force, hitting all the enemies around, pushing forward at a much higher speed.
Their advance took the Transformers by surprise. They thought William would care more about his safety, and wouldn't lead everyone again to do such reckless charges. And yet William didn't lean towards safety, and took the gamble, moving as fast as he could towards the nearest group of bridges.
For the enemies to board the bridges fast and move to the surface, they built bridges close to each other, arranged in groups.
That made them able to mobilise lots of their forces quite fast toward the surface. But now William and others were aiming towards one of these bridge groups.
"I told you," the Nightmare monster was watching everything happening using a spirit sense like others around, "don't tell me I didn't warn you."
"Losing one group of bridges won't make much difference," one of the Transformers argued, "it won't even make any difference if they joined forces at the surface. The surface battle is already lost for them."
"..." The Nightmare monster wanted to say something against such logic, but couldn't. It knew what this Transformer said made quite sense, but it still felt bad about what William intended to do.
And soon enough, it saw how its feeling became true.
"Spread out!" The moment William and others drew close to the group of bridges in front of them, William suddenly shouted, "Half of us will prevent any enemy from approaching…"
"What about the rest?" Fang noticed that William paused and didn't continue his words, so he had to ask what others had in mind.
"We'll take these bridges down!" William's next words made them all get what this youngster wanted to do. They thought at first he was leading them around to kill enemies, then they'd all secure a group of bridges, wait for other masters behind to come, then go to the surface to join others.
But it seemed William had another plan, a more ambitious one. He didn't want to just kill a few enemies here and leave, he wanted to take care of the bridges, cut them all, and then kill the enemies around.
That meant two things; William wanted to cut the path for any enemy reinforcements to go to the surface, and he didn't intend on leaving the underground space for the time being.
That was indeed true. William would never leave as the only path towards leaving here lay in the gate of the dark masters he left intact. Through this gate, he and others could leave and head towards the main base of the enemies.
Yet the main problem now was in how to make the king and others move from the surface all the way down to here. They were busy fighting deadly and hard battles against their enemies. And he could already tell that it was literally impossible to try and bring them down here.
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