"Quite arrogant dude you are! Tsk!" Ibra waved his arm, returning to do what William instructed. And everyone also did the same.
As William explained, when they examined these sacs closely, they found they were attached to the body of the monster in a narrow point at their tops.
When they tried to pull it out, it came out just like pulling a potato from the ground! And soon they all became quite experienced in dealing with these things.
William didn't move an inch from his spot, calmly watching everyone doing their best to take out all the scales and sacs from the monster pieces.
"Where is that core?'' He only kept focusing on a single item, the core. He was deeply itching to get it.
There was something that might stop him from absorbing it right now, which was the huge gulf between his own spirit power and the immense spirit power stored in the core.
If he tried, he feared to end up swallowing what he couldn't digest. And yet even if he had to store it away for now, the thought of getting something precious like this was driving him insane.
"At least I can store it for the time before I'll cross the edge between bronze and silver grades," he thought to himself, trying to console himself with such words.
[Watch out!]
[Incoming monsters!]
[Many scary dudes are coming!]
Just after half an hour, William received such messages almost at the same time, jolting him awake from his daze and dreams.
"Tsk! They came quite fast," William took out the Bullets of the five scout members, "where are you now?"
[Just less than a kilometre from your place]
[One and half kilometre at least]
[Not that far! At most in five minutes, I'll arrive at your place!]
"Make it faster then," William instantly stored the Bullets, turning his attention towards everyone down there as he shouted, "gather up! Monsters are coming! We need to stop them before others will come here."
"What monsters?"
"Where are they?"
"Let's move, let's go and stop them!"
"What about the array then?"
Many exclaimed, but none stopped in their places and started to climb back to the surface. William didn't even wait for them up there, took the lead out first while his sound reverberated as he kept getting away fast:
"Spread out! One team will handle one of the four main directions. Berry will stay back in the centre, helping anyone in need, with Ibra, Liam, and Brand."
"Let me come with you!" Ibra's shout came, to be answered almost instantly by William.
"No time to act heroic! We don't need to kill any but buy little time for our boys out there to arrive here. Just wait for ten minutes and then move out to reinforce those in need, got it?"
William knew this was going to be hard and quite bad if they dragged it a bit longer. If the scout team members were that far away from here, then he'd better ask them to retreat, hide away, and not come back.
But they were this close from here, and that meant asking them to retreat was much more dangerous than asking everyone here to stand their ground and defend this place until the five would arrive.
Not to mention not long time passed since the death of this scary monster. Not many strong monsters would dare to test this monster's territory out. Only those weak, at silver and lower grades, would dare to follow that monster around. They might have come here at this moment, mistaking the smell of blood for a regular feast by this monster.
That meant the ones coming here wouldn't be that strong or something threatening to his team, making this fight quite safe for now.
But if they drew things out for too long, more formidable monsters would show up next. And that was going to be bad.
"Why are you here?!" The moment Sara spotted him, she couldn't help but ask in surprise. Their meeting wasn't that coincidental, as William ran after the direction she took when she vanished last time.
And he selected her as she was the leader of the team responsible for the array. It went without saying that she had a swift and effective way to communicate with everyone, warning them about the incoming disaster.
"Monsters are coming."
"This… This is going to be bad!" she realised what was going to happen, having her eyes wide opened, "shall we activate the array right away? We are this close from getting it done anyway."
"No need," William arrived by her side, and without the need to say more, she got what he intended to do.
"This is going to be risky," she warned, "shall I call my team out?"
"No, let them finish their tasks first then join the battle later on," William paused, "I alone am enough as a reinforcement for you."
He added his last piece when Sara gave him that weird look. "Damn! It's still going to be tough," she warned, while taking out her deadly silver grade sword, "when are those lazy dudes coming?"
"In a few minutes," William paused, moving his eyes to the horizon where he noticed many trees were moving unnaturally, "stay here and keep doing your task."
"You… You plan to deal with them all alone?!!"
"This isn't going to be that bad, right?" William stepped forward, taking out his knives and sword, while she looked at his back that grew smaller the more he walked away.
However, in her eyes, he looked much bigger and grander than he actually appeared.
"What a weird kid he is," she shook her mind, driving away such useless thoughts and feelings towards William. Yet she didn't return to do her task. After all, she got almost everything done, and only few materials were left out there for her to handle.
She only took out her team Bullets, shared this intel with them as William expected her to do. She also asked them to hurry in making the final touches for this array, waiting for William's final call to activate it from her end.
Then she held her sword, took out another, and stood in her place like a fierce lioness waiting for her prey to draw closer. She preferred to watch William and see if he needed help or anything.
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