William looked into his ring, and started to see what he could use from the many silver pieces left inside.
"This pair of boots is quite useful in increasing one's movement speed… And that armour might be thin and weak in defence, but it uses the element of ice… A rare element and is quite helpful in stunning any enemy and stopping any incoming attack… Only if it was a shield or a weapon, not a damn useless armour…"
William started to go through all the silver equipment he had. His standards were quite high to begin with. And he had a reason for that.
He would have to consume spirit power in return for using these gears. So if these gears wouldn't help in taking out these monster copies quite fast, he'd better not use any of them.
He wore these boots, and a pair of gloves that helped in accelerating his hand movement speed. Doing so would enhance his ability to attack faster. And then he selected that ice armour he kept complaining about.
But unlike what this armour was used for, William decided to wear it as a shield, which gave him a very funny look.
Not to mention he felt quite weird in doing so.
In addition to that, he selected two leg guards which had the element of wind, aiding in his movement speed. And like these, he also used a similar pair for his arm guard.
"I hope this is enough to move faster than usual… Damn!" *Fwoosh!*
Just when he tried to use his lightning technique, to see to which degree all these gears would impact his movement speed, he got shocked to see his body flash much faster than usual, ending up travelling almost triple the distance he usually crossed.
"Wow! They aren't that bad… And the spirit power consumption only increased by one percent thanks to the gears weight… Not bad, not bad at all!"
He stood up from the ground, removing any dust or mud over his gears and body. "Raising up movement speed… Check! Now how to kill that damn bastard's clones fast?"
William knew his sword was irreplaceable, but he couldn't just depend on it. The main drawback of his sword was quite obvious, which lied in its short-range ability.
He never thought about such weak spot of his sword as he used it with his lightning movement technique. But right now, he was thinking about fighting this monster for a long time.
This would pressure him and just depending on his lightning technique was impractical. Like this, he'd deplete his own spirit power faster.
"Shall I get that glaive from him, or will he chase me around like a mad beast?" William thought about Ibra's glaive, to soon drop the idea.
That glaive looked quite heavy, and he'd suffer to just wield it. Besides, using this glaive would allow him to use another brutal technique using his light technique. However, this would come at the cost of increasing his spirit power consumption greatly.
He wasn't facing just a single monster, but one that could form an endless army. Trying to use flashy and deadly moves wasn't going to work.
"I'll depend on my arrows for this battle," William returned again to the first point he thought about before.
He sighed while knowing he did not have enough arrows to keep fighting this monster for a long time. So, he returned to all the information he got about that scary monster, "if I managed to get away from its main body by five kilometres, then it'd drop attacking me."
William put this as a goal for him, for his team. He just hoped he'd not need to do it in the end. He could already see how dangerous this upcoming fight was going to be.
"Here are the Message Papers you asked for!"
When almost two hours passed, everyone gathered again at the same spot William left them at.
He didn't know that, but his team members made a decision in case they faced that monster during their run. The team decided to put out a fight to save William, return and join him if he didn't follow up in half an hour.
They didn't want to lose their leader, and even Ibra voted to go back and do everything in their power to save him if half an hour passed and didn't show up.
"Listen up quite well," William asked Ibra, Sara, and other vice leaders to bring a single Message Paper from each one of the team. Back when the monsters came invading this place, he regretted not having such Bullets from them.
And after taking their Bullets and handing over his, he started to draw a semi-circular line on the ground. "Here we are, and that line is ten kilometres away from us. Once crossing there, you'll be all safe from any attack over this monster."
"Are you sure?" Ibra just asked this, without any need to stress over how important this intel was.
And William slowly nodded. He knew the monster would station itself in any point inside a five kilometre radius. So, he added another five just for reassurance and made out such a conclusion.
"How about if we met a copy of that monster after leaving you?" Sara was practical as usual, didn't flinch from taking the bad scenario into consideration, and even thought about a much worse situation.
"Then you'll have to either pray that won't happen, or you'll have to leave one of you behind."
"Then I'll remain behind," Ibra knew asking anyone else to do it was going to make him look quite bad.
"No, it should be someone from the bronze grade," William paused before looking at the bunch of bronze members in the team, "the one who is going to stay behind must be someone who can use wind element, has enough movement techniques to make him run fast enough after killing the copy."
"This…"
"Isn't this just asking for this dude to die?"
"A bronze grade facing a gold grade monster, which is considered equal to dark gold grade ones, is simply an overkill!"
"Hey guys, did you forget it or what? I'm also a bronze spirit master!" William waved his hand, then pointed towards himself. "What is that look you are all giving me? I swear I'm a bronze grade spirit master!"
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