When he said his earlier words, everyone, even the white grade members, gave him a look that told him none bought his act.
"Come on dude, you may be a bronze spirit master, but you act and fight in a way that's no weaker than I do!" one of the silver members said while everyone nodded in agreement.
"Tsk! What a shameless dude you are!" and Ibra added his touch, making William's corners of eyes twitch uncontrollably.
"Stop joking! It's not the time for that!"
"Tell that to yourself," Ibra rolled his eyes in response, while others didn't change that weird look on their faces.
"Alright, I'll act as if you didn't say anything," William waved his hand in a hopeless way, and Ibra muttered in a low tone: "Shameless leader!" making William give him a glare to silence that dude up.
"This monster may be considered an equal to the dark gold grade beasts, but its copies are at most silver grade, with most of them are bronze ones," William decided to ignore this weird talk, and added, "so it's better to leave behind a bronze grade one to deal with it."
"Why don't we leave behind a silver grade member to handle it?" Peter frowned, "it's better to assume we are going to face the hardest and copies of the higher level, right?"
"These folks won't appear unless that beast fought and killed a silver grade spirit master or a monster before," William paused before adding, "and under any choice I'll select to give this scary bastard a chance to create a silver clone."
William didn't tell them everything, but those silver grade copies got another scary ability, which was increasing the area of activity of that monster by one kilometre.
The initial five kilometres were calculated as the monster got itself and four other silver clones as a general rule. Of course, it might have more, but that would be worse for all of them.
So, if he got the choice, he wouldn't risk losing a silver member in exchange for adding more kilometres to this terrifying monster area of activity.
And from his words, everyone got that whoever would stick behind would end up getting killed in the end.
"You are the boss," Sara shrugged, ignoring even mentioning this sensitive point as William decided to ignore it, "let's follow what you say. But…"
"Don't worry, killing that monster's copies isn't that hard," William knew what she was going to say, what everyone here got in their minds, "here, these are twenty arrows. They are deadly enough to bring down any copy once it got hit by one of these."
"These… Aren't these the ones you used before to explode and burn out the entire forest back there?!" Ibra instantly recognised these arrows, and from his words it seemed they left quite the impression on himself.
"Are they this good?" Sara and others' eyes shone brighter when they heard Ibra's words.
"Don't even dream about that, I already got a limited number of these," William could see the greedy looks from the eyes and faces of those around. And he couldn't help but kill such a desire in its cradle, while rolling his eyes in return.
"Stingy leader, cough, cough," Ibra masked his low tone comment by coughing when William glared again at him.
"When are we going out?" Berry suddenly asked, and for a moment there, William didn't like that look on her face.
He expected her to be deadly worried about him. Yet she wasn't! And that made his heart skip a beat there.
"Don't ever think about following me if I stayed behind," William said in warning before adding, "if you did, neither I nor you will be even able to come out from there alive."
"I know, I know, I'm not that stupid," and when she calmly responded, and kept nodding her head in such an obedient way, William's heart sank further in the deep abyss of worry.
And without saying anything, he turned towards Ibra, Lang, and Sara. and the three silently nodded, getting what he wanted them to do.
If she thought about staying behind or broke away from the team to go after him, these three would stop her at any cost.
William didn't know this, but it wasn't just Berry who decided to go back to help him, but everyone planned to do so. And that was the reason behind such calmness on Berry's face.
She didn't intend to just follow him alone, but she thought about bringing everyone back with her, going back and saving him.
Just imagining such a scene made her face brim with excitement, one that made William worry in the first place.
"Before going, make sure you have one of these," William took out many healing potions and materials, left them on the ground, before turning around and started walking without saying a single word.
"Hey! Where are you going?!!" and just when everyone realised the direction that dude selected, Lang couldn't help but frown and ask in doubt.
"What else? I'm going to stir some sh*t back there so we can easily escape," William said without even turning his back. And just the next moment, a figure appeared next to him.
"Don't think about having fun without inviting me!"
"I knew you'd stick around," William rolled his eyes, while Ibra didn't know if he should punch him in the face or laugh.
"Just stay put, move slowly towards the edge of the array and wait for me. Make sure to establish the array materials on your bodies to activate it. I'll find you using B… Message Papers."
William left while saying these words.
"This dude… He never leaves something out for luck!" Smith sighed, while others nodded in agreement.
"That's why he is our boss," Berry was already placing William above everyone else in the team. So, her comment wasn't that weird in the eyes of others.
"What's your plan? Cause a ruckus again?" Ibra waved his glaive in excitement, one that William found quite suspicious.
"Don't tell me you got a grudge against those gold grade dudes out there."
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