But he wasn't that angry at all. Instead, he looked at William while feeling more impressed by this dude's way of doing things.
Even when running away for his life, William made sure to accomplish what he promised earlier.
Ibra himself forgot all about the reason behind their trip outside after such a scary gathering of these monsters and that fervent chase he just experienced.
But William never lost his cool, never lost sight on the purpose of doing all this. And even when he ran fast inside the array, he did that for a good reason.
Ibra didn't know how their run deep inside the part of the forest inside the array was linked with the brutal and deadly fight going on right now between these scary monsters.
But he was sure there was a connection between their run and that battle.
And above all, William delivered what he promised and declared before. He'd let these monsters fight among themselves, attract the attention of the much scarier Nightmare, giving the team a better chance at running away.
"Where are you now?" After running for twenty minutes, William was already this close from seeing the other side of the array. He took one Bullet out, the one of Sara, and spoke after activating it using his spirit power.
[We went straight to the east from the point you left us at!]
"Coming!"
William put away his Bullet, kept running while checking on his mate from time to time.
Weirdly enough, Ibra didn't curse or shout like usual, kept running in silence while his eyes were fixed on his back.
"Don't tell me he plans to hit me with his glaive once we arrive there," William thought to himself, not removing such a crazy and childish possibility that this insane fellow could do.
William kept his vigilance of Ibra as the latter kept his silence all the way. In less than ten more minutes, they finally arrived at the edge of the array. And there they started looking for their team for another ten minutes until they met up together.
"Can I rest now?" The moment the two arrived there, Ibra couldn't help but sit on the ground, putting his glaive on his lap like it was a stick or something. And that sudden move from him attracted everyone's attention.
"What did you do to him exactly?" Sara couldn't help but ask, and others tried their hardest to not laugh.
"Nothing," William shrugged, putting on an honest face that broke all the laughs out from everyone.
"Ok, then we are going to wait for a bit longer, right?" Berry asked, before coming closer as she added, "we are all ready. Only the two of you remain to put on their materials."
"Once we are going to move, we are going to activate the array," Peter added, while everyone around just nodded in agreement.
"Ok," William looked at Ibra. And that dude just kept himself on the ground, closed his eyes, acting as if he ignored what everyone was saying.
"Don't take long, or else we'll leave you behind," William received the extra materials from Berry, before starting to put enough on his body.
He left just one material to keep the array inactive. The moment that piece would be placed at the right spot, the entire array would get activated.
"Not even giving me a chance to breathe, tsk," Ibra opened his eyes, stood up and went to William while stretching out his hand, "give me these things and let's get the hell out of here."
"What about the plan of running? How will we run and fight?" Lang asked, and William rolled his eyes while pointing at Ibra's misplaced materials on his body.
"Put these here and here, not there," William sighed, before turning to Lang, "we won't fight. We will just run, keep running in one group."
"Won't you need any scouting?" Smith asked, and William nodded.
"There is no need to do that. After all, even if we know there are monsters up ahead, we have to pass through them."
"That means we are going to fight, genius!" Ibra made another mistake which got corrected by William's sword, "watch out! It's quite sharp and looks dangerous!" Ibra jumped a few steps back, ending up messing up all the materials on his body.
"Tsk! See what you have done!"
"It's you who should be blamed," William rolled his eyes, "why didn't you keep your attention to the arrays I gave all of you before? If so, we would have saved these few minutes."
"Stop it! It's all thanks to your lousy drawing!"
"My drawing is lousy? Hahahaha! That's the funniest joke I ever heard today," William couldn't help but laugh, while recalling how Ibra's drawing ability truly sucked!
"Stop it you two," Sara laughed, couldn't control herself like others around, "we don't have enough time. Let's get moving, night is already deep enough."
"Ah, don't forget…" William stopped the team before adding, "this array can shield anything, but not sound. So…"
"We won't make a single sound," Peter said while others nodded.
"And don't speak," William warned again, "you can use whistles to communicate with each other if any spotted any danger approaching. Who is going to lead the way?"
"Let me do it!" Ibra stepped up, hardly trying his best to stabilise the materials over his body.
"You used the materials wrongly again! For God's sake! They have some sort of magnet-like ability to stick together on your body…"
"Shut up! I'm already struggling to make them stay in their places!" Ibra gave William a warning glance, and everyone tried to resist the urge to laugh one more time.
"But… How can we see each other with these arrays activated?" Berry asked, and William knew this was going to be a problem.
"We can use this," but William took one material out. It was a small dark blue orb, "infuse it with your spirit power and they will flash with a pulsating weak blue light. It won't be easily noticed from far, but it can be seen by those standing nearby."
"This…"
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