? "We will do it this way," William knew what Lang was going to say, "let's activate this signal once per five minutes. Like this, we will always know where everyone is. And…"
William turned to Smith before adding, "you are going to lead the way. Keep flaring up the material once per minute to guide us out there, ok?"
"Got it!"
"Why not me? Huh? You know you are missing a lot by not using my full power in the team!"
"Shut up!" William waved his hand to shut Ibra up, "don't forget, we are going to walk in seven rows, each is formed of a team led by one of the vice leaders in addition to my team…"
William started to tell them about the general layout he had in his mind. The five scout members were going to lead the way, then Lang's and Peter's groups, then his small group, then Berry and Sara. John was going to be at the forefront back, with the simple task of always thinking about ways to get the team out of any trouble and escape any disaster and desperate battles.
William did it this way so he and his little team would have the ability to move all over the place, freely helping any other line when needed.
The front was the most important line up, and he entrusted everything for the five scout team members. They got more experience than others in using this array, moving around and scanning the surroundings for any sign of trouble without getting themselves exposed.
Then they were followed by Lang and then Peter, who were going to act as the vanguard unit of the whole team.
He selected these two as he noticed how closely related they were to each other. They were close friends, and it seemed such friendship went back for years already.
As for Berry, she was situated behind him so he could help in protecting her and Sara as well. He doubted that he'd need to step in and protect Sara, but Berry might be a different story.
William knew before even stepping out that their plan to run away from here was going to be quite dangerous and filled with lots of dangers.
However, he had to do so. After all, the array he established here had a short life span. And he didn't bring all of these disciples out of the academy to get entrapped here.
"Let's go," William finally led everyone to the edge of the array, "activate your arrays, and get past me in your designated groups. Activate the beacons on you once out and wait for my signal to get away."
The moment he said these words, he stopped at the array, letting his paper open a path through it.
"We don't need that," Sara smirked, "we already made our own passes."
"Oh, forgot about that," William smiled in a helpless way while giving Ibra a weird look.
"Let's go then," William didn't say anything to that dude, and simply added, "one group by another… Let's move out!"
And in the next few minutes, everyone activated their concealment array, headed out from the array zone into the vast ocean of trees outside.
The world was ushered under heavy and suffocating darkness and silence. It was a night without any shining stars or moon at all, making going through the forest a much harder journey.
The first hour passed without much. It seemed what William and Ibra did, what everyone did before this moment helped in clearing all the way around this spot.
And just like William suspected, most if not all of the gold grade monsters' attention got focused and shifted away from this spot to the totally opposite side.
The team didn't meet a single monster at all during the first hour. During this, they got used to the weird formation and movement using this array and blue shining orbs each held in their hands all the time.
They wanted to chat, speak among themselves about this risky adventure. However, after a few times of doing so, ending up getting heavily blamed by William, Sara, and Ibra, they stopped talking and got used to walking in silence.
At first, they were excited, but soon their excitement died down. They started walking through the forest while taking into account that danger was lurking behind every tree and rock.
Such suspense and alarm were fun in their eyes, as many had never experienced such an intense situation before. However, by the passing of time, they slowly grew dull to everything.
*Tuck!*
And just as they were walking in such a dull mind state and lowered guard, a muffled sound came from one direction, stopping all right at the spot.
Many wanted to speak, but before any could, they felt a gust of wind before a loud clanging voice came.
"Run away, you fools!" William shouted without any hesitation. It was one of the copies of the Nightmare monster, and William wasn't the first to spot it, but Ibra.
And yet he was the first to step up, using his lightning technique, heading and clashing with that clone, stopping its approach from the team, "Go now!" he shouted again while waving his sword, clashing against this monster.
"Don't stay behind for so long," Ibra shouted.
"Stay alive!" Berry shouted, before William heard the sound of dried-up leaves and branches getting smashed under the rushing steps of everyone.
*Roar!* *Bang!*
And just as the team started to run away, the monster seemed to get enraged, hitting William's body with a barrage of its two long whip-like tails.
William managed to stop one tail in time, but the other landed at his body, smashing a few materials on his body, inactivating his array right on the spot.
"Shut the hell up! Don't you see what the hell you did? Damn! I have to replenish my lost materials, thanks to you!" William knew dealing with this copy wasn't going to be hard. Just from the initial clash between the two, that copy of the monster used a fire element to attack William and stop his sword.
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