This wasn't the first time to face such a deadly and threatening situation. So he didn't even freak out nor panic as he calmly planned for his next moves.
To his surprise, the leader's intervention came to help him greatly. He didn't only buy him little time by chatting with Tomason from before, but also gave lots of instructions to his team, preventing them from acting on impulse or on their instincts and experience.
So as that leader started to talk, William calmly moved towards one direction, took out his bow and a few arrows, before unhesitatingly releasing a few bolts of his explosive arrows.
The arrows landed fast and exploded, making it impossible for anyone to stand idle anymore. Even the leader got to stop what he was saying, while watching ten arrows hitting ten different places at the same time, unleashing large balls of fire.
William would hesitate to use his weapon in such circumstances at normal times. But as the enemy already ignited explosives of their own before, adding a few more wouldn't hurt.
He was quite sure many monsters were heading fast towards this place. And so he didn't place the task of killing those dark spirit masters as top priority for now.
He just leant over Tomason once he released his early arrows, claimed his two storage rings, sickle weapon, and then continued to launch more arrows.
His aim wasn't to kill, but to flee! And the arrows he sent meant to stop these dark spirit masters from gathering up or attacking him, while he'd attract more monsters towards here.
The arrows exploded and managed to push fifteen dark spirit masters back for hundreds of metres. As more arrows landed, the fire spread over the trees all over this region. So, it was impossible for them to regroup and head for William anytime soon.
"I'm going to f*cking killing you!" William ran directly towards one of the remaining four dark spirit masters at that side, while the leader shouted from far behind, in a storm of pure rage.
One of these four on his side was a slim tall youth, wielding two long spears. Like others, he wore a black cape that covered his body and half of his face except for his eyes and bridge of his nose.
*Fwoosh!* and the next moment, this dude got covered in weird black feathers, while a long tail extended from his back.
"The Dark Torching monster? I never heard of such a dark clan using such a spirit before," William recognised the monster that this dude used its spirit from, but he never heard about a clan or a dark spirit master using it before.
"Don't bother thinking too much, you are going to die in my hands!"
"Lucy, let me help!"
"Lucy? You are a girl?!" William got surprised when he heard such a shout from another dude hundreds of metres away. He was running fast, trying to reach Lucy here and help.
"I hate those who mock my name!" and when William said his comment, that dude seemed to take it as an insult. In the next instant, his two spears started to rotate, gathering around a fierce gale of wind.
"Darkness element with wind? Just the typical two weak and useless elements."
"F*ck you! You are insane to say that on my combo elements!"
"Combo? I thought this is a name for a meal, hahaha!" William was proactively taunting and enraging this dude.
In any fight, the one to lose his cool first was doomed to fall fast. And this small clash here wasn't an exception for such a law.
As William kept mocking him, one time after another, Lucy lost his cool at last, and instantly aimed for the kill instead of stalling time before his friends would arrive.
"Die!" he moved his two spears like they were two drilling weapons or something. Each spear was weirdly rotating in a fast way, as if he was held by a rotor and not a hand.
*Fwoosh!* but just before this attack would land on William, the latter vanished again. William didn't want to waste his spirit power only on this dude here. So, he wasted little time in talking, while the one who shouted before just got in range of his technique.
And then William instantly and decisively acted, jumping in between these two, hitting Lucy with a single jump that he zigzagged to make sure he'd kill that dude for good. Then he jumped for fifty metres, covering up the distance between him and the incoming enemy!
"You…"
"Boss, watch out… He is using…"
And just before Lucy would warn the leader and others about William not using a darkness element but lightning, William dashed out again and pierced his face with his sword with a straightforward jump.
"Like Ibra would say, Tsk! You made me consume an extra jump instead of just dying out of bleeding. Three are down by now," William moved his eyes around, taking the two rings from Lucy and the other dude, "time to leave."
He managed to clear a gap for him to run through. But just before he'd run for a hundred metres, something fiercely landed tens of metres up front, blocking his path forward.
"Where do you think you're going, pretty boy?" William saw another cloaked man, but this time he recognised this as the leader of the dark spirit masters' team.
That dude just kept speaking and not acting all this time. But when he moved, he came in such a big way that made William narrow his eyes.
"A gold grade one? That's quite annoying!"
"I didn't want to dirt my hands with someone like you," that dude was covered up with black ape spirit, holding two sharp looking claws, with five extended and arched sharp blades out from it, "but you killed three of my boys. And you have to pay back for what you did."
"I thought you had to bring me alive," William knew this was going to be a tough battle, but he still kept his cool.
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