The ten scrolls were now on the ground, fixed there by using a few rocks from around. William scratched his head, feeling more amused and interested by this situation.
"They must hold very important information," William became surer of his earlier guess, "I don't know what type of encryption they used here… But if there is a way to crack open these scrolls and force them to show their secrets then…"
He paused, shifted his eyes away from the scrolls on the ground towards the rings he wore on his fingers.
If there was a way to make these scrolls reveal their secrets, then it must be inside one of these rings.
William came here to rest, but he totally forgot about that when he met such a mystery. The harder it was to read the content of these scrolls, the more he wanted to unravel their mysteries.
He sat on the ground, started to take off one ring after another, inspecting their content. "Hmm… That's weird… How come there isn't anything to make these scrolls show their content?!"
After almost five hours of going through the content of every ring three times, he finally had to drop such an idea.
"Don't tell me they used another array to do it," William shifted his eyes again over these ten scrolls, feeling more puzzled and intrigued by them.
But no matter how hard he thought about this mystery, he failed to see through it. "What did they write on these scrolls?!! Nothing worked at all!!!"
After three more hours, William couldn't help but admit it. He failed to break through the seal over these scrolls. And that made him quite frustrated.
He was one thousand percent sure now that these scrolls contained very important information. And that made him more determined on unsealing them.
"I'm out of ideas right now," William had to drop his attempts after two more hours. He racked his brain, and still couldn't unbreak that seal on the papers or find a way to force them to reveal their content.
"I'm just too exhausted," he stretched out his body after storing the scrolls inside one of his rings, "I shall spend the night here."
He spent all the daytime in his attempts. Right now, the world outside was growing dim slowly as the sun was heading towards the ground.
William took a few of his rations and had a proper meal. He didn't risk lightening up fire and ate the rations he had from the academy pretty cold as he checked the world outside.
He didn't find any trace of any unusual activity around. After confirming that there was no hidden risk anywhere, William fell into deep sleep.
William spent the entire night inside that hole, and his two arrays managed to conceal him from any dangers.
He decided to look for his team when he'd wake up. But least to his knowledge that his team was already facing their own adventure, one that wasn't any less surprising and intense than the one he just experienced.
After William got separated from his team, they kept running away from the place of the battle. Berry was the most eager one among others to turn around and go to find William.
The scene of her landing at the right moment, saving William from the tough situation he was facing, danced in a tempting way in her mind since leaving him behind.
But as the team agreed before, they had to wait for half an hour before doing such a thing.
*Roar!*
Just when they were close to passing the half an hour mark, they heard a fierce roar coming from one side.
"I'm going to handle this… You keep going up ahead. I'll deal with this dude quite fast and then meet you up," Ibra knew he was breaking William's plan by doing this. However, he also knew there was a slim chance for the team to meet one of the Nightmare monster's clones.
William was attracting that monster's attention. And so Ibra decided to take the lead and charge fast towards the incoming monster. He was the strongest, and that made him the most capable one here to deal with this new threat pretty damn fast.
He wanted to kill this monster as soon as possible, then lead everyone back where they left William. They took half an hour to get away from him, and that meant they needed another half an hour to return back and save him. So, wasting more time here would place William at more risk.
"Wait! This… This…" but the moment he approached the incoming monster, and before any one of the team would issue their opinion or disapproval about what he did, his shaky voice came to make everyone stop in their tracks.
"Sh*t! Holy sh*t! This isn't a single monster, but an entire horde of them… Run… Run for your lives!" and when everyone didn't know what was going on, Ibra's loud shout came to jolt them awake.
And before they'd move a single muscle, they all watched the entire forest around tremble, as many trees up there started to shake and fall to the side, exposing a large number of monsters drawing in crazy speed towards them.
It was as if the entire forest gushed out all of its monsters all of sudden. This scene wasn't any different than facing a monster tide attacking a clan or the academy.
"Run! Run towards there!" Ibra knew they had no time at all to even think of a plan to retreat, not many options ahead of them but to blindly run towards the safest direction. He went for a hundred metres ahead, leading the way that was opposite to where he spotted the early waves of this grand monster tide.
He saw most of the horizon's trees shake and fall, in a way that told him how huge the incoming monster tide was.
There was no time to worry about anything or anyone right now. Ibra instantly turned around, took the charge while shouting to jolt others back to their senses.
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