William loved how it felt when he stacked more than one attack together. His sword would feel heavier, and a little rebellious. Yet it didn't manage to slip off his tail's grip. At the same time, it felt just cool to subdue such a rebellious and strong sword.
And so, he dashed for three more times, taking a wide detour around these thirty foes, before finally heading back, coming straight towards them.
He came from their rear, attacking them after dashing for three more times, waving his sword with his tail, without even checking on his spirit power for even one second.
"Watch out!"
"He is coming from behind!"
"Attack! Don't defend, attack!"
It was like a wildfire spread in the middle of all of them. They were all scared, unorganised, and didn't even get a single leader or one tactic.
In their eyes, they were supposed to be the strongest spirit masters in the same grade. But in front of William, in front of a bronze spirit master, a weakling they would never place in their eyes, they looked like turtles and snails, weak like fragile eggshells.
Aside from strength, their speed indeed lacked compared with William. Even when activating their darkness element, they felt like they were the ones using normal elements, and William was the one using the darkness one.
In their eyes, William was moving too damn fast, as if he was teleporting or something. If not for the series of afterimages William left behind while moving fast, they'd mistake him for having a space element and using teleportation technique.
But thanks to these afterimages, they could at least guess where William was heading towards. And that made it easy for them to launch their next attack.
"Got him!"
"Me too!"
"Hahahaha, you are dead! Do you hear me, bastard? You are dead!"
Just as William arrived at their rear, he got faced with a myriad of attacks coming from those thirty. Their attack landed on William's grand body, exploded and released a thick bellow of dust.
"Wrong! You got my afterimage only, hahahaha!"
And when they were this close from celebrating killing William, the latter's calm voice came just from their side.
William knew he was facing extremely experienced spirit masters. And as they were dark spirit masters, they used to lure enemies out and hit them when they'd least expect it.
So he didn't plan to just hit them directly at their rear. And when he arrived there, he used a short dash to the side, so damn fast they missed him.
*Rumble!*
Before any of them would react, William moved his tail and let his sword land in the middle of this group, releasing all the stacked attacks he had accumulated so far.
And with this hit, a second violent explosion erupted, one that wasn't any weaker than the first one.
"Agh!"
"I will kill you! Will kill you!"
"Dammit! My arm is gone! Is gone! Agh!"
As the second attack landed, another wave of losses appeared in the middle of their ranks. This time, William controlled his technique more perfectly, killing twenty of them in one go.
"Without dark gold masters, we are doomed!"
The surviving ten jumped fast, using their darkness element and moved as far away from William as possible.
"Let's then use it!"
"Yes, we are done for anyway. Bringing this damn bastard with me is enough!"
As they scattered, William heard them shout like this and he felt like they still got something up their sleeve.
They had a way to invite one dark gold dark spirit master here. And if that happened, William would be in great trouble.
"Time to end this fun," despite not liking this, he had to get rid of all of them fast and stop playing around.
As they scattered, there was a few hundred metres between them and him. In addition to that, every man was on his own, standing alone and away from each other by almost the same distance.
It meant he'd take much longer to kill them, but that also meant he'd ensure killing one of them even if he clashed directly against their spirits, techniques, and weapons.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Rumble!*
William didn't hold his tail at all, kept stacking attacks while jumping towards one enemy after another. No matter how hard they tried, no matter how they attacked, they all were going to fall on his hands in the end.
William wasn't thinking of anything at this moment, only taking care of these first was his top priority. He knew his spirit body was enough to make him deal with gold spirit masters as if they were white grade ones. But that didn't mean he got enough confidence to fight against one dark gold spirit master.
But as he took some time to cross the distance between him and five enemies, and even when he took them out, he noticed that one of the remaining five took out a ball, raised it high in the air, before pushing his spirit power into it.
It was like a crystal the size of one's head. That dude raised his right hand high, without even caring about anything, not even about his life.
"I'm going to kill you first!" William didn't like the vibe that came from this ball when that dude injected his spirit power into it. And so he dropped all his plans about others, turned around, and started dashing towards that dude.
The dark spirit masters were already running for their lives since the second big attack of William. And so, the distance between him and that dude now was close to one kilometre at least.
"Hurry up! He is coming for you!" one shouted while William kept leaving a series of afterimages behind, dashing like crazy towards that dude.
"Die!"
"I won't make it! Catch!"
And just before William would land his stacked-up attack, the fiercest he ever formed since the start of this battle, that dude knew he was done for.
Out of William's expectations, that dude arched his back, and threw that ball to the opposite direction with all his might.
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