By then William would have plenty of time to go through all these techniques and modify them. So, he simply stored all of these scrolls in one separate ring, then turned to inspect the rings of the dark spirit masters.
Seeing all these scrolls made him recall the scrolls he previously got without any way to read. He hoped to find a way in any of these rings, a right way to read through all of the scrolls he had and would gain from these rings.
As he examined the rings of the dark spirit masters, he never found a single ring with gear sets less than one thousand. And in a few, he found much more, reaching even to enough to arm ten thousand spirit masters!
To William, this meant one thing. "They are arming up a grand army indeed… But as the gears are all here, that means they are still preparing and didn't form that grand army yet. But such numbers…"
He was puzzled by the total number of gear sets he got. All of them were in bronze and silver grades, with few at gold grade. But the overall number of all the gears he gathered made it clear how insanely huge the army the dark spirit masters were preparing in this region.
He got enough to arm up more than two hundred thousand spirit masters from head to toe. And that was indeed quite a scary figure.
"I just got to see the tip of the iceberg… Such a huge army is enough to crush my academy and flatten it to the ground. And I just got to see the loot inside the ones I faced. There were lots of others who ran away, not to mention the rings other forces here gained. And that wasn't even one tenth of the entire dark spirit master forces in the region…"
His mind kept racing and thinking about this issue. Without doubt, the dark spirit masters here were planning something huge.
He knew that normal dark spirit masters wouldn't walk around carrying such a big number of gear sets. But he was also positive that the gold and dark gold grade dark spirit masters sent to the fort wasn't enough to amount to one tenth of the overall high forces of these in the region.
If he was them, he wouldn't send more than ten percent here to keep the fort under watchful gazes. Sending more wouldn't make any sense. That made him feel the total army these folks were preparing was a million-man army.
What puzzled him the most was that no news about such grand moves before were heard by him in his past life. And that meant either the dark spirit master target was far away from his academy, or it happened just prior to the launch of the apocalypse back then. So, he didn't get to hear anything at all.
"I'm sure the answer lies within these scrolls…" William muttered while taking the gear sets out, plus lots of other things.
Like he expected, he found tons of potions, arrays, materials and cores, and lots of scrolls as well. They were all sealed the same way the other scrolls he got before had. But unlike what he hoped for, he found nothing at all to help him in reading all these.
"Something is wrong…" William stood in front of the hundreds of scrolls he found. He already stored everything else in his rings, and unsealed the scrolls without any avail, "if it's something special, then only these scrolls will be found in a few rings. But… I found them literally in all the rings. Which means they are orders about movement and plans for everyone. Then how come I'm not able to read any?!"
William now realised that he was thinking wrongly all this time. There wasn't a secret way to unlock and read all these scrolls. Instead, it was something common, something easy for any dark spirit master to do. And that changed his entire line of thoughts.
He stood for half an hour thinking about this before he finally found out the answer. "What's special about dark spirit masters? The thing they got and none others have?" he finally found the right spot that would unveil this mystery for him, "it's the darkness element! I got it! That might be the reason why I couldn't read anything using normal unsealing methods…"
He moved his eyes around, grabbed one scroll and muttered, "I was doing it all wrong from the beginning. It didn't need materials and arrays to show up their content. They just needed a bit of the darkness element, and these scrolls will show all their secrets…"
*Fwoosh!*
The moment he stirred up his darkness element and moved his spirit power through his hand towards the scroll, the entire scroll flashed in bright light.
The scroll was yellow in colour. But it turned all silver when he did that. At the same time, black lines and dots started to form in front of his eyes, taking the shape of letters and words. In the span of the next few breaths, the entire scroll finally showed readable words.
"It works!" he shouted in happiness while lamenting his short sight before. At last, he managed to see through this mystery. "This…"
Just as he started to read the content of this scroll, his face changed. The words he read were speaking about a direct order for a team of the dark spirit masters.
This order was speaking about a future plan of movement, one that seemed to aim at this fort and the region around it.
The plan spoke about the role of this team, alongside others, about an area that wasn't that far from the fort. It aimed to control one of the main trading routes that connected this fort with the capital of the kingdom.
William knew he got a glimpse and really valuable intel about the plans of the enemy. But doing it this way wasn't going to bring any result.
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