Even when William left the leadership of his team over to Thomas. And frankly speaking, their overall help wasn't that much to begin with compared with other teams.
But right now, William stated it clear that he'd be the one leading the yet to come battle.
"You are going to use your thing," William didn't say much, "and with it, you can see if these groups have others behind that we didn't discover."
Thomas got what William wanted him to do, "after that, you'll keep using your thing all the time, discovering the current whereabouts of other dark spirit masters hiding behind."
That was part of the reasons behind William's patience. He wanted more vanguard teams to be here so Thomas would detect much more. William knew if he just depended on his array, then things would be difficult. And if he laid in wait for the dark spirit masters to finalise their trap, then things would be more difficult.
Thomas got what he wanted to do. William wanted him to keep scanning the world around, looking for the hidden dark spirit masters tagging from behind, chasing them in the shadows.
Once the battle would start, he'd be the one to tell others where to go, and which places to avoid.
"But… How are we going to hit them?" Sara paused, "are we going to directly clash with them?"
"Directly clash? Girl, do you want to see all of us dead or what?!" William rolled his eyes before adding, "we are going to do it in the most classic way, hit and run."
"Hit and run?!!" she wasn't the only one surprised by his words.
"To be more specific, hit while running," William paused, before adding, "the lineup will change. Ibra and Sara will handle the sides, Peter and Berry will handle our back, stopping these bastards from infiltrating us from the middle. John will be running up front with my team and Thomas. From there, we'll hear to the orders of Thomas, all of us, as if they are coming from me."
"What about me?" Lang suddenly asked.
"You are going to be in the middle, helping anyone in need."
"And you?" Ro raised an eyebrow, "I noticed that you always assign roles for anyone, for everyone except yourself."
"Leave my role for myself," William paused before stressing over this point again, "no matter what happens, just keep running. Follow the instructions of Thomas all the time."
"Why do I feel you plan to leave us behind again?" Berry could already feel that, like many around.
"Well… According to what will happen, we'll have to adapt, right?" William didn't give a firm answer, which made Berry more worried.
"Are we going to head back once separated?" But Ibra took this as a given fact. If William already thought about this possibility, then it was more practical to consider it happening.
"No," but unlike what everyone here expected, William firmly shook his head, "you'll keep moving forward. This time, we won't separate for long. Our target is to bring trouble to those despicable traitors. Running away won't help in anything but make us look like fools."
His words meant one thing, William didn't intend to actually separate and run away from them. He just planned to get separated enough, so he'd use his fox spirit. Then he'd rejoin them and keep harassing the dark spirit masters in the region.
Like he said it, they didn't come here to hunt monsters, but dark spirit masters. And running away from the first battle was going to make all their plans fail.
William wasn't worried. Even if he ended up facing a dark gold dark spirit master, he was confident in his ability to survive and run. But that was the most hated scenario he ever wanted to see.
He just hoped that all the scary dark gold masters would be quite busy, far away from here, or have lots of missions and things on their own to handle.
Without William knowing it, his wish was going to be granted! And that was for a very good reason, Alfonso!
"Ready?" William waited for half an hour, as they met a group of monsters. He'd not risk fighting the dark spirit masters with monsters around.
Once they killed the monsters, claimed their loot, and absorbed the cores like usual, William moved his eyes around.
With everyone nodding, William was the first to pull the fuse of this grand battle. And as he memorised the places of bubbles scanned and detected by his team during collecting the loot from the last batch of monsters, he started to attack them mercilessly and decisively.
*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*
"Attack!"
As he controlled his knives, he made the move in a grand circle, cutting through many of the gathered-up clusters of dark spirit masters here. His attack came sudden and fierce, killing lots of spirit masters hidden inside these bubbles and many more started to scream out in pain and agony.
"Sh*t! They discovered us!"
"Watch out! These knives can take any silver grade spirit master!"
"Stop them! Gold masters move out now!"
"How the hell did he spot us?"
"No time for this… Attack!"
Just with William attacking with his knives, lots of bewildered shouts came from many spots around. Before his knives would complete the first tour around, his team spurted and attacked, releasing lots of technique towards the hidden dark spirit masters.
The enemy was indeed taken by surprise. William kept them tagging along for quite long time, enough for them to lower their guards.
They needed a minute or two to organise themselves. The first to move out were the gold grade masters. And William and his gold grade members in the team were ready to intercept them.
These gold grade enemies were trying to stop the circling knives. From this, William was sure many of the spirit masters here were at gold grade.
This meant the enemy already scanned his team's overall strength, knew there were few gold grade ones there. And that was a fact.
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