That was why William stuck to searching for the grand gatherings of his enemies, even when he didn't find anyone at the previous six spots.
He stood in his place watching the incoming seven dark gold dark masters with a calm look over his face. He wasn't feeling overconfident in killing them, but he was considering how to do it in the least losses possible.
His necklace was indeed working against dark spirit masters, especially those at the weak early stage of this grade. However, that would also deplete his spirit power like crazy.
If he let them do what they wanted, they'd end up wasting more than three elixirs just to take these foes down. The thought of losing this battle didn't even flash in his mind at all, and all he thought about was how to better control his spirit power consumption, limit the use of his elixirs to the lowest minimum.
That was why he also did like what the enemies here did, altered his fighting way, not directly heading towards his enemies, not wasting his time or spirit power over the weak flies.
He ignored the seven, and just kept flashing for hundreds of metres around, stacking his attacks, until he finally stored twenty-five of them.
"If you are a man, I dare you to stop and face us directly!"
"Running like a pussy once you saw us? And you dare to call yourself a spirit master? Hahahaha! What a great man you are!"
As he kept flashing around, storing up attacks over his sword, the seven chasing after him didn't stop their attempts to taunt him like this. But no matter what they said, he didn't retort back at all.
In his eyes, he found it pointless to exchange even a single word with dead men. Once he charged up his technique to such a scary stage, William turned around. And without saying a single word, he moved directly towards them.
"Let's take him down!"
"Lockas, we are depending on you!"
"Leave him to me!"
The one who called Lockas moved further ahead, seemingly the one who was going to stop William's incoming charge. He was the one with a scorpion spirit, and William got a glimpse of what they planned to do.
Scorpions were very fierce spirits, hard to fight against. People might think they were hard to deal with thanks to their tail, or poison. But the truth was they were this deadly and hard to deal with thanks to the darkness element they got.
Using their tails, they could release thick bellows of darkness fog that could either bind one's movements or seal one's senses.
William knew his necklace would protect him from any physical damage. But against such a special form of damage, he doubted it could really work.
And yet he never paused for a single moment at all. He knew what his enemy's plan was, knew what kind of weapon they were going to use, and he also knew how to counter it.
That scorpion was going to release a black fountain of fog, and the only way to counter it was to directly face it with the right element. And it happened that William got not only one, but two elements which could hit this darkness fog at the deadly spot.
"I can't waste my stored-up attacks..." Just when the two got closer from each other, William noticed the rest of the dark gold enemies started to disperse and pull a distance from him. They seemed to see through what was coming, as they saw what happened to that dead dude from before.
So they made sure to pull a safe distance of a few hundred metres between them and William. That meant if William released his stacked attack, he wouldn't be able to take more than one foe down. And he didn't want to see that happen.
He could deal with this scorpion dark master, dealing a heavy blow to him. But he was sure the other six were ready to release torrents of deadly attack towards him the instant he'd deplete his stored attacks.
He wasn't worried to get wounded, but he knew his necklace wouldn't negate the physical pushing force of their attacks. And that meant he'd end up getting thrown in the air, getting separated from that scorpion dude, not able to finish him off.
If he didn't follow his attack with another to finish up this dude, he'd end up losing what he accumulated. Not to mention that dude would heal himself using potions or perhaps elixirs.
And so he had to do it the right way, or else he'd end up in a closed loop fight where he'd end up being the big loser. After all, he was exhausting his spirit power from his limited elixirs, not like these freaks who were having a huge amount of spirit power to begin with.
Getting himself trapped in a battle of spirit power attrition was the end for him. And so he aimed towards breaking all this from the start, aiming to take not only this dude down, but all the seven enemies here in one big move.
*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*
"Who said I got just my sword to use elements with?" William evilly grinned when that scorpion arched its tail and sprayed the black fountain fog he expected.
At the same moment, he brought out his knives, infused his lightning and light elements inside, and controlled them to fly in a vertical circle just ten metres ahead of him.
At the same time, he also made sure to expand the shield of the necklace to cover him inside a dome of fifty metres at least. He increased the amount of spirit power consumed this way, but he made sure he was going to not get backstabbed by any of those scary folks in the middle of dealing with this troublesome scorpion.
"Die!" As William expected, the moment the black fountain appeared and enveloped him, the other six shouted and flashed like crazy towards him.
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