William was already covered up with that fog. And in their eyes, he was suffering from a slowdown effect from it. Plus, his vision started to get affected, and gradually he started to see nothing at all of the outside world.
Darkness might be considered their strongest ally, but at this moment it turned to be their deadly foe. The dark fog blocked their vision totally, and also senses. So they didn't get what was happening to William, and only could imagine it.
And what they imagined was wrong! William simply let his knives rotate around him when he got engulfed with all the black fog, to prevent a single speck of it from falling down on him.
And so he got rid of all the negative effects he suffered, restoring his fast speed and reflexes. As for his vision, it didn't enhance anything as the fog was pitch black, masking anything and everything outside.
It was indeed quite hard to do so, and he had to let his knives fly closer to him, just one metre away. Not only that, but he also had to control them to fly up and down, forming a little silver dome that kept flickering with white and silver lights from time to time, stopping and detoxifying the darkness fog around.
Like this, he kept himself safe for now from getting impacted by this fog.
The only one who could see through all this was the man who released this fog. As he watched using his connection with his technique, he got scared and petrified by what William was doing.
He was a veteran dark spirit master, one who fought in hundreds, even thousands of battles before. Even against the strongest folks in the base he came from, no one ever managed to stop his fountain of fog once they got enveloped inside.
The only way to evade this attack was by running away and not getting hit by it. So, when William got covered up with that fog, it was expected how everyone else thought about his end.
"No! Run! Run away!"
*Rumble!*
William had to struggle to contain his stacked-up attacks, waiting enough for the enemies around to gather up. He lacked any spirit sense, any vision through this dense fog to tell if they came closer or not.
But the moment the one who had the scorpion spirit shouted in such distress, William knew he got seen through. And without any more hesitation, he pointed his tail holding the sword towards the direction the voice came from, before dashing forward, and released his attack blindly without even waiting to see anything.
With his hit, the entire world rumbled, while a shockingly bright ball of light emanated next, destroying all darkness around.
The shout from that master came a bit late. His fellow comrades were all dark gold grade, and they got insane speed to begin with.
So just when he shouted, they were already up to William's spot, waving their different weapons and planning to take him down. They decided to strike all the area covered in this fog from all angles. But when that shout came, they paused, and didn't even release any attack.
He wanted to warn them that William wasn't affected in the slightest, but ended up stumbling in their actions, and guiding William to release his attack.
"Sh*t! Agh!"
"You are an abomination... Ah!"
"I'll see you in hell, bastard! Ah!"
Just a single moment separated between their life and death. If that fellow master of them didn't shout in warning at the last minute, they'd have released their attacks fully. And that would have helped them in absorbing part of the scary power in William's attack.
Even if William didn't get affected, and was using his full power at the moment, they would still land a few hits on him. Even if he got that necklace, he'd end up with nothing else but getting thrown in the air while his attack would fail.
They'd have to restart all this again, reform the trap once more. But at least they'd have kept their heads over their shoulders, not going to die like how it was going to happen in the next minute!
Thanks to that scorpion dark master's messing things up, none of that happened. And in the end, a much fiercer attack landed, engulfing all of them. Even trying to run away, use any defensive technique, or even throwing away gears to support them didn't work. The ball of light kept expanding fast, before finally exploding.
This time, it took a few minutes for the entire world around William to cool down. When he looked, he found a much deeper and a lot bigger hole there, with him and seven other bodies in the heart of it.
These seven were all having severe wounds, lying on the ground, with one even having half of his body inserted in the ground as if someone dug a grave for him there and didn't finish the task.
"Thanks for your contribution," William evilly grinned. And without waiting for any of them to say anything else, he flashed and kept hitting those at the severe wounds they got.
Heads rolled in the sky, halves of their bodies also followed as well. William didn't show a single mercy to any of them, didn't risk for anyone to have anything to protect and save their lives at the last moments of death. And so he moved, hit them where it'd be deadly.
Then he collected the rings, gears, and flashed out there to the surface. "It's indeed quite better to hit these hard nuts first," William evilly grinned when he saw the aftermath caused by his technique.
It just killed one third, wounding another third, clearing a huge area here off trees and enemies. It might seem like it got a weaker impact than the previous attack he launched before. But when putting into mind that this gathering was made by joint forces of seven big groups, it was indeed amazing.
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