"Don't dwindle, or else you'll be left behind," John shouted back at him, and Ibra got to kill the rabbits faster before joining them.
"Tsk! What a party destroyer you are!"
"Don't worry," William laughed, "we got the rest of the world to satisfy your desire to fight."
However, after few days of doing this, the entire team grew bored.
"It's no fun anymore," Ibra sighed while they were resting inside a small cave, "all we met are f*cking bronze and silver monsters! Weak! All are weak!"
"I know," William sighed. Even he was disappointed. He wanted to come out so he could find monsters and get their cores. But all they met were weak ones just like Ibra complained about.
"Why not ask around then?" Sara suggested, "we can look for locals and see if there are places with high grade monsters there."
"Hmm… Ok," William paused, turned to Moore before adding, "you'll handle this part then."
"Got it!" Moore wasn't the same Moore he was when William first met him. In five years, he learnt techniques from William that changed his viewpoint about his spirit element.
He always took his spirit element as some sort of a messenger or something. But as William taught him, he started to discover new ways to use his power in. One of these were the one William wanted him to use.
He laid on the ground, closed his eyes, before delving deep into the dream world. This technique he was using was called the Mind Dream technique, which was something like mind reading.
Moore had to have a poster or an image of the person he was about to meet in his dreams. But by using this technique, he was able to delve into the dream worlds of many people at the same time without the need for him to know them. Like this he could read their minds partially towards a certain topic or a point.
For example, just now, William and his team wanted to know if there were any spots around with high grade monsters. Moore could get intel about such topics using his technique. And so he entered his dream world and stayed there for two hours before waking up.
"Rise and shine dark lord," Ibra said, using the same nickname everyone in the team was using for Moore.
"It's not only me who have darkness element," Moore bitterly smiled. Since joining William's side, and everyone kept a slight distance from him. And he could understand their point of view.
Even when he spoke with them about his past life, how he got abducted by the dark masters after discovering he got the darkness element, this didn't change much.
"Any good news?" William closed an eye over how his team dealt with Moore. Even if the latter didn't have a choice in joining the dark side, he was still branded by this. And he had to deal with this for the rest of his life.
"There is a place not far from here," Moore paused, and looked at Ibra.
"What's there, dark lord? Do you want breakfast after waking up to speak properly or what?"
"Sigh!" Moore turned to William, ignoring Ibra, "that place is weird. It's rumoured that no one entered there and managed to survive."
"Interesting," William liked such news, "anything dangerous is fine for us. Where is it? Did you get any news about that?"
"It's around one hundred kilometres northwest," Moore pointed towards a direction.
"Take out a map," William turned to Lina, who was now acting as his secretary in the team. She wasn't weak, but she had a temper that made her look a bit cold in the eyes of everyone.
Aside from William, her sister, and the girls in the team, she didn't interact that much with the rest.
"Hmm… That's not bad," William looked at the detailed big map of the continent, "it's on our path towards our destination. Let's go then."
They were heading outside of the kingdom, towards the place Lucas and Kong marked for him. They had to cross tens of thousands of kilometres on foot to reach there. But William didn't want to spend such long time in doing this.
The other, and more viable option was to head towards one of the few places that got a long-distance teleport portals. Using these portals would help in saving lots of time for the team. And so, they were marching not towards that clan directly, but were going to take a little detour first.
And luckily for them, the spot Moore found was located on their general direction.
"Let's go then," Ibra was impatient like everyone else, "let's go and explore that place."
"Yes, let's go there," Lang said, while everyone else nodded in agreement.
"Ok," William was also feeling like them. If that place was dangerous as Moore said, then there was a high chance for it to have dark gold monsters.
Like this, the team started moving towards their destination. On their way, they met with couple of teams travelling and hunting monsters in the forest. And when they spoke with them, they got to confirm what Moore heard before. And also learnt more.
That place was indeed filled with fierce monsters. But what made anyone going there die was related to some weird phenomenon out there.
Monsters were in silver and gold grade. And William got the good news of the presence of few dark gold ones as well. But the most dangerous thing inside was a weird grey fog that was roaming the entire place inside.
When William and others asked, no one really knew anything about such fog. All they know was that anyone entering there would vanish and not return ever again.
"So… Shall we go or not?" Peter said after meeting the sixth team. Any team they met was warmly speaking with them, sharing the news about that place, and also gave William's team a strict warning to not go there.
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