"Why won't we?" William didn't care about any fog. In fact, he grew curious about this phenomenon, "let's go and check it. If it's really dangerous, we will retreat."
"Got it," everyone said, and William then took them towards that place.
Crossing this distance took them roughly six days. During which, they met many monsters, all were weak, all faced the same fate under the team's overwhelming strength.
What they noticed was that the closer they got to that place, the fewer teams they met.
"We are here," William and his team didn't listen to any warnings from those who they met. They trusted William, and the latter trusted his knowledge.
Even if it was dangerous, he'd better see what it was. This place wasn't that far from the borders of the Scorching Lands. And as such, he wanted to see what kind of threat this place really held.
"We are here," William stopped at the border of this region. According to the news he got from the local teams he met, this place was a grand hexagonal shaped territory that spanned for hundreds of kilometres or even more.
William asked more than once, and everyone confirmed out this point. One of these teams was generous and even helped William by drawing the shape of this place at its location on the map.
It was indeed hexagonal in shape, perfect hexagon, and that made William feel that something was off in this place.
"Listen up, we'll do it on the moving fortress way."
"Moving Fortress? Does we need to do it?!" John was surprised by this. After five years, he grew stronger, and his weak self-issues got partially solved. He wasn't the same youth William picked from his class.
His role in the team didn't actually change, still responsible for the escape route of the team. However, in this tactic, the Moving Fortress, he'd not be able to do his role.
This tactic was devised by William, as he thought back at the time of the big war five years ago. When he reflected on the entire situation there, he couldn't help but consider a possibility. What if he was unable to help the team back then, what if they faced an enemy, one that they were unable to fight?
And so, he started to think about ways to fortify the team's overall defences. This led for him to create such tactic where the entire team would scatter around a grand stretch of land, but they'd be able to shrink their formation at any sign of danger, group together, and move like a single coherent unit.
"We have to be extra careful," William paused, "I don't like how it's perfectly hexagonal in shape. It's like someone drew it or built it or something…"
"Fine," John shrugged, "get into positions then and let me handle the entire situation."
"Take Thomas with you," William said, and he didn't need to elaborate for anyone to get what he wanted to do.
"My team, let's move out!"
"Mine too!"
Five years passed, and still the same vice leaders were the same. What changed was for Ro to have her own team at last, a move that happened just a year ago. In addition to her, smith finally got his own team, formally getting appointed as the scout team leader and one of the vice leaders.
Currently the vice leaders were Ibra, Sara, Berry, John, Lang, Peter, Smith, and Ro. As for Lina, Tina, Moore and Thomas, the four were following William anywhere he went.
Like this, every vice leader's team got ten members, and William's team got twelve members in it.
As John was the main controller of this formation, he moved with his team, alongside Thomas, to the centre. Everyone else followed their leaders towards the outside, spreading over an overall distance of three kilometres.
William kept himself in between, acting as the firefighter. "Let's start exploring this place… Murphy, make sure to draw a very detailed map this time."
"Got it!"
Murphy was one of the five gems whom Alfonso gave to William. Out of the gems he got from Alfonso, only this one was pretty unique, in addition to Thomas of course.
He got the space element, with an affinity to high altitude. Using the right technique, this gold grade spirit master was able to see the world from high vintage point, drawing maps of the regions they'd pass over, and even scout the general terrain of any region.
William tried to give him a technique to increase his sharp eyesight, and it worked. Like this, Murphy could do the same job as Thomas, scanning the entire area and see if there were enemies on the ground or not.
But unlike Thomas, Murphy couldn't see any hidden enemies. Not to mention the high spirit power consumption rate such a technique placed over this gold grade master, which made him unfavourable choice for William do scout for enemies.
As William felt bad about this place, he decided to use Murphy to draw a detailed map of this place just in case. And soon enough he'd realise this was a very good decision.
The team started moving inside that area. Just as they walked for few minutes, they started to spot large number of gold and silver grade monsters coming at them.
"Hahahahaha! This is how hunting monsters shall be like! Hahahaha!"
After long hours, William and his team met lots of monsters and killed too many to count. William gained lots of cores from this, didn't hold his power back and transformed to his three tailed version.
They met lots of gold grade monsters, giving William a breath. But he wasn't the only one happy about this situation, Ibra and others were.
"I bet you don't want to even take a moment of rest," Tina looked at Ibra and her eyes held a hidden affection towards him. She grew to be eleven years old, but her body was like a girl at fifteen or something.
Selvators were just blessed by their physique. The little girl who kept fooling around and causing trouble grew to be like William when she first met him.
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