Later on, such crystals would be copied and sold out like fire, even reaching distant places that only heard little about William and his fox spirit.
William flashed and landed in the middle of this large group of spirit masters. He didn't charge it up or anything, just used this opening attack as a test. He used his strongest technique from the start, but for a reason, these masters weren't startled or froze out of fear from seeing him.
It felt like they were waiting for him, or they expected him to appear here or something. And that was enough evidence to tell William a lot about their hidden intentions and schemes.
"So, you indeed knew that man was an imposter, and you still claimed to have the real fox master in your academy? What trash that place you came from is!"
William muttered these words before the dust slowly settled down. He wasn't in any hurry to exert his revenge. They got no way out from here, and they got nothing up their sleeves to threaten him.
Even if they got many dark gold grade masters in their ranks, it wasn't an issue for William. As long as no one was at the high stage or the pinnacle of that grade, he'd kill any foe in the end.
But when the dust settled, he was surprised to see lots of them still standing on their feet. They got lots of wounds actually, but almost eighty percent of their initial number kept their heads intact on their shoulders.
He didn't charge up his attack, so he expected the dark gold masters would survive this attack one way or another. But this team got most of their members in gold grade, who were supposed to die from just this single attack. And when he looked closer, he got to see why.
"The Poisonous Black Armoured Turtle spirit? You are indeed a dark spirit master group then…" William recognised the giant black turtles that appeared all over the place. Almost half of the enemy numbers here got this spirit. And that was enough to explain why his earlier attack didn't work.
"We waited for you for a very long time," one of these turtle spirit masters said in deep hatred and pure enmity, similar to the voice of the one who held Smith's head before, "thanks to you, we got our lives ruined, our homes burnt down, and our comrades killed!"
"Stop this bullshit, I won't fall for your lousy and cheap act!" William laughed in a savage way, while his laugh turned into scary roars.
"Dark spirit masters have nothing like comradeship or friendship among themselves. You are just bitter to get chased all over the world, losing the nice and cosy life you enjoyed by your dirty crimes. Come on, you blame me for destroying your pathetic criminal lives? You ruined these from the moment you worked for the wrong side, acted like criminals, killing and threatening the peaceful world of humans… And on top of all, you worked with the enemy to take down our world! You are traitors!"
William didn't stop there and started to flash around. Since that war ended, he never got a chance to try out charging his technique with his silver power. He tried to do it before, inside one of the pocket worlds, ending up killing tons of monsters, without feeling any challenge.
Yet this time he knew this was a challenge. The Poisonous Black Armoured Turtles were dark spirits known for their insane level of defence. It was rumoured that at any similar grade, a thousand normal spirit masters had to collaborate together to bring just one using such a dark spirit down.
"Drop the towel already, you can't even crush a single shell of ours, and we got hundreds of my clan here," the one who kept talking to William, the same one who held Smith's head and threw it rolling on the ground, said in mockery.
In his eyes, William was doing something useless right now. He knew that William stepped in here dreaming about killing them all, avenging his dead friend. But in that dark master's eyes, it was William who fell into the meticulously planned scheme of their scary master.
In his eyes, William's fate was sealed the moment he stepped onto this stage. But he was greatly mistaken! And his greatest mistake lied in underestimating William.
What William didn't know was that this wasn't the only team sent out to entrap him. There were many other teams sent to different places around the Scorching Lands city. Any single place with a portal zone got a team waiting for William, spreading the net for him to fall in any of them.
And he indeed fell into this trap. But even if he learnt about that, it wouldn't matter to him. He was William, and right now he held a fresh grudge against these despicable dark masters.
"Let's see who will scream for mercy at the end," William's tone was like a true death god in the ears of those who heard him. It wasn't loud but carried some sort of magic and weight of its own.
Then he started to flash again. Yet this time, he was going to use one of the new variations of his technique.
"Close in the formation," the leader of this group of dark spirit masters shouted, "let's bring this abomination down together! On me!"
He shouted and started to move and with this, all other turtles started to move as well. Unlike William, everyone else got their spirit activated in the holographic version, the same version that all masters in this world used, all but William.
It was like an illusion of turtles surrounding these masters. But that didn't mean they were weak. As they closed in, William got little space to jump at. And yet he kept dashing from one point to another, charging up his technique.
If there was a slow-motion mode right now activated, then everyone would see the changes happening to William.
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