"Got it," Lina moved fast, and went towards the portal area to adjust the dates of their tickets. Tina also tagged along with her, seemingly running away from such a heavy and suffocating atmosphere in the team.
It reminded her of the old incident, the one that happened to her family and clan. She was young when that happened, and it was expected how deep the trauma left behind was.
"I want a team of five to go out, find the dirtiest places around here, and throw these heads there," William took five different rings, filled with the severed heads of his enemies.
"I'll do it!"
"Let me take part as well!"
"I'll go!"
Unlike what William expected, the ones who volunteered to do it were Smith's scout team. He thought they'd need more time to return to normal or take any role in the team. But their fierce and instant reaction made him realise they were here since the start of the battle, heard his words, and knew what they meant.
They wanted to exert revenge in such a way, even if it wasn't that satisfying, it was enough to help them get slightly over this severe blow.
"Ok, you all go together," William tossed the five rings over to them, "make sure to do it together."
"Ok boss," the members in the team nodded, before leaving fast towards one of the main gates here.
William watched them disappear before taking a deep breath, "let's go," he turned towards the direction of the hotel. while the rest followed him in deadly silence.
The first thing William did was to send all of the team to rest, all except his vices.
They all gathered up at his room, with gloomy looks over their faces. "We need to select someone to lead the scout team instead of Smith."
"This…" everyone thought they were gathered here to listen to reassuring words from him. But unlike what they expected, William didn't even mention the matter and jumped straight to business.
"We will avenge him, badly fight and kill those son of b*tches who did this. Then we'll return back to our city, invite his family over and hold a burial ceremony, suiting a good friend of ours. But that's for later. For now, we need to gather our sh*t together, man up, and prepare for what's waiting for us out there."
"What else but a bunch of cowards and trash? We killed them five years ago, and we will kill them now!" Ibra harrumphed, and William slowly shook his head.
"Don't get it wrong… We despise and hate our enemies, curse and call names on them, but never underestimate their power and might," William paused, moving his eyes around every one of his vices before adding, "so we are here now to do what our team expected from us. Organise ourselves, set a plan, and be ready for what lies ahead."
"..."
His team wasn't prepared for any of that. All this time, they tasted how to be invincible, crushing and killing any foe they met, without truly suffering something in return.
The only loss the team had was back at that epic war. The team lost three of their members. But they were just formed, and members were temporarily joining the team.
This was truly the first time for the Black Tails team to suffer such a blow. William knew this. And that was why he wanted his team to deeply immerse themselves in this feeling and know how they should respond in case such unfortunate events happened again.
William wasn't delusional, he knew how cruel this world truly was. In his eyes, losses were inevitable. The more they'd grow stronger, the harder enemies they'd have to fight, the more of them would fall along that long path.
And the first thing William wanted them to train out of this experience was their mindset. And to do this to the team, he had to start with his vices first. Then they'd move this over to others in their teams.
As for the vices in front of him, they were still under the shock of losing Smith, and the grand battle William had with those dark masters. They thought about going to that dark academy, exerting revenge over them, without truly thinking seriously about this.
It never crossed any of their minds to think about how powerful or well prepared their enemies were. And that wasn't totally their fault. The shock they just suffered clouded their senses, made them forget about what they heard on the stage.
They attended the fight from the beginning, and so they must have heard the words of that despicable dark leader. That was thanks to their poor mindset.
"If you thought for a second that all of this was coincidental, then I have to say you are wrong. Those dark masters knew exactly what they were doing, even their leader bragged about me falling in the trap they sat for me. You heard what they said, right? And that meant they intended everything they did, and we aren't just facing bad luck but a scheme from our enemies."
"Who are they? Any clue?" Sara asked, and William sighed.
"I don't have any, unfortunately," William took a deep breath, "all the answers lay at that academy. And putting that in mind, it's easy to guess what is awaiting us out there."
"Aside from high end dark gold masters, we won't fear anyone," Peter blurted out, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Don't just depend entirely on me," William rolled his eyes, knowing that the reason behind such words came because of him, "if my guesses are correct, then the enemies already have extensive intel about us, all of us. Consider that they know our grades, our spirits, our techniques, our tactics, and even our strengths and weaknesses… Consider that they know everything about us as your best buddy or mate."
William's words left a deep impression on everyone. They never expected the situation to be this bad when they came to meet him.
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