"You are insane! Do you think this is just limited to the Lost City? Lots of people have many interests in the Lost City! Lots of forces already found tons of treasures there. Do you think they'll lay low and obediently accept this as a fact? No way! They are going to fight you, chase and even kill you at the end."
[That's why I got you, right?]
"Even if we got half of the city, or even most of it, we won't be able to keep it!"
[Don't think of it this way. Just let everyone try, and whoever has the ability can have what he can get. This is fair, right?]
"Fair? Are you trying to get me killed or what? This isn't fair, this is madness!"
[Well, this is my offer, take it or leave it]
William was inside the Lost City fighting, killing monsters all over the place. Right now, tons of monsters were already flooding his place thanks to the explosions he created so far.
But that wasn't a problem for him. All the monsters he killed were at gold or lower grades, with the highest ones at an early stage of golden grade.
From the latter, he had collected thirty cores so far. And that made him quite excited. He didn't know why only low grade and weak monsters were here, but he loved this.
Like this, he'd get dark gold cores like he wanted. And so, he wasn't in any rush to get out or leave here.
He knew asking Lara to do this out of the blue was something she'd not instantly agree upon. But he had to do it this way.
In fact, if he had a foothold in the city, with enough time to deepen his roots here, he'd not even accept to share anything with anyone, not even with her. But that wasn't what reality was. And he knew he needed her help, for now at least.
"Just take your time, give me your answer in an hour or so."
[Do you believe they are going to wait for one hour? I'm getting endless reports about them amassing large armies and heading towards the Lost City right now! And above all, you framed me! Few of those who were at your place said that you claimed to be working for me! Is this true?"
"Well… I believe the reception here sucks! Sorry, what again?"
[Stop this right now! You must have said something crazy like this! Since when did I ever tell you to go down there and create trouble? Do you know how terribly bad the current situation you placed my family in is?]
"Easy there! I was just trying to scare people away, nothing more," William rolled his eyes, acting shameless here, "for now let any armies come. Just give them a warning, as a form of good intentions."
[You… You are really something!]
"Just tell them to not send anyone, or else everyone they'll send will die."
[Are you planning to kill them?!!]
"Me? No, no way I'll do such a hideous act," William evilly laughed, looking around before adding, "just warn them that the entire place is filled with monsters, monsters they can't deal with."
William stored away the Bullet, knowing that Lara was now in the middle of a tough situation. But she got to make a choice here, and according to her decision, William would decide how to act with her.
As he expected, just in the next ten minutes, she received lots of angry messages from lots of forces in the city.
She was in a tight spot, one that she didn't dream about when she met William for the first time. But soon enough, her family elders came and spoke with her.
"That's madness… But why won't we try it then?"
Just when she thought her family elders would shout in anger and order her to cut all the ties with William, they suddenly said something crazy.
"Don't give us that look… That city already belongs to us. Our great grandfather was the one to discover it. If not for him, if not for all the portal cores he brought back with him, nothing of the current glory would have happened!"
"But…" Lara realised why her family elders agreed on such a crazy act. In fact, this opinion wasn't new inside the family. It was a common opinion that ran for long generations.
The Vancouf family saw in themselves the true leaders of this place. But unlike what they should gain, they were just part of the ruling parties here. William's sudden actions came to give the opportunity these elders dreamt about on a golden plate.
"Just agree to that youth's request, inform other forces in the city about this decision. And just how he said it, if they have the ability, let them try. But I'm curious, if he is this confident about no one passing through the monsters around, how come he'd get in and out? How will he allow us to go in and out?"
"Well…" Lara was busy thinking about this disaster, and totally missed this point.
"Don't tell me you don't know how he intends to do it!"
"One second…" Lara hurriedly took William's Bullet out, "tell me, how do you plan to let my family in and out?"
[Oh, just wait a few minutes. The other parties are sending out their forces right now, and it's quite interesting here, hahahaha!]
William wasn't joking or lying. Just minutes ago, he noticed a large number of masters coming from the plateau high above. Lots of masters ran down the stairs, seemingly excited to meet up with these monsters.
William was a few kilometres away right now from the stairs area. But that didn't stop him from activating his formation.
He already linked it with his blood, so with a whim he could activate and deactivate it.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
He already left the final touch before moving around, fighting the monsters freely. When Lara warned him about the incoming armies, he finalised the formations, leaving behind a single explosive attack.
The formations stored the noises caused by such explosions and were ready to release them with a whim. And just when he activated his formation, the ear deafening sounds of explosions rang and filled the entire world.
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