William didn't just want to survive through this assault, he wanted revenge as well. In addition to that, he wanted to use this chance to flip tables over and prepare the stage for his newly established guild branch to rise.
In fact, he was appreciative of such an attack. If these forces didn't target him like this, he'd have no way to weaken them. Without such a blow, then it was expected that his guild branch would live through very hard times, struggling for so long against the various forces and their deep roots and dirty schemes.
But now? They presented their top fighters on a golden plate for him. And he wasn't that merciful to let them through without a proper punishment.
As he lacked spirit sense, he had to use a helping hand.
[Wow! I got the reports, and it happened just as you described before, hahahaha!] Lara finally returned to him after half an hour from the start of all this.
"I told you," William laughed shortly before adding, "tell me, how good it is? Where are they now?"
[They are entrapped in the heart of the city] she seemed to take her time to speak, as she wasn't actually the one examining the current scary battle in the Lost City, [They are overwhelmed with tons of monsters. But those pinnacle figures are leading them forward in steady steps]
eaglesnov?1,сoМ "Good," William's face turned cold, "I'll wait until they arrive near the stairs, then I'll deactivate the formations. It's up to you from there."
[Got it! But why didn't you ask for part of them? Huh? It's not like you. You won't generously give me anything without asking for anything in return. Are you sick or something?]
"They are going to surrender out of desperation," William rolled his eyes, "you are the Vancouf family, you have a good name to scare them. But me? I'm just nobody. If I accept any of them, then it'll be like inviting a bomb into the house. No thanks, keep all of them, I won't none."
[As you see fit. I won't say no to more helping hands, hahahaha!]
This was William's plan. He didn't just want to kill as many as possible from the masters gathered here, but he also wanted to deprive the forces in the city from their sharpest sword, the pinnacle tiered masters.
If it was up to him, he'd not let a single one of them fall into anyone's hands. But he knew his current limits. He had no power to control them in the first place. If he risked this and allowed few to join his guild, then they'd work as spies and assassins, causing him severe losses, more than what they could help his guild with.
So, he decided from the start to let Lara and her family absorb them. Like this, the Vancouf family would grow stronger, but they'd also have lots of problems with other forces.
Like this, they'd shoulder lots of pressure off him without even knowing this. As for the current problems at that family, William knew it was going to get worse not better after this battle.
Lara already saw through the real face of Richard. After this battle, everyone in the family regardless of their stance and loyalty would see everything crystal clear.
Instead of leaning to schemes and underhanded tactics, William was sure the family would get through lots of hard times. Even ending up divided into two families wasn't going to be a weird result in his eyes.
But he didn't care. William wanted more chaos to erupt here among all the forces so his guild would have a golden chance in rising up. Besides, with the internal conflict of the Vancouf family getting intense, Lara would lean more on him.
Like this, the crazy idea he thought about before regarding absorbing the Vancouf family would be feasible. All he needed to do was to just keep supporting her, intervening from time to time, and let his guild stand by her side all the time.
William knew if such events happened separately, if Lara saw through Richard's act without having such a grand gain from this battle, then things would be much harder for her. But right now, she was going to launch a war over her enemies in the family, at the time when she just added lots of pinnacle masters to her side.
This would strengthen her position in the family. Not to mention with his support from behind, using the new products he provided her, in addition to the access to the Lost City, things were supposed to turn towards her favour.
But William felt like her enemies weren't that easy to handle. He felt a dangerous vibe coming from Richard. The latter looked like a tiger disguised in the skin of a lamp. And William knew such foes were the hardest to fight against.
In William's eyes, Richard would sacrifice Larry and use it as an escape goat. Only Lara and him saw his true colours. And the two of them weren't enough to take Richard down.
William didn't care about any of that, and he hoped for all the forces to fight among each other and get busy with their business and internal strifes. Like this, his newly established guild branch would find a golden time to thrive.
"I just hope Lara won't lose her grip at the end, or mess things out," he sighed while waiting inside the arrays. He just stopped his formations, and the world didn't get much quieter actually.
He got the word from her about the current location of the enemies. As they got closer to the stairs area, he halted his formations as promised.
The pinnacle masters were taking the lead, killing tons of monsters during their march towards the stairs. But that didn't lift the burden off their shoulders at all.
Lots of monsters were roaming around the city before any of this happened. They were looking for any humans to kill, and through the activation of these formations, they gathered in much bigger numbers and attacked the masters walking in the city.
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