It spanned for twenty metres in length, five in height, looking like a true behemoth. If not for William's fox form to be grand to begin with, William would find it quite hard to work on this behemoth.
He was just in the last touches, where he had to let all the melted ores he layered with wax materials to cool down. It was a process that'd take at least two hours or so, then he'd start doing little things and then the weapon would be ready for testing.
But just as he was taking his breaths, preparing a meal he brought from Lara's place, he heard Lara's words that stopped him in his tracks.
"How weird exactly?" William knew that things up there were a bit hectic. And so he couldn't tell what Lara really meant.
His thoughts flashed through different matters, but he never guessed what truly happened.
[It's like this…] Lara started to speak about what happened since the first explosion occurred. After she finished, William went into long silence before suddenly asking:
"If you got a scroll and a brush, can you draw these explosion sites in your mind right now? Tell me what shape it takes."
[This… This isn't time to play…]
"Trust me and do it!" William had few ideas in his mind, but for a reason he jumped directly towards the worst possibility out of all.
Lara didn't believe such a way was going to solve anything. In other times, she'd take any of this as a mere joke or something. But as William stressed over the importance of this, she had no other choice but to follow his instructions.
[I did as you asked me for and weirdly enough, these explosions indeed took the shape of something…]
"Oh, what shape of animal it is then?" William was in the middle of eating when she returned back to him. He waited in anticipation for her to say the magical word.
[The shape of a rabbit, one with wings… Is there something like that?!]
"Yes, there is," William took in a deep breath before adding up, "it's the Purple Winged Rabbit."
[Never heard of it before]
"And you shouldn't have heard of this name for long years," William sighed.
[Why does it feel like you aren't… You? Sometimes you give me the impression that you don't belong to this world…]
"Consider this true then, but this isn't the time to speak about any of this," William knew even if he admitted it, no one would ever believe any of his words, and would take his answer as a sort of joke or something. And surely she did, "you told me that elder Stark already summoned all the masters to control the situation, right?"
[Yes, he is already down there, leading lots of my elite team to control the fire and prevent it from spreading towards portals]
eaglesnov?1,сoМ "And you are on the balcony right now, correct?"
[Yes, I already told you that. I'm standing two floors below your balcony. Don't tell me you are going to come now?]
"No, you are the one coming to me."
[This… Right now?!] she was taken aback by what he just said. And yet what he added next made her body freeze.
"See that balcony? Activate your spirit and jump, don't hesitate, don't look behind, jump and reach the ground. Prepare a healing potion or elixir first then jump. Once your feet touch the ground, run… Run like you never ran before, run all the way towards the other headquarter you got, the one in the arena…"
Her body trembled out of his sudden and heavy words. After a few seconds, and as he was speaking, she couldn't help but interrupt him.
[William… I'm inside my family's safest place. It's like a fort here…]
"Don't stand in your place right now or else you'll die! Fort? Fort my as*! This fort is now breached, and this building will explode by lots of explosive arrays. Don't ask, don't even think about it, just do it and jump!"
[But…]
"Jump and think later. Come on, activate your spirit and jump! There is no time! The building is going to explode and you are going to die! Jump! Do it now!"
William's last shout made her mind freeze. Without even realising it, she subconsciously decided to trust him. Her spirit showed up, the spirit of a creature with two heads and one long tail like a whip.
If William was here, he'd recognise her spirit to be the legendary Vancoura, a spirit that had wings in the outer world. But it seemed in this world, it was a bit weakened or something, lacking wings and lots of scales that turned into rudimentary feathers.
Once she activated her spirit, took out a bottle of elixir for healing, she did as he told her, and jumped over the balcony.
*Rumble!*
She was on the fifth floor, a height that was too much for her current spirit power. Even if she was a gold grade master, she wasn't that experienced in fighting compared to management.
Just as she was in midair, the entire building she was in exploded. The explosion was much fiercer than what she imagined when William told her. It wasn't the kind that was targeting the building to destroy it, but the type that would turn everything and anything into ash!
If she hesitated any longer, if she stayed on that balcony for a few more seconds, she was sure that nothing would have shielded her from such a hit.
"Agh!" and with it, fierce repulsion force erupted, pushing her body in the air for hundreds of metres, before finally falling on the ground.
[Stand up! Empty that potion in your mouth… I hope you took it out and didn't forget!] Luckily for her, she held the Message Paper of William tightly in her hand. Even with such hit and fall, she didn't let go of that scroll.
And with his voice echoing in her mind, she didn't surrender to the torrents of pain that flooded her body and was this close from paralysing her.
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