[Hey hey! You do know not answering me for hours is driving me crazy! Especially when I'm this close from dying! Please answer me, please…]
Just when he was asking himself this, he heard the terribly anxious and insanely worried voice of Lara. The moment he heard her voice, his mind froze while many bad scenarios popped up in his mind.
"Sorry about that, I'm here now. Brief me with everything…"
[At last! Damn you! I swear… I swear I'll punch you until my arms grow tired!]
"Ok, ok, let's save the day first then speak about this later… Tell me what is going on out there…"
[No time for that! I already secured a door for you to go out and my people are in the city looking for your right now. Where the hell are you?]
"Oh, just in time," William looked at his weapon, before releasing his spirit power like a flood. It enveloped the entire weapon, and then a magical thing started to happen.
The entire weapon started to break apart on its own, shrink in size, then moved to form a nice-looking chest piece. It covered up William's chest, starting from his shoulders, down to the middle of his belly.
It was black, red, and gold in colour, while taking the shape of a butterfly or something. Despite it having a feminine design, it didn't give off any feminine vibe. It looked strong, scarily dangerous to anyone looking at it.
[What do you mean by that?!!!]
"You'll see for yourself," William evilly grinned, turned around, changed into his fox form, before starting to run with all his might, "tell them to wait for me at the stairs. Give me half an hour, and I'll be there."
[Make it ten! I doubt I can last for half an hour!]
"Just hang on there, I'm coming," William didn't know what to tell her at this moment. It felt like her situation was really bad, "tell me what happened when I was away."
[Sh*t happened! Since we spoke…]
She first cursed, then started to speak about what happened. [... And so I need you to arrive here yesterday rather than now!]
He got how terribly bad her current situation was. She listened to his advice, did everything to fortify the Spar Arena. But even with such efforts, even with the presence of Stark and his masters, her defences were breached at many spots.
As he was speaking right now to her, the plaza around the Spar Arena was now breached from twenty directions at least. She was situated deep within the arena, but she knew she got less time than the half an hour he told her about.
William could only shake off his head in bitterness, realising that his little lie here held grave consequences. He hid himself just at the opposite point from the stairs. And that would take him to cross the entire city across, while fighting tons of monsters in the process.
Just running straight in his fox form would take this half an hour, not to mention the added time wasted to fight lots of monsters as well. So, he knew if he managed to reach the stairs in one hour, it'd be a miracle.
The city wasn't like before, where monsters were dormant and sleeping. They were now stirred up, actively patrolling the city, looking for him or any hidden humans.
"The hidden masters…" Just when he thought there was no hope, he recalled a little detail that he forgot about. [Listen up…] he didn't hesitate and said this piece of news to Lara. And the latter didn't hesitate to spread the order.
What he missed was what happened when he first came here. He was chased by lots of various force masters. As he arrived here, he made sure that Lara would spread the order for her forces in the city to retreat and not engage with him.
He totally missed that. Their number was already high enough to be in the thousands! And there were strong figures there. Not to mention many of them were earth-based masters. And so, William asked Lara to mobilise such a dormant and sizable force, giving them the order to step out and help him.
Their task wasn't just to help him escape from here faster, but also to follow him out as well. Such a force, and in such critical timing, was quite valuable and might even be a game changer.
William also asked her to spread the word around, any master belonging to her faction should move at once towards the Spar Arena. Even if the chances of the presence of any missed forces in the city were negligible, William learnt from his mistake and didn't want to repeat it.
Least to his knowledge that such a suggestion he gave on a whim would change the entire course of the war. And when he'd realise that later on, he'd laugh out of how his luck was great.
Lara listened to his advice. Even if she knew there was no hope in finding any force aside from the one protecting the portal zone right now, she still clinging to hope. Even Stark, the one who thought their situation was fluctuating between stable and severely bad in quite disturbing speed, didn't object this time and agreed to spread the order.
Lara was standing on the top floor of the grand arena. She watched hundreds upon hundreds of enemies flood inside the Spar Arena from the gaps in their defences.
She knew how terribly bad this was. "If you think the master of the arena got no power to stop you, then you are mistaken!" Lara showed a fierce expression over her face, before she started to show her dominance as the leader of the Vancouf family.
She used this authority before to remodel the entire grand structure of the Spar Arena, merging arenas together, building paths out of thin air, and blocking others.
Right now she did the same. She started with merging everything under one grand ceiling, forming something like a grand colosseum or something.
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