To his surprise, William didn't just get what he meant, but even drew it right.
"This is… Very bad…" William sighed, moved his eyes among the ones around, "gather up everyone, we are going for war."
"Is it a monster tide?" Ibra waved his glaive, "will it be like last time?"
"It's worse," William didn't explain more, "just gather up everyone. And go to the market, or what's left in it. Bring me all the Scarlet Vibrant ores… You know what, bring any ores with the name vibrant in it, no matter what quantity, bring me everything you can find… Even forcibly open the stalls and shops, open vaults, bring me everything!"
William's words seemed quite serious, and they didn't hesitate to move out the moment they heard him. When Sara and Lang heard about this, the two recalled how William acted before at their clan. And that told them this monster tide wasn't going to be simple.
It wasn't indeed simple. The eye that William drew and Thomas saw was a famous mark of the Doors of Hell eye. It was a fearsome weapon in the hands of dark masters.
Dark masters could fill any pocket worlds with monsters. But the extremely expert ones would turn these pocket worlds into summonable orbs.
The difference might seem trivial, as both could be carried around. But when a pocket world would turn into a summonable orb, it'd gain an additional ability, blood evolution!
All the monsters inside wouldn't just come as a tsunami against anything and anyone, but they'd also grow stronger the more they fought, the more they killed and ate the bodies of their targets.
This was a scary feature, one that would turn any summonable orb monster tide into something of S grade at least regardless of anything else.
William knew such orbs weren't common even in the outer world. They needed lots of preparation, lots of materials, and quite a scary amount of spirit power and knowledge.
Seeing such a thing that wasn't supposed to belong to this world for the second time in a row made William quite serious and vigilant. "One item may be explained by being extremely lucky and stumbling across an ancient ruin, but two? That's not luck…" William was lost in thoughts while he sent the bad news over to Lara, asking her to organise everyone and start preparing for a brutal battle.
She was confused and didn't get why at this moment a monster tide would come. But William told her that there was no point in worrying about the inevitable, and it was better to start preparing everyone for this battle.
William knew the reason now. He was having his own theories about Richard working with dark masters. And now he was positive of that.
The timing looked weird, and the nature of this monster tide matched also the same thing that was once used against Lara, both came from outer worlds not here.
Both served Richard's goals perfectly. This monster tide was like a revenge move from him, one that was aiming to destroy everything as long as he didn't get it.
The timing of it was just perfect! The war over the throne of the Vancouf family just ended, and the war over who'd rule the city also concluded.
The entire city with its full forces, including the Vancouf family, were all suffering heavy losses.
It was the worst time for this city and its people and forces to fight such a monster tide. Not to mention it was very common for such tides to happen here.
William thought for a second that what he did back at the Lost City led to the diffusion of little aura of the interworld portal. But when Lara told him that they had to face one monster tide every ten years, he realised that this wasn't his fault.
[What do you plan to do?] she asked at the end, and he could only think about the current status of the city defences.
"Are the walls and traps intact?" This was the most important thing he had to ask about right now.
[Of course not! The battles extended outside the city, but I don't know if we can prepare everything or not… Don't even know how long we have. I'm going to arrange scout teams. For a reason, our spirit senses are blocked]
"Don't," when William heard the last piece of what she said, he knew this was the effect of a grand array or something, "just take care of the defences here, prepare anything you can, and deploy more traps. Consider this as a deadly threat level, and don't hesitate to use even the rarest treasures to strengthen the defences."
[This… But we need to do some reconnaissance…]
William recalled Smith at this moment. He bitterly sighed before replying to her.
"I'm going to do it personally. And no, don't think about sending anyone with me. I alone is more than enough to do it. Just take care of anything. And I'll leave my new guild members here to help. Also send messengers out to all the places the portals can reach, bring all the help you can get. If you have a life debt with anyone, it's time to cash such tickets now…"
William started to rain down his orders and instructions for her, and she attentively listened. The more he spoke, the more she felt how grave this monster tide was.
[Is it this bad?] After he finished, she couldn't help but ask.
"It's much worse than what you can possibly imagine," William sighed, "just do everything in your power, and pray."
William then turned to his team, spread the words over for everyone to help Lara and the city. He also asked them to keep gathering any vibrant ores from the market and stack them inside the city until his return. But he asked for all the amounts they got to be delivered to him first.
"Don't dream about leaving without me," Ibra was the one to deliver the ores everyone gathered so far. And when he arrived at the city gates, he instantly waved his glaive, seemingly prepared to hit something with it.
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