William first estimated that the monster tide would march towards the city in one day. But after the passage of a day and half, he felt that something weird was going on here for sure.
Yet he lacked enough intel or data to come to any viable conclusions. In addition to that, he wasn't that free to begin with to think about any possibility or seek answers.
He was over pressured by the tons of monsters coming towards him. Even if he wasn't now working as the main killer, the edge weapon he created was needing his attention from time to time.
He also needed to collect loot left behind by this scary weapon. He decided to call Charley, feeling like it was going to be famous.
And when he'd make more of these weapons, control them in wars, they'd gain more fame. Yet he didn't believe this war was going to make his Charley famous. It was going to end with their defeat, utter and crushing defeat.
After the passage of two days, he received the news from Lara. she had been off radio for more than one day now. And William didn't bother with her as both of them were extremely busy.
Yet what she said made him finally pause, before laughing out hard. He couldn't believe the enemies who created such trouble in the first place managed to correct their mistakes with their greed and foolishness.
He wasn't that surprised to hear about their intentions to collaborate and work for the dark masters. He was sure about Richard working for some hidden force of dark masters. Yet he never linked it with the dark academy that appeared all of sudden in the kingdom, or targetted him multiple times already.
William was now sure about one thing, the reason behind the delay of the entire monster swarm. It seemed the ones behind such a tide were waiting for their new dogs to move out of the city with their promised forces.
"I can't believe they thought it's too easy to switch seats like this," William laughed again, before turning around, "it seems I got more hours before they'll come in full power… It's time to start planting more ores then…"
William spent most of his time here fighting and collecting loot, didn't get the time to spread much of his ores like he intended to do before.
He changed his plans the moment he felt how bad the situation was. Since starting to use his weapon, he didn't get time to spread the ores.
But now? He was sure the enemies once got the wind of this news; they'd start their plans right away. They'd realise the hot cake they dreamt to get turned out to be a flop, and they'd get nothing after waiting for all this long.
William's guess was correct. The moment the news arrived at Richard from his little ears left in the family, Rick decided to start the onslaught right away.
The monster army already got deployed out of the pocket world. They were ready to march, waiting just for his order.
"Those bunch of useless trash! They cost us more than one day of waiting for nothing in the end! Screw them!" Richard was more furious than Rick. he depended on gathering up the different forces and families in the city, even dreaming about reclaiming the city after getting rid of Lara and William.
But his dreams shattered as they were just as foolish and childish as him. Rick didn't care about such loss actually. He might have even felt little better for Richard to lose everything he hoped for, the same thing he experienced before on the hands of William.
"Let's stop whining over this," Rick faked his sadness, "I've given the order for the monster tide to move out. Do you want to stay behind and watch or leave?"
"Let's wait," Richard was feeling more enraged now towards William and Lara, "I want to see the city getting smashed like a god pressed over it with his finger."
"You'll get your wish granted," Rick evilly grinned. And like this, the bloody war started officially.
William was around forty kilometres away from the city when he felt something was off. The forest seemed a bit calm, such heavy silence that would suffocate anyone, not make them relax.
William didn't need to think much before he realised everything. "It's happening… At last!" William got tired from worrying too much about this battle. He did everything he could, killed close to a hundred thousand monsters alone. He collected lots of loot during the past two days and spent tons of his elixirs.
He knew without Charley, trying to kill even one tenth of such a number would have been impossible. Yet he knew such a large figure didn't mean anything to the real force of the monster tide.
In the next hour, things turned out just like William guessed them. The forest started to rumble and tremble, with lots of trees shaking and falling even long before the arrival of the main bulk of the monsters' army.
Anyone inside the city could clearly see a grand dust cloud rising up from the horizon, appearing in all directions. William was already retreating back, while distributing his last orders to Lara and his team vices.
The last hour before the war would start drew near. And so he checked on the situation of the berserk toxin, also asked about the current condition of the walls and other defences in the city.
According to Lara, the actions of various forces and families infuriated everyone. So, the big shots in the Vancouf family stepped up, took charge of the entire situation.
They formed teams under them, arranging the medium sized master army under their lead. William knew even with the decisive move of the masters of various forces, the total number of masters in the city paled with the number of monsters, paled with the number of masters before all this mess happened.
Sometimes greed and arrogance would cost anyone a big price, one that wouldn't be felt until it was already too late.
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