Lara felt like she jinxed everyone by what she said. But William wasn't feeling anything but pure excitement… And a relief! "At last things happened as they should have," he muttered to himself, while Lara, like everyone else here, was busy watching the incoming disaster.
Even before the real monster army would appear, the shocking scene of the trembling ground and shaking trees at the horizon made it clear how scary the upcoming monster wave was.
William turned around and looked at the distance like everyone else. But against what others did, he didn't stand alone there. Instead, he started to move forward.
The shocking scene took everyone by silence. They were just cheering for a long time already, feeling that this monster tide wasn't as scary as they initially imagined.
But now? They felt real fear, the same kind of terror any veteran felt by seeing this scene. This was how monster tides should be like.
"Don't stand idle like this, prepare for the upcoming clash," William shouted when he noticed that nothing came from the walls of the city for a few seconds, "let those with deadly techniques and formidable defensive abilities to hold back, be ready to intervene the moment that monster wave appeared."
William didn't speak to Lara. He knew the latter wasn't capable of getting over her shock and taking hold of things at such a crucial moment. He didn't risk it and spoke these words over to Stark.
The latter got jolted awake and started to spread orders at once. The masters in the city got freed from such a fear spell and returned to attack again.
Seeing this made William feel more at ease. The masters in the city had to hold back the initial charge, as it was usually the fiercest and most dangerous move in any monster tide.
[I'm seeing you getting away from the walls. What are you doing?!] As everyone got jolted awake, William heard Ro'a voice in his head. [ Why the hell do you like to move alone, do scary and crazy stuff all the time?!]
"You just spoke in time," William didn't answer what his friend asked, "start preparing the teams I asked before. We need to act when the time is right."
[To do what exactly?]
"To do what you always wanted to do," William laughed, "don't you want to go down there and fight the monsters while waving your swords around? This is your chance."
[Don't tell me… Are we finally going down? All of us? I can't believe you!]
"Only you," William stressed over this while laughing.
[I knew you meant ill towards me! Do you want to kill me this badly or what?]
"You are going down with other teams," William laughed again, "I admit you are this despicable and hard to deal with, had an ugly face to stick around oneself, but not to the degree of killing you. Listen…"
[Who the f*ck have ugly face? You have the ugly face, not me!] Ro roared in anger, and William simply laughed back.
"Just listen… You are going down with the teams of wind and earth-based elements. Then…"
William started to tell her everything about what they were going to do. After he finished speaking, she remained silent for a few seconds.
[You do indeed hold grudges too deep and for too long] She sighed, [I can't believe you still didn't forget about back then]
"It's not about that…"
[It's always about that, sigh! Ok, I'll go down but will take the other girls with me]
"No, leave them behind, I need them."
[For what? I won't risk my life alone then… Send someone else!]
William realised that his simple prank, the joke he just said on a whim, had to come to an end. "Ok, you can stay behind, send Lang and Peter then," William stopped fooling around when he spotted the early waves of monsters coming from the far distance.
He saw the turtles he spotted before, appearing at last. "Make sure the teams are on the ground in the next twenty minutes."
[But…]
"Just do it," William knew she was going to doubt what he just said. The monsters weren't that far to begin with, and anyone could tell they'd arrive here in five minutes at most.
But William wasn't joking. He stored away Ro's Bullet, turned towards the incoming monsters before evilly grinning.
"It's time to light the entire forest on fire!" William didn't just depend entirely on the toxin Lara and the city alchemists made. He had another scheme in play, the vibrant ores he spread before.
He took out his bow, stored his weapons, and let his tails hold the bow and pull the bowstring.
*Fwoosh!*
William already spread the ores over the forest, but that only happened in a limited zone, the areas he previously visited. It was enough to cause disturbance in the middle of the incoming army, stopping them for half an hour at most.
William's arrows went far and landed just in the middle of the marching turtles. The ones that fell over the turtles' shells, ended up exploding and doing nothing. But the few that managed to find their ways among these shells, ended up exploding fast.
These explosions weren't enough to leave any mark over the turtles. The moment fire spread over, spirit power got stirred, and the ores scattered around got ignited like fireworks.
The initial strong explosions got fiercer, and fire spread out in pillars, moving and forming gigantic waves that spread over and covered lots of monsters in no time.
William already expected that, but those masters back in the city froze on the spot, feeling like they never saw enough in the world yet.
The fire wave rose up like it was going to touch the sky. And the moment it rose to such a scary level, William shouted while holding Stark's Bullet.
"Let all the wind-based masters release their strongest long-range techniques now! Let this ocean of fire spread away. Don't let it come at us or we'll all die!"
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