Turtles didn't show such a reaction, not even the strongest out of the leopards. But soon enough, all of the still standing leopards started to grow berserk.
Their eyes turned all red, while their bodies showed a weird green light. They turned around, seemingly looking at the monsters nearby as if they were their deadliest and sworn enemies.
"It's working! Both of these effects are working at the same time, hahaha!" William knew at least like this the leopards would be gone. That might not greatly affect the hounds or turtles, but this was going to take out the main bulk of the monster army at least.
What made him hold such grand hopes was for the cloud to stick around and not move away. It acted differently, not the same way he envisioned before.
The toxin he provided its formula to Lara before would only stick in the air for twenty minutes or half an hour at most. But this cloud seemed like it wasn't formed of air, felt like it was formed of some sort of semi-solid substance.
"Don't tell me… It's foam!" William suddenly had such inspiration after the passage of one hour. Lara didn't yet return to him, and nothing much happened rather than for more explosions to occur thanks to the monsters overstepping over the landmine.
Even if the toxin appeared and spread in a grand area around the city, and even if the leopards started to attack anything moving around them, the turtles and Hellhounds kept advancing.
Their speed got greatly impacted negatively, dropped and looked as if they were walking not running like before, but they still were advancing forward towards the city.
The grenades William buried under the ground worked like magic at these moments. The advancing monsters got bombarded with tons of fierce attacks one after another. And the turtles got it the worst in the end.
William was laughing when he ever saw turtles falling on the ground motionless. He knew how annoying they were. And by taking them down, it'd be much easier to handle the rest of monsters.
As turtles were getting killed and heavily wounded like this, he started to focus more over the hounds. "Those damn hounds… They are indeed a pain!" William sighed when he saw the hounds still resisting everything and marching forward.
Even if their speed got lowered, they were still advancing without even trembling. The attacks coming from the city managed to stop the turtles, but not the hounds. If not for that cloud and the landmines, these hounds would have already taken the city.
[These weird giant three headed dog monsters are a pain! They are coming here, and they are immune to everything!] Stark was already feeling crazy, jumping from the lowest abyss up to the highest heaven, then falling down again.
The hounds were quite scary. Even after one hour, they were getting steadily closer to the city walls, not losing that much.
The landmines that William placed during the past hour managed to slow them down a bit. With each series of explosions, they'd retreat back thanks to the pushing shockwave.
"We need just to stall for time before they'll fall down," William knew all they needed to do now was to hold on for as long as possible. Then the toxin these hounds inhaled would work like magic, damaging enough organs inside, ending up severely wounding them at worst.
But that was on the premise of holding on for a long time.
[What do you want us to do? If we let them invade the city, we are done for!]
William knew Stark was telling the truth here. The masters standing on the city walls just got little rest during the past days. Most of them were exhausted and wounded, not in any condition to fight properly.
This wasn't just exclusive to the city masters, but also to his guild members as well. William recalled how the city looked from inside, recalled all the destruction and damage he saw before. And that made him sigh.
"Will we lose here or what?" he asked Stark to keep defending with everything they got, use anything they had. As long as a thing could bring forth an explosion, then it was enough to stop these hounds even for a few moments.
Yet that didn't help much. The leopards were already fighting and killing each other. As for the turtles, they lost tons of their numbers thanks to the landmines. And now they started to show signs of getting affected by the berserk side of the toxin.
It wasn't enough. Even by the fall of many leopards and turtles with blood oozing from their orifices, it wasn't enough. The scary hounds were already at the city walls!
They didn't show any sign of getting affected by anything. William kept retreating while spreading his landmines, even using his grenades openly and without reservations. But that didn't help.
All the masters inside the city kept releasing torrents of techniques, explosive attacks, and yet the hounds still arrived at the city walls.
"Will this be the end?" William already climbed his way alongside Charley towards the top of the walls. He was currently standing by Lara's side, with his vices. All had dark faces, all seeing the end of this city clear in their eyes.
"At least we did what we could, took as many of these bastards down as possible," William had a serious look on his face, "it's time to issue a general retreat order."
"Didn't you say this substance is enough to take down these hounds?" Lara didn't accept such a result, not accepting it at all, "I looked into what happened to the formula you gave and didn't find that person who modified it! But you assured me that this substance is enough to take down these monsters, right?"
Lara already looked into what happened to the formula William provided to her. To his surprise, she told him that one master came out of the blue, saying that he was just passing by, and he modified the formula.
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