Zin didn't know what William was after, but he grew curious about it. And so he kept following William with a distance of ten kilometres away from the latter.
He knew William was a silver master, one without any spirit sense. And so it was safe to track William from such a distance without getting detected.
William kept running and fighting leopards while Ibra kept joking with him from time to time. As William got far from the city, the vices and Lara couldn't reach him using Bullets.
The battle at the city walls was going as William expected, quite smoothly actually. When the hounds walked on the ice, they broke it and fell deep into the trench. Their bodies started to madly absorb the toxin, ending up showing signs of getting affected like other monsters.
They bled from their orifices, and many started to die on their own. At the same time, as they fell into the trench, they activated the traps and arrays planted there. In addition to the fierce grenades, and the torrents of attacks that came from the direction of the city, these hounds started to die at last.
William's only regret was to leave behind such a great harvest. He wanted to collect the cores of these hounds, using the moments of their weakness and kill as many as he could. But he had a bigger trophy to get.
That didn't prevent him from leaving clear instructions for his guild members to focus on collecting as many materials from these hounds as they could. These hounds were the strongest and highest-grade monsters in the entire monster army. And they didn't belong to this world in the first place.
William consoled himself by having such high-end materials. As such, he accelerated, even using his wind techniques to run faster than normal.
After six hours, he managed to see the glimpse of many mountain peaks in the distance. They penetrated through a thick layer of white clouds, giving them a majestic feeling.
William knew this was his destination. He didn't need a spirit sense to know this. But Zin saw more than that when he got closer from these mountains.
"There are three people there…" Zin noticed Ibra and another two standing with each other. He noticed that one person was hiding, while watching the other two in stealth. He was activating his darkness element all the time, using even arrays to conceal his presence. But he wasn't that strong to begin with, and the arrays he used weren't at the pinnacle. Zin managed to spot him and link that person with William.
"It seems these two must be something good," Zin got the feeling that these two masters weren't strong to begin with, one being at the gold grade and the other was at the early stage of dark gold grade. Yet William paid all this effort to just get close to them. And that meant they were worth more than what they looked.
As Zin knew these three got spirit senses, he made sure to conceal his presence a bit more. He slowed down, watching William getting closer from the mountainous area.
Inside this zone, Rick and Richard were waiting for the good news. All this time they got to see lots of what was happening thanks to a weird orb that Rick's dark master gave to him.
It could emit pieces of images once per hour. Luckily, they had zero control over the feedback images, only seeing a glimpse of what was happening at different areas during the city's grand war.
What they did was something great. They watched how the city masters struggled against the monsters. And when they noticed the disturbing arrival of many masters there, they got a bit worried.
Yet Rick said in confidence that against such a grand monster tide, no power here could stop it. Soon enough the images coming from that orb confirmed his earlier statement.
Luck and fate played a role here by not showing the moment when Willaim dashed away from the city. Until William came closer from the mountains, they never saw anything related to him.
They kept watching his face frequently in the past. And when they didn't, they mistook that by his retreat to rest and recuperate.
"Someone is coming!" Rick was stronger than Richard, and so his spirit sense covered a much wider area. The two kept their vigilance and activated their spirit sense all the time. If not for Ibra to use his darkness element to hide his presence, using many concealment arrays on top of that, they'd have spotted him a long time ago.
But William didn't use any of these methods. He knew the two of his enemies had a spirit sense, and he never cared about any of that.
He wanted to kill these two, but first he got an immense amount of rage within to vent over them. So, he decided to play a little game of hide and seek, while Ibra would work as his pincer and hidden dagger.
He had already sent Ibra since the start of all this to track the ones responsible for all this. Ibra kept tracking these two down, until he finally arrived here.
When he saw Richard, Ibra knew he had reached his target. Rick was wearing a dark cloak, covering up his face and not showing anything from it. But as William told him there was a connection between Richard and the dark masters, Ibra didn't doubt anything.
"It's him!" Rick muttered in immense shock and disbelief, turned to look at the orb in his hand as if he was accusing it of betraying him.
"Who?" Richard didn't get to see William yet.
"That damn bastard, who else?" Rick was feeling quite annoyed before a flash of an idea passed his mind, "he thinks he can take me down? Hahahaha! He is really naive! Did he think I'll come here unprepared? Not armed with scary means to protect me? Hahahaha! I never expected him to deliver himself to me like this, hahahaha!"
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