As Richard started to guess the true identity of the person Rick was speaking about, the latter started to laugh crazily like this.
Just five hundred metres away, Ibra was holding William's Message Paper and let the latter hear what these two said.
During the past few days, he heard them speak about lots of things. But what piqued Ibra's interest was Rick's boundless hatred that ran so deep about William.
Without the need to ask or know the true identity of Rick, he knew these two had a long history between each other.
"What will we do?"
"Leave him to me," Rick couldn't believe his sworn enemy delivered himself over like this, "I'll make you pay for what you made me suffer all this time."
Richard looked at the growing distant back of Rick without knowing what he should feel. Since the first time he met Rick, he could tell how severe the hatred he held against William was.
Richard even suspected that Rick's arrival here and everything he did was to take William down. "At least he came alone."
Richard couldn't detect William yet, but he could follow Rick. and Ibra could also do the same.
[He is visiting the nearby mountain peaks, leaving behind something like a hexagonal shaped ball or something…]
Ibra kept following Rick and told William what the latter was doing. "Do these balls have any writings on the surface? What colour do they have? Anything special aside from being hexagonal?"
William tried to guess the nature of what the dark master was doing. He already heard about this dark master from Ibra, and knew he was acting like the leader and Richard like the follower.
[I can see writing there but didn't get any of them. They are like nails placed in weird designs. As for the colour, two sides are blue, two are red, and the last two are green. Other than this, there is a small hole in the middle of each face of this orb… Is this helpful?]
"Hmm… I believe it's some sort of explosive orb or something…" William recognised the nail pattern writings on this orb. It was something that was common in the outer world, a gathering array.
This array would keep gathering spirit power from the world around. Unlike the spirit power concentrating array William once used, this array would concentrate and press spirit power inside the orb. That would turn it into a sort of a grenade or a bomb.
Aside from this, he couldn't get much without seeing the thing himself. At such moments, he missed having the spirit sense to see such things.
"Soon enough," he knew he was going out after arranging things at the city and matters related to the guild branch there. Then at the expected battle at that academy, he'd level up and pass into the gold grade realm.
[Is he trying to detonate the entire place? But that doesn't make any sense… He doesn't look like he plans to retreat…]
"I know, that's why he must have something else to do with these orbs…" William agreed with what Ibra said, "keep a close eye on him, and tell me everything he is doing. I'm picking up pace and will arrive at your location soon enough."
William didn't know what this dark master planned to do, but he was ready to welcome anything he'd throw at his face and crush it.
William was sure that the dark master saw him and Charley, saw the two of them fighting monsters in the region and guessed their strength. William also knew about the weird orb that could relay images about the ongoing battle at the city to these two.
That meant the dark master was quite resourceful, not that easy to deal with. William wanted nothing more but to clash with that master. The thought that this dark master didn't get scared and run away, instead he was scheming something to take him down, stirred up William's will to fight.
William might be determined to take down monsters, but in case of dark masters he'd grow excited. He hated dark masters much more than monsters. In his eyes, these masters were dirty traitors, ones who were the lowest scum in the entire world.
William kept running forward with Charley. Around a couple of hours ago, the monsters they met became scarce in number. Besides, he didn't meet any turtles, only leopards.
Ibra already informed him about such a situation. And that meant most of the monsters were fighting at the city walls.
William kept running for another two hours. Even if he could see the peaks of these mountains, there was still a large distance between him and that region. In one hour, Ibra and Richard could already see him.
[... And now he is digging something in the peaks he left the orbs at, planting some sort of a bead there, before soaking it with his blood…]
During this time, Ibra kept William posted about the updates of Rick's actions. The more William learnt about what Rick was doing, the more puzzled he was.
"This… It looks like multiple formations stacked together… But how come one from the tiny world knows about such a complicated thing? I can't even say I can do it!"
William was truly puzzled. If Rick just used formations from the outer world while building them using materials from this tiny world, then William wouldn't have been surprised like this.
But from the look of it, Rick was using things that didn't belong to this world at all. He gave William the impression that he stumbled across an ancient site, filled with lots of treasures and items coming from the outer world.
William didn't know if the portals the dark masters and monsters used to communicate with the outer world would allow things to pass through or just information. If these portals could let gears, items, and even special weapons to pass through, then it'd be a total cheat in his eyes!
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