At one side, white fog was eating the dark green fog. And at another side, torrents of attacks released from Charley took away the dark green fog.
William stood just in front of that spear, moving all of the three tails at the same time to clash with its sharp tip.
William repeated his opening showy move, yet he didn't just jump in the air like he used to. He dashed forward to meet up with the incoming spear.
Such a move left a very heavy feeling of pain and repercussions at his body and bones. Yet William never cared. He was just worried that Charley's attacks weren't enough to tear down the dark green fog, ending up corroding his precious weapons and losing them.
As he feared, part of the weapons started to melt away, turn into ash and fly in the air. But the remaining parts managed to clash with the spear and finally stop it.
"Keep circling me, make sure not a single speck of fog comes near," William's heavy voice came next, feeling immense pain at losing these weapons in such a clash.
He made these weapons painstakingly, spent tons of wealth, effort, and time in making them. And now he just had to watch them corrode away and get rotten in front of his eyes without being able to do anything.
Feeling this terrible, William's desire to turn this curse into a blessing intensified. The next thing happened was for Charley to use wind technique and flew all over the place, surrounding William and acting as his shield.
"I got half an hour at most… I hope it's going to be enough…" William knew the moment he'd start his move; he'd not be able to move a muscle just like Rick and Richard.
But he wasn't worried about these two, he was instead worrying that Charley would run out of gas in the middle of all this.
If Charley lost his power, then there was nothing to stop the dark green fog from corroding away his body and killing him.
William already replaced Charley's stock of elixirs with new ones before he started all this. Knowing he got little time left, William didn't hesitate anymore.
*Agh!*
William felt immense pain the moment he cut his arm with his sword. His blood flooded like a torrent, covering up the entire edge of the spear.
"Come in here, damn you!" William didn't stop there, grabbed the blade with both hands while activating his absorption technique.
The right way to handle this spear, the only way actually, was by absorbing the wrathful spirit lying inside it. It was indeed quite risky, as one had to fight against the dark green fog and had to have the right elements to do this. Not to mention while doing this, any master would be motionless for a long time.
Without having a strong aid on one's side, it was an act of suicide to try such a thing out. William got Charley, and his enemies were pinned down to their place, unable even to see beyond that thick white cloud that came from the Purifying Bead.
So, William dared to do it, and he craved to do such a thing. Absorbing such a legendary and extinct ancient spirit was something any master would dream to have.
What was the main problem in absorbing any monster spirit? It was its grade, uniqueness, and features. Absorbing monster spirits that got the same elements as the master doing it was a mistake, just like absorbing useless and weak spirits as well.
But this one? It was like finding a treasure, one that was rare and unique, one that couldn't be found except once in a lifetime if one was extremely lucky.
William was this close from drooling the moment he recognised this spear. He knew how grand this chance was, and he planned everything to make him be able to absorb that spirit.
He didn't know what the final version of his fox spirit would be when he'd do that. But he didn't care. This spirit… It wasn't any lesser than the legendary nine-tail fox spirit at all!
Yet there was a catch… This spirit wasn't normal, it came from a very wrathful and vengeful monster. And as that snake monster was high grade in the first place, William was well aware of how difficult it was to tame it later on.
Yet that was for a later time to worry about such a problem. Right now, William covered up the entire spear blade with his blood and started to absorb this spirit.
He wasn't just in the middle of a crazy battle, but he also was in the heart of a deadly situation. A single mistake was enough to claim his life.
As he started to absorb the Arbatros Snake wrathful spirit, Zin was having his own problems at the same time.
Zin got a task from William, to roam the peaks around the formation and do something there. William asked Zin to spread out more formations around the initial one.
Zin didn't know from where William got to know all this. The formation William provided to Zin was a novel one to him. And when he thought it was the same one used here, William told him it wasn't.
In fact it was a supporting formation that would augment any existing one and make it stronger. In Zin's eyes, this was crazy. It was like they were aiding the enemies, not trying to take them down.
But William knew better. He met before such a scary formation, but he didn't know the exact details of how to make it. So instead of trying to think of a way to counter this formation and risk everything, William thought of something crazy.
He decided to use the glaring main issue about this formation against it, which was the spirit power expenditure.
He knew the Mutants were already struggling to keep this formation activated. And by using such an augmenting formation, surrounding the entire grand formation with layers of it, then this pressure would increase over the Mutants.
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