William knew by using few of these formations' things would go south, and he might even end up helping those enemies. But if Zin managed to lay around just enough to crush their endurance and resilience, then things would be great.
Zin didn't get any of that as William didn't have time to explain anything about this. Yet as he didn't get any other option but William's crazy suggestion, he decided to listen to what this youth just said.
At first, things went smoothly for him. Zin wasn't a normal master, and the formation William asked him to make didn't need many materials to begin with.
He used his stock of materials and spread out an array after another, surrounding the grand formation with twenty in no time.
And then things started to change.
The fifty Mutants controlling this formation felt the pressure at last. They were able to notice what was going on around them. And when they saw Zin's arrays helping their formation, they didn't get what was really happening here.
If someone came here on the premise to help them, then why would they distract themselves at such critical moments and stop them? They were already activating the grand formation and managed to link this moment and place with the past.
Right now, they were doing the simplest and yet hardest part of all this, trying to locate the exact moment which they wanted to replicate.
This formation was a heaven defying one, but it got just the ability to mimic a single moment in the past. So they had to carefully select the right moment, pass through lots of time and patiently look for the right spot to replicate.
Their target was to find the deadliest and the scariest gathering moment of the monster army. As the army started to spread out soon after the arrival of the early waves of it, finding such a moment wasn't that easy.
Would they replicate the weaker leopards? Or should they replicate the few leopards with many turtles? Or should they select the moment when the Hellhounds appeared, where not many leopards and turtles were there?
Answering this question was the most difficult thing they had to decide right now. And that just happened when Zin started to lay down the supporting arrays. So they decided to leave him alone.
The Mutants weren't aware of what was going on in this part of the world before getting summoned here. Rick briefly explained things over but didn't get enough time thanks to the interruption of William and Zin.
But they heard enough to grasp the general situation here. They knew the general types of monsters in this monster tide and knew the general course of events.
As they were talking amidst themselves about which moment they should replicate, and how much of the total numbers copied would really appear here thanks to their limited spirit power, they started to feel weird pressure.
Without thinking much, they got what was going on. The arrays they didn't place in their eyes before were behind this situation, adding more pressure as they turned the entire grand formation stronger.
So, they started to intervene. It started with five Mutants creating weaker copies of themselves, sending them to stop Zin and ruin the arrays he already made.
These clones were something William already was aware of, something that was unique to the Mutants. They originated from the fact that these Mutants got two spirits inside their bodies. And by using one as the dominant spirit, the other one could be summoned as a clone.
Right now, these Mutants were using their monstrous spirits to handle the formation. So, it was expected the clones they'd summon would use the human masters' spirits. And these were much weaker and easy to counter.
Yet to make a single Mutant, masters had to be at the dark gold grade. These five might be weak compared to the monstrous spirits residing inside the Mutants bodies, but they weren't that weak at all.
Zin noticed the five coming towards him. And when he did, he recalled William's words from earlier. William warned him that the enemies would send waves of enemies to take him and the arrays he made down. And when that'd happen, he should do one thing; brutally crush them in the shortest time.
William didn't want to risk losing any array Zin established. Not to mention these clones had the ability to self-detonate if given enough time. So, by mercilessly killing them, Zin would save himself lots of trouble later on.
"That youth… He really does know lots of stuff that I don't," seeing the five clones moving fast towards him, Zin shook his head before taking out a large scythe.
It was a weapon that he personally crafted decades ago. It was one at the high tier dark gold grade, quite ferocious, and very deadly. Zin took William's warning quite seriously, and then flashed, used his full power to take down these five.
Zin wouldn't struggle to take down high end masters, especially if they were weak to begin with. In mere seconds, he disposed of the five, returned to do his task, placing more pressure over the Mutants.
The next thing happened was for the Mutants to go all out, creating forty-five clones this time and releasing them towards Zin.
"Using the same useless stones to crush a mountain? Impressive!" Zin didn't place any of them in his eyes as he already got a taste of how powerful these clones truly were.
If not for William's strict warning to not elongate the clash with them, he'd prefer to toy with them while doing his task. He didn't get why William warned him against them after crushing the second wave successfully.
Just as he returned to lay more arrays, more clones appeared. And this time, these ones were quite different. They were only ten, but they got the same weird crystal thing over their forehead shining.
When he saw this, Zin knew these clones were different.
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