When Richard saw the white fog expand and the sounds of sizzling grew fainter, he knew the dark green fog was finally receding. Unlike his excitement, Rick didn't feel the same.
"Something seems off here…" Rick's next words made Richard drop all the excitement he had. Instead, he turned to Rick, and the latter added in a heavy tone, "this fog should last for days… There is nothing in this world able to eat it away, not even my master's beads…"
Rick was truly shocked. He knew more about this weapon than Richard, knew how scary this weapon was.
So seeing the white fog spread over and expand like this made Rick unsettled. He tried to use his spirit sense, and as he feared it worked! And the scene he saw made his scalp grow numb for a moment there.
"This… How… Just how…" he trembled and couldn't even formulate a single sentence to express what he was feeling.
He wasn't the only one to use his spirit sense, Richard also did the same. The two saw William standing totally fine, with the spear that scared the two being held in William's hands.
"Thanks for giving me this interesting toy," William smirked evilly before storing the spear away in one of his rings, "I'm going to take it as a small payback to what I lost. And now… It's time for you to die!"
The entire place was now void of the dark green fog except for a few spots. William stopped Charley from taking the remaining pieces of fog down. Instead, he threw bottles over, and asked Charley to start collecting this fog.
Seeing this made the two standing not that far from him freeze on the spot. William didn't just survive this deadly attack; he even seized the weapon and was collecting the scary fog as if he was collecting trophies!
"You… You…" Rick's body trembled when he saw this. He used two of his master's precious cards, all got negated and lost in the hands of William.
The orb got destroyed, and the spear got stolen away. And William stood on top of that looking just fine.
"Sorry, but even if I wanted to know your identity, I don't need you to tell me anything," William took out a dark gold hammer, one that wasn't on par with the one that got crushed before, "after killing you, I'll make someone paint a poster of your face, then distribute it all over the world. I'll even place a nice bounty for such intel, hahahaha!"
"Screw you!" Rick knew he was about to die. William was simply too scary and far more resourceful than what he took him for, "you need to catch me first…"
"Wait for me!" From the side, Richard instantly panicked. Just as he grabbed Rick's cloak, the latter vanished in thin air, appearing just a few peaks away.
Rick didn't even look back and kept flashing forward towards one direction. He knew his only hope to survive this was by joining the place of the fifty scary Mutants. There he'd be totally safe.
Yet he underestimated William greatly.
*Snap!* William snapped his fingers casually, before adding, "get me his head, attached to his body or not won't matter."
*Roar!*
Charley roared before it used the dashing technique of William. The latter couldn't fly, but he could use his technique in succession, flashing past six hundred metres with each direct dash.
With every couple dashes, he managed to move from one peak to another. If anyone watched this from far, he'd find a dark cloaked person running using the darkness element and special movement techniques, and a giant monster looking like a bull with six legs and three tails chasing after him.
"You know how much trouble you caused to your family and city," As William entrusted Rick to Charley, he moved slowly, step by step, towards Richard.
The latter had an ashen white face, trembling fiercely out of immense panic. He retreated with each step William took until he arrived at the edge of the peak.
Behind him was nothing else but empty air and strong wind howling, promising him a brutal and cruel death.
"I deserved to be the leader of the family, I'm the only one able to lead them to glory!" as he got his back pushed against the wall, Richard turned towards William, bellowed like this while taking out his grand sword.
He held the sword with both hands, activating his spirit at last.
"Such a good spirit and still you are this evil from the inside… You say you are destined to lead them to greatness? Buddy, you were this close to lead them to destruction… Die!"
William recognised the unique spirit Richard had. And that meant Lara and the rest of her family members also had it. He didn't speak again with Richard and felt more disgust towards this spoiled brat.
Richard wasn't a good kid, but he was someone who got pampered and raised in the very wrong way. He ended up deluded with dreams of greatness, thought of himself high enough to be above all the regulations and customs of his family.
He decided to not go through the normal means to seize the seat of the leader, decided to turn south and be an evil master.
"You won't take me down… I'm the one destined to lead the Vancouf family… Agh!"
Just as that young man was screaming in such panic, trying to summon up his courage, he failed. His spirit faded even before William landed over him with his grand fox body. And with a hit of a single tail, Richard flew in the air for tens of metres before falling deep down the abyss.
His heart curdling screams vanished in the thick layer of clouds down below. William stood at the edge, mulling over all this.
"Sometimes, being born in a great place isn't a good thing," he turned his eyes towards the other enemy running away, the dark master who instigated all this. And then his eyes turned all icy cold. "It's your turn, it's time to clean the house from all the rodents."
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