The latter didn't head directly away from here. He still had high hope that these Mutants would take down William. And he wanted to be there when that'd happen.
Yet when he saw how Zin and William started to massacre the Mutants, he knew things were going to end quite bad for him. "Screw it!" he was igniting his spirit power all this into the scroll, and that greatly affected his ability to run away.
If he didn't spare part of his spirit power and attention to activate the scroll he held, he would have increased the distance between him and Ibra, not ending up getting caught up like this.
"Got you!" Just as the last Mutants fell, Ibra was this close to Rick. he moved, hit him with his glaive, ending up sending Rick flying in the air again. "You…"
At this brief exchange, Rick's cloak finally fell off his head, exposing his face. The moment Ibra spotted him, he got overwhelmed with shock, unable to react at the time to follow his hit with another.
He recognised Rick. in fact, anyone from the old Aspire academy would have recognised such troublemaker and arrogant master. Rick slowly stood up, while the scroll he held in his hand was shining in black light, releasing torrents of black gas.
"Screw you, screw all of you!" Rick was already despising anyone coming from the Aspire academy. He knew Ibra, as the latter was famous back in those days.
"You… Why you… A dark master?!!!" Ibra was deeply shaken by such unexpected revelation. And during his freeze, Rick placed the cloak back on his head, ending up covering his face again.
He didn't stop there, threw the scroll on the ground, turned around, waved at Ibra, before taking the deadly leap towards the endless air.
"See you in the afterlife, idiots!" He left with these words, while Zin and William were running towards here.
"What happened?" William asked Ibra when he arrived there, while Zin just looked around, looking a little troubled by that scroll.
"Oh, so my dear disciple failed at getting your head for me… That's interesting…"
Just before Ibra would respond to William, the scroll's black fog enlarged, and a face appeared there. It wasn't clear, but it gave William a familiar feeling.
"You… You are that damn monster…" William instantly recognised his sworn enemy, the monster he kept trying to track all this time and failed, the Nightmare monster.
"Kekekeke, I told you; I will come again and eat up your spirit, pretty little fox!"
The face that appeared was of a human, one with a crystal on his forehead. Without the need to ask, William got this monster turned into a Mutant. And that was game changer news for him.
He now realised why after spending all this time and effort in tracking down this monster's trails he failed. The Nightmare monster changed its skin and gender, turned into a master not a monster.
"I wished to see such a look on your face when we met up. Fate has its mysterious ways to protect you, don't you agree with me?"
"It also has its own ways to protect you from me as well," William didn't like this situation, not in the slightest. His mind already connected the missing dots, "you are the one who established the Long Feather academy, to lure me there, right?"
"You have to admit it was a feasible plan, kekekeke."
"And you impersonated me, telling everyone that you are the fox master…" William started to see the grand scheme he was going to fall into.
"I can assure you, the doors of my academy will always be opened for you," the monster paused before laughing, "but I have to disappoint you. I won't be there waiting for you. Yet I can give you a couple of tips… The academy is filled to the brim with dark forces, and I know how much you love to fight them, right?"
"And the other tip?" William knew his enemy wasn't this nice to give him such a tip for free. It meant the academy was filled with deadly traps, and that Nightmare monster wanted William to go there.
Yet it sounded as if its confidence was shaken. He knew William was going to plan and prepare, even bring a hellish and scary army with him when going there.
So, he decided to leave the academy before William would arrive.
"I'm going to wait for you at the upcoming stupid master tournament," the monster laughed, "there I'll get the chance to kill you. Won't it be nice? A monster like me killing a prodigy master like you while playing according to the stupid rules of the human world? Kekekeke, it sounds fun!"
The fog dispersed slowly while William had a serious look on his face. He knew his enemy told him that, so he'd go and take part in the upcoming contest.
It was just like what this monster said. Even if William knew he was a monster covered in human skin, he didn't have any means to touch a single hair of him.
The contest was going to be held at the capital of the kingdom, a place where extreme fierce rules applied there. He wouldn't be able to attack this bastard, and he got nothing to prove his claims about him being a monster not a human.
"Do you know him?" Zin pointed at the dispersing fog. Yet in the next second, William's face instantly changed.
"Run! It's going to explode!"
The face disappeared, but it didn't disperse like any of the three expected. Instead, it gathered to form a weird symbol, one that William recognised.
It was the word: Explode! And it was in an ancient and extremely fierce language.
William didn't even look back when he shouted, he turned around and started running like mad. He controlled Charley and tried to save it by calling it back. Yet the fierce explosion came faster than Charley, ending up engulfing most of the bull and damaging pieces of it.
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