What William didn't know was that Zin highly valued William's words and plans. As William expressed how much he wanted these items, he knew this item would play a great role in the upcoming battle.
So, he didn't flinch or hesitate, bringing twenty more of such items with him just in case he and others needed them to survive or win the upcoming clash.
Yet William didn't accept his offer. He just wanted a single item to help him later on. Then the use of this item would be over. It was pointless to use such a chance to get something useless back from Zin.
"Then…"
"Let's just wait for the right time," William could tell how anxious Zin was, "once I have something I want from you, I'll come and make a deal with you."
"Ok…" Zin didn't have any option here. William then turned to everyone around and started speaking about their next movement plan.
"We are going to march towards that dark academy. Until we arrive there, we'll move and act as you see fit. But once we got close to that place, everyone had to listen to my words. If you don't, then I'm not responsible for any of your losses, got it?"
William's sudden words made everyone's face change. He then exchanged Bullets with everyone, before he turned to Lara.
"Lead us towards the closest portal to that place."
"Follow me," Lara simply said before starting to lead everyone towards the portal area. They gathered here as there was no space in the city to accommodate all of them.
Everyone followed Lara and their leaders inside the city. And once they arrived at the portal area, William noticed that Lara cleared a large section.
"I made arrangements," she said with a chuckle when she noticed the gaze over William's face, "all of these portals are redirected and led to the same spot. Like this we can save lots of time and move everyone fast to the same spot."
"Nice," William simply responded, but his single word made Sara, Berry, and Ro exchange silent gazes among themselves.
Without the need of saying anything, they all thought of the same thing, danger!
William moved in the first batch alongside his team vices. The portal was like a hole that sucked him inside, took him away while the world around changed into a world of dark blue.
It didn't take longer than one minute for William and others to arrive at the other side of the portal. There they found a grand settlement, where the portal they came out from was there.
William was about to look around and see where the other portals were when Lara's voice echoed in his mind.
[This place is filled with lots of settlements. I made sure to establish portals here. We are distributed inside an area of twenty kilometres. We'll march to the north and meet there]
"Got it," William felt like Lara prepared things beforehand, a long time before he came and told her about the date of their move.
"Welcome to the Cluster settlement number three," a young man approached with a group of fifty others, all wearing bright red uniforms, "we are the ones responsible for this place. We got orders to help you in anything you need."
"Thanks, I just need a map of the area, and any news about anything dangerous around," William didn't want to waste much time here. So he simply refused anything but these two pieces of valuable intel.
The young master didn't delay or ask anything, and handed William two scrolls as if he expected such a question from him.
"Lead our people out, arrange them outside this place and wait for me," William paused before turning to Thomas, Ibra, and Sara "follow me."
The latter didn't object and simply followed William. As for the rest, they started to do what he asked them to do.
The portal was already fast in delivering William's masters here. As for the latter, he led the three of his vices towards a side area in this place.
This settlement was like a grand camp that got low levelled walls, made entirely out of ores with good defensive abilities. There were many simple houses there, with few people living in this place.
It looked too simple to be a fort, but too fortified to be a village. William didn't get the history of this place and didn't care about it for now.
"Let's see these scrolls first," William highly appreciated the opinions of Sara and Ibra. The two were special masters, one was raised by a formidable master and was always trying to seek truth about hidden secrets of her family, while the other got to cause trouble from a young age and antagonised the academy rules.
The two always gave William good opinions about many things. As for Thomas, William got used to bringing him around whenever he was about to do something grand.
William stretched the two scrolls on the ground and started to read and check them like everyone else. The first thing he noticed was that the entire region was filled with hills.
"I hate hills," Thomas muttered, and everyone got what he meant by that. Hills around the academy and Scorching Lands were the bases of the dark forces. And seeing these hills made them all recall the dark masters.
But when they read the second scroll, they got to know that there wasn't a single dark master in the entire area. The area that was filled with hills got lots of settlements like this one built in the valleys in between the hills, making it look just like a city but got scattered by these hills or something.
The sole danger in the region came from monsters. For a reason, monsters seemed to love swarming this area, acting like a monster tide of category four or five.
"Hmm… Monsters were dispersed and distributed over the entire area, attacking settlements separately and at the same time… Weird…" William knew this wasn't how monsters should behave in normal situations.
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