"I got another intel…" one cleared up his throat, "but this one might not be related to the disaster we have now."
"What do you mean?" others turned to look at the one who just spoke up, and that master cleared his throat again.
"Not long ago, I received a notification about finding S grade Fate Sacred alert or even higher grade one…" the master started to speak about the incident back then with William. He said what he learnt about, and everyone here didn't get anything from what he said.
"How is that related to our case here?" the leader got puzzled. He knew that master and knew he wasn't the type to fool around or say any random stuff.
"According to what I learnt; the area specified by others is the same place as that alert came from."
But when he said this piece, the entire hall ushered under heavy silence. What he meant was clear, they got a general location of the origin of this disaster, and that location was related to one of their highest-ranking alerts.
"This isn't a coincidence, right?" one of the masters said, "whom do we get near that place? We need to go there and investigate."
"We have a detached legion who was coming from a mission," the leader paused, "it's the Scarlet Eye legion."
"Him? No way! Are you sure you want to send him?!!" This time, it wasn't just one or few masters to speak up, but almost most of the masters exclaimed in doubt and shock. Without the need to ask, the reputation of that legion was really bad in their eyes.
It was all thanks to the leading star of this legion.
"We only got him near that place," the leader seemed to expect such a response, "as we need to move fast, we have no other choice but to send him."
"Tsk!" many showed their discontent before another spoke up, "make sure to stress over him… Killing normal people and master isn't allowed. This time we won't tolerate another massacre."
"At least he's going to work in another continent than the one he did a scene at," another master spoke, and these two's words seemed to get lots of support and agreement from many.
"Alright… I'll dispatch the news to him. Is there any more information about all this?" the leader moved his eyes around. And as no one spoke up, he added, "let's gather once per day then. This matter is of the highest importance to us. And keep trying to divinate things about the one who caused all this and the person who instigated an S grade alert."
Like this, the meeting got concluded while the leader went to a special hall to give the order for the legion and its leader.
Away from all this, and back to the Blue Hills, William finally finished laying out his formations. And once he did, he started activating them without any further delay.
The first array he activated was the one to stir up the spirit power and increase its level in the region. This formation would take time to add enough spirit power and needed to be activated first.
William just needed to drop his blood over the heart of this formation. And when he did, the entire ground trembled, as the grenades lying down below got detonated.
William wasn't worried from any attack coming from the grenades or for the formation to fail in controlling the fierce explosions. But what he was concerned about was the transformation of such an insane amount of spirit power into an easy form of spirit power, enough to be naturally absorbed from the air.
Just as he stood there, and in less than a few minutes, he could already feel his body rejuvenate from the rich spirit power in the air. Spirit power started to rise up in the air, changing it and dying it with pale gold light.
"Gold grade spirit power at the very start? That's a good sign…" William knew this might be a good thing if he had many of these formations around. But he only got one, and that meant the spirit power released from this formation would fade and grow thin while expanding over the entire area.
If the final grade of spirit power coming out from this formation reached the early stage of gold grade, then William expected it to lose a single grade while expanding in the entire area.
"To be able to raise most of the masters' spirit power, early-stage dark gold grade spirit power is enough. But that won't help people like Zin…"
William knew this formation would yield mid stage, at most high stage dark gold spirit power in the end. And that meant the level wouldn't grow to reach the pinnacle stage or even high stage in the entire region.
He looked into his rings again, finding no grenades at all. "I should pray that this hallucination will take much longer for me to meet others and take their grenades…"
William had no other choice but to do it this way. He got a limited number of grenades in the first place. But other leaders of the city forces got their share as well.
In the army he led, there were four more leaders marching by his side. Three belonged to the high stage dark gold grade while one was at mid stage. This master was his only hope to make another formation like this.
Yet that wouldn't be enough to wake people like Zin up. So, William had to wake others, ask them to build the same type of formations at their places.
It was a solid plan, with only shortcoming laid in the unknown time limit he had. As he settled on doing this, he left this formation to do its magic, and headed towards the second formation.
This formation was the most important of all. He needed to activate the grenades, let the formation channel the torrents of spirit power released, and direct them towards the barrels of toxins buried underground.
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