It was a much more complicated formation than the one William just activated. And he knew just a single mistake was enough to ruin everything.
So he took his time to double check everything, reviewed everything in his mind, before starting to activate the formation.
The first step was to activate the grenades and then channel the resulting spirit power towards the other subsidiary formation. This was a step he did before, and so he didn't take much time in doing it.
Then it came down to the most important part. William guided the insane amount of spirit power and channelled it into spiral shaped paths. He made sure to do it this way so the gush of the spirit power wouldn't explode the toxin and ruin it.
Once the spirit power touched the barrels, a second wave of explosion occurred. This time it was much fiercer, and William already felt the pressure.
But he controlled the entire formation fast. Right now, there was enough spirit power to detonate at least an area of tens of kilometres, killing everything and everyone in it.
William was doing his best to channel the new energy into other sets of spiral shaped smaller formations. These directed the spirit power outwards, releasing with it the modified berserk toxin and spreading it in the air.
As this happened, the first formation already intensified, releasing a mid-stage spirit power in the air. Spirit power rose in torrents and got mixed with the other wave of spirit power and toxin coming out from the second formation.
William took a few hours to control the grand formation and stabilise it. And once he got freed from doing this, he found out that he miscalculated a tiny detail.
"The spirit power rose in the air, forming pillars… This won't do…" William thought about everything but forgot about the driving force for this spirit power and toxin.
He thought that nature would handle everything for him, a thing that didn't happen. Or to be more precise, it happened but at a much slower rate than needed.
So, before he'd start activating the third formation, he started to make simple arrays. They were able to gather up fierce gales of wind, directing these towards three different directions.
William made enough to take the spirit power and the toxin into the other three sides of this zone. As he did that, he finally saw the dense spirit power and toxin moving inside, heading towards the right destination.
"Acho!" "Acho!" Acho!"
He was about to go and control the third formation when he heard sneezing sounds coming from different directions. The toxin worked fast, and with the thick and dense spirit power that stagnated for a long time here, the masters around started to break free from the hallucination.
"That's great… But…" They got freed, but they went into a frenzy the next moment. It was weird, as they started fighting each other like they were dealing with their deadliest enemies.
"At least they aren't using anything but weapons and not activating their spirit power…" William was about to come up with a calming formation or something when he noticed this strange note.
The masters were crazily fighting each other, but they weren't actually fighting with all their might. They only used the weapons they held in their hands, didn't even stir up their spirit power or used any techniques at all.
That made the entire situation much safer than what he feared the most. And as things turned out this way, he turned to the last formation.
Once stood in the middle of this formation, he took lots of elixir bottles, even took out a wooden table and placed all of these over it.
He removed the lids, and then gulped one bottle.
This formation worked by spreading his newly developed spirit sense to cover up the entire region. Then using it, he'd try to form a grand wall using the blue ores surrounding this region.
But to do it, he had to exhaust tons of spirit power in the early stages, besides using his full concentration to do it. So he prepared enough elixirs, even removed their lid covers to make it easier and faster to drink.
"Let's do it!" as he kept hearing sneezing sounds increasing nonstop, he activated the third formation and released his spirit sense.
This was the first time for him to use such a god sent ability. The spirit sense felt like he released part of his spirit and awareness to roam around a fixed area of space.
He could focus on anything he wanted, see and hear everything clearly like he was standing right there. It was a marvellous feeling, one that he enjoyed before in his past life.
As he was experienced and used to this ability, he didn't waste any time appreciating it. He started to link the formation with his senses, before releasing his spirit power into the formation.
The formation worked like a generator, working to magnify and amplify his spirit sense. Once the formation got activated, his spirit sense started to expand and cover further distances.
But this only lasted for a few minutes. Then he experienced weird weakness and dizziness. Without even asking about it, he moved his hand and emptied another elixir bottle content into his mouth.
Once the fluid ran into his throat, he felt much better. Then the spirit sense that stopped expanding before returned to expand again.
William experienced this in repeated cycles with few minutes as intervals in between them. After two hours, and after consuming tens of elixirs, he finally arrived at the edges of this area.
Once he reached there, he felt like his spirit sense got absorbed madly like a water touching sponge. He didn't hesitate and gulped ten elixir bottles next, but it didn't suffice the insane amount of consumption he suffered.
"Damn! It took me fifty bottles to barely resist it!" William was shocked when he realised this. He thought it'd be enough to consume just ten up to twenty bottles of elixirs. But in the end, it took him much more than that.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢