"Let's see what you prepared for me out there," he muttered to himself while changing into his fox spirit form. William wouldn't take this quietness lightly, never underestimate such a scary foe.
The moment he stepped deeper into this land; William started to scan everything using his spirit sense. His spirit sense currently could cover up ten kilometre radius at most.
This was expected, as he just arrived at the gold grade. The more his spirit power progressed, the wider his spirit sense coverage would be.
He didn't run quite fast, didn't even stick to the initial route marked out by everyone. He first headed to see something, headed to a place where something that shouldn't be here was.
From the first moment he spotted it and William got puzzled. This thing should be thousands of kilometres away from here. And the thought of having more than one of these things in such a narrow space was quite unlucky.
Besides, that thing gave him the same vibe he felt before. In addition to that, William got a spiral area that appeared in his path. And he wanted to test the effectiveness of his modified arrays.
William already visited the spirit power augmenting formation frequently before leaving, memorising literally every single detail about the entire region.
He knew where to go and how much he'd take to arrive there.
[Are you telling me you are going on a detour on your own? Without us?!!] Berry's insane shout came to make William feel like his eardrums ruptured or something.
"Just stay on course, I'm just going out there to test a few things," William touched his ears, feeling deep pain in them.
[For God's sake! Can you stop this annoying habit of yours? Even for once as a change?] This time it was Sara, and she wasn't any less furious nor loud than Berry.
"It's just for the greater good," William chuckled, touching his ears again, "anyway, I'm close to one of the places I wanted to check out. Keep on course and keep me posted if you come up with something new."
William then stored the Bullets away and turned towards the horizon. He wasn't trying to get himself out from this intense talk with his vices. He was this close from the spiral shaped region.
He took roughly six hours to arrive close to it. And before he'd come closer to a five kilometre distance from it, he stopped, took out different sets of materials, and started laying out many arrays.
He didn't lie before when he spoke about the expected weakness of these counter arrays. And so, he decided to use seven grand arrays to counter this thing, hopefully it'd be enough to damage it.
As he finished laying down the arrays, he distanced himself even further away. He knew his spirit sense wouldn't cover up what was happening out there, and so he took out one grand catapult, climbed it to the very top, to get a better view over the distance.
The new modified catapults were around twenty metres in height, pretty high actually and looking grand. Standing on top of them made him see things better, and he could see the spiral shape at a far distance.
"Time to see what this nasty formation is all about," William already guessed the nature of each formation laid down by the Nightmare monster, but he wasn't one hundred percent sure about this. He felt like the enemy was acting too cautious, being too meticulous in its planning so far. So, it didn't feel just right to depend on a single trap in any spot here.
*Rumble!*
Once William activated the seven formations, the entire area trembled. The air began to shift in colour, showing grey colour in it. It wasn't only that, but William could see thin tongues of grey smoke rising from the ground at the same time.
"This… That damn bastard! It didn't just build up a single formation, but two as I expected…" even if William expected such a result, it still felt quite terrible to have such a result. It meant with every formation he detected; more were buried underground.
Yet William couldn't tell what the true nature of the formation until mighty roars appeared. Without the need to check by himself, he recognised these roars… "Wrathers!" he said it in a distasteful tone, while taking out something.
It wasn't a weapon, instead it was Bullets. He started to spread the new discovery he got, warning others from the formations spread all over the place.
The news he spread was enough to drive everyone silent. They all suspected things to be bad, but never believed him when he said they were going to meet more Wrathers inside the region.
But now it was clear he was right, and it was also clear he got a point when he warned them against leaving anyone behind to take care of the Wrathers at the periphery. After all, it wouldn't matter in the end as more of them would appear from the territory itself.
Then William stored the Bullets and started to run.
He didn't run forward, but outwards, driving these monsters towards a long arc, taking a detour around the entire spiral shape and his arrays.
William knew he could handle these monsters perfectly. He got the fire element, but his confidence didn't just stem from this.
Every single attack of his was like a bomb of its own. So, he didn't fear dealing with these Wrathers. But he wanted to see if that place had another hideous method hidden from his eyes and senses or not.
As his enemy acted cautious, he also acted the same. William led the Wrather around in circles, but they didn't follow what he intended to do.
This wasn't because they were smart, but because they got their numbers increasing at an alarming rate.
In just ten minutes, these monsters flooded out from the spiral shaped area towards him from all directions.
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