William was frustrated for a reason. These Wrathers came out like a dam got broken and a flood was released. They didn't give him any chance to wait beside this region and watch what was happening for these clouds to appear here.
He wanted to see how they got formed, so he might find a clue or something about them. But as he had to always retreat, even when he decided to stand his ground and fight using everything he got, but ended up getting pushed back, he decided to leave such a task over to the more formidable masters.
He spread the word, and everyone got what he wanted to do and the value of this task. After one day, the two teams already got formed, while the other half of masters left to stop the Wrathers coming from outside were asked to evacuate in ten more hours.
The masters evaded all the areas flagged by William. And luckily, they didn't meet anything out of norm so far.
This was considered the first task the two teams got. But William stopped his guild team from doing such a task. Instead, he gave them another one.
"Let Thomas go around the areas between the red flagged zones. Let's see if there are any hidden things we didn't yet get to uncover."
William walked through lots of normal places without triggering anything. Yet he didn't feel that calm about any of this.
He was sure the enemy wasn't that merciful or kindhearted to leave these areas void of any trap. At the same time, the presence of these black clouds kept nagging him.
So, he preferred to start scanning the leftovers of that monster using Thomas' Karma techniques. If things turn out to be fine, then he'd just send his team to do another task, scouting the dark academy.
And in the next few hours, he started to get lots of news from Thomas. The latter agreed to do the task, but asked William to keep talking with him, especially at the beginning. Thomas got used to having weird things when he'd examine anything out for William. And this time it wasn't an exception.
[The world around looks in different layers] the first thing Thomas said made William suddenly halt in his tracks.
"What do you mean?" William didn't jump over conclusions, but what he doubted came true.
[The world looks as if it's formed of three layers… I can't really explain it right, but I can dive into any layer and see different things there…]
Thomas started to speak for a long time, almost three hours straight without William interrupting him even for once. Thomas was walking around, describing what he was seeing layer by layer, which took a long time to do.
Not to mention this was the first time for him to see such a thing. The world in front of him had three different layers with new colours appearing in his Karma vision. Thomas used to see silver colour all the time, but this time he saw black, red, and blue colours for the first time ever.
He felt like he got the ability to navigate through any layer once he fixed his attention over it. And whenever he did, all the colours would disappear, and the silver world would come in his eyes again.
He started to delve into a layer, explain everything in it, before changing it over another layer. In each layer, things were quite different than what laid at the other two. And soon enough, Thomas lost his focus and couldn't help but feel the entire thing was like a grand maze or something.
And when he told William that, William couldn't help but inwardly sigh. "It's truly a maze, in fact it's one of the hardest tricks to pull in the entire world… The Triple Maze of Death!"
William had his own thoughts and doubts when Thomas spoke first about the presence of three layers in his vision. The more Thomas spoke about what he saw in every layer, William's heart couldn't help but clenched tighter. And by his last comment, he was sure of his earlier guess.
[Do you know what the heck is this?] Sara asked what everyone on her side was thinking about. His friends heard what Thomas said and couldn't help but feel more puzzled the more he spoke about it. When he finally said it felt like a true maze, everyone couldn't help but agree with him.
Yet their confusion turned all into a shock when William stated what he just said. It meant one thing; their leader knew what exactly this was all about. And that reminded the old ones in the team and guild about lots of things William managed to do so far.
It all stemmed from his weird and unexplained understanding of things they never learnt or heard about before. Even if they grew puzzled and curious towards his source of deep and weird knowledge, they felt also appreciative and lucky to be on his side, not against it.
"I do," William took in a deep breath, knowing that he made a grave mistake here. He thought about everything about that mysterious side of the world techniques, never thought about this specific one in particular.
He got his reasons actually, as to make such a grand formation, one had to reestablish the entire area. It was quite unexpected for the monster to remove the ground, down to the lava layer, and rebuild this entire place without anyone smelling anything about it.
This was quite impossible! And so, William thought about laying a grand sealing formation here, one that could conceal anything and everything from the senses of the masters passing by this spot.
But that was also an impossible scenario. To do such a task, this monster had to purchase tons of materials and bring them all the way here. Wouldn't the merchants who worked with him suspect anything? Wouldn't they have spirit senses spread all over the place to see how weird it was? Weren't they moving with a formidable entourage of masters as guards?
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