"At least I can let them clear all the Wrathers first," William looked again as the black clouds appeared in the sky, "and these clouds… They look bad news…"
William reviewed the general layout of the place in his mind over and over again, but couldn't find anything that could trigger the traps. "Don't tell me he planned everything to be triggered by that damn academy… Oh wait, I missed something…"
William suddenly froze in place. In fact, he missed two things which could trigger more traps.
The first was that vapour. It wasn't the vapour itself, but what the vapour layer hid behind it. "That damn bastard… It left such a layer down below to stop us from getting to the deeper layer of the ground…"
William didn't know what laid down there, but he was sure they'd discover lots of things. As for the next trigger thing he missed, it was the hills, or the blue ores of these.
His team removed the hills, but didn't have the time to deal with the ores. The moment they unearthed the hills, the dark masters appeared and a huge battle erupted. Before they'd deal with the dark masters, the hallucination toxin appeared.
William started to see the grand scheme of that Nightmare monster. It didn't do anything without an ulterior motive to it. And it was clear that the addition of the dark masters at the hill zone was directed to keep them busy from dealing with the blue ores. And then the hallucination toxin appeared to deal the final blow, distracting them totally from these ores.
This was a multi-staged scheme, one that aimed towards one single goal. "And when we got freed from this hallucination, the deadly toxin stopped us from getting outside. So… All the blue ores are laid outside the toxin layer… Wait… These ores lay in the toxin layer itself…"
William's thoughts rashed when he thought about this. He already used these blue ores to establish an entrapment formation, one to seal the high spirit power he released before to undo the hallucination effect.
When William thought about all this, he couldn't help but sigh in admiration for such meticulous planning. "It can't even be done in five years… Executing this plan would take five years… It seems that the bastard had the entire idea from the nine-tailed fox memories…"
William found this more logical. After all, everything related to this came from the outer world, not here. And for a monster that lived all its life in this world, it was impossible to link all this on itself.
William pushed all this aside and returned to think about the new things he discovered. "The way towards that toxin layer is blocked by tons of Wrathers. That explains why there are endless stream of Wrathers out there…"
William knew it was impossible to link everything just to one spot. Even if that monster had a way to make the academy the heart of everything, it still needed other things to link the traps with, or else the entire thing would fail on its own.
William realised he had to deal now with that toxin layer. And to do so, he had to think differently than dealing with other traps in the area.
"I know literally nothing about this toxin, except for one thing… It has a strong dependance over these ores. So dealing with the ores will hit that toxin layer hard and destroy it. In addition to that, it will trigger something… Will it appear here, or will it appear out there? Or both? I can't tell…"
William started to relay orders to other leaders, asking them to send the high end masters to relay messages using spirit telepathy towards those out there.
They needed to reform their lines, be prepared to welcome anything deadly once the toxin layer got taken care of.
[So we can then send them here to help, right?] a leader asked, but William still refused such a suggestion. He didn't give any reasons except for their need for their help to get them away from here if things went wrong.
Few leaders got Message Papers with their people out there, and others started to move closer to the border region to relay the news.
Wrathers already started flooding the place. So trying to go there would make it hard for anyone to survive this. In the end, the entire leader team had to move as a whole unit, and William didn't object to such a thing.
Once he got done with this, he started to think about how to deal with the toxin and ores at the same time.
"I won't just deal with these two alone, but also will deal with that nasty layer of vapour… It will be a good blow to all this…" William already had an idea in mind, one that needed the help of a certain being, the only being that Nightmare monster never predicted its presence here; the bear monster.
"We need to meet up, where are you now from the meeting place?" William had a rough idea about what he should do. But as things were getting complicated by the incoming Wrathers from outside, William had to use the help of his team.
He was going to be busy preparing formations. He got his two weapons ready to release, but alone they weren't enough. Not to mention he had to focus part of his attention over to control them.
William didn't want to lay the formations down then got forced to leave them. So he learnt about his team's current location, and headed straight towards there.
During his way, he kept fighting Wrathers in an increasing alarming rate. It felt like these things were going to grow to be equal to a small scale monster tide or something. But William knew they'd be almost exterminated after what he planned to do.
"At last, you decided to join us!" the distance that could be crossed in five hours got crossed in twelve.
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