Yet he didn't stop Charley from attacking, but modified what it was doing a little bit. He made Charley target the same spot over and over again, like it was digging the ground.
After half an hour, Charley managed to dig a hole of just a couple hundred metres depth. And yet the ground down there didn't show any signs of getting weaker. Instead, William felt the last few attacks left much shallower indentations on the ground.
"Come back," William didn't hesitate to call Charley and let it appear and cover up his chest. After that he took it out again, recharged the exhausted elixirs, before releasing it to continue digging.
After doing this for five more times, William was sure without using such a method like his techniques, leaving a mark at the ground wasn't going to happen. Using normal earth-based techniques wouldn't have done anything at all. Except if a high-end master personally intervened, then no one would have been able to dig the ground.
Instead of leaving behind a hole of a hundred metre or so, his techniques released by Charley left only tens of metres at first. And after a few hours, the most Charley could do was to deepen the hole by a few metres with each attack.
William was now thinking differently. Such strengthening effects of the ground didn't follow the normal logic behind formations or arrays. If not for his luck to be great and he found a main node of materials laid just at that spot, then this was all weird.
Digging the ground should be easier the deeper the hole became, not harder. And that made him expect to find something at the lowest point of all this.
William kept sending Charley to dig the ground until he heard a loud clanging sound at some point. It was clear Charley's attack finally hit something. William already was attentive to the weird sounds coming from down below with each hit. Yet he couldn't tell what it was.
"What do we have here," as that clanging noise kept ranging for the next hour, it was clear this hole wasn't going to get through what stopped Charley.
So, William controlled Charley and let it widen the hole. After a few more hours, a hole a few hundred metres wide was created. And deep below, William could spot a weird golden lustre.
"I have to go down there and check things out," William already spread the word about how strong and sturdy the ground was. But when he saw that weird golden thing down below, he couldn't help but have other thoughts.
He went down below while riding over Charley's back. And when he arrived there, he couldn't help but feel amazed at the sturdiness of the ground.
Even with all these hits, the ground never showed a single crack around. It felt like Charley was digging directly in the heart of a mountain, and that mountain was made out of steel.
William saw at the end of this couple thousand metres depth hole the golden lustre that stopped Charley. William then used his earth technique and formed a flight of stairs, attached to the side of this hole from one end, and heading down towards the bottom in a spiral way.
"Go down there," he couldn't tell what it was until he landed down there. And the moment he touched the surface of this golden layer, he started to examine that thing.
He tried to kick it first, but nothing happened. When he touched it, he felt an intense cold that spread over from there. Unlike what he expected, it was pretty cold and not hot.
"Weird…" He felt like he had seen such a thing before, but he didn't recall where or when or anything related to it. "Let me try something…"
He retreated a bit and let Charley release another volley of its attacks. When the attacks landed, William saw something that drove a cold shiver down his spine.
In front of his eyes, the barrage of attacks that were enough to take the lives of hundreds of monsters, leave behind deep holes and deadly marks, vanished like it never existed.
At the same time, the golden ground shone brightly as if it got ignited with some sort of fire. The two things were related, as the fierce power in the attack vanished and got absorbed into that golden layer.
The attacks that were enough to destroy a huge part of this place left nothing behind, and were totally absorbed by this golden material, ending up without stirring anything at all.
Seeing such a scene made William's body tremble, before he controlled Charley, jumped on its back, and hurriedly galloped the stone stairs, heading towards the surface.
"A change of plan! We can't send any army here… The entire ground is built over a sponged golden eggshell layer!"
William instantly shouted at everyone using the Bullets he took out even before reaching the surface.
[What are you talking about?]
[What's that sponging golden thing?]
[If we don't send an army, how can we take this damn academy down then?!]
Many leaders and even a few of his friends and vices exclaimed in doubt and confusion.
"It's something that can work to nullify any damage," William got that what he knew about this thing was unknown to everyone here, "it doesn't just negate all damage, but also store all the attacks that it nullifies. Imagine it as a sponge, absorbing all the damage like how a sponge stores water. The damage won't fade away, just stored inside the sponge, until it's released. And by then, the entire layer would crack, release deadly waves of spirit power that no one literally can survive from…"
William started to tell them what they didn't know. The more he explained, the more they felt fear from the complicated set of traps in this area.
[Who is the sick bastard who did all this?! I can't tell how long it'd take for all these traps to be laid!] Zin said what everyone thought about.
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