As William's team decided to stay, the leaders team also decided the same. William didn't say anything, after all he already explained the risks involved in this mission.
After an entire day, and as everyone rested enough, William finally got the word from Zin.
[We are ready!]
"Let's roll out then," William knew the ongoing status of everyone from his formation. He rested and even slept for half a day straight. He knew there wouldn't be anything dangerous coming towards them before they'd attack tha academy.
The plan to move forward was simple. The first group to head towards the academy was Zin's. As they got lots of things with them, they were going to move slower.
As the news of the two teams' decision to stay spread, many also asked to join. To organise things, Zin placed the lowest limit to join to be at the early stage dark gold grade. And that alone was enough to let thousands to join.
William didn't mind that. After all, his quota to succeed in this trial was quite low.
Zin would move out with his team, walking directly on the bottom of this grand hole zone. The ground was currently so solid that even running a battle at it wasn't going to leave nothing much behind.
As Zin led his team over, William kept tracking them. The general plan was to start moving when they got close enough. They brought enough earth based masters with them, enough to build up a grand stage for the upcoming battle with the dark masters.
"It's time, let's move out," Zin's team took two days to cover up the distance they could have crossed in just one. And that was quite expected as they were dragging many things along the way.
As they got close enough, and judging by their marching speed during the past couple of days, William selected the best time to make others move out.
During all this time, he kept resting, checking any update at the entire area and at the academy. He also kept talking with Zin and other masters about how they were going to handle this.
They got less than ten thousand masters, and they got to fight almost one hundred thousand masters around that academy. If nothing surprising happened, then this fight wasn't going to be bad.
William got a much higher number of high end masters than the enemy. Not to mention he also got his modified catapults.
They were made to throw away masters, but they also could throw away lots of deadly and explosive stuff. During the past few days, the masters inside the region were working and preparing lots of things that could be used by these catapults.
They were also preparing lots of defensive and offensive arrays, just preparing for any unexpected turn of events.
William wasn't sure if the trigger the final traps in the entire region were going to get triggered when they'd attack the dark master or they'd have to hit the academy itself. So he let everyone prepare, and he just kept himself busy thinking and planning for the upcoming assault.
Zin was going to lead the main army, while William decided to act solo. As for the precious cargo they dragged with them, they agreed to let them back, a few kilometres away from the main battlefield.
And to make sure nothing bad would happen to them, they assigned a couple of hundreds of masters to stay on guard there. William assigned part of his team and friends to be stationed there, but most decided to join the main army.
"At last! I thought I was going to rot here, hahahaha!" Ibra was excited like everyone else. He waved his glaive while walking down the stairs the earth based masters here prepared for all of them.
Once William left this grand pillar, he lost any ability to observe anything. But that wasn't an issue. Zin and other leaders were there to scan for anything abnormal appearing in the region. So William didn't worry about this.
The two teams were a long distance away from the academy to begin with. And the ground wasn't smooth as many rocks blocked their paths forward.
To make things faster and much easier, they had to use the help of earth based masters to flatten the tough terrain. At the same time, many water and even ice based masters started to intervene, covering the entire ground with ice, to make everyone walk faster.
Like this, the army of masters started marching towards the dark academy from three different directions. Everyone thought they'd face lots of trouble and problems, or the dark masters would show movement to counter them. But that never happened, and William expected that.
"What's the point in making any more traps when there are two formidable traps set on board?" William muttered to himself when he heard the many comments from everyone about this.
The entire ground was going to fall, and the sky was covered with a thick black layer of clouds. The ground and sky made William feel like he was walking into the opened jaw of a colossal beast. And at any moment, that beast was going to close its jaw, killing him and everyone else.
He managed to read through the trap of the golden layer underground, but he couldn't yet unveil anything about the black trap in the sky.
As the three armies of masters were heading towards their destination, another army was getting closer from this region. And this army was quite special.
This army had one thousand masters, but none of them would be underestimated. It's about their spirit power grade, as they all were at dark gold grade. But none of them exceeded mid grade, and that didn't mean they were weak.
This team knew lots about mysterious things of the world, the same field that William and other masters lacked. They got weird ways to fight and used to deal with abnormal situations and things happening in the world.
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