William didn't know anything about the shape of this skull. "Time to scout this place," he started to slowly walk around, controlling his two weapons to move alongside him as well.
Doing it this way made him move slowly, but he was safe in the end. As he was doing this, he wasted ten hours roaming around. And when he arrived at the walls of the academy, William saw it shimmering in a weird green light.
"This… It's a sealing formation… Damn!" William marched along the walls until he finally found the main gate. And there he found himself unable to pass through.
Something stopped him and his two weapons from touching the gate. And that meant there was some sort of a formation sealing the entire academy.
"Screw it! I'm going to enter using brute force then," William left the two weapons to protect him before he started to charge up his technique.
He didn't dare to change to a fox form. Who knew what that monster did here, might attract the wrath and attention of that formation in the end.
He just kept himself in human form and stacked up to a hundred attacks together. He didn't fear to stir up anything as he was using his spirit power into his Holy Sword technique.
He never stacked such a large number at the same time. And so the moment he gathered such a number up, he felt immense pressure exerted over him.
"Let's see if you can defend against this!" *Rumble!*
The attack landed and the entire walls around the academy shook. Even the ground trembled and the entire milky white space showed a change as well. Small storms started to appear, forming tornado-like gatherings.
William didn't care about this space, focused mainly over the academy gate and walls. A small crack appeared there, one that didn't look much. "At least there is a crack," he muttered to himself before starting to store up his attacks again.
One attack after another landed over the academy gate, all hitting the same spot. This ended up deepening the crack, spreading it around, until the entire gate and parts of the walls nearby were covered up with spider web-like cracks.
William kept releasing his attacks nonstop. To make up for the lost spirit power, he consumed elixirs. And soon enough, the cracks he caused ended up deepening, and a shattering sound erupted, and the gate fell down alongside parts of the walls.
Once that happened, William didn't delay or hesitate, ran with all his might towards that gap. He knew such a scary thing wouldn't leave such a hole intact for a long time. And his doubts were correct.
Just as he ran fast, he saw the gap he created getting filled fast with white fog. It appeared as if the fog was falling down like a rock or something, rapidly closing that gap. But William was already moving with everything he got and managed to slip through the gap alongside his two weapons.
"Phew! That was a close call," William landed on the ground, catching his breaths fast. He exerted too much to just create this hole. It took him a few minutes to slowly stand up, look around, and he found himself standing inside the academy.
It was abandoned, just as he thought before. He was standing in front of a shut down gate, and the outer world looked quite normal and usual as if it wasn't surrounded with any fog or a deadly trap or anything.
In front of him, a wide space that looked like a broad street was there, lined with few buildings. Dust covered everything, as if this place wasn't touched for years.
Even the buildings showed few fallen pieces and the plants were grown wildly and without any care or attention. William started to walk deeper, even opened many doors and checked what was within.
Nothing much was there. Anything inside was covered with a thick layer of dust, and there wasn't anything of value.
Even the plants William found around were all wild and didn't have any use at all. In William's eyes, this place just missed ruined buildings and holes in the ground, corpses and skeletons lying all over the place, and then the picture would be perfect.
William didn't just check the buildings to look for anyone left there, but he wanted to see if he could sniff any clue about the source of that deadly trap outside.
He tried to check on the progress of things outside, but for a reason, his attempts all failed. Even his spirit sense failed to see anything outside the walls of the academy.
William knew the outer trap was sealing anything and everything. And yet he felt bizarre when he stood on top of the walls, seeing the grand and rich life outside.
"If I didn't come from a deadly place before getting here, I'd take all this for real… Wait a second… This… Can this be an illusion?"
This thought never crossed his mind before. Yet when he saw such an unrealistic world out there, even spotting a few monsters roaming and running in the distance, he couldn't help but feel how deeply wrong this all was.
The only explanation he could think of was this, he fell into a grand formation of illusion the moment he passed into here. He was exhausted and was glad to get rid of such a deadly threat. And that made him perhaps miss him entering into some sort of a new trap.
"To detect if there is an illusion or not, I need to use a breaking array… If the entire place is a grand formation, then it will just bring little changes, nothing much…"
William started to take this matter seriously the more he looked at the outer world. And so, he started to take materials out and laid out two formations.
He could use his spirit sense, but for a reason he felt like he couldn't see everything through. And that was also matching the theory of being inside an illusion.
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