Heavy silence ruled over the entire place for long minutes. William knew accepting such a fact wasn't going to be easy for them, for anyone. So he simply kept pushing the wind away using his cannonball move, while giving them enough time to absorb and accept this truth.
As they were taking their share to accept this, William took this time to think about what they just exposed.
"A tiny world with masters not able to activate their spirit bodies? What the heck is that world exactly? How come masters survive against monsters without such deadly weapons?"
His mind was drifting through various ideas, and yet when he returned to spot them, he couldn't help but focus his eyes over the shimmering bubble of lights that kept them safe.
"Humans are real survivors indeed," he couldn't help but think about this point. Even if some tiny world masters didn't learn the little trick of activating their spirit bodies, they must have developed themselves in another direction.
With what they did here, he could guess they focused more on arrays and formations. And from how they managed to deal with the deadly threat of the wind and toxin spreading alongside it, he knew they crossed a long part of the road in that direction.
That wasn't what he thought about. When he thought about this, he couldn't help but imagine other worlds with different handicaps, worlds without having dark gold grade for example, worlds without any spirit elements, spirit techniques, and such.
Imagining worlds like these made him question what humans would do in these circumstances. He knew the outer world was immense and vast, advanced in its knowledge and ways. But he now got a feeling that real power wasn't limited to the outer world.
"Tiny worlds aren't just kindergarten for humans… There are special worlds out there, and I can learn a ton of things from them…"
This was the first time for William to see the tiny worlds as not useless places. He always considered them as factories providing the outer world with new blood, either be monsters or masters alike.
"I have little time here. I came to save my friends who are entrapped like you. Do you want to go out with me or remain here for the rest of your lives?" as he already thought through all this, he decided to bring these masters along.
Once they got out from the area of danger, he'd have enough time to interrogate them and get to know more about their unique world.
"What guarantee that you won't kill us?" one of the much older masters said, "and what tells us you can get us out from here in the first place?"
"As you can tell," William extended his arms around, "I came into here from outside. I came in, and I can take all of you out. But you have to follow my words to the letter, got it?"
"..."
The masters inside that bubble were in thousands. William left them to discuss in between each other what he just proposed. At the same time, he kept using his cannonball move.
To make them believe him, he expanded the area of activity to cover up the entire grand formation. He spent two elixirs and managed to push the wind for hundreds of metres away from their shiny bubble.
This was the first time for them to see someone able to push the wind away. As William guessed, they came from a world where they crossed miles in the field of arrays and formations.
They happened to come here accidentally, and yet they had a grand formation that could protect their lives. Unlike what William expected, these people were entrapped here for long years. And the only thing that kept them alive was potions and elixirs.
They stopped eating for a long time, as they ran short of rations. Instead, they used formations to supplement their bodies with spirit power, stopping them from dying out of hunger and thirst.
Instead of food, they lived on spirit power, and they replaced water with potion and elixir's fluids. But they only had the ability to survive, struggle against the deadly wind using these methods. To go out from here was a totally different story.
They didn't resign to such desperate fate out of nothing. They already sacrificed a lot of great men and women trying to find a way out from here. And yet none ever managed to walk out and return, no one even managed to do something like what William was currently doing.
"We want to send a small team with you first," the youth who spoke with William before stepped up and added, "take them out, then bring one back to tell us the truth."
"No problem," William paused for a moment, "but make it quick. I have others to save."
"Sure, I'm going to come out now with a group of us," the youth didn't even turn back and started walking out. Like the formation wasn't there, he simply passed through it, alongside a few hundred as well.
"You did indeed bring quite a lot for the first try," William was surprised to see such a large number of masters coming out. He thought this youth would bring at most twenty with him or something.
"I'm Park," the youth cupped his hands, "I'm in your care."
"Call me William," William turned around and added, "follow me. Keep yourselves inside the area of protection I'm creating. If you stepped outside, then don't place it on me."
"Got it," Park led his people and started following William. The latter was already adept at how to get out of here. So, the moment he pressured the wind prison enough, a gap appeared.
"The gap can only allow for at most ten people to pass, then I'm going to reopen it again," William landed the last hit, expanding the gap before shouting out, "now! Go, go, pass and wait for us out there."
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