Unlike Park's group, William's team was much worse compared to them. They looked more emaciated and paler, looked as if they had been sick for a long time already.
That was why William didn't want to delay their stay here. He knew Park's people remained in the windstorm for many years. And yet they looked much better than his team who just stayed here for less than two weeks.
William led them all outside after he freed himself from Lara. when he went outside, his team showed the same reaction as everyone else.
"There is no danger here right now, so you can heal and recuperate," William turned to everyone, including his team, "I'm going to investigate the world around me. Stay here and don't move away from the back of this monster."
"Do you plan to leave here?!!!" This wasn't just the shocking words that came from Berry, Sara, Lara, and Lina, but from many around. They didn't even celebrate joining him and he wanted to leave.
William calmly smiled and didn't explain anything as his reasons were obvious.
They were too depleted and couldn't help in any way right now. They needed to recuperate and heal, and he needed to look for an exit from this cursed place as soon as possible.
He didn't care about the reason Anjie sent him and his team out here to do. This world wasn't something he or others could come here at the current stage of power.
He didn't know much about this world, but with Park and his people here, with the graves that stood witness to how scary this place was, William gathered few intel.
This world, if his guesses were right, would be a pocket world acting like a link between many others. He didn't know how far the scale of connections this pocket world had, but he was sure this place was connected with the outer world and many other tiny worlds as well.
As for the source of the toxin affecting the king, he could tell it came from this weird whale-like flying monster. William didn't plan to risk his life either by going deep inside this colossal beast's body or even try the impossible and kill it.
"Just wait here and I'll find a way to keep in touch with you," William was about to move away, but the mentor suddenly stopped him.
"I'm The Novistic Kingdom's biggest mentor, called Sloth. Did you meet Anjie? Did she tell you about the current status of the kingdom?"
William paused, gave this old man a deep look. He had a good impression of Sloth. And yet he wasn't ready to sacrifice his life for something he didn't believe in, or someone he didn't even meet before.
"I know that the king is severely ill, but… Sorry old man, but if you want to throw away your life then go ahead, be my guest. A word of advice though, having one man dead is enough, don't add more grave losses or grievances to the ones back at the capital."
"..."
The words of William came out of Sloth's expectations. They weren't the words of a youngster, not even a young man. He acted like a veteran, like an old man, like someone as wise and strong as him.
Without even realising it, he stood in his place while William walked away. The latter already ran through many places on the back of this flying beast. So he knew his way and kept walking towards the edge of this monster.
He passed by many windstorms, tempted to go in and claim everything inside. But he knew he'd waste lots of hours doing so, and just visited ten places and looted everything from there.
In his eyes, this monster was like a flying treasure trove. And when he reached the edge of this monster, he couldn't help but notice similar windstorm bubbles on the backs of different shaped monsters.
"It's like I expected, the entire sky of this world is filled with such scary monsters…" William thanked his luck that he was so tiny compared to such colossal beasts. Even in the outer world, such monsters wouldn't be threatened by anyone but at the top of power there.
Just as he was standing there, he spread his spirit sense to cover a few kilometres around. As he was standing there, he noticed someone approaching.
"You do know you can't leave and expect to find us easily later on," Sloth was the one who came here, and he seemed to sort out his thoughts, "we need to go down there with you. If there is an exit, it must be on the far distanced ground."
"I can't see the ground from here," William didn't even turn to look at Sloth, "how can you be so sure the ground is safer than here?"
"I can see further than your sense can," Sloth laughed, "and I can tell you the ground down there is void of any monster."
"Are you sure?" William turned to Sloth and the latter simply nodded, "if so, then you can come down with me."
"As if you can fly down there without my and others' help," Sloth laughed again. And yet William just smiled as if he got this in his pockets or something.
"I planned to jump to the ground," he said, and that made Sloth raise one eyebrow, looking in doubt towards William, "what? I'm not lying!"
"Show me then," Sloth shrugged, "I can take everyone down with me. You know, people in my level of power can temporarily fly."
"Who don't you save me the trouble then?" William crossed his arms, and Sloth shook his head in rejection.
"I want to see how you planned to get down there without our help."
"Then watch," William didn't hesitate, turned around, and ran towards the edge. In a few steps he reached there, then jumped as he just said and fell from such a high altitude towards the ground.
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