According to Park's old master, they were moving to help in fending off a grand monster tide. The monsters used some sort of a portal to move lots of monsters to intercept their army. William, Sloth, and others from their world knew this was the monster gate.
From their words, they realised this monster gate wasn't known in Park's world. And so, they didn't try to destroy it, instead Park's army leader decided to dispatch a team to get into the gate and stop the influx of monsters from inside.
They passed through the gate, ending up getting here. William and others were surprised by how crazy and courageous these masters were. And yet that also shone the light over something else.
"If what you are saying is true, then monsters can gain access to this world," Sloth said what William had in mind, "yet we never saw a single monster here."
"What about those? Aren't they considered monsters as well?" Park's old master motioned his head towards the sky, and Sloth just smiled and said nothing.
Both were strong, at the pinnacle of dark gold grade, and their spirit senses were at the maximum threshold. So they both saw the world and knew there wasn't a single living soul on the ground, at least for tens of kilometres.
William checked on his team and friends after ending this discussion. As Sloth said, they were improving as long as they didn't contract any toxic wind anytime soon.
"I'm going out," William spent hours with his friends and team, then turned around and said his goodbye to everyone else. Sloth offered, like Ibra and many of his friends, to come with him, yet William rejected all this.
Among everyone, he was the only one healthy enough to do this. As for the contest, he already told his team that they mostly wouldn't appear in time to join it.
He said it so they'd be prepared. And then he started to move out.
There was a problem of where he should go first. The entire world looked vast and boundless, and yet there was no sign of the right path he should head to.
"You know how to find this exit?" As William selected a direction randomly, he walked, and Sloth accompanied him for a few kilometres.
"I have my hunch."
"It's enough," Sloth already highly valued William, not seeing him according to the limitations of age, "take this, it's a special Message Paper, one that can cover up thousands of kilometres."
"Oh, that's a nice toy," William didn't reject this offer and accepted this scroll. The moment he held it, he felt like he was holding something made out of iron or something, so much heavier than the usual scrolls.
"It's a special one, and it's connected with me," Sloth took out an identical copy of the scroll he gave to William, "to use it, you need to inject lots of spirit power inside. Usually masters in dark gold grade will be the only ones able to use it. But I believe you have your ways to do it."
"I do," William nodded, "thanks for that, it'll solve the problem of how to find you after finding the exit."
"Don't overdo it," Sloth stopped after crossing five kilometres with William, "we are entrapped here, but we are safe… For now, at least," he raised his head and looked at the close by colossal monsters.
The scenes of them flying less than hundred metres on top of their heads, with all the sparkles shining from their edges, was enough to make anyone feel quite unsettled.
But William wasn't worried about them. He knew if they were hostile, they'd attack the moment they landed on the ground. Yet it was either these monsters were vegetarians, or they didn't place these tiny humans in their eyes at all. And William considered the latter to be the case here.
He walked away, while the sight of Sloth and others got smaller the more he advanced. After an hour or so, he couldn't even detect them using his spirit sense.
William was moving slowly, taking the utmost care and caution at first. He didn't cancel his spirit form and kept it running all the time.
At first, he was curious about this world and inspected everything around. But slowly he lost interest in doing this. Aside from the abnormally high spirit power concentration in everything around, he didn't find anything else that would pique his interest.
The grass, the ground, even the tree roots… Everything had a high concentration of spirit power that looked abnormal and different from the world he came from. And yet he knew this wasn't even close to how it was like in the outer world.
He ran a few tests and knew the spirit power looked as low grade as it was in the tiny world he came from, not like the high-grade spirit power in the outer world.
He kept walking slowly for almost a day, then he started to accelerate his pace. If there was any danger lurking in the shadows, waiting for him at any corner, it'd have appeared by now.
The moment he started running fast, he crossed the distance he crossed in the past day in mere six hours! He kept running like this for days, eating dried up rations that he had from his chefs back at the guild base.
When the seventh day kicked in, he finally saw something new. He first spotted this using his spread-out spirit sense, then he slowly approached where this weird thing started.
"This… So, these monsters are flying inside a confined area, not covering the entire world?!!"
In front of him, the sky seemed to have an imaginary line, an invisible wall that separated it into two parts.
In one part, densely packed monsters appeared and filled the entire sky. At the outer part, the sky looked clear, void of any monster, and bright sun rays appeared and covered the rest of the world.
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