Just watching William move around was entrancing to Angelica and her twenty surviving masters, quite terrifying to both the dark masters and monsters.
The first to turn around and run with their tails in their jaws were monsters. They weren't intelligent as humans, but they were ruled by their instincts. And right now, they felt they were standing in front of a predator, one who wasn't on their scale to compete with.
William didn't care about these monsters. His main target was the dark masters. He kept flashing right and left, attacking everyone around without leaving none alive but Edward.
The battle since he joined ended quite fast. He didn't forget to collect the loot, rings and gears, before turning towards the stupefied Angelica and other masters on her side.
"What are you waiting for? Take him down, exert your vengeance and clear a little of rage swelling in your hearts."
William motioned his head towards Edward, and the latter wasn't in any shape to run away. He tried to run a few times but ended up getting kicked and sent back by William.
"Who are you? What are you?" Angelica asked the same question Edward asked, the same everyone else had in their minds.
"I'm a human master," William cancelled his transformation, returning to look like a harmless teenager again, "kill him and then let's talk."
"Take him down," Angelica seemed to lose any interest in Edward, and just let one of her entourage do the task, "let's speak while walking. This valley is filled with ferocious monsters, and we need to run fast before we get surrounded."
William wanted to tell her that even if a dark gold monster came, he'd be able to stop it. Yet he wanted to learn more about this world from her, so he let her lead him and others away, getting out from the valley through a different point than what he came from initially.
William could tell Angelica and others were adept at the region. They led him through a maze of passageways through many hills, ending up at an open place, filled with nothing but weird glistering pearl-like stones.
"What is this place?" William already explained in simple words his origins to her. He didn't need to lie about this, as it was pointless. He used his spirit here, and from her words and reactions, he could tell people of this world couldn't use their spirits, the same as Park and his people.
She didn't show the same reaction and surprise he expected to see. From her, he knew the place that he came from was famous in this world.
This place wasn't the only one in the world, but there were five other places, lying in between six grand continents. According to her, he learnt that this world wasn't as he guessed before, not one that would get linked with others.
By her words, this world was carnivorous for other worlds. And that meant it was eating up worlds, swallowing the ones who got destroyed, adding what remained here.
This was a new thing for William to know. And as she explained further, he learnt that all of the masters and monsters here already came from tons of destroyed tiny worlds.
This world would link itself not only to many worlds, but all the worlds that existed in the universe. This meant it was just lying dormant, waiting for any world to reach its apocalyptic moment, and then it'd swallow what remained and add it here.
But there was a catch. Whoever arrived here would start over from scratch, without any spirit power at all. In addition to that, many limitations existed, just like how they were unable to activate their spirit bodies or use techniques and such.
All this was new and quite surprising to William. He thought this world was like a transitional stage before arriving to the outer world. The idea of this world being a trashcan for the destroyed worlds never crossed his mind.
As he heard more stories from her, he learnt the current situation of the world. Edward was lying, the dark masters weren't controlling anything in the world but a single continent, the one William was in right now.
According to Angelica, the dark masters weren't any less in numbers or forces in the entire world. And they kept doing the same shitty stuff as they used to in the destroyed worlds before coming here.
Their main target was to take down this world as well, something that seemed a bit impossible to achieve.
"In this world, spirit power is quite high and that ends up with many things happening like this place," she motioned around before gathering another ball of spirit power, and then released it without adding anything else.
The ball moved fast and landed on the ground. The moment it touched the pearls there, it vanished. And then a scary explosion erupted, one that wasn't any weaker than a full out attack from William's technique.
"These pearls… They are filled with explosive power," William's eyes shone, and Angelica got what he wanted to do.
"Don't," she shook her head, in a firm way, "just any touch and they'll explode."
"Let me try," William didn't want to leave behind such a useful tool without trying. Yet what happened next was quite expected.
"I wasn't lying," despite trying to not laugh, she still did. William touched one pearl and ended up detonating lots of pearls as a result.
He did so while being in his mixed fox and snake form. It seemed like in his spirit body form; he released lots of spirit power that stimulated many pearls. He got thrown in the air, landing on his back, while his body was covered in flames.
He didn't suffer much harm actually, not just for his spirit body, but also thanks to a healing elixir.
"I know," William stood up, put down the fire before adding, "it's just regrettable not being able to take these babies home."
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