In return for that, William would waste lots of time in return, and would produce a smaller number of grenades in the end.
Yet he used a few tricks and skills of hammering the melted ores, using all his might and boosting his speed with his lightning element. The task that'd usually take an hour or more to do was done in mere minutes.
He already expected that. So, he took out more ovens at first, and started melting down lots of ores, making use of all ovens all the time.
His spirit power was much higher than the last time he forged, and that was why he didn't feel tired as fast as before. At the same time, he wasn't that poor master, one without resources, potions, or elixirs. Whenever he felt his spirit power decreasing to a low level, he'd use a potion to raise it up.
As he got absorbed in doing this, two days passed. In the end, he made up tens of thousands of ball shaped items, each one was the size of one's closed fist.
They were silver-white in colour, with circular and irregular black lines covering its surface. William knew he just finished half of the task. "If I use simply ancient letters, the explosive nature will be around one tenth of the standard grenades I have. But if I used something extra, then…"
His thoughts drifted towards something different. What made Sith and his friends unique wasn't just their ability to forge strong and deadly grenades, but their ability to remotely control them.
This made it possible to lay down a minefield. He knew this was mainly thanks to their ability to do something similar to what he did with his flying weapons. And yet there was a difference between the two.
"They need to be close to the minefield to activate it, literally next to it. As for me, I can control my weapons for hundreds of metres, up to one thousand metres now. If I integrate this into my grenades, then I can throw them away like candies and detonate them when needed…"
He knew he made a lot of grenades, but taking into account the large area he was going to travel through, and the mysterious inner zone that no one knew anything about, he decided to take more time and make more grenades.
As he was making grenades for an entire week, he got a sudden inspiration on the third day. He had opposing spirit elements. If he managed to infuse them inside the grenades, then things would be much better.
He tried to infuse the elements in the middle of the forging process, but he failed. He knew he needed to spend more time and care in making every grenade, not just producing them in batches like he was doing in the past days.
"Let me try to infuse them at the end," he had to accept such failure and not try to pursue full mark success this time. He kept mass producing his grenades without pause for an entire week, surprising all the watching masters from far.
They already guessed what he was trying to make. Grenades were present in this world as well and got an infamous reputation thanks to their weak effects. That made grenades pretty useless in the eyes of masters of this world.
"He is wasting his time…"
"Shall we step in and help?"
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Masters watching what was going on felt more sympathy towards William. More wanted to go out there and stand by his side, but their leaders refused such a thing.
The leaders couldn't see what William was doing, but they didn't buy that such a special master would lean to such useless measures. In their eyes, William was up to something. And they wanted to see what it was.
So they prevented their people from showing up. At the same time, they asked them to be ready to go inside that fog after William, to try to see what he was doing.
The intel William got about the limitations of the fog to spirit sense was real, but the limitation range provided was for gold grade masters like him. As for dark gold grade, and ones at the pinnacle on top of that, the range would rise up to reach thousands of metres.
That might look helpful, but it wasn't. The spirit sense could only scan things over the surface of the dirty waters and swamps and couldn't see anything deep inside these places.
That meant they had more range of visibility, without being that much useful. The only use would be for detecting the locations of monsters when attacking members in their team, and that would let them go to these spots and kill these monsters.
Yet that great range of vision was enough to let them track William inside that fog without the latter even noticing their presence.
As for William, the moment he finished forging his grenades, he tried to infuse two opposing elements inside. But after many failed attempts, he knew this wasn't going to work.
"At least I can add to friendly elements together, adding a little more destructive power," he decided to infuse his light and lightning elements inside the grenades, not knowing how much difference this would end up with.
As he used two friendly elements, nothing happened, and each grenade accepted the infusion. To make things easier and swift for him, he decided to use a spirit power concentrating array, infuse his elements within, and let lots of grenades absorb them.
Doing so didn't just add these two elements, but high amounts of spirit power without him realising it. He spent three days doing this, before spending an entire week to write down the rune letters over these grenades.
He settled on using the letters with the most destructive nature, like Explode, Disintegrate, and Destroy.
"He is going inside!" After one more week passed, William gathered everything he made in his rings, switched the rings on his fingers to include the ones with these grenades, weapons, potions and elixirs.
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