After a few hours, he noticed that the grenades thrown out by the two monstrous weapons weren't creating any safer spots. So, he started to rain down the ground with his explosive arrows and grenades every time he got time to.
He made sure to create a few landing spots, as he wasn't sure of where he'd land under the fierce pursuit of the flying monsters. Yet what he did greatly decreased the pressure over his two monstrous weapons, letting them fight more freely and kill more monsters than before.
William was feeling the pressure since the moment he started doing this. He was fighting a hectic battle in the air, while controlling his two monstrous weapons to kill monsters on the ground. Not to mention he had to timely detonate the grenades, to not let any of them be missed, or he'd move away from their detection range.
Jumping to the air, fighting flying Hornets, ending up landing on the ground at a safe zone, William kept doing this for long hours, even days!
The distance that separated him from the innermost region wasn't that vast to begin with. He could have crossed it in less than half a day. But he had to spend more than three days thanks to all the pressure and challenges he faced.
The greatest challenge he met was the grenades. They ran low when he started to see the inner zone shadow.
That zone was exactly as described in the maps. There was a seemingly endless gathering of thick and opaque dark green fog, taking the form of a colossal ball, stretching out for tens of kilometres, linking the ground with the sky.
Just seeing it from afar made William feel an awe. There were thick tongues of lightning dancing all over it, making it look like a grand green thunderstorm.
As he started to see it from far, William ran a rough check over his grenades and arrows. Luckily, he amassed tons of arrows during the past five years. Yet the grenades were a big problem for him.
"I used more than expected in both frontiers," he muttered to himself, while knowing this was a situation that couldn't be evaded.
He knew deep within that mysterious zone, everything was possible. So, he had to enter there fully prepared, armed up with enough grenades to fight a war for a month or more.
He didn't hurry to make more grenades and kept pushing forward for twelve hours. After which he stopped just next to the edge of the inner zone, safeguarding himself inside a wide safe area.
Then he started to madly produce grenades, without caring about how much time he spent in doing this.
The masters following him already lost track of his sight a long time ago. They kept watching him rise high in the air, descend while lightening up the sky with lots of explosions like fireworks on Christmas eve.
"Where did he go?"
"Is he…"
"No way! He is so mysterious and surprising to die this young!"
"You know the saying; early bloomers explode early."
Just as William went off radar for a day, the masters who were now resting inside the safe zones of his started to grow worried about him.
They grew attached to him without realising it, without even directly interacting with him. Just following him throughout this journey, coming this far, watching what he did, was truly a deep experience for all of them.
"Let's gather up and advance then," as they waited for two more days without seeing even a shadow of William, they decided to take the risk and go forward.
Yet it wasn't that easy to go forward. If not for the many safe zones William spread randomly all over the place with the help of his two monstrous weapons, they'd have lost more of their members without advancing too much forward.
They spent five days crossing the remaining distance towards the inner zone. It was expected to take this long, and yet they didn't see a glimpse of William.
"This kid…"
"Damn! How can he be so calm in such a situation? Surrounded by all these enemies?"
Many exclaimed in surprise and doubt the moment their senses picked up William's trail. They found him working like crazy, filling up hundreds of ovens with tons of ores, before starting to madly hammer the melted ores down.
"He is making grenades?!!!"
"Didn't you make lots of them already? Why make them again?!!!"
Seeing him work like this revived the old scenes they witnessed when he worked to make grenades. Yet this time was a bit different, totally different, as William was working using his full might, using his two tails and even galloping potions like water.
William was too focused to notice their approach. And even if he did, he wouldn't even care. He was now focusing totally on producing as much of these grenades as possible.
He got the feeling that the moment he'd go into that gigantic dark green thunderstorm cloud, he'd not have the time to even scratch the back of his head.
After spending two weeks in preparations, William finally stopped what he was doing. He didn't just make grenades, but also tried to break the seal on his spirit many times without succeeding.
"At least I'm feeling it getting weaker with every time I use these arrays," he muttered to himself, while checking that brightly shining seal on his chest.
It wasn't pulsating like before, but constantly shining like a little star. Before he used his breaking arrays, the light kept pulsating once every few seconds. It gave him a bad feeling, as if he was a bomb, and he was about to explode.
In addition to this, he also prepared the two monstrous weapons he got, making them combat ready.
"I want to see what lies beyond all this," William started to walk under the watching gazes of masters, while the latter feeling conflicted about watching him go.
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