"We should stop him!" One tried to rile others up, but William didn't give him the chance to do so. He didn't just walk, but dashed all of sudden forward, crossing the little distance between him and that green thunderstorm in mere breaths.
"He… Is gone!"
"I hope he'll be the first to come back."
"Me too!"
They had no other option but to wait at the edge of the inner zone and wait for William to come out. As they were inside the depths of such a dangerous zone, they got fierce attacks from monsters on the ground.
As for the flying hornets, they moved away the moment William vanished inside the inner zone. It was clear they came from the inner area, and they came out just for William.
The masters felt how weird this was, and yet they didn't have a say in that. In fact, many of them felt relieved when the swarms of these flying monsters turned around, and vanished inside the thunderstorm, following William. And such a sight was enough to make all of them worry to a further extent.
It was clear that the inner zone was filled with flying monsters, and that was truly bad news. Alongside the scary thunderstorm, the toxic fog, and the ground monsters in there, these masters could only imagine hell inside.
And the truth wasn't that far off their worst expectations.
The moment William passed into the thunderstorm; he was welcomed by a shower of lightning. He didn't expect such a thing, but there he felt like he was a blackhole, sucking all the dancing lightning from a huge area.
The lightning fell without any warning. All he saw was a bright flash of green light, so bright that it was this close from blinding him.
"Damn!" He was expecting oceans of monsters and huge swamps inside, not lightning. Yet the moment he saw the green flash of light, he didn't hesitate and started to dash forward.
He thought by changing his location, the lightning would mistake its target and fall on the empty ground. Yet this didn't happen. The lightning just curved and changed its trajectory, pursuing him in weird persistence.
"What's wrong with that damn lightning?!!" William dashed once, and the light still was blinding his eyes. He kept dashing forward, without having any time even to see what was going on around using his spirit sense.
He was in his two tails form, gulped an entire bottle of elixirs when the first dash failed. He knew that trying to fight back this kind of disaster was impossible, so he started to focus solely on running.
As the elixir supplied him with enough spirit power, he didn't care anymore and kept propelling himself forward in insane speed. He knew the lightning didn't catch up to him as he didn't feel any pain yet.
He leapt from one point to another a few hundred metres away, then jumped again and again. If anyone was watching this entire chase, then he'd be bewildered and petrified out of fear from the crazy scene that was happening right now.
At first, William attracted lightning from a huge area. But as he kept pushing himself forward at such insane speed, he started to attract lightning from faraway places.
The entire thunderstorm was looking like a bomb of lightning that was about to explode on top of William's head. Lightning started with thin arcs, joined together later on and became like scary pillars.
The chase continued on for hours, and William never paused. The moment he felt his spirit power was running low, he didn't hesitate to open another elixir bottle and emptied its content in his throat.
Right now, his spirit power was slightly above ten thousand points. This made the effect of elixirs much weaker than before. Gradually William lost his sense with time, with anything else, and kept just focusing on running as fast as he could.
He didn't notice the weird flare up of the seal on his chest, nor the weird chains that appeared all around his body after running for two hours straight.
He was right, there was something in the green fog he was running inside, something that stirred up his snake spirit, letting it start to go rampant.
As it wasn't the primary spirit of his, it started to affect the fox spirit. The combination effort of the two spirits ended up with tearing down the seal chains one by one, slowly breaking the seal.
The chains kept breaking until only one chain remained. William was absorbed in his hectic run, without noticing that this chain was surrounding his body like a belt, like it was holding his power back.
No matter how his two spirits worked together to bring this last chain down, they failed. Something was missing, and William never realised that what he was missing was the same thing he was running away from, the lightning!
*Roar!*
In the middle of all this, and just at the tenth hour, William heard a sound that made his heart clench. It was a very loud roar, one that would never come from a single monster but a huge group of them.
Hearing such a roar made his mind jolt awake. The moment he did, he noticed at once the strange chain that surrounded his body. And seeing this made him stumble in his actions for a second.
A single moment was all the lightning needed to catch up to him. William was about to curse when the entire world turned blindly green.
"Sh*t!" he didn't hesitate to push himself forward again, yet this time he wasn't able to get away from lightning. And just before he'd panic, he felt something weird.
"I don't feel any pain at all," he suddenly stopped running, stopped in his place and looked around. All he could see was shining bright green, nothing else. He couldn't see his body, but he felt nothing bad was happening to him from this lightning.
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