His words, and the lots of words William's friends and team said made everyone here believe more in their chances to survive.
"Let's buy him enough time then. He said he'll take ten days to come here, and that's not including the time for him to travel inside the entire grand zone to find us, not including finding a way to stop this natural disaster and save us," Sloth paused, took a deep breath before adding, "anyone who can help in digging this damn tunnel deeper, strengthen it as much as we can, please help. We need to fight for every damn second until his arrival, fight for our lives, do you hear me?"
His words invoked fire over the fuel that soaked them after hearing about William's promise to come. They started to work together, all using different methods to deepen and strengthen this tunnel.
Anyone with any fierce technique started to go forward, attacking the ground as if they were hitting their deadliest and most hated enemy. As for those who couldn't do this, they started to take out tons of materials, lay down arrays to strengthen and fortify the tunnel, buying them more time in their hectic run.
As they fought for their lives desperately against forces of nature and disasters, William embarked on his return journey. He wasn't walking alone, not with a small force like he expected.
Every single city's masters who arrived here sent the news back. And the result was as this city's leader's guesses. They didn't say no to such an offer and chance, sent almost half to their forces in this city with William.
The city sent an army of thousands of masters alone, all were in top grade of power in the city. The force alone was enough to enter a war against any monster tide and win without suffering lots of damage.
William moved with everyone, heading back towards the direction he left his friends at. His return journey wasn't as stressful nor hard as he experienced with Angelica when he came here. And when five days passed, he realised how vast distance the Hot Snow world carried him through, saving him tons of time and trouble.
Angelica decided to stay behind in the city, as William refused to bring her with him. He was going to come back and intended to bring her towards his tiny world.
At the same time, he asked her to do something for him, a simple task that she willingly agreed to do. It was to go around the city, look for any masters without support, masters without backing of a big family, or even wandering lonely masters, and recruit them!
He didn't yet decide to take them with him back to the tiny world or leave them here and establish a branch for his guild. If he wanted to establish a branch, he had to leave a few of his friends and Black Tails team behind to rule over things.
William knew he'd establish a guild branch here sooner or later, but the idea of leaving few behind didn't appeal to him. He didn't want to force anyone, so he decided after thinking for days about this matter to just speak with his team and friends later on and let them decide.
As he got such a sizable force, a grand army of formidable masters, they passed through any place without hindrance. No monster succeeded in even slowing them down. And if there were lots of monsters detected up front, they sent detachments to deal with them, weaken their numbers before the main army arrived and dealt the last blow.
William admired how this grand army performed. And the most impressive thing was the fact that it wasn't led by just one person, but many.
"It seems the essence and knowledge of advanced warfare is common in this world… Impressive!" He liked how they acted, reminding him of how the grand armies and forces in the outer world behaved.
The ten days period he told Sloth about was just a rough estimate based on what he learnt. He asked Angelica about her estimate of the time if they walked fast, and she gave a casual answer.
They took less than four days to reach that zone. William was surprised by such speed and couldn't help but inwardly sigh by his lacking power and speed.
Yet the moment he arrived there, a scary and gruesome scene of the world ending welcomed his and others' eyes.
"What the heck is going on here?!!!"
"Is that… Part of our world?!!!"
"Is our world ending?!!!"
The responses of everyone weren't any different than what William had. In fact, the moment he saw this out of this world scene playing in front of his eyes, he recalled something he totally forgot.
"This world… Damn! It's really collapsing on itself!!!" He already felt this in a glimpse when he was dragged here. And seeing all this made him realise such hunch wasn't false, and this world was crushing on itself.
Masters here seemed to not experience such a thing before, but William did, and on multiple occasions as well. The situation in the outer world was so intense that any force would try anything in their power to weaken their enemies. And one of the most famous and deadliest ways was to crush down any pocket world the other force had.
The sight of destruction happening all over the entire zone told William this world was going on the route of destruction. And his thoughts focused over a single figure who would be behind all this; the nine tailed fox!
"Screw that motherf*cker! I promise it won't have it as it dreamed…" William knew this wasn't the end of the world, not yet. The destruction was just limited to this zone, without affecting the world around.
They were standing just outside the area of damage, where the world was peaceful and flourishing with life and activity. Just a thin line separated this lively world from the deadly one inside that zone.
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