"Who?" Ro didn't know what went wrong with Sara, and at such a moment, she'd never guess what she was talking about. Not until Sara raised William's Message Paper in her hand, raised it quite high, as if she just won a marathon, as if she was showing off with her hard-earned personal trophy.
"Hey! Hey! William, William, are you there? Can you hear me?"
The moment she shouted these words, and the entire world froze again. Everyone turned to her, looking at her as if they were looking at a legend coming true, a dream turning real.
"He just spoke to me, just now…" she tried to get any response from William, but his voice was interrupted and messy, his tone was low, and she hardly got anything from it.
"Keep speaking!" Just when she was about to get depressed and frustrated, Ibra suddenly shouted, "he can locate us as long as you speak. Keep speaking, and let's work together and protect her."
The other girls in the team looked in envy towards Sara. They all got William's Message Papers, but none ever thought to use the same method to speak with him. Even if they could replicate what she did, they didn't do it. They knew one speaking with William was enough, and they had to keep her safe until he'd find them.
The entire group of masters pushed themselves against their limits. And as they did, Sara kept moving in the middle, totally safe and protected from any harm.
William kept hearing her voice, going weak at some point, getting clearer at another. Yet there was something that puzzled him. Whenever he found the right direction to head towards, he ended up hearing her voice shaky and weak again.
"Damn! They are moving!" he jumped to such a conclusion after a few minutes of deep thinking, "I can't tell them to stop…" he moved his eyes around, watching how he was in a very bad situation, one that they must be facing as well.
"This won't do… I need to pick up speed, going faster than them…" he was busy trying to locate where they were, while fighting off monsters using his fiery techniques. Yet this wasn't the time to waste his effort on doing this.
He knew this was going to end up bad, but he had no other choice but to do it. He took out one of his arrows, placed one of his modified grenades there, then threw the two towards the rear of the tunnel his two monstrous weapons were digging.
Before doing this, he stacked lots of his attacks before releasing them after sending the arrow away. His technique landed and created a deeper hole, one that exploded with lots of fire spreading all around.
He left the fire to deal with the monsters while shielding himself and the other two weapons on his side with his flying weapons. He got little hurt, but he knew more hurt would come the moment the arrow and grenade would detonate.
And he was right! Just a few seconds later, and as he started to join forces with his two monstrous weapons, using his earth techniques to dig the tunnel faster, a mighty explosion occurred, lightening up the entire tunnel, turning it bright.
William knew this was just the beginning. The explosion erupted, and a copious amount of fire got released, filling the entire tunnel, moving like an unstoppable flood towards him and monsters.
"Not this easy!" William waited until the tsunami of fire got closer, before releasing the few stacked attacks of his at the fire. The two forces collided, ending up with a much fiercer wave of explosion.
This one was violent enough to show up long cracks at the walls and sides of this tunnel. Yet as he left the two monstrous weapons to do their digging, there was another space for him to take shields at. William kept retreating, while releasing his attacks every ten seconds. The fire waves kept coming at him every time they crushed his technique's might.
He wasn't hoping to kill the fire, but to control its advance. In addition to that, he was using the heat produced by all this fire to melt the rocks up ahead, making it easier for his two monstrous weapons to do their task.
The heat did indeed affect the normal rocks, making his advancing speed much faster. And yet he felt like the entire tunnel was on the verge of collapsing. So, he started to form pillars of thick rocks to support the tunnel, something that kept the tunnel standing erect long enough.
These tunnels wouldn't survive that long in the middle of the sea of fire assaulting him. Yet as long as he was moving faster than before, he was quite satisfied.
Soon enough the results of his gambling move started to show up. Sara's voice started to grow clearer the more he advanced. Her voice kept growing weaker from time to time, but that didn't happen frequently like before.
One hour passed, three hours passed, ten hours passed… He kept moving underground following this tactic and pattern. Every time the fire was about to die, he took out another arrow and grenade, releasing both towards the distant end of the tunnel.
From time to time, he'd hear rumbling noises coming from far behind. It was a sign that the tunnel was crushing down. Yet as long as this didn't happen over his head, he didn't care.
He kept advancing for hours, while his team and others kept fighting for their lives, buying themselves every single second with great effort, pain, and struggle.
William kept hearing Sara's voice clearly, and she also heard him perfectly fine. He kept sending good news one after another, telling her that he was drawing closer.
She also heard the violent and loud explosive sounds that erupted all over the place around him. She could tell without the need to witness what he was doing that he was suffering from the same pressure, all alone, all by himself.
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