The work thousands of masters were collaborating together to do was done by him. Realising this made her eyes turn sour, with red veins appearing there as she resisted the urge to cry.
She was happy, but she was feeling bad for him at the same time. Her tears would have flown if she was just with him, if she was alone, not surrounded by all these people around.
As he kept reassuring her by his voice, she relayed part of what he said to others. The thought that he was drawing closer to them pumped more adrenaline in their bodies, making them exert more effort, showing a performance none of them ever thought they could do before.
Everyone was fighting for their lives, fighting hard including William, including the masters at the outside. The army of masters were having tough times as well. They weren't fighting against natural forces and monsters, but they were struggling under the insane number of monsters that suddenly appeared in the past few hours.
It happened the moment William moved towards that hellish zone. It felt like this was a trigger, one that opened the gates of hell over the masters' faces.
The number of monsters they were fighting before was quite huge at first. But now, it has turned scary. The masters out there started to feel the same despair as the ones inside, praying that reinforcements would arrive sooner than later, before they'd all lose their lives and fall here.
As things grew to such an extent, the leaders of this grand army instantly responded. They rearranged their army lines, gathering up everyone into a colossal circular gathering. They left the strong ones at the outside, helped by lots of weaker masters. They did that to let part of the army rest in the middle, protected by those outside, replenish their lost spirit power and recuperate, before joining the massacre again.
This helped in reducing lots of pressure over them. Even if they were facing endless monsters, they were just dealing with the ones coming at them in batches. Using this tactic, they turned the absolute advantage of monsters into nothing of much use, buying themselves lots of time in doing so.
A really colossal army was marching fast towards them from different directions and distances. Yet the closest one would take roughly a day to arrive. The leaders were already in touch with others far away and learnt about the time of the army's arrival.
This helped in reducing more pressure off everyone's shoulders when those masters spread the news. As things were getting heated up and then stabilised out there, William finally barged his way into the other tunnel his team and other masters were digging.
"William!"
This shout didn't come just from Berry, not only from Lara, not just from other girls in his team, but from everyone, literally everyone.
The moment he forced his way into their tunnel, they all stopped what they were doing, before William's friends all jumped towards him.
The girls finally released all the stress and agony they felt all this time and cried. William was literally buried underneath his girls, getting surrounded by everyone.
"No time for this, let's speak later," William instantly reacted, controlling his flying weapons and monstrous ones to go and intercept the monsters coming from the ground.
These monsters wouldn't give them any moment to celebrate their union. The moment he spoke and acted, everyone returned to their norm, acting with more courage and defiance, looking at the monsters around as if they were nothing.
"Any idea about how to go out?" Sloth asked, and William simply shrugged.
"I came here from outside, why won't we dig a tunnel there?"
"We tried, but it didn't work," Sloth sighed. He knew William was a kid full of surprises, but he wasn't a god to change their outcome this easily. Sloth was sure William came here as fast as he could, without having any time to think about how to get out of here safely.
"If so, then we should head back, head towards the centre of this place," William never thought going out from here would be a problem. According to Sloth, they tried everything, even trying to go at the edge, send a few out, trying to cross the separation zone.
But it seemed like something was blocking them from going out. And that only meant that this disaster wasn't as simple as it might seem.
"Go back… Where?!!" Sloth got what William meant but couldn't believe his ears. So, he asked to double check, and with William's next words, the old man couldn't help but sigh.
"We struggled all this time to come here, and you want us to go back there?" another master asked, one who got rescued once by William from the entrapped bubble over the back of a floating monster.
"If there is no way out, then no way will appear until we solve this mystery first," William rolled his eyes, knowing that he wouldn't be able to explain such a thing to them as it stemmed out from his vast experience and instincts.
"Let's do as he says," in such a stressful moment, Sloth stood by William's side, he came all the way here, risked his life to save us. He came from outside, ending up entrapped in this forsaken place, putting his life on the line for our sake…"
His words landed, and everyone didn't object anymore. He got a point indeed, not to mention part of this group belonged to William's guild, and the others were the ones he previously saved.
"Do you know where the heart of this place is?" William looked around, and all he could see was a long tunnel with lots of dead bodies, blazing flames, and nothing else.
"Wait a minute," Sloth expanded his spirit sense outwards, ending up getting damaged and crushed in a few seconds. He coughed twice, bringing out a few droplets of his blood on his palm every time he did that.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢