William's last warning made them recall how hectic their lives were since the world started to fall apart. And it seemed they were going to suffer the same fate. Yet this time they had to stand their ground, defend the arrays they built, and protect the masters who were going to train.
According to William's instructions, at least one hundred masters should train to activate the array. That meant in each group, a few hundred would be left to guard this group of a hundred, protecting them like they were protecting their own lives and close family members.
Everyone got what they had to do, yet they didn't get what this would do to make them survive. The strongest masters tried to spread out their senses, trying to see what was going on up there but failed.
Every single time they tried, they ended up getting their senses crushed by brute force, ending up with a backlash. After many attempts, they dropped the idea of trying to see what was going on up there and trusted what William planned.
As they all started to move away, only William remained behind. He sent them to five different directions called: The Axis points. These five axis points were the main pillars of any Black Tower, the only chance they got to take it down.
But alone it wasn't sufficient. After all, the Black Tower was already in the process of getting formed. If he didn't do his part, this Black Tower would keep growing, slowly, but eventually it'd be completed.
This attempt would buy them a year or two at most but wouldn't save their lives in the end. They wouldn't be able to get out of here, no matter how hard they tried.
Without what he was going to do, there was no hope. So as they moved away, he also started travelling, heading towards the core of the tower.
Every Black Tower was a massive building of black rocks, formed by the force of nature. Insane gravity was the start, to reform the entire zone and reshape it, make the tower and its associated platform.
The five teams' task was to handle the platform, as for his task, it was to handle the tower itself.
These towers were built over cores, something like the beating hearts of any human or a monster. Unlike the beating hearts of flesh, this one was formed of the hardest ores, formed either in globular or stellar shapes.
William knew according to the shape of the core; the grade of the tower was decided. After rebuilding the new world and destroying the old one, these cores would be left behind, as monuments of the presence and work of the Black Towers. Then more rocks would gather up, and a grand series of mountains would be formed.
The strongest and deadliest trait of these cores was a single element, gravity! This was the first thing to get formed in this world, the first sign that appeared before the tower got in shape and the platform was built.
William knew the amount of gravity he was going to face was insane, yet it wasn't that impossible to overcome. Thinking about using spirit power to directly clash against it was futile and hopeless. And William knew of the right way to do it.
"These little monsters can detect when any living being is going to die, and that means they have part of fate related elements in their spirits…"
He muttered while heading towards the direction of the core. He knew there weren't any monsters around for long kilometres. Previously he thought this was thanks for their approach from the scary and terrifying being that scared them away. But now he realised this wasn't the case.
The gravitational core of the Black Tower must have dragged all of the monsters in the region close to it, ending up killing them. William didn't need to kill these monsters directly, and so the core helped and saved him a great deal of trouble this time.
As he advanced forward, he had to only resist the natural forces coming from outside. He knew this wasn't a gravitational force, but a domineering crushing one. So he simply used his technique from time to time, evading the falling rocks and lava that kept erupting from the ground.
He left the task to dig the tunnel to his two monstrous weapons, while leaving any task to defend himself from any falling rocks to his flying weapons.
As for him, he kept thinking about his next move. He was going to face a scary force of nature. This wasn't a trick used by any master or monster, but it was the source that everyone took a glimpse from and used for their sake.
He knew how hard it was to fight nature, as nature was usually unstoppable. It was like a tyrant, a god who ruled over everyone, and he was just a mere mortal trying to resist and fight against it.
If he was going to do so, he had to use another mighty force of nature to his aid. And he just had the right force to change everything related to this Black Tower.
"I'm drawing near," just after running for half a day, he finally reached a place where he noticed weird fluctuations in the air. The dancing specks of dust that kept swirling around without any stir or interference of anything or anyone.
Seeing this told William that gravity was starting to get affected. The gravity of this world was getting affected, and that was thanks to the core. "Let me hope to find these carcasses away from the core, enough to start what I want to do."
He kept moving forward for a few hours. The more he advanced, the more weird things he spotted. The dust that started to swirl in the air turned to rocks the size of one's hand. And walking began to look like fighting a brutal war, one against the entire world!
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