At this point, just walking a kilometre took close to half an hour, with William spending lots of his spirit power and using his technique frequently to crush these rocks.
He felt like he was digging a path against an entire ocean. The more he removed these rocks, the more that appeared thanks to the explosions that happened from his attacks.
Everything was pointing towards him getting closer to the core. But that wasn't what he wanted right now. "I need to take a tour around, heading directly towards the monsters without excalibur won't do me any good…"
He started to change his direction. Instead of walking towards the origin of this gravity, he started to take circular routes, moving around himself for hours, without finding a single corpse of these monsters.
"Hmm… They aren't anywhere I can find, at least in such depth…" he finally noticed something different, something he missed amidst everything he thought about.
These monsters were known to be sneaky and opportunistic, but they lived mainly underground. They'd only appear when their target would be in their weakest moments. And that meant if he wanted to find any carcase of them, he needed to dig deeper.
"Stop, dig deeper, dig a grand hole here!" William suddenly called off the ongoing digging process horizontally, turning it into a vertical operation. As his two monstrous weapons were busy doing this, he had to shift turns and start to defend them against everything else.
Be it the falling rocks, the crazy amount of lava gushing out from the ground, or the rocks that would suddenly appear out of nowhere, coming towards him without warning, he started to shield these by himself.
He used his flying weapons, his techniques, his elements, everything he got to protect his two weapons. At the same time, a grand hole appeared in the place they were digging, as a bottomless pit.
William couldn't join them to check what they found. So he spread his spirit sense to watch and detect any carcass they might stumble across. And soon enough, this plan worked!
In less than two hours of digging, the hole reached hundreds of metres in depth. And there at the bottom, William finally saw something that he craved for.
Many carcases of the monsters he killed were scattered across the bottom of this pit. Seeing this made him feel like he saw water after walking in the desert for long days.
"Come here, stop these and don't move away," William called for his two weapons, even recalling them back to form two amazing pieces of gears before releasing them again. He entrusted defending him to his two monstrous weapons, didn't look back and jumped directly towards his pit.
He used his tails and weapons to jump down like an agile monkey. He kept descending down fast, until he finally landed on the ground. The moment he arrived there, he started to crazily dig the ground, getting out the dead bodies of these monsters.
Each monster was now lying peacefully on the ground, motionless, without any sign of life. He was vigilant at first, in case any remaining living monsters tried to take a bite of him or anything. But with time passing, he knew he was just over worrying as nothing happened.
After digging for an hour or so, he finally got out lots of carcases, enough to start his plan.
"Time to put an end to this," William decided to fight this natural gravitational tyrannical force with a much fiercer force of nature, fate and destiny!
He already learnt the right way to use the Mystic Arts, got to learn tons of these arts, enough to give him confidence in starting this battle and winning it.
"Let's see what the fate and destiny of this world is like…" he cut open the carcasses of endless monsters, taking many viable organs that didn't rot or get ruined yet, scattering them around him in some sort of an array. He followed the instructions he read before literally, didn't add or modify anything.
Then he sat in the middle, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, feeling weirdly excited in such a situation. This was his first time ever to perform such Mystic Art, something that he craved to do since the first moment he learnt about the presence of such mysterious arts in the first place.
William was truly excited about this, despite not knowing what this would end up with, nor where he'd get led towards. According to what he read, every person had his own realm of fate and destiny. And he didn't know if the world he visited before was his, or just a collaboration of others who helped him access that mysterious realm in the first place.
He closed his eyes and started to activate the array using his spirit power. He had to cancel his spirit body for the process to succeed, or else nothing would happen.
The moment he released his spirit power, activating the array, he felt like the entire world around started to change. He was sucked towards a new place, a world that looked like a piece of cosmos.
"It's the same place…" he recognised the world he appeared in as it was the same as the one he appeared in before. There were lots of wheels around, moving and rotating, in different shapes and sizes.
William didn't waste any time, as he didn't know for how long his spirit power would permit him to remain here. So he instantly thought about the thing he wanted to see: its fate and destiny, the world he was currently in.
He knew trying to spy over something or something backed up by fate and destiny was going to issue a severe backlash against anyone. But he felt like this world's fate and destiny had already gotten tempered and altered. And that meant there wouldn't be such severe backlash like how it should normally be.
As he thought about this world, a scene that made him freeze in place happened.
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