William intended to do so, in case of everyone else coming at him, not just one enemy.
As he already spotted where the attack was coming from, he was able to perfectly evade it. Yet all he did was to take out a sword, moving in a sluggish way to the side, ending up clashing with the incoming enemy, blocking most of the attack, ending up suffering a little wound at his flank.
It wasn't that deep, but William added a last touch of making his body struggle to stabilise himself for a few moments, before he finally leant on one knee.
He planted the sword in the ground, supported himself against it with one hand, while holding the wound he suffered with the other one. "I swear to kill you!" he coldly said, in a threatening way that didn't carry any weight.
"Hahahaha! Just try and stand up straight, you moron, hahahaha!" seeing this made the leader of the dark master group laugh wholeheartedly, mocking William.
It was clear the latter got affected by their illusion at the end. Even if he didn't sleep, he wasn't in the form to battle anyone at the moment.
"That's why you never moved a finger away from her side! And here I am, thinking wrongly that you wanted to protect her, hahahaha! You can't even walk properly, idiot! Let's go, we'll kill him fast and then kill everyone later on…"
This was their aim from the start. William couldn't tell if such a thing happened at other places or was this just something prepared for him.
As he dwindled about the answer, the leader weirdly said everything as if he was speaking with his best friend or something.
"We will finish here boys, then go around and do the same to other foolish masters. Masters celebrating their victory before the battle would even start? Hahahaha! I never heard of such fools before, hahahaha!"
"..."
William couldn't help but try his best not to laugh. This leader was acting funny, spilling all the beans without a single slap on his face!
He kept himself in such a posture, even tried to stand up to end up failing and falling again on one knee.
"Don't struggle, kiddo, this won't take long," the leader's voice came closer from him, and William could already hear subtle sounds from their haste approach.
He could count a number of one hundred running at him. He didn't know if these were everyone in the dark master's team or there were still others who didn't show themselves yet.
He didn't care about the ones who might or might not be here and focused mainly over the ones approaching him. He used his spirit sense to track and follow these one hundred dark masters, guided by hearing their subtle moves.
They were a few hundreds of metres away from him up to one kilometre away. He had to be patient for the far distanced masters to draw closer, so he'd be able to hunt down as many of them as possible.
If he had the means to do it, he'd first target the ones who started all this, the ones with music elements. But he had no way to tell, so he planned to attack them using his full power.
"Die!" In the next few minutes, the hundred groups of dark masters drew closer to him, and five were already less than ten metres away. One shouted before others flashed towards him, acting like black bolts of lightning.
As things reached this point, William didn't need to keep faking it anymore. The moment they flashed towards him, he also started to attack them.
The first thing he did wasn't to activate his spirit body, but to release his two monstrous weapons. "Leave none alive!" he muttered in a deep tone, before his body grew up fast, and many weapons came out from his ring.
"Watch out!"
"He was faking it!!"
Just as he did this, the ones far away shouted to warn their comrades at the forefront. But it was already too late, not only for those close to him, but to others around as well.
William didn't hesitate to use his newly developed technique. It was one that would release explosive attacks along the course of his dash, ending up releasing tons of damage at a grand area.
From the first moment he realised this was a trap, he knew he wouldn't be able to save everyone. The attacks he released were enough to claim the lives of many in their sleep. If they were awake, then they'd have a chance to evade his approach. But this wasn't an option now.
As for trying to save them one by one, he wasn't that free or caring to suffer such trouble in the first place. His aim was to get all of these dark masters, killing them before they'd hurt him.
The moment he dashed forward, releasing his mighty attack, he worked his flying weapons, letting them head towards a different direction. He was now at the high stage of gold grade, able to control hundreds of them. Not to mention the distance of his control expanded by a large chunk.
He just took out three hundred flying weapons, letting them float and move around, claiming the lives of any dark master nearby. He didn't take more as this would place more pressure over him, not to mention this would decrease the distance of controlling these weapons by a lot.
His two monstrous weapons went in one direction, his flying weapons attacked another, and he moved to a third spot. His attacks came swift and deadly, killing many of the dark masters even before they'd got the time to retaliate.
All of the weapons he was using were dark gold grade, enough to claim the lives of the early-stage dark gold masters. The ones who managed to survive the first brutal assault wave were those stronger than that. And those William took notice of.
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