They were partially right! The moment they used such techniques, the dark master leaders panicked and felt great threats. It wasn't because many of the scary monsters had gotten killed or wounded during just this wave of attack, but because this attack came at the same time as William's retreat.
All of sudden, everything they thought so far was wrong. These masters didn't come here to infiltrate the zone, but to send that gold master to do these weird things. And now they were going all out to help him escape.
Yet when they thought about their options and put aside sending any of them out there to stop William or the other masters, they realised they had nothing to do to stop anyone!
The high-end monsters were already fighting against Sloth and his team for many days now. They were close to the edge of the Black Holes zone, but that wasn't considered an advantage at all.
If they tried to send a few to kill William, they'd get stopped by the terrifying masters. They only got normal monsters to send out there, and frankly they held zero confidence in their success.
Their doubts turned out to be right! When William met with the weak monsters, he didn't hold himself back anymore, used everything in his power, and started a massacre out there.
He might be surrounded, but he was totally safe. There wasn't a single monster that could threaten him, with the strongest out there being just at early-stage dark gold grade.
William let his weapons take care of the weak monsters, while he stacked his attacks, waiting for any strong and challenging foe to appear. Once he spotted any, he'd simply dash towards it, release his attack, killing that monster in just one blow!
After a few hours of this, the dark master leaders knew they wouldn't stop either William or other masters. They tried to move the fastest high-end monsters towards William's direction, but Sloth and others were attentive to such a point.
The moment a single monster would distance itself away, few masters would detach from the group, take it down, before coming back. And if they met with strong resistance, they'd succeed in stopping these monsters, enough for others to catch up and take care of them.
No matter how the dark masters tried, they failed. "Shall we go out and take care of them?" one of them asked, but others shook their heads or looked at him in doubt.
They held a scary amount of power, but just like how Wiliam guessed before, they were all cowards.
"We have the holes he dug before," one of them suddenly said, with eyes gleaming with excitement, "we can go there and ruin whatever he did!"
"No, we won't go," another rejected the idea, partially, out of fear, "who knows what these troublesome masters are scheming! Not to mention there are tons of these deadly ores in these holes."
"Let's send the weak and useless ones then," a third suggested, "even if they died, they won't be a loss to us. And if they have any hidden trap laid there, we'll sniff it from faraway."
They thought it was easy to do this, but William already thought about such a possibility before leaving. That was why he surrounded the entire area with holes that weren't filled with vibrant ores alone, but with grenades as well!
These dark leaders would realise how bad the situation over there was when they early batch of their forces would touch these mines. Seeing the deadly explosions taking away lots of the dark masters made these leader's eye corners twitch.
They knew they could have survived such an attack, but they'd also get slight damage in return. And they wouldn't put their lives at risk. As their earlier doubts proved right, they removed any speck of idea about going there and ruined that formation.
"What can the vibrant ores do anyway? Our formation is grand and strong!"
"And it came from the outer world on top of that!"
"We are safe, nothing will happen…"
Even if they kept praying like this, they were going to get the shock of their lives when William would activate this formation.
"You are insane! Do you know that?!!"
After long hours, William finally met with Sloth and others. When they got close enough to detect them using his spirit sense, he was totally shocked. It never crossed his mind that there were such many masters, high end ones on top of that, coming here to help him.
But when he realised this, he knew everything made perfect sense. That explained how they survived for all this long in the middle of the monster army without getting crushed.
And he was truly appreciating everything they did for him. He didn't know any of them, only saw them speak and interact with Sloth from far when the army was formed.
"It was something necessary," William shrugged, before cupping his hands and expressing his gratitude for the masters who came to his aid.
"When are you going to show us the results of all this?" one of these masters asked, expressing everyone's curiosity about the effect of these holes filled with vibrant ores on the course of the entire war.
"Are others ready yet?" William was also eager to activate the formation, not to see its effect, but to exert revenge on these monsters and dark masters standing behind them.
But without the readiness of the other formation, the one Sloth's team was doing right now, then everything would be pointless.
"They are done a couple of days ago," Sloth sized William up and down, "you are really something! You went all the way there, fought alone for many days, and came back without a single scratch over your body!"
"I got my healing elixirs," William took one bottle out, "now let's go. We need to find a place high enough to use."
"Use for what?" Everyone was looking at William the same way they looked before at Sloth.
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