"Better than nothing," he spent a couple of days doing so, as most of the monsters were either buried under heavy rocks, or were thrown far away from here.
As he was the one to cause the falling rocks and that disaster back then, he was able to devour these cores. And yet he found many that he couldn't, guessing that these were the ones killed by Sloth and other masters when they were here.
"I should head to check one black hole then," William had nothing else to do. The masters were having a great time exerting their revenge, and so it was time for him to check his ticket back to his world.
He didn't intend to go back right away, not before he'd make sure the glory of this grand and epic victory would be appointed to his guild.
He first spoke with Sloth. He asked about the current status of the war, and told him about his intentions.
Sloth didn't belong to this world, and he was determined to come back with him. There were also the masters from this world who were going to join him.
He entrusted Sloth to inform everyone coming with him about his intentions. He'd go and scout the way first, and then he'd come back to take them away.
He decided to take Karoline with him, but he didn't have any Bullet to contact her with. So he asked Sloth to let her wait for him at the place where he made the formation at the Black Holes region from earlier.
As he arrived there, he found Karoline, and also three friends with her. There were Ibra, Sara, and Berry waiting for him.
"Why did you come?" William was surprised by their presence.
"We have nothing else to do."
"I was worried about you!"
"You let us join the war when it's over! It's quite boring, tsk!"
William got different responses from the three, as for Karoline, she just laughed and said she enjoyed their presence and invited them to come with her.
"Fine, but the place we are heading towards is pretty dangerous," William paused, and before he'd stress over this again, Ibra shrugged as he pointed his glaive to Karoline and said:
"Don't bother, she already explained everything in great detail."
"I bet," William rolled his eyes, didn't have any complaints about this. Karoline was known for her love to talk about everything in great detail. And luckily she explained this issue to people close to him, "let's go. We'll just scout and return back to wait for others to be ready."
"Why do I smell trouble then?" Sara chuckled, and her comment made Ibra and Berry laugh.
"This is our boss, he is a magnet to trouble, tsk!" Ibra said it as if he was regretting being on William's side or something.
"Don't jinx us with your foul mouth," William laughed, not taking what his friend said seriously or anything.
The small team of five moved towards the nearest black hole. Each hole was gigantic in size. They couldn't see anything through, and as they got closer, they started to feel the surge of gravity changing.
At some point, they could feel as if someone was dragging them inside, and at another they felt such force vanish to be replaced with normal gravity.
They gradually got used to this, especially others than William who spent lots of time fighting and traversing the entire zone. "Are you sure any hole can take us home?" as they approached one, Sara couldn't help but ask.
Berry was now walking literally in William's embrace, with her head over one shoulder. This wasn't the only weird thing here, as she did so when Karoline moved and leant her head against William's chest.
William knew, like others, how na?ve and pure Karoline was. But she was still a fiery young lady, one that would arouse the fire of jealousy in any girl close to William.
"I told you, all of these portals are like white sheets or paper," William looked at Karoline and Berry, feeling more unsettled with such a situation he found himself in, "let's just get inside and then find a way towards the portal hidden in there."
All the knowledge he got came from Karoline, and yet the latter seemed to enjoy being in his embrace, enjoying the warmth of his body, and didn't care or bother to answer any question at all.
"Get ready, we are going in!" Just as they became less than two hundred metres away from the black hole, William felt the sudden increase in the gravity attracting them inside, "if we got separated, don't panic. I'm going to find you right away."
*Fwoosh!*
Before anyone would say anything, the gravity force pulled them all inside, ending up for them to hear and see nothing but howling wind.
They speeded up, ending at a place that was massive in size. It took them a few minutes to cross the distance that'd take them hours to cross. The moment they landed there, they felt like every single cell in their body ached, as if they got beaten up with a gang of formidable masters.
"I never recall it was this bad before, ouch!" Karoline tried to stand up, ending up moaning in pain and landing again on the ground. She wasn't the only one feeling this terrible, everyone else was. But she was the only impatient one to try and stand up, ending in such a miserable state that invoked everyone's laughter.
And when they laughed, they felt immense pain that made Karoline laugh on them. The pain didn't go away when they used healing potions, or even elixirs.
"It's a direct blow to our spirit power," William recognised the core of the problem, "we need to train and rest for a day or so before we can move again."
"Tsk! You should have warned us against this, what a lousy boss we have!" Ibra shook his head, feeling pain assaulting him as if he just pricked his neck with needles.
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