After that William led all of them towards the portal area. He instructed them if they got separated, they had to keep walking in the opposite direction of where the gravity came from.
As he doubted, the grand army got separated into many areas. But thanks to his arrangement, they all ended up meeting at the portal area. "Wait for me here," William knew it was time to go and explore the portal area, "if I didn't show up in a day, go down and you'll find the portal ready."
He knew he might end up activating the portal before everyone would descend and join him. He left a few of his friends behind, to have someone to contact if he wanted to let them come down and join him.
He knew there wasn't a single danger down there from Karoline, and knew the right way to descend as well. It was a weird way, by just jumping off and falling over the central portal.
He didn't take much with him, just Berry, Lang, Lina, and a few others. He knew there was no danger, but he had to cross lots of distance at the end. To save time, he decided to bring a team of twenty masters he trusted and knew their abilities quite well.
"Are you sure we need to jump?" Lang expressed his doubts, and William simply shrugged.
"What's going to happen? Die from falling from such height? I hardly believe that" he laughed, "don't worry, we aren't going to die."
He was joking with them, and they were too familiar with their boss to realise that. Yet seeing such a grand distance they had to cross made everyone feel a little worried inside.
"Let's go," William took the lead, holding Berry and Karoline with both hands. He didn't need to activate his spirit body, and simply let himself fall down to the ground.
The moment he jumped, he felt the strong force coming from deep down the hole. It was a sort of mixed gravity force, one that'd pull them down in one instant, then push them away in the next second.
He didn't just jump like this based on Karoline's words. Before doing this, he changed into his fox and snake mixed spirit body, used his tails, stretching them over the edge of the hole, and experienced how gravity acted funny there.
Everyone jumped under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands. They were worried over the team failing, worried over this once in a lifetime chance to travel to another world, something that no one ever had in their lifetime before.
The distance to the bottom took much longer than anyone expected. They spent more time thanks to the rapidly changing gravity, and yet they never complained about that. Without such gravity changes, they'd end up quite bad without any doubt.
They all landed quite safely on the ground, feeling like they never jumped in the first place. They didn't feel anything at all when landing as if they were walking on a flat and normal ground.
"Let's scatter," William inspected the ground while falling, knowing how it was quite safe out there. It was like a flat area of open plains, with little grass here and there.
He didn't want to waste any more time, sent messages to his friends up there through Bullets, before starting to explore the area like others.
"This way," Karoline was excited about this, and kept talking all the way of their descent. She repeated what William said to his small team before, and yet no one ever complained about that.
The direction she pointed towards was close to the centre of this region. There he found a small hole, with many others scattered to form a giant circle.
"We need to place blood, hurry, place blood down there," she was acting like any impatient girl, and she indeed was quite impatient.
She came here before but failed to activate the portal as she didn't have spirits like humans. And so she was very anxious to experience what it felt like to go to another world.
Wiliam already guessed that, so he didn't complain or say anything about that weird attitude of hers. Instead, he started to leave one droplet of his blood at all the holes.
His team was also doing the same, and that was enough to activate the entire portal at the end. Without that, the portal wouldn't budge an inch or get activated.
This process might seem easy, but it took roughly ten hours from the entire team. William kept speaking with them using Bullets, making sure everything was fine and going according to schedule.
"Be ready, we are about to activate the portal," William spoke while holding Sara and other friends' Bullets, "if I didn't speak again in an hour, descend in teams. If the portal didn't activate, use the same method we just used…"
[Don't worry, we can do it! Just go and start activating this portal. I miss home too much] Sara interrupted him, as he repeated such instructions dozens of times already.
[Don't worry about them, I promise to take everyone home safe and sound] Sloth spoke as well. And that made William sigh. He felt like being a father worried over his kids or something. He didn't know when he got this attached to his friends, but he truly cared for them.
"Fine, I'm going to activate the portal now," he placed the last few drops over the last few holes. The moment he did so, the entire ground trembled, before rays of blue and white lights started to rise up from down below, blinding him and everyone else watching or standing by his side.
Then in the next moment, he found himself standing in the middle of a stony place.
"This is weird…" The place he appeared at was the same rocky room he exited the tiny world from and went to the other world. But there were lots of differences now.
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