The fact of destroying the capital, killing most of the citizens and forces stationed there, and pushing the last standing strong and formidable masters against the cold wall like this was all thanks to this toxic fog.
William got this and also got a way to counter such a despicable scheme. To him, he wasn't going to get affected by this toxin, but the masters following him would.
Alone he wouldn't be able to change anything. And so he needed to find a way to make all these masters walk into the area covered with the fog, without getting affected by it.
He didn't know how the enemy did it, but it seemed the fog wasn't fixed in place as he and others thought. The air in the capital and the area around it wasn't polluted by this fog. Only starting from this zone the fog would appear. And that made him jump to the conclusion that the source of this fog was portable, easy to be carried over to any place.
"I need to find and secure this fog source by any means…" he felt how deadly and ferocious this item was. If he left such weapons in the hands of the enemy, then such a disaster would be repeated easily.
For a reason, he felt like this item wasn't one of a kind. He couldn't help but think back to the massacre that occurred to the entire world before, and thought it might be possible if more of these items were available to the enemy.
Putting all these thoughts aside, he first walked towards his forces until his body changed again to return to human form. He kept trying to deactivate his spirit body, ending up failing until he crossed three hundred metres.
"See this line?" He took out his glaive, and hit the ground with it after waving the glaive a few times in the air. A deep line appeared on the ground, "this is the safety line. Passing through it will kill you."
"What are you saying?"
"Are you sure?"
"What's going on? William, why are you standing inside the line?!!" Berry shouted in distress and worry when she saw William pass the line. His body changed to form his unique fox-snake mixed spirit body.
"I'm the only person here who is going to be safe once I pass the line," William paused, before adding, "I want any master with alchemy talent. Make a large space for them to work, and provide them with any materials they need…"
William then started to relay more orders, organising everyone into three main groups. One contained the alchemists, the second would go and collect herbs and other stuff needed for the alchemists to work, and the third would stand by, protecting the alchemists and others from any possible attack.
William didn't know if the enemy would move the moment they'd realise what he was doing or not. But to be cautious, he decided to put such scenarios into consideration.
And then it came down to the most crucial part of this, to recognise the type of this annoying toxin and make up a counter formula against it.
William already got in contact with such toxic substances many times already, but he never got the chance to study them. This time it prevailed in the air, without getting seen or smelled. The task was going to be harder, yet he wasn't worried about that.
"Let me check the large number of materials I have… There must be something that can help out there…" William already got tons of various materials during the past five years. Be it from the scary loot he gained from all the battles and wars he took part in or things he purchased from the market using his wealth.
His rings were filled with tons of different materials. He started looking, looking for something that could absorb anything from the air, store it inside, and help in revealing its nature.
This might be hard, but one would be surprised to know how many materials and ores out there had such magical effects. William didn't struggle much and found a large group of materials that could help in solving this problem for him.
There were ores, special types of plants, and even flowers and seeds. He even found a dried-up stool of one monster, a special monster that would poo something that could absorb any spirit power or materials diffusing in the air.
"I hate the thought of using this," it was the best material out there in the things he got out of his rings. But the mere idea of using a monster's poo to do it made him want to vomit.
The next best thing was something like a sponge. It was the size of one's head, brown gold in colour, with a surface that was filled with deep lines and grooves, dots scattered all over it as if someone picked a needle and pricked it out of boredom or something.
It was a bit heavy, not soft as its appearance might tell anyone seeing it from far. He held this sponge and slowly examined it.
"The Brown Sponge Bark… The number of star-shaped diagrams over it tells how old it is…"
This wasn't an ore, but a miraculous phenomenon where old trees would grow such sponge-shaped things over their roots.
One had to dig the ground to grab the entirety of these sponges. And the older they were, the better their ability to absorb anything from the world around them.
It was used mainly to absorb spirit power, but William planned to let it absorb the toxin in the air. It lacked one simple aspect that the monster poo thing had, which was to interact with the toxin, and purify it!
"I'll need something else then…" William wasn't out of options. As he searched for a material to absorb the toxin, he also looked for another to purify it.
He didn't look for much to find what he needed.
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