William didn't know he was this close to everyone. In less than one hour, he spotted the early batches of masters coming towards him. And that made him store his bow away.
"Attack!" he heard the shouts coming from the direction of these monsters. They landed heavily and fiercely killed these monsters. They were all at dark gold grade, fighting against gold and silver grade monsters, or even weaker.
They weren't affected by the toxin, and so they easily killed their way until they met with William.
"Boss," they learned how to call William from his team and friends, "what orders do you have for us?"
"What else? Advance and kill any monsters or dark masters you meet. After fifteen hours, start retreating and I'll cover up your backs. Don't forget about your potions."
William released them over the monsters, and then it became one-sided massacre. He stood on their backs, watching any unfavourable situation that might arise and heading to solve it. Luckily such situations were quite rare, and they only happened when the leaders of this monster army sent high-end monsters to deal with the unstoppable reinforcements.
The battle kept escalating and being favourable for William and others till they finally met with dark masters. The first sign of their appearance came when violent explosions happened. This wasn't something monsters would do, and William instantly headed towards the direction of these explosions, alongside many formidable masters as well.
The masters here came from the guards sent by big forces and families in the other world. They were all experienced and strong, not much different from Sloth.
As William drew closer, he spotted a large number of dark masters, using darkness-based techniques and arrays to release torrents of attacks toward the masters. They were strong, many, and coordinated enough to cause many casualties in the past few minutes.
But all this changed by the arrival of William and other masters. The formidable masters took charge of the masters fighting against the dark ones, and William simply circled around and targeted those operating the annoying arrays.
Once the masters controlling the arrays were handled, the arrays would turn useless. They were strong masters, and William had to use his arrows and grenades to throw them away from the area of the array. Once he did so, he replaced them and took over the entire array alone!
"Did you think you are the only masters with darkness elements? Hmph!" William released the attacks of the arrays over the dark masters around. Even if his power was low to kill any of them solo, using the array he caused enough distraction and damage, stopped most of the arrays, and gave masters on his side the chance to fight back and kill those despicable dark ones.
The dark masters appeared in large numbers and attacked from different directions at the same time. It seemed as if the leaders of the monster army wanted to get rid of William and others as fast as possible. But they missed one thing.
The attacks came fiercely and managed to push the masters backward. Seeing this made William not hesitate to issue another order.
"Let everyone come! Let them get ready to fight a large number of dark masters, strong ones on top of that," he held Sara's Bullet and issued such an order. If he allowed the dark masters to force them back, then everything he worked for all this time would be lost.
He managed to crush the dark master gathering he aimed at first, but there were around six more of these spots. William moved with others, forming a single mighty force. He didn't need to exchange any words with them to arrange things between this force. They dealt with the sporadic dark masters around, attracting the heat of attacks from all the arrays, before he'd land over their heads, disturbing their formation and messing with their attacks.
This might look effective, but it took a long time to handle just a single one of these dark forces' gatherings. A single group would take an hour for them to disband, and more hours to kill their masters. And while the losses on their side kept accumulating, reinforcements arrived.
William's group advanced and crossed long distances before. Not to mention the attack order came out of the blue, so they took a few hours to arrive at the ongoing harsh battle location.
Their arrival relieved lots of pressure on other masters. William left others to handle the dark masters and monsters, while he and the formidable masters started to attack fiercely the stronger dark ones.
Things started to stabilise after an entire day. During this, his side lost many good masters. But the situation would have been much worse if they didn't have these potions.
"Retreat now," William knew calling everyone here was a risky move. He didn't just stop the production of potions, but also lost many good and capable alchemists in the middle of all this, "go and make more potions. Be always ready to be summoned for battle."
The dark master leaders didn't try this method again. If William's side lost a lot of masters, the dark masters lost a ton. The list of their losses wasn't limited to masters, but also monsters.
As the pressure was relieved and only monsters were present, William decided to continue the battle solo. Not to mention masters on his side already consumed most of the potions they made.
During this battle, William knew it wasn't enough to just let them make potions for a day or two. He decided to go all out and let them make potions for an entire week. And to do so, he needed help from the entrapped masters inside.
"Give me the extra potions you have," William decided to take a risk and let the masters on his side return back with just a single potion. He received thousands of potions, and watched everyone leave while he contacted Sloth.
"You want me to leave the battle and come to meet you?!!!" Sloth seemed to be startled by this, "but…"
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