Not to mention he wanted to learn about more ways of the dark masters, a thing that would help him even in the outer world.
"I'm here if you are free to speak back," William approached the monster gates area, to be welcomed with loud explosions and fierce battle sounds. He knew things were heated up out there, and Sloth was busy fighting alongside his team against the monsters.
William tried before to get closer, but he was stopped the moment he saw scary monsters standing on guard. Yet with Sloth and others here, he finally got a chance to break through. He just needed to cooperate with Sloth, a thing that he didn't get!
Sloth was too busy to fight right now. Hearing William's voice made him heave a sigh of relief. He was worried over William, and knowing he was alive was great news.
But he wasn't in any position to allow him to speak back to William. He was now entrapped within a tight and large circle of scary monsters, ones that were guarding the monster gates. He was fighting desperately alongside his team for a couple of hours and suffered lots of wounds with others.
William expected such a situation. When he got no response from William, he decided to proceed and delve deeper towards these gates.
Even if they were just portals gushing out tons of monsters, he was sure fingerprints of the ones who laid these would be present. He also wanted to see if he could find any weak spots to use, even try to take down a single gate to help.
At the same time, he could deal with the normal and weak monsters coming out from these gates if he was close enough. A single master was planning to stand all alone in front of such a flood, and yet he wasn't afraid.
As long as the scary monsters were busy handling Sloth and others, William was going to be safe. As long as his friends, team, and masters who were with him arrived at the king's forces, he was going to be safe.
Yet William underestimated his enemies this time. The moment Sloth and others approached the gates, they didn't hesitate to gather up all the scary monsters and throw them toward this dangerous group of masters. But when William's friends and masters started to go into the area, not affected by the toxin, these leaders smelled trouble from them.
They didn't hesitate to send out a detachment, made entirely of dark masters, led by high-end dark ones. William didn't expect that, and his small army was marching without paying much attention to the surroundings.
Their main focus was to arrive as fast as possible towards the king's location, thinking only about fighting monsters. So the initial clash that landed claimed the lives of many hundreds, more than a thousand. And that happened just in a few minutes.
"Dark masters!"
"Use anti-darkness techniques and elements!"
"Spread out, use detection arrays, fast!"
The response of the grand army was varied and different. William's team's first response was to scatter out detection arrays, while the ones who came from the other world focused on using techniques and elements that could negate darkness.
The two were working in different directions and yet complemented each other. When they started to act, they were surprised to see thousands of dark masters surrounding them already.
"There are too many of them!" Berry muttered, "What shall we do?"
"What else? Transform into our spirit bodies form, and contact him to see if we can use the grenades," Sara shrugged and said what she had in mind.
"Let's rearrange ourselves," Peter looked around, "we have more options by our spirit bodies, but they don't. And yet, they are the most experienced ones in dealing with the dark masters, so…"
"Your point?" Lang looked at his long-time friend, and the latter added:
"Let them take the heat first, deal with the strongest ones out there. As for us, let's do it like how the boss used to."
"Fishing in the muddy waters, I like that!" Lina activated her spirit body, one that made her look all muscular and covered up in a fierce-looking layer of skin.
What they all got from Peter was something they used to witness for many years. William always leaned to attack when the enemy was busy dealing with other targets, and used the tactic of hitting the enemy hard, killing the ones he could easily handle while leaving the troublesome ones to others.
They decided to do the same. Their number wasn't big to begin with, just a mere two hundred or a bit less. And yet they never felt fear.
Staying by William's side for this long, training and learning from him, had a much deeper impact on their minds and hearts, much more than William himself might believe.
They acted like how William would if he was present here, and didn't feel fear. Instead, they had such weird calmness, one that stemmed from their overconfidence in their ability to bypass this, not only survive but also win.
They let the other masters handle the incoming dark masters, and they waited. Any chance appearing, they'd move out in small teams, hitting the enemies, reap the loot, and return back inside without risking much.
This kept happening under the leadership of many vices, under the watchful eyes of the masters who came from the other world. Seeing such a unique way to do things made them try to learn, and mimic the unique way the Black Tails team was using, ending up adding more damage to the enemy and limiting lots of losses.
Sara relayed the news to William. The latter couldn't help but feel how cunning the leaders were. They didn't aim just to stop him, Sloth, and others here, but also cared about the reinforcements heading to the king's location.
He suspected they sniffed the mission his team and masters with them were about to do.
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