"Oh, they withdrew monsters from Sara and others' place… Fantastic!" William instantly recognised where these monsters came from. Right now, monsters were gathered in three main spots, here at the gates, there at the king's location, and back where his team and masters from the other world were.
The dark leaders were very enraged by what happened. So during the past hour, they searched for William far and wide, wanting to kill him first before anyone else, even before the king!
As they looked for him, they decided to call for monsters to take aim at him anywhere he'd arrive. Sloth and his team activated the formation, and crushed most of the gates, cutting almost eighty percent of the monsters gushing toward here.
But they still had close to half of the scary monster numbers right on their tail! They had to continue the brutal fight, without having a moment to breathe.
The dark leaders had no other choice but to call back many of the monsters they sent to deal with William's friends, team, and masters. The main attack force there was the dark masters in the first place, and monsters were just acting as their support.
So withdrawing these seemed the best approach and counter, better than calling monsters from the king's place. Yet they again underestimated William.
They thought about him like they'd think about any normal gold master. He might be strong and might have special ways to do things, but he was still limited by spirit power.
What they didn't know was that this wasn't a problem at all for William. The latter once heard the monster roar and realised what was going on. The first thing he did was to gulp an elixir and take out all of his flying weapons, even the badly damaged two monstrous weapons.
Then he headed directly towards the incoming monsters.
"Old man, you shall retreat," before he'd meet with monsters, he spoke with Sloth, "You did enough! Go back and stay by your king's side. Wait for my arrival."
William then stored the scroll away and didn't care about what Sloth said. The latter was indeed exhausted, and even terribly wounded. His team lost around one-third of their numbers, and the remaining masters weren't looking much better than half a step away from dying.
But he and others never accepted the idea of retreat. Besides, he knew what William meant. William was going to help his team and masters there, bring them all the way to the king's location.
That meant they'd have to face hellish battles and deal with scary enemies all alone. Sloth knew William had many strong masters on his side, but it wasn't enough to let him feel any guarantee about the success of this move.
Not to mention he wanted to help. But William never responded back, while he and others watched William run in the middle of a thick monster layer upon layer, killing his way through without a single moment of pause.
"What a killing machine you found!"
"I have to admit, this kid is very interesting and promising!"
"He is a gem! Nice catch, Sloth!"
Others sang praises to Sloth while doing nothing but retreat. Unlike what William asked Sloth to do, they weren't going in the king's direction, but after William's.
They mistook everything and thought that Sloth took William as his disciple. Sloth knew they got it all wrong, but was too exhausted to argue with them about this.
"Taking this little monster as a disciple? What the heck can I teach him? How to roar?" Sloth lamented over this inside his head, without sharing any of his thoughts with anyone else. He kept running with others, fighting the rest of the scary monsters using long-range attacks. This wasn't enough to kill any, but it was enough to add more wounds to them.
Sloth's plan was simple: he'd go to where the reinforcements were, and use the help of the high-end masters there to kill these annoying monsters. Once done, he'd go back with everyone toward his king, and start the counterattack from there.
It was a good plan indeed, too good to come true. He missed one point, the same point that William also missed; the dark leaders!
These leaders were different from the typical dark masters present in this world. They weren't cowards, wasn't this tolerant towards anyone insulting their pride. And so they did something that William never saw coming, something that'd add more trouble to everyone; they decided to put an end to all this, head towards the king, and kill him themselves!
William never read such a scenario when he told Sloth to go to the king, and if the latter listened, things would have been much better.
Yet no one learnt about that until it was too late! William kept moving towards his friends' location, running fast as he killed his way through monsters around. He was worried about the scary monsters behind and didn't want to risk falling under their attacks or getting surrounded by them.
He didn't know that Sloth was following from far behind, keeping these monsters busy. As the two moved in the same direction, the dark leaders amassed their top force and moved in a huge army toward the king's location.
They didn't need to draw any monster from the gates, as this would alarm the annoying masters there. These masters might be small in number, burdened by tons of wounds and injuries, but they weren't affected by the toxin they were spreading.
That made them quite dangerous. The dark leaders didn't get why they were like this, but they felt this wasn't just a coincidence or a fault in their plan.
William also was like them, and what happened back at the king's tent was an alarming sign. The dark leaders feared the worst, that these masters had a way to save others from the toxin. If that happened, then everything they worked for so far would be gone!
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