"There is a friend of mine, someone who was supposed to meet in the competition," William paused before starting to describe the lookout of his nemesis in this world.
Everything might have been solved, except for the Nightmare monster. William never met or saw a trace of it, even in the middle of such a big war.
To William, he felt like the Nightmare monster spied on the fate and destiny of this war, and knew it was going to end badly for the dark masters. Not to mention there was another big shot leading the entire assault, making it impossible for a Mutant like the Nightmare monster to do as he liked.
"Hmm…" Sloth didn't answer him directly, instead, he turned to his group and waited for their response. William expected that, after all, Sloth was with him during their adventure to the other world.
So if anyone heard or saw someone like that, it'd be among the group following him. And yet William was destined to get disappointed.
The group of masters didn't recognise that master. "Don't worry, the contest had tons of masters coming from different places in the continent. It's normal for them to not see him, but…"
Sloth paused, and William got what he wanted to say without saying a single word. "I'm prepared for anything, even the worst," William said, while internally he hoped to hear the worst news about that monster. It'd be great if he fell in the middle of the last war, yet it was something quite far from happening.
"Just give us a few days, we are going to inquire about that dude and hopefully will bring you good news…"
"Any news is ok, even if it's the bad ones," William tried to focus more on the bad news, hoping that words and hopes would make it happen. Yet he knew deep within himself that it wouldn't happen the way he dreamt of.
"What will you do now?" Sloth asked, looking back towards the place where the big party was held, "going to sleep?"
"Going to rest indeed," William lied, "how about you?"
"We have to protect them," Sloth motioned his head towards the far away festival place, "you go and rest, prepare to leave in one week, got it?"
"Cool," William didn't intend to go and rest. When he recalled the enemy he came here for was missing, he decided to start looking for him.
As he left Sloth, he started his first tour around the place. They were in the middle of the ruined capital, and still there were lots of buildings still standing there.
"He should have stayed at a hotel, right?" William decided to go and check on the hotel places first. Finding them wasn't that hard, as they got to cover a huge area. Such ruined places were either hotels or big merchant bases.
If it was the latter, then he'd find great things there. As he walked around for many hours, he found nothing of value actually.
"Those damn merchants… Who would take away everything of value before running away in the middle of a great war and disaster?" he mulled over this, while walking out of the capital area.
He didn't find anything here, and that meant that the bastard must have stayed in a place around the capital. The only places that could have this monster would either be dark master bases, or very dangerous places, filled with scary monsters.
All the monster lairs were emptied during the war, and dark masters already got killed. Finding the locations of these hidden bases wasn't an issue for William. He just needed to crack the sealed scrolls, and find out the locations of these hidden bases. And there he might find a clue about that monster.
Yet he never expected what he'd find in these scrolls!
He went to one hill and carved a cave there per habit. When he used his darkness element, he cracked open the seal of many scrolls.
At first, what he read was just normal. They were speaking about plans regarding the final attack and what they should do to surround the capital and attack the masters there.
But later on, he started to find weird scrolls. They were few at first, but soon enough most of the scrolls he read were speaking about the same thing.
"Someone was trying to ruin their plans by attacking the capital? A Mutant? One who seems to be unknown to them? No way!!!"
William had his doubts until in one scroll he read a detailed description of that mutant. It matched the same face of the Nightmare monster in his mind. And realising this made him quite shocked.
"What happened in the world? Huh? A Mutant is fighting a dark master and monsters? No way!!" He kept reading the scrolls, getting more interested in knowing what happened when he wasn't here.
He never expected that such a thing would occur. He thought the Nightmare monster would help the dark masters in their task, the worst-case scenario would be by retreating and leaving them alone.
Yet fighting against them? That was unheard of before! When he read more scrolls, he found out that the Nightmare monster proved to be a scary foe for these dark masters.
He was strong, but that wasn't the main issue, he knew their ways and how they used to move in a time of war. So he was always present anywhere they tried to deploy and scatter their forces, ruined the arrays and formations they laid, even controlling monsters and releasing them towards their bases!
William read many scrolls and felt like he was living the action the Nightmare monster brought here. Yet the fun ended just a few days before the launch of the main assault, as the Nightmare monster was cornered and forced to leave.
"So it isn't here… What a loss…" He knew after such an epic battle against top dark masters, that monster would be severely wounded.
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