William spent three hours watching and thinking in silence, while others kept waiting for what he was going to say and do. His mind was like a storm, a place where a nuke just exploded there. It was filled with tons of information, a massive amount of techniques, and different scenarios about how to mix them.
He performed tons of scenarios, where he modified everything and imagined what the end result would be. There were slightly over seven hundred masters here, and trying to organise them was like trying to pull seven hundred whales with fishing threads, trying to grab them over the shore at the same time.
It was quite impossible at first. Yet when he started to place himself in the centre of all this, things started to roll out quite nicely. He had many elements already and could act as the axis while others would build up over his performance.
Instead of being the maestro, he decided to be both the key player and coach at the same time, the actor and director in the same film.
"I'm going to point out to each and every one of you," after three hours of saying nothing, and when everyone thought he might not speak about what he had in mind, he suddenly looked around and added, "I won't call you by names. To be honest, trying to remember your names won't work. So I'm just going to give you numbers, memorise them, and when I say it, you have to execute your technique, the one you performed here, with all your might, in the shortest time possible… Got it?"
No one got what he truly meant, even Sloth and those old and formidable masters didn't. As William started to give others numbers, the old masters kept talking among themselves while fighting the monsters.
At first, things were quite hard and stressful. But the moment most of the masters returned to help them, things started to roll for the better. They had just to work as team leaders, only intervene when a group of strong monsters would appear, or a large lava fountain would rise up all of a sudden.
As their task got greatly relieved, they started to pay more attention to William. And when the latter said his last words and started to do what he promised, they got all puzzled.
They were now sure of what Sloth previously said, that this youngster was aiming to do something grand, something new. And realising this, while not guessing anything about it, made their curiosity grow to the peak.
They kept speculating, thinking mostly that William would form special teams, with masters using the same elements, and try to use techniques to augment others based on their elements.
This wasn't a novel idea at all. For example, wind elements and techniques were used to augment fire, and even using antagonising elements and techniques could do the same if used with experienced masters, like adding water or ice to fire or lava would flare the latter two out.
They never expected what William was doing correctly until he finished giving out numbers. "We'll run a test, perform as best as you can, no stress here, this is just the first test," he knew imagining and thinking about things wouldn't be like practically experimenting on them.
And so he decided to run a few tests here, to perfect the idea he had in mind, and add many modifications there to make the end result quite satisfying.
He didn't lack the right environment to do it. Everywhere around there were a dense number of monsters coming or fighting them.
And when everyone thought he was going to select masters to perform like before, he started to gather up his spirit power, and dash around, starting his Holy Sword technique, the worldwide famous technique.
"I'll shout the numbers and you perform, aim in the same direction I'm dashing towards, don't worry about anything else…" he shouted after dashing a couple of times, before adding, "Seven, twelve, fifty-three, five hundred and six…"
He started to narrate the numbers without even taking a single moment of pause! To many watching here, they thought he was just spouting out numbers randomly, without any order or logic behind it.
The mere thought of them releasing their technique toward him seemed odd. It was very possible for him to get severely hurt. And yet the moment the ones called started to perform, deciding to trust William and see what he wanted to do, things started to change.
William didn't continue his dash towards a single direction but kept alternating and changing his trajectory, using the refined ability he had to change his route once every three metres crossed.
That made him look like a ray of light, flashing over many mirrors, zigzagging right and left, back and forth, changing his direction quite fast. This made many unable to keep up, as they released their technique to the last spot he was at, the one their eyes could track.
William looked quite impatient, moving before even the masters would release their techniques. This made him miss many of them, and Sloth and other old masters couldn't help but question what was going on in that youngster's mind.
Yet when they watched closely after a few minutes, they realised something.
"He… He is letting techniques fall on different spots, merging their effect together before he'd move in and add this to his tails! How in the world is he doing this? Is that even… Possible!!!"
The masters looked at everything happening from all possible angles using their spirit senses. And that made them not miss even the slightest detail. William did look like he was evading the techniques he asked masters to release, yet after a few seconds, he'd change his trajectory all of sudden, take a long dash, ending up at the spot where many techniques fell.
The moment the techniques fell on any spot, they detonated and released their full might.
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