They tried to contact him and failed. Sloth and others used their spirit senses and got to see the tunnels collapse and blocked by tons of rocks. They saw everyone safe inside the deep caves, but there wasn't a single trace of William anywhere.
"You are really a troublemaker!" When everyone found paths to the surface, his friends and girls came, hugged and cried, and even a few shouted at him in distress and worry. William met all this with a big smile and laugh, knowing that they did all this because they were extremely worried about him.
Sloth punched him on the shoulder while looking at Anjie who was now leaning on William's chest, before adding, "you have to consider others who truly care for you before doing anything stupid again."
"I need to keep testing…"
"Not that bullshit again!" Sloth got fed up with him, "I won't accept this madness without proper explanation!"
"Listen, you know I won't persist unless there is a reason…"
"And I want to know that damn reason!" Sloth was speaking on behalf of Anjie, yet got silenced when the latter slightly shook her head as if she was asking him to trust him, trust her man.
"Dammit! Kids of this era are all crazy!" Sloth didn't like that and had to leave while fuming in rage. Other old masters chuckled at his struggle, and even a few laughed as well.
"Thanks," William knew it was Anjie who drove this stubborn master off him.
"You just have to promise me that you'll return safely every time," Anjie was deeply worried about him like others, but she also knew William was perfectly fine. Even if what he was doing looked quite dangerous and crazy, it was still safe for him. And that was all it mattered to her, to other girls and friends as well.
"Let's go," as he took his time speaking with his friends and girls, checking on his teams, William then decided to keep going forward.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "You are really adamant about testing it again!'' After doing this two more times, Sloth and the other masters were getting puzzled and much curious about what William truly wanted to do here.
With each attempt, he ended up creating a really scary technique. The damage caused by the last one was severe enough to let them not face a single monster for half a day! Not to mention the area affected stretched out for tens of kilometres!
If they were in his shoes, they'd all get satisfied by such a result. And yet William wasn't. It felt like he knew what they were going up against, and knew there was a formidable and terrifying enemy lying at the end of this trip.
They thought about what type of monster they were up against, and couldn't help but think about the scarcely few infamous monsters which reached the pinnacle stage of power. And yet they weren't close enough.
Only Karoline guessed it right! "It's a monster which is half a step away from ascension, it's a truly terrifying foe indeed," she spoke out of personal experience, knowing her power before she'd go into hibernation was enough to kill any enemy or enemies no matter what!
Yet no one took her words for real. She got a reputation for being crazy and naive, a girl that got her mind broken and messed up. Yet William knew she guessed it right, and couldn't help but thank his luck that no one here believed her.
If any master here, even the old and scarily strong ones, knew about the true might and identity of their enemy, no one would be sane to stay here for another second! Facing a monster that was this close to getting out of this world? This was enough to drive anyone to run away for their lives.
William and others kept walking forward, crossing the areas filled with monsters at a very slow pace, while making this all up when walking through the empty regions after releasing his attacks. With each attempt, he'd spot a few glaring issues, and think about how to fix these before releasing another attack.
Yet before he'd perfect this technique as he hoped, they ended up at the place of that monster.
"We are here," Sloth and other old masters saw the deep hole long before anyone else. They were less than twenty kilometres away, but every metre crossed took them lots of time.
"We need to clear these monsters first," another formidable master said, paused as he turned around before adding, "but…"
"These monsters are all at mid stage dark gold grade," a third chimed in, saying in bitter tone, "it's amazing how in a single area such a grand number of high end masters are gathered! A single one of them is enough to be considered the overlord of an entire region! And yet there are tens of thousands of them…"
"Let me attack then," William paused when everyone looked in a weird way towards him, "this is the fastest and most guaranteed way to kill them, right?"
"I still don't know how your attack can take all of them down in a single blow…" Sloth sighed. The last attempts were quite hectic. They didn't find much of the mountains and hills to hide under and had to dig their own caves deep in the ground at some point. And yet few of them ended up getting hit and died, with many more having severe wounds.
If not for their timely intervention and the use of healing elixirs, the death toll would have been much higher than this.
"We need to do it," William knew Sloth was fearing that other masters would die on his hands, and he was also worried about him.
William never managed to return back in time in every attempt. As he strengthened the technique, the time needed for it to unleash its full might became shorter and shorter. This made William get brutally hit every single time, feeling much pain with every attempt he did.
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