And yet he never suffered a single wound. When others asked, he told them about using the healing elixir before getting hit. They bought this excuse like him, and no one thought beyond that.
Sloth couldn't say anything to stop William. The latter simply started to work to form the grand technique, and everyone started to prepare by digging tunnels and caves.
After doing this for many times, everyone grew accustomed to this. So it was expected for the task that took hours from them at the first time to take just thirty minutes or even less.
William started to gather all the techniques and then merged and released them. The attack this time came like the last one, releasing a huge amount of spirit power all around, blinding everyone for one hour, and killing all the enemies in the area.
As William said, one single blow was enough to take down all the monsters here and clear the area. Yet when things settled, and he came from far after suffering a grand fall, he ended up getting shocked like everyone else.
"What's going on in that hole? Why is there a shield protecting it?"
When the attack landed, it revealed the presence of a huge shield. It looked like a colossal bubble, one that surrounded the hole and what was inside.
Yet that wasn't what surprised William. He expected that monster to go into hibernation, preparing for the last step, after laying down tons of traps.
The monsters and the lava fountains were part of this trap, and what was inside that bubble shield was. The bubble was pitch red in colour, looking like it was formed out of blood or something. But William could see flashes of bright golden and black lights coming from within.
He couldn't see the shape of what released these lights, but could easily say it was letters, letters of language he found before in the other world, the same language the scrolls he read there were written with.
"What's going on here? How come a monster learns human language and even writes them down?" he felt something was amiss the moment he spotted these letters. He couldn't tell their meaning, as the thick shield prevented him from seeing everything. But seeing them was enough that a human was here, a human was behind all this.
His thoughts first stopped at the Nightmare monster. This monster was the one who started the grand battle here before, and it made sense it'd be the one behind the presence of that bear monster here, and these letters.
But then William thought about the other enemy he met before, the one who led the attack at the Novistic kingdom's capital.
"One has the power to do it, but it doesn't have any interest here… As for the other, it wants to see me dead at any cost, and yet it lacks the strength to do it… what's going on here?"
William didn't know who was behind this, but he was sure about something. Whoever tried to do it was trying to help this monster to level up, or lure them here and cause them trouble.
"No one would ever dare to pass that region without getting killed… Spreading out monsters was enough to make us die… There is no need for any enemy to go to such lengths and help the bear monster to take that step… Not to mention there isn't anyone here who has such ability in the first place!"
It didn't add up, and William had to think about progressing forward. Seeing him stand motionless for long minutes wasn't something normal to those who knew him.
"What's wrong?" The first to speak was Sloth, "I thought we'll have to drag you back, stop you from attacking that monster deep in that shithole before getting our preparations done!"
"Yes, why are you standing like this?" Sara asked next, "you were preparing for this for a long time now… What happened?"
William looked at them, while the words of these two attracted everyone's attention. When they looked at William, they could tell things weren't that great just from his face.
"Is there something wrong with that shield?" Sloth asked again, as this was the only thing that came out of their plans and expectations.
"It's not the shield…" William slowly shook his head, "it's the one behind it."
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "The monster you mean?" Sloth asked again, and yet William shook his head one more time.
"It's the human standing behind all this!"
The moment his words landed, and everyone's faces changed at once. They all looked at William, looked at each other, while their minds shared the same idea. "A dark master you mean?" Sloth asked again, and like the previous two answers, William shook his head for the third time.
"Is he a normal master? One like us?!" Another old master couldn't take how William was acting secretively. And like the normal, William shook his head again.
"I believe… He isn't from here…" William knew such a conclusion was quite crazy and scary, but it was the only thing he could think about.
The language he read in the scrolls was something unknown to the tiny worlds. It originated from the outer world, and it only made sense that someone who came from there would know about it.
Even he learnt about it because he once lived there. Seeing these letters made him doubt such a possibility. And when he thought about how it was impossible for anyone from this world to have knowledge, enough to let a monster level up and reach the stage to leave here, he knew this was indeed the act of someone from the outer world.
"This…" When he said it, everyone looked at him as if they were looking at someone crazy, "are you sure?!!" Sloth was one of the top masters in the world, and he knew the dream of going out of here was something that all masters in his tiny circle shared.
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