"Do you think an ant like you can speak back to a god like myself?"
"I just did, what can you do? Hahahaha!" William laughed while speaking in a mocking tone as if he didn't care about that master or anything.
In fact, he knew this master could crush him and others if this conversation was done in the outer world. But here, that master got nothing to do unless he'd risk descending here himself.
If he did, he was going to suffer great backlash, and wouldn't enjoy his current strength. If the master was indeed quite serious, he'd have landed here before even saying a single word. But it felt like he was worrying about something, and William could easily guess it.
"He is sceptical about my technique, hehehehe," he inwardly laughed, knowing that this master must have witnessed what his grand technique could do.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm Even if it was limited by the low spirit power quality in this world, it was still quite threatening to anyone. If that master suffered injuries here, then returning back to the outer world would be impossible. He had to wait here until he'd heal, and staying much longer would put more risks on the table.
Once William reached this conclusion and he started to get cocky against this master. He wasn't doing this asking for death, or because he lost his mind. He wanted this master to come here, and by this, he'd end up getting a huge gain from his rings.
William wanted to kill the man and loot his rings. Even if the process would be quite hard, he was willing to take the risk as long as that master was also willing to come here.
But the master didn't do that, he wasn't stupid.
"Is he gone?" Sloth arrived next to William while that master from the outer world vanished, and didn't speak for the past ten minutes.
"I tried to call, but he seems busy or away," William paused, before laughing, "or perhaps he is scared."
"Are you sure he won't come here?" another master asked in worry, "if he did, I don't know what we can do…"
"We'll do the same," William knew this master was speaking out of his pure instinct, with loud alarming bells ringing in his mind, "we'll struggle and persist, cooperate and fight."
"But… Can we really kill him?"
"If not, then why do you think he didn't come here from the start?" William turned around before adding, "Let's go. The technique I taught you before we sat on this journey, let's use it."
"That master is still watching," Sloth waited for others to get distracted and be busy with arranging masters around before whispering to William.
"I know," William looked at Sloth in a weird way, "and whispering like this won't stop him from eavesdropping."
William got what Sloth wanted to say. Even if that master went silent, he was still present and watching. They all could tell because that intimidating feeling was still present, that cold sweat and shivers.
"Then…"
"If you are in his shoes, would you speak and reason up with weaker masters like he did?" William slowly said, before adding, "Even if you are a good master, or were in a very good mood, would you have tolerated everything I said and did so far?"
"Frankly? No," Sloth paused, and looked at the sky before adding, "Are you trying to say that… If he has the ability to get down here, then he'd have done it. And he is just bluffing?"
"He isn't," William shook his head, "he can get down here any moment he wants. But he'll have to pay a great price for that."
"Why do I feel you were once part of that world? Got down here as a form of punishment?"
"Think as much as you like, we need to start rolling things now and get done from all this…" William paused before turning towards the masters around.
Even if they were all scared, they moved and stood in the places William specified for the old masters before leaving the city.
"It's now time for me to explain what we all suffered here to get," William paused, looking back towards the helpless monster. They were already surrounding it in circles, layers like an onion or something.
"This monster is, as you all know, just half a step away from getting out of here. But to do so, it started to sleep, lure monsters and masters here, before absorbing their spirit power to enrich itself. Right now we are going to exert justice over it, absorb its spirit power, and distribute it among all of us."
"Absorb… Do you mean…" Everyone realised what William said, but they never dared to believe it. Even Sloth and other old masters doubted it, looking at William for more explanation and further confirmation.
"That's like what you all heard, we are going to take its spirit power and add it up to ours… Impressive, isn't it? Hahahaha!" William was also excited, excited by this, excited by their reaction.
He looked at the sky, but that master from the outer world kept his silence even when he declared his intentions.
"Let's do it then," William sat crossed-legged, just next to the monster, being at the heart of all the masters, "sit down, extend one arm towards the one next to you. As I explained before, only old masters can extend their arms and touch others in their inner circles… Let's start…"
William waited for a few minutes before everyone sat down and did as he said. During this, he kept an eye over the sky, raising his vigilance against that master.
If that master wanted to save the Scarlet Bear, then it was just the right moment to move. If he waited until they'd start absorbing the spirit power from the monster, then he wouldn't be able to do anything to stop them.
"As you wish then," as everyone got ready and that master didn't make his move, William shrugged, "Let's start then… Say the incantation I taught you out loud, make sure to chime it in unison…"
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