"Tell me, are you not worried about your lives?" William paused before sizing up and down this dude the same way that dude measured him up before, "what grade are you at?"
"Gold grade!" Sith said in little pride, and William knew he was a prodigy just like Ibra.
"I have to tell you this… I also have a gold grade spirit master in my team, the one you saw before. And I also met a group of dark spirit masters, led by a gold grade dude. I'm sure you already know all of this, but in the end, one got to run away fast, and the other got strangled by the swarms of monsters. We can't survive this, not even with you around."
"But…"
"Believe me, it's not easy to shake off that scary monster. We can deal with anything here, but not that damn bastard. It's a real nightmare, and we don't have a chance if he totally surrounds us with its copies."
"..."
"Let's retreat, kill monsters while we are on the run. I promise to help you kill and get tons of materials for one day. But let's leave here first."
William tried to see what was coming at them from time to time in the middle of his training. But all he could see were normal monsters seen in the forest.
He didn't see any shadow of that annoying bastard. And that meant only one thing… That dude was already here with lots of its clones, trying to establish a fail proof trap that no one would be able to get out from.
And that made William want to leave here as fast as possible. Even the attempt to flee without losing anyone was looking dim in his eyes.
"Call your boys over," William didn't even stand in his place for a single second, "let's escape and live together to fight another day."
"O… Ok…" when Sith saw him turn and walk away in such a decisive way, he couldn't help but succumb to William's will.
"Give me a second then," Sith turned around, and started to yell at his team members to gather them up. He was away from them, so he had to use Message Papers.
Seeing this made William recall his team members. He took a few Bullets out and tried to communicate with everyone.
However, and as he expected, he got zero response. "I must have gotten away from them, much more than what these papers can reach," he shook his head, and stored the papers of Berry, Sara, and Ibra away.
At least he knew they were far away from him, and it was safe to assume they were safe right now.
"Watch out!"
Just before he'd turn to see what Sith and his team did, he noticed something flashing and moving from the deepest parts of the forest.
The entire forest was pitch black at this hour, but under the fire this team caused, dancing dark red light kept illuminating things from afar.
William couldn't see properly through such dim conditions, but he noticed many shadows moving fast, heading directly towards here.
They came from the direction they were supposed to take to flee. And it was clear that this monster was blocking their escape route like this.
"It's a group of bronze grade monsters, nothing to worry about."
"No, it's that damn beast," William didn't hesitate and started to fun forward to meet the incoming monsters, "make sure everyone is ready. We'll leave here in less than one minute. That damn bastard is on the move! We can't risk staying here anymore!"
*Bang!* *Bang!* *Boom!*
This time, it was the monster which started attacking first. "Wind element? Water element? Fire element? And the darkness element? Damn! These water clones are here to put down the fire, cut any source of light and protection for us. This bastard is preparing the setting to kill all of us!"
William knew how truly cunning this monster was. If he had to select something next to the unstoppable human wave tactic this monster had, then it would be its unbelievably high level and scary intelligence.
"It sounds like it read through my intentions and wants to delay and stop us from leaving at any cost…" William was under immense pressure right now. He got his techniques and weapons, his fighting style that all were focused solely on offence.
That wasn't weird, though. William was a scary and deadly spirit master who focused mainly on offence back in his past life. Trying to stall out for time and defend wasn't his style.
So when he got hit and attacked by fifteen copies of that monster, each using either dashing moves supported by wind element, surprise sudden outburst attacks of darkness element, or even explosive long-range attacks from fire and water elements, William didn't even think about defending.
He simply took out his shield, or the armour that he decided to use as a shield, and started to flash around, evading the incoming attacks using his insane speed and inhuman reflexes, while freezing a few of them using the ice element of his armour.
But he knew this wasn't enough. The monster copies already got the initiative and the advantage from the start. He wasted a few seconds shouting back at Sith. And that made him quite pissed off.
*Clang!* *Clang!* *Clang!*
He knew he wasn't in top shape yet. All he got was roughly thirty up to forty percent of his spirit power. So, he didn't intend to stall this fight for long.
Instead of doing the easier, jumping around to evade the attacks and surround them, he controlled his lightning technique, and actively approached the monsters head on.
William passed through the incoming attacks using the little gaps in between, or freezing part of these and used the chance to slip through.
He risked it through this move. If he committed a single mistake, delayed or hesitated in his actions, then he'd get severely hit and surrounded in the next instant.
But he trusted his vast battle experience and his speedy technique. And like a slippery snake, he cut his path through the fifteen different attacks successfully in less than ten seconds!
