"At least I know part of what he wants to do…" William returned to the dense and detailed information he got from Ibra. From these, he could easily tell that Rick was using a sort of summoning array, in addition to a spirit power concentrating array, plus offensive and defensive arrays.
The orbs he scattered before were used mainly for defence, or perhaps triggering something needed for these formations to work. As for what these formations would summon, William got no idea.
Yet he could guess that monsters were the most probable targets to get summoned here. And from the spirit power concentrating arrays, he could tell these monsters were bad news.
William guessed it partially right. Rick indeed was trying to summon monsters, but not what he thought about. These monsters were special, and William was destined to get shocked and would face lots of trouble to handle them.
William needed two hours to arrive at the base of the mountain where Rick, Richard, and Ibra were. Richard already spotted him and saw how he fought against the few monsters in the area, and spotted Charley.
The latter came as a surprise to him, making Richard even go directly to Rick and ask him about that.
"I don't know, but it seems some sort of a monster or a weird thing related to that bastard," Rick seemed to not care at all about Charley. And when he noticed how worried Richard was, he paused for a second, turned to Rick and said in a firm tone:
"Don't think he is going away from here with his life. I can assure you this, William won't be able to survive this no matter what he gets on his side."
"I hope you know what you are doing," if Richard heard such words before, then he'd totally believe in Rick. But he already suffered few setbacks and failures in the things Rick confirmed they were a one hundred percent success.
Even if he felt sceptical about his words, Richard kept his doubts buried deep inside his chest and didn't expose anything.
"Don't worry," Rick could already see the doubts issuing out from Richard's eyes, "I know what I'm doing. If I screw up this chance, then I won't deserve to live anymore!"
The resoluteness in his tone made Richard experience goosebumps. He could only watch Rick finalise the last touches before turning finally towards his target.
William was now less than five kilometres away from the grand series of mountains, including the one which got the three on top of it.
[I think they are going to do something] and before William would start closing in, he got this message from Ibra.
"What are they doing exactly? Tell me everything!" William couldn't see, but he got eyes up there to make up for this.
[I can tell that the dark master arranged everything in a twelve headed grand star diagram. He used the different peaks as the axis of this star. And now he is standing on top of a peak that's located at the heart of this grand formation…]
Ibra started to tell William everything the two targets were doing. William got that Rick was going to activate and control these arrays himself.
"Listen up…" and as he knew this, William started to tell Ibra what he was going to do.
[Are you sure this will happen? It never happened even once during the past days I was here]
"Just trust me on this," William's eyes were icy cold, "I can sniff a coward from kilometres away. Just hang tight and wait for it…"
Before William would continue his words, a deafening rumble occurred. The loud sound came from the direction of a single peak, and that told William where the heart of the entire formation lay.
"It's coming," William waved his three tails, letting his flying weapons take a full circle around himself, "let me see what you are capable of."
William's wish didn't take long to happen. The next moment, lots of clouds started to appear out of nowhere, covering the entire bright sky, shielding the sun in many spots, turning the entire world into a weird painting.
Each cloud started with a few tens of metres in diameter, before expanding fast, as if it merged with other clouds. The clouds grew from a few tens of metres to cover up a kilometre or two.
William saw the entire sky that was bright moments ago turn ugly dark. Only spots appeared free of any clouds, letting the sun rays fall through them, looking like giant pillars that kept expanding the more they fell closer to the ground.
The clouds started up with white, turned slowly into black, then ended up being dark purple. Seeing these clouds made William's face change at the spot.
"The Black Purple Reign of Darkness? No way! How come he… No way a mere dark gold master can handle such a grand summoning array!!!"
William's heart clenched when he spotted these clouds. He once experienced the true terror of such a summoning array on the hands of one of the strongest dark masters in the outer world.
William would never forget such experience, would never mistake such unique change that was just the first sign of the scary formation.
"No… This can't be the true Black Purple Reign of Darkness formation… That array was strong enough to leave cracks in the outer world for months and years to follow…"
William calmed himself down, started to think more rationally about all this, "not to mention… Activating this formation needs a very capable master, one who can't be just at the pinnacle of power in this world…"
*Rumbl!*
Before William would continue his line of thoughts, fifty rumbles suddenly echoed from various directions at the tops of the mountains.
"Tell me what's going on!" William couldn't see what was happening up there. And yet he knew something grand was indeed occurring up there, and only Ibra could answer his doubts.
