"Damn you! Why does it always have to be this hard whenever you are around?" Sloth cursed, feeling more enraged about the crazy possibility William just proposed, "Tell me then, how can we deal with this traitor? How to expose him? You don't expect me to go around shouting: "Who is the traitor here?!!"
"There is indeed a simple way to uncover him…" William then told Sloth about his plan. And the more he spoke, Sloth's face eased up.
"I like this plan of yours," he nodded, "in the worst-case scenario, the king will be saved, right?"
"He will be saved from the toxin," William refused to give such a huge promise, but that didn't bother Sloth.
"As long as you can cure him of this damn toxin, then it's fine. Leave other stuff to grown-up men."
William didn't object to such a statement, before seeing Sloth walking away. He did everything he could to save the king, and extricate everyone from this impending crisis. And now it came down to one more task to do.
He initially wanted Sloth to come and act as a distraction with his team. He wanted to explore and scout the reason behind this attack and the ones standing behind it. Yet he already got the answer.
There were many monster gates releasing endless swarms of monsters towards here. This meant whoever was attacking the capital was prepared for this for a long time already. And that also told him a lot about the identity of the people standing behind all this.
His first doubts drifted toward the Nightmare monster. But now he has changed his mind. This couldn't be the work of a single enemy, it must be a collaboration of many dark masters for a long time, much longer than the transformation of the Nightmare monster and becoming one of the Mutants!
He didn't know how big the dark master net of groups was in this, but he was sure they must have thought about different scenarios before starting their operation. And that made him suspect the presence of a traitor even more.
The deadliest enemy wasn't the one known to the master, but the one hiding in the shadows, acting as his friend and most trusted ally.
William knew where he had to look for evidence leading to these despicable masterminds, the monster gate area. He wasn't that delusional to think about taking care of them alone. But he'd use the distraction caused by what Sloth and others were about to do and sneak deeper behind enemy lines.
As he decided, he moved toward the direction Sloth specified. He continued to kill monsters like usual, not finding any trouble in dealing with them. Yet he knew the moment he'd arrive there, he'd be faced with monsters and dark masters.
So he refrained from using his arrows or grenades, leaving them for later. As he kept advancing forward, he thought about another dilemma.I think you should take a look at
"The monster gates are damn hard to crack… Back then I used the help of tons of dark gold Scarlet Bears to tear them down. I can't repeat that move now… And without closing them, they'll keep pouring fresh reinforcements for the dark masters. I need to make them feel more pressure…"
He thought about this dilemma while walking towards the monster gate area. For the first time ever, he felt more regret that his enemies this time weren't the Scarlet Bears. Or else he'd have an easy time dealing with these gates, dealing with the entire army of monsters and dark masters.
He threw such thoughts behind his back when he spotted the gathering of gates from far. When Sloth mentioned them, he imagined the gates to be around twenty or thirty at most. Yet they were in the hundreds!
Seeing such a grand number of monster gates made William surer that at least one hundred different groups of dark masters were taking part in this operation. He didn't know how many groups of these dirty masters were active in the kingdom, but he doubted there were such a huge number of them.
"Don't tell me the entire dark masters of the continent are working together…" his thoughts jumped towards such a crazy conclusion, and yet it was the only one that could solve such a scene.
William stopped a few kilometres away from the gates, and watched how things were going out there using his spirit sense. He couldn't reach the gates using his spirit sense, but he saw how monsters ran in the direction of the entrapped royal family the moment they came out of the gates.
"Like this, what I did wasn't effective at all," he didn't need anyone to tell him that. It was clear with all these monsters gushing out from the gates that the losses he tried to bring to the dark master leaders weren't enough to make them even feel any worry.
"I have to shut these down…" William knew even if he released all of his grenades together, the most he'd do to a single monster gate was a few cracks. He didn't have any power to deal with these gates, but he wasn't alone in this war.
"I'll wait for them then," William wanted to add more pressure by synchronising his attack with Sloth and others. But as he got no power to stop these gates, he decided to keep killing monsters, trying to relieve pressure over Sloth's side.????????????????????????????????.????????????
As he started to fight desperately, many monsters came from the gates to keep him busy. He kept his focus on the overall region using his spirit sense, and the things he saw didn't make him feel any satisfaction at all.
He was killing tons of monsters, but tons more were gushing out from the portals every single second. He was like trying to stop a flood using a single tree branch, a fragile thin one on top of that.
Yet he didn't stop what he was doing. Even if it was pointless, he didn't dare to stop. As he couldn't stop the incoming monster flood, he decided to work on scouting the entire area.
