William moved quickly. He created an improved Perfect Array of Speed in less than a minute to boost his movement to the maximum, then amplified it further with the Wind and Lightning Elements, rushing towards the entrance of the trial tower at a speed that was much too fast for any of the Cultivators outside to react.
While running, William dodged left and right, seemingly for no reason, but he was using both his Navigation Talent and what he knew from the Tower Token to avoid every trap inside the first floor.
The Cultivators outside noticed this and became nervous, "How does he know where all of our traps are?"
"There must be a traitor among us!" someone shouted.
The bald-headed man with a battleaxe spoke up, "It's no matter whether there is or not. Just beat him until he can no longer move!"
The man raised his axe, which another Cultivator had amplified with a few dozen Intermediate Arrays over the last few days, then made a swiping motion, releasing a dozen Wind Blades that would even cause heavy damage to a Golden Core Beast.
A hundred other Cultivators formed a line with the bald-headed man and launched as many powerful Magic Spells as they could to back him up, knowing that the Wind Blades wouldn't be enough to stop William, who hadn't even brought out his Array Puppets for some reason.
Hundreds of Spells were unleashed, but none of the attacks were simple. Ice spread across the ground to hinder William's movement, while tiny fireballs less than an inch in size shot like a wave of bullets towards William at high speed, their piercing power threatening to tear his Forcefield apart if too many of them hit.
William did a somersault, dodging all of the tiny fireballs, not willing to damage his Forcefield so early on in the fight. He ran at full speed the moment the fireballs passed over his head, using a flamethrower spell to melt the ice in front of him at the same speed he ran.
The Cultivators weren't done yet. They had practiced dealing with William for many days now, and many of those who weren't present when William beat up the bald-headed man with his Array Puppets thought that it was complete overkill.
They couldn't see William clearly because of the flamethrower spell, but it was enough to tell the general direction. A dozen Cultivators with the Earth Element raised two thick walls of earth directly in front of William, hoping for him to crash while his vision was obscured.
On the two sides of the Earth Wall, pits that had been dug out in advance were opened, revealing thousands of punji sticks in a hundred-meter-deep hole.
The Arrays became stronger over time, given their absorption effect that used the Mana of the Spells to improve its strength. An issue that William had just noticed, however, was that the Absorption Arrays could only absorb so much Mana at once, while the rest would actually damage the barrier.
William did his best to keep the Arrays up, as that was his strongest defense against these Cultivators. He tried to keep the Mana consumption to a minimum, only using small and precise attacks to disable one Cultivator at a time. Read first at mvl _em _pyr.
He didn't have any Mana Regeneration potions left, so William ate a Mana Dragon's Blood Essence to restore a sizable chunk of his Mana Reserves and increase his Mana Regeneration by another 75. His Mana Reserves also reached two thousand Mana.
There was one Blood Essence remaining in his Space Rings, meaning he hadn't received any from the golden box that he had opened earlier.
William wasn't worried about it not being enough. He just needed to reduce the number of Cultivators to a manageable level before his Arrays were exhausted.
Hundreds of Cultivators died over the next few minutes, his Lightning and Water Arrays being the source of most of their deaths. The other Cultivators realized this as well, but the range of the Arrays were longer than the range of their attacks, so moving further away wouldn't help at all.
They focused on their defense, blocking the attacks of the Lightning and Water Arrays, as well as the Bow Puppet's arrows. It was a funny sight, seeing thousands of Cultivators on the defensive against a single opponent, but William didn't blame them.
The trial tower had proven that his strength matched the Nascent Soul Realm, and even exceeded it in some aspects. If they wanted any chance at receiving the treasures from William's body, they needed to treat William like a boss monster!
William consumed the last Blood Essence at the three-hour mark, when the number of enemy Cultivators had been reduced to half. His Mana Regeneration had increased by only 50 this time, and the maximum storage of his Mana Reserve improved by a hundred.
While William was sad about the diminishing effects, it was understandable. How can a natural treasure have the same increase every time? Wouldn't that make it a godly item if it did?
He spent a large amount of his replenished Mana on a massive Ice and Wind Fusion Spell that sent a blizzard rolling through the enemy Cultivators, freezing every enemy it touched.
William used the Bow Puppet to target the legs of the frozen Cultivators, shattering their lower bodies while the upper body remained untouched, their faces frozen in fear at the sudden development.