"Use your potions! Don't get left behind! Keep pushing forward! Follow William!" Ibra, Ro, and Sara kept shouting like this all the time. While their voices kept fading away in the middle of the battle happening around, and the explosive noises that kept ranging all the time.
"Sh*t! What the hell does he want to do?!"
"No, this isn't the right question, but how come he can do all this without even feeling tired?!!"
"Speaking about this, I'm already panting and all I'm doing is just running around and chasing after him!!!"
More comments like these kept coming from his team while William kept fighting like a f*cking asura lord. The battle didn't start for more than an hour, and yet they felt like they were in it for days!
"Watch out! Dark spirit masters are here!" out of the blue, Thomas' voice suddenly came to startle everyone.
"Prepare for the impact!" just as Thomas shouted, the tree line shook and many dark shadows appeared.
As if they were missing these dark spirit masters in such a hectic battle. And the moment these scary folks arrived; William suddenly stopped moving.
It came as if he got scared of them or something. However, none got that at this moment, and deep inside that weird world of his, William was feeling puzzled.
Soon enough the dark spirit masters started to attack. All the hits that came towards William got negated by his necklace. But that didn't help any of his team members at all.
They got hit badly, and many even got wounded. They tried to resist, but it seemed the frontline got scary dark gold grade ones in their roster!
"Retreat!" Without even waiting for a single more second, Ibra's shout came to make everyone retreat.
And just at this moment, William acted!
*Rumble!*
The hit he delivered to the newly arrived dark spirit masters was enough to cause the entire ground to tremble fiercely. Then a violent explosion occurred, and a very deep crater appeared, alongside many heart curdling agonising screams.
"This…"
"He is fighting again!"
"The fox is back! Hahahaha! We are saved!"
His team was shouting in triumph before the vice leaders rallied them around, returned to fight again. With William dealing with the scary dark gold enemies, there was nothing to worry about.
"Gather rings!" Just when the battle stretched to cover a vast space here, Berry suddenly shouted.
"This isn't the time to go greedy!"
"It's better to keep fighting!"
Others in the team questioned and even argued back with her weird shout.
"Did you forget it or what? Didn't he tell us the most important thing to do is to gather up rings in this adventure? Let's do it! He seems to not notice any rings or anything at all!"
Berry's words made them all recall the few words William said to them before they started this crazy hunt. He indeed stressed over this point. And he was truly not noticing the grand number of rings his dead and fallen enemies had.
"F*ck it! Fine, let's do it!" Ibra cursed before adding, "at the end of my glorious life, I'm now working as a battlefield scavenger for a mere bronze grade spirit master!"
"He isn't bronze grade anymore! Don't you see that silver light that surrounded him from before?!" Sara retorted back. And Ibra waved his glaive around for a couple of times, before landing it heavily over the heads of a few monsters and weak dark spirit masters around.
"He will remain that bronze grade kid in my eyes even if he reaches the pinnacle!"
Everyone around suddenly laughed, feeling like the great pressure they faced up till now got removed by Ibra's words. It went without saying that he was envious towards William, everyone here was.
He just stood there in his place, before he turned into a silver grade spirit master. In their eyes, it was the smoothest way to jump through ranks ever spoken or heard about before.
Back in the weird world of shadows, William was now struggling to take down a few enemies around. He found out that few of them wouldn't fall after hitting them with his technique, even if he stacked five or seven of his attacks together.
"Don't tell me these are dark gold grade calibre foes! Dammit! What kind of test this crazy one is?!!"
William guessed most of what he was passing through right now. When he passed through silver grade, some form of test was formulated by the universe for him.
He had to fight the enemies coming for him in that world. And without knowing if it was unlucky for him or to his foes, he got a shitload of enemies right now to deal with!
Everything he was doing in this weird fog world was reflected on the real one. In return for this, he got tapped into the limitless and boundless spirit power reserve of the entire world. He could freely use up his power without any restraints. And that was the biggest advantage William had right now.
As there were such scary shadow enemies here, William tested it and found out that his body wouldn't suffer anything if he let them freely attack. He mistook things over and thought this was some sort of a setting of the test, not the effect of his necklace affected by his endless supply of spirit power.
"So, in here, I'm immortal! Hahahaha! F*ck you all then. Do you think being a dark gold grade is enough to stop me? Watch me then!"
This time, he started to store up his attacks to reach a scary figure of fifty times or something. And when he landed his attack at last, the real world shook violently while a gigantic ball of light came with a very violent explosion.
"Damn! Take cover!"
"Use your potions!"
"Spare none to survive this!"
The team was already close to William when that explosion landed. And without the need for anyone to shout, they all tried to run and use all the methods they got to survive.