Seeing this made everyone try everything to force the monsters from their sudden descent towards the bottom. They used various techniques, releasing torrents of attacks, and finally they found a weak spot.
[Hit their eyes! Their eyes are the main weakness they have to force them change their direction!] The leader who first noticed this hurriedly shared this news to everyone.
Zin made sure to leave one of the leaders or one of the high-end masters on the head of every team. Even William's guild teams also ended with two leading them. And these figures already shared their Message Papers together. Not to mention they could speak with each other at any time using spirit telepathy.
It was a hellish experience, but with more information shared among each other, they managed to pull things through. After many hours they finally started to have a general grasp of the right way to lead these monsters around. And gradually, they started to even enjoy it!
[We need to keep these things by our side, hahahaha! I love it! Hahahaha!]
This comment was now becoming common among everyone, not only the high-end masters and leaders. Everyone was having their fun, and all had a role to play in all this.
During this time, the fall of the ground was already done with, and the entire place was now like a living hell. From now on, this region wouldn't be known for being the Blue Hills, but the Lava Ocean, a highly forbidden zone for any master.
As for the curse in the sky, the clouds that started to shine black before started to grow fainter. Many white lights appeared obscurely first, missed by most masters during the early five hours of riding the monsters' backs.
Gradually everyone started to notice these white lights. This wasn't only thanks to them getting used to how to ride and guide these monsters, but also thanks to the spread and intensity of the lights themselves.
During the past hours, Leo and his team managed to purify and deactivate much of this curse. This might be something hard to pull in such a short time, but they already dealt with something like this before. Armed up with their experience, they managed to stop the deadly part of this curse. And all it remained now was to force this curse to fade away and vanish from this world.
This might take long hours and even days, but Leo's Scarlet Eye legion knew what to do. During all this, the masters standing outside couldn't help but notice these weird masters.
They used weird methods to deal with the clouds. And even if no one got what they were doing, it was easy to link the dots and know these people had something to do with the curse getting weaker and under control.
As they were here to help, everyone started to offer their services. To Leo and his team, this was one of the rarest moments to face such a situation.
After all, Leo and his legion always ended up with people infected by curses, and they got to kill all of them. As Leo saw this, he decided to make the best use of them.
He instructed them to start forming supporting arrays. They might not know anything about the mystical ways Leo's legion was using, but with these supporting arrays things were going much easier for them.
Things at the outer world were getting slowly under control, yet this wasn't the case for William. The latter already knew he was in an illusion grand formation, and so he started to break it apart.
Breaking any illusion formation or array wasn't that hard as long as the caster wasn't around to modify and strengthen it. The hardest part actually in taking down any illusion was to first realise the world around was illusion, not reality. Then the second most hurdle would be to locate the one controlling the formation, trying to take him down or push him away from the formation.
William already got these two problems solved. And now he just had to crack this formation open using another formation. Doing the breaking formation wasn't that hard, and he simply did it without having many problems.
"This…" Yet when he finished his formation and activated it, he found the world around shatter. And then a world made of lava, fiery monsters, and even falling burning meteorites appeared next in front of his eyes.
"This damn bastard!" William had to struggle to evade and survive the falling attacks. He was pretty sure this was an illusion, one that played on the current possibilities of the changes happening in the outer world.
The sky and ground out there were covered with two deadly traps. One of these two was enough to let lava gush out, and the other one was unknown to William.
Yet when he saw these weird monsters, the ones which would never be here in this tiny world as they were with wings, William realised fast this was also an illusion. And this illusion wasn't meant to entrap him, it was meant to shatter his spirit and kill him.
William used his two weapons and spirit body to evade everything falling and coming at him. He didn't bother to waste his spirit power on killing these illusions. Be it monsters, lava, or burning meteorites, they weren't real to begin with.
As he started to roam around, he kept scattering materials to form another grand formation. Yet this time it was much harder than before. Many materials burnt once they got in touch with lava or the falling burning rocks. And that made him spare more time to make defensive arrays around the materials, wasting much time in doing this.
Breaking the first illusion took him roughly one hour, but breaking this one took him twenty. When William broke it, he found himself standing inside a big yard, made out of stone, filled with plants that grew without order. And there he found someone waiting for him.