The battle between high-end forces was intense and quite deadly. So it was expected for the weaker forces on both sides to move away from any place near these.
The high-end masters led by Sloth placed the mission of protecting other weaker masters in front of their eyes. But to the dark masters, this wasn't a thing to consider in the first place.
That made them try to engage weaker masters in the ongoing battles, ending up with Sloth and others expanding the area of their fights, asking other masters to retreat and evacuate, and ending up forming isolated areas in the middle of the masters' army.
When new high-end enemies would pop up, Fang would interfere and keep them a little busy. Then others would come and shoulder the pressure off him, before taking them away from the area close to the gate.
This kept happening for seven hours. During which, William and other masters never felt the same pressure they felt before inside that pocket world. Compared to before, this was like walking in the park to them.
And that wasn't inclusive for them. The high-end masters felt the same. At least they could cooperate to take down a single high-end enemy, and most of these were monsters.
Dark masters were clever enough to not come here and throw their lives. They must have heard the news, and they stopped showing up in large numbers after the first two hours.
"Great news," after seven hours, a loud shout came from the middle of the army. Without the need to look, William knew he was the king, "reinforcements are here! They are upon us already!"
Just as his words landed, many masters could see a large number of masters, dressing in different uniforms and attires, running in groups, heading towards the enemies coming from the hill.
Just from the first look, it was easy to tell how grand this army was. "They are finally here, and here I thought they'd never come," William said while showing an evil smile on his face, one that teased Fang greatly and left him venting over what he was feeling over the enemies around without saying anything.
After fighting for all this time, they never showed any sign of receiving damage or getting tired. In fact, they were shining brighter than before, something that told William they were doing just great.
"You did well," he didn't miss the other addition to his team, the enemy that kept bringing him trouble at every corner, the Nightmare monster.
That monster was a killing machine! It kept using weird techniques, cleaving the heads of tons of enemies in a short time. William didn't see it use the infamous cloning ability, yet it seemed like it never needed to do so in the first place.
"Hmph," the monster sat next to him, without saying anything else. It wasn't like the balls of lights, suffered a few wounds here and there, and was pretty exhausted by the end of this war.
"Come on, we'll have a big party to celebrate our victory soon," William laughed, teasing this monster and recalling that it killed the folks who were once his most trusted allies.
"Hmph," the monster didn't say anything again, simply closed its eyes, and enjoyed these moments without the need to fight.
William kept that evil smile on his face for a few minutes. He knew that the monster was dying from the inside of what it did. And that made William feel more satisfied.
He changed his smile to a sweetheart laugh when Anjie appeared. She was tired, wounded like everyone else, but that didn't prevent her from walking and climbing until she arrived at his side.
Once there, Anjie let her body collapse, before throwing her head deeply into his embrace.
William patted her head while looking around. To him, this was just the perfect conclusion for such a long battle.