William started to explain everything he did, the reason behind starting such a short-term war, and why he ordered a haste retreat.
"You recruited one of the enemy masters?!!"
"She is called Jenny?!"
"Will she do what you wanted from her?"
"Will this enforce my mother's hand and make her succumb to your wishes?"
"You sought out another girl? Don't you have enough with all of us here?!!"
Once he finished speaking, many expressed their shock and doubts. William calmly listened to all this, ignoring the comments regarding him recruiting another girl.
"I know it sounds weird, but yes, I know she will do it," William confidently said, "we don't need to worry about her, but about your mother."
He and everyone looked at Sara, and the latter sighed. "I can tell she won't easily accept such a result," she muttered, and William nodded.
"She would accept this situation eventually," William calmly said, "but first she'll try to vent her rage on us. You saw how strong and capable she and her masters are. We need to put extra effort in laying down traps and strengthening our defences..."
"Will that be enough?" Fang said, speaking in a more realistic, terrified tone, "I fought against her and other masters on her side... They are the real deal!"
"Don't forget, we were the ones invading their turf," William commented, "and when they come here, they'll be the ones invading ours."
"But..."
"Don't worry," William took out a few scrolls from one of his rings, "these are related to grand formation, one that can be used by gold grade masters at least and can stop them."
There were other ways to do so, which would leave behind lots of traces. And yet she didn't find anything out of the ordinary down there. It was clear the one who did it was eligible to go to the outer world.
"No one in this world has reached that level of power yet, which means..." she moved her eyes, looking at the rocky ceiling. She was looking at the direction of her masters, and that was where she knew she'd find the answer to this puzzlement.
She realised one of her own went out of their way and helped William. She didn't know who he or she was, and she needed to figure that out first before guessing the deal they had with William.
But there was a simple problem, many of the masters lost their lives in the past attack. If it was at other times, she'd simply gathered everyone and saw who wasn't present. But now she needed to first gather the dead, see who was missing from the alive and dead lists.
This task would take roughly a day as William expected. And by the end of that day, Sara's mother finally found the traitor.
"Jenny!" she gritted her teeth, clenched tightly on her fists, while rage stormed inside her spirit. She called Jenny over to kill William, eventually failing. But she never imagined for the two to come close to each other, even to the extent of working against her in such a way.
"Did he just help her to escape? Or is there something else I don't know about?"
The simple explanation for all this was for William to risk everything and do this useless little show back then to help Jenny escape. Yet this didn't add up.
She met William many times already, and he never gave her the impression he'd do something out of charity. Besides, there wasn't an option for William and Jenny to meet enough to fall in love with each other or something.
"That bastard... He knew I'd get stuck in the end!" In the middle of her rage, she destroyed the seat she used with a single punch filled with her spirit power.
Seeing their leader this enraged made other masters around gulp and tremble inwardly in fear. "You asked for me to pay you a visit, and I'll do it... But don't regret inviting me over..."
She moved her eyes and looked at everyone around, "gather up, we are going to visit that bastard. Make sure to show him how generous our palace is!"
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And just like that, Sara's mother gathered everyone on her side and started to move out from the underground city. William guessed all this, but never expected she'd come with all of her masters.