The city masters lost their control over the portal area, and that was indeed quite a severe blow as they lost almost all the formations laid down by William in this region.
As for the Lingerie's masters, they lost a substantial number of them. On top of that, the damage received to the portal was enough to delay the reinforcements, making them feel like they didn't gain any advantage at all by controlling this area.
And as the city masters retreated back to the surface of the underground city, William arrived!
He already was briefed and updated of everything happening here during his travels. He was informed by Sloth's weird scroll of communication. And as they were in the middle of a heated fight, the latter couldn't say more than the update and ended the technique.
William wanted to issue orders, but he failed to catch up with Sloth's fast arrival and departure. And so, the moment he arrived at the underground city, even before he landed from the cliff, he shouted on the top of his lung:
"Don't give them a break! Attack! Keep hammering that damn portal area and kill as many masters as you can!"
His shout came to startle everyone. They all looked at the direction the voice came from and couldn't help but wonder why he said that.
"Just do it!" as he saw the master army here standing motionless, didn't react to his words, he shouted again, "do it!"
"He must be crazy!" Fang shook his head, "but if he said so, then let's do it!"
"This doesn't make any sense!" Sloth looked at Fang in a weird way, "are you sure?"
"I've seen crazy stuff with that lad, but all the time he knows what's the best way to win. So yeah, let's do it!"
"..." Sloth didn't know if William was the crazy one or Fang. But as Fang decided to step back into the portal area, Sloth decided to follow.
He came and didn't head directly towards the portal area. From that moment he got the latest report from Sloth about what happened to the portal area, and he knew what was going to happen.
He knew the masters on his side would retreat back to the surface, leaving the space for Lingerie's masters, fearing the endless swarms of masters coming from the portal.
But he knew this wasn't going to happen. And as he knew this, he started to build more plans on top of this fact. The first order he gave was for the top masters to move back to the portal area and keep hammering the masters there.
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He didn't want to give these masters any time to breeze and prepare any traps. As Lingerie's masters would realise what was going to happen, they'd lean towards fortifying the portal area until enough masters would arrive from the other side.
So the top priority was to keep them pressured, not giving them any time to think about doing any trap. As for him, William had another task to do.
"Gather around," William said to his friends, "I need your help with something..."
"I'm in, count me in, count me in!" Just as he said these words to his friends, he heard Sara's mother's voice coming from far away. She was eavesdropping on him from the very first moment he arrived here. And once he said these words, she got the feeling he was going to say something important, something related to the Humming Bird formation.
"Mom!" Sara rolled her eyes the moment she heard her mother's voice, "you were absent all this time!"
"I won't miss helping my daughter and her man," Sara's mother was acting shamelessly, without any speck of hesitation, "I'm your mother, let me help."
"Ok," William gave Sara's mother a serious look. He knew even if he shoved her away, she'd still listen to everything he'd say.
So, it was futile to chase her away.
"Listen up, right now the situation down there is going to determine the fate of this battle. The portal is broken, won't deliver any masters from the other side anytime soon. The masters going down there are going to create a gap for us, and we need to lay down new formations before Lingerie fixes the portal from her end."