Chapter 1221: Using The New Technique
Sloth thought William was acting weird thanks to the long coma he suffered recently. In fact, he acted out of kindness before, but William mistook his actions.
"This isn't related to that comma," William muttered to himself, while feeling harder the closer they got from the ground, "it's not a spirit power suffocation… It's like a clash of something from outside with something within me… Is it related to that spirit?"
William couldn't help but move his attention towards the spirit he gained lately from here. That monster was bizarre in the first place, and its spirit must have held tons of secrets, rather than the ones he explored already.
But as Sloth was walking normally, he had to keep up. He had no time to investigate what was going on, and so he decided to activate his spirit at once to counter that pressure.
"Using that this early on?!!" Sloth paused when William's fox spirit appeared, "do you want to retreat and let me handle this?"
"It's fine," William said these words calmly, but inside, he felt a tornado brewing inside. The moment he activated his fox spirit, and something tapped into his spirit power, something that was previously suffocatingly pressuring him.
The moment he activated his spirit and gained his spirit body, it felt like all the pressure was gone. Instead of being pressured, he felt like an external power was gushing fast and in copious amounts, heading directly towards his spirit.
He knew it wasn't spirit power, or else it'd affect everyone else, Sloth included. He knew it was something related to the new spirit he gained, and so he started to think about what this would be.
"It's not touching my spirit power at least," he closed his eyes and examined his spirit power, to end up feeling no change in it, "so… What is it?"
Before he'd figure out what initially pressured then supported him, the two arrived at the ground.
"Intruders!" and even before they'd touch the ground, few of the masters around shouted the moment they noticed them, "stop them! Stop them at all costs!"
"They sure are friendly," Sloth evilly grinned, "wait here, let me deal with these fools first then we can handle the monsters together."
"Be my guest," William didn't want to go into battle directly when he got something to test his powers. On top of that, from the look of it, these weird masters were too many in number, but too weak in their overall strength.
As expected, releasing Sloth over them was like releasing a tiger over a horde of sheep. The masters couldn't hold a candle in front of Sloth, and all William could hear were screams of panic, pain, and agony.
But he didn't mind himself with any of that. He left the task of clearing the space around over to Sloth while he tried to get what was wrong with his body.
"It seems I can't get a head or tail about what's going on… Then…" William looked around, with an evil look over his face, "let's test my new technique then."
William didn't find a clue by examining himself, so he had to practically test his powers to see what changed. As he had the hunch that everything was related to his newly gained spirit, he decided to go with his semi-finished technique.
He already developed a great part of it, but it wasn't still done. There were still many rooms for improvement and modification. Yet for now, it was enough to deal with the weak enemies around.
"Pick a side," all of sudden, William took out his sword, dashed forward while shouting in warning, "this is a strong technique, but I can't fully control it."
"If you can't control it, don't butt yourself in then!" Sloth felt speechless. Moments ago, William was struggling to keep himself standing on both feet. And now he was going to use a technique he didn't master yet?
But it was too late to stop William. The latter didn't dash forward to release the technique, only moved forward, evading the surrounding enemies, or hitting them randomly with his sword.
His aim was to bypass the encirclement of these masters, and head directly towards the monsters deep inside. He knew the masters wouldn't pose a threat or a challenge to him and Sloth. His main focus was to test his new technique over the monsters and see how things would turn out.
"I'll release it now," when he got close enough to see the monsters up front, William shouted to warn Sloth from coming closer to him, "stay back there, keep them busy."
"You…" Sloth was getting on the edge thanks to William, but before he'd complete his words, William released his attack.
The technique was launched without a weapon, against what Sloth imagined. The first thing William did was to plant the sword to the ground, roll his sleeves up, before forking his fingers in a grasping motion.
"Let there be death," William muttered to the incarnation fast, but Sloth could hear the last words he mumbled before the attack landed.
The moment William unleashed his new technique, a huge ball of darkness appeared. It wasn't a normal one, even if it grew to a twenty metres radius, it still gave Sloth bad vibes.
The ball expanded in one breath to such a size, then stopped. When Sloth looked closer, he could see arcs of lightning dancing across its surface, but for a reason they got engulfed all with the darkness.
He could see sparks of small dots of lights that popped up and died fast across the surface of that ball as well. And before he'd got any clue of what was going to happen, William suddenly lowered both hands down, as if he was carrying this ball with his bare hands, and was about to throw it away.
And it flew, past over the heads of masters, then monsters. The ball travelled fast, crossing a thousand metres in a single breath, before it finally landed on the ground.
*Boom!*