Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

Sloth's thought drifted towards Fang, but soon enough he dropped the idea, "if that old monster had such power, he'd have used it already. No, it's not him…" Sloth was very curious to know from where William learnt such technique. But soon enough, his attention got diverted to the swarms of weak enemies who came at his direction.

"Scram!" Sloth wasn't in the mood to play with these weaklings. But for a moment there, he recalled something, "I need to know where you came from, and what are you doing here… So…"

He cracked his knuckles and looked in an evil way towards the incoming masters. William didn't bother about this point, but Sloth felt like he shouldn't neglect that.

As he started to interrogate those masters while killing those who weren't cooperative, William was pushing forward amidst the masters and monsters.

"This technique is the nemesis for those monsters indeed…" After a few more attempts, William could tell his new technique was sweeping monsters like they were nothing.

Monsters were hard to deal with, as they always hid through the ground, attacked and ran away without warning. But now they couldn't hold their advantage against his technique.

For a reason, the areas he attacked with the technique seemed to dig the monsters out of the ground. He couldn't see clearly though the waves of attacks, but he could tell the monsters were drawn to something in his technique, luring them out of their safe spots in the ground.

At some point, he had to check the areas he attacked to make sure his technique didn't cut the earth open or something.

From examining the leftovers of his technique using spirit sense, he found out that most of the masters got killed and never left behind anything worthy. But this was different for monsters.

The monsters looked as if they got dried up, as if their bodies got drained from any fluids. Their outer physique shrank slightly, with most of it being hidden under the ground still. Yet when he went there and examined these leftovers, he could tell even their bones were intact.

"Hmm, it's like a direct blow to their spirit power… The evolved decay power I got seems to work better on monsters, but why?"

He was slightly puzzled by this, yet he didn't have many options here. The monsters were all touched by the evolved space power, and he couldn't tell if such effect was just limited to these monsters here or was generally at all monsters.

"In any case, this is a great bonus," he shrugged, "now it's time to look for my friends… Where are they? And what's wrong with that point out there?"

William thought the limitation enforced over his spirit sense was just a limit in range. But this proved wrong. As he advanced and crossed a few miles, he couldn't still bypass the point that his spirit sense stopped at before.

That meant one thing, something there was stopping any spirit sense from intervening. "Aside from natural causes, like space power going rampant, there could be an array installed there or something…"

As he kept drawing closer to that zone, he kept thinking about the possibilities behind this. He knew even with the presence of a special space element here, this held the least possibility ever. "I lean more towards those folks using such arrays, and if so, that means there must be other arrays to isolate any outsiders from intervening…"

He looked around, at the scared faces of the masters. Even if they knew they weren't a match to him, they still kept coming as if they feared nothing. "Why bother asking when I'm this close to finding out the truth? Besides… There is someone else doing this for me."

William was eyeing what Sloth was doing the same way Sloth was eyeing him. He could see Sloth fighting and interrogating the masters around, but so far he failed to grasp something useful. Even if they were on the verge of dying, they never spoke openly about anything related to their origin, or the purpose of their presence here.

"I'll find out soon," William turned to the front, where there was less than two miles between him and that zone, "I'll find out everything out there."

He didn't need any spirit sense to tell him that his team was surrounded out there, deep into that part of the underground city. Yet trying to see anything through the tons of enemies, debris, and ruined buildings filling the entire city was impossible.

If he had to know the truth and find his team, he had to go there himself and force his way through everything. And that wasn't a problem to him until he reached that edge of that zone.

*Sizzle!*

"Yes, it's a man-made thing then," as he released an attack that touched the edge of this region, it was clear that it was made by masters.

He unleashed many attacks already, and was familiar with what these attacks would cause. But when he got close enough, his last attack landed and a big part of it got stopped by some sort of a hidden barrier.

The shattered black ball pieces didn't expand like usual, instead almost one third of the pieces got stuck at a barrier, one that rose from the ground to the sky.

As there was something able to stop his technique, it told him how strong the arrays implemented there were. But he didn't jump to considering solutions, waited for the second and more devastating part of his technique to kick in.

And as if his technique got insulted and enraged by such a barrier, almost most of the attacks landed at that barrier. In front of him, the thick tongues of lightning and flashes of lights kept piling up and rising in intensity while the fog swirled and rose higher, trying to dominate that barrier with brutal force.

"Get it," William stood from behind as if he was cheering for his technique. But as expected, the technique failed to crush the barrier.