Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

In the next hour, loud noises started to echo from the direction of the base, meaning the battle already started. William spread his spirit sense and could see parts of what the king and others did.

They took this base as a fort and started hunting all the enemies coming from the upper surface.

He spotted monsters and dark masters flooding from up there, passing through the holes, and ending up falling into the deadly traps the masters laid already. They couldn't get past the traps, as there were tons of masters waiting around, killing everyone and everything falling from up there.

The enemies poured forces like endless rain, and it was clear if they persisted like this, nothing would change. 

"They have dark masters, and that means they'll find another way to come here," William slowly muttered, moving his senses towards the king and other high-end masters out there. 

They were giving orders, arranging lines, and ordering for more arrays and traps to be built. Just seeing this made William calmer, as they reached the same conclusion as him.

"Is everything going to be alright?" After six hours of fighting, the enemy already found a way into here. They dug many holes at the surface, and even dug twisted paths and tunnels, opening at unexpected places.

The fight was raging wild out there, and enemies were flooding the base in huge numbers.

William couldn't see everything happening, as the base was very vast to begin with. And Anjie next to him couldn't see even one-tenth of what he was able to detect using spirit sense.

"It's going to be ok," he paused, "the enemies are coming strong, but we aren't losing either."

He was right, as the king and other high-end masters made sure to fill the entire base with tons of traps and arrays. The moment the enemies gained any new foothold, these traps and arrays got detonated and activated. 

The enemies suffered tons of losses, and during these periods, the masters had time to retreat and regroup. 

The situation might look scary from the outside, but things weren't that bad. William took note of how the king and other high-end masters controlled this grand-scale war without losing too much, without losing focus on the main goal of all this.

They weren't fighting to kill the enemies but to buy as much time as possible until the portal would get uncovered. So they made sure that every gained metre by the enemy would come at a great cost, and would take a long time for them to secure.

Time passed slowly on everyone, and after ten more hours, the entire portal was now exposed totally.

It was a huge circular-shaped portal, seemingly engraved over the rocky ceiling. William could see spiral-shaped lines running and shining from time to time inside, while faint shimmering symbols appeared in faint silver light.

"This needs a huge spirit power to activate…"

William noticed how high-level this portal was. It wasn't the type to run over materials forming it, but needed external aid as well.

"Gather up," William knew this wasn't the right time for this to happen. The situation out there was volatile, and they needed more time now to power up this portal, "we'll divide into one hundred-man teams, each will stand on this pattern…" William drew something on the ground, showing a spiral-shaped diagram, one that sounded like the portal above, yet in a smaller-sized version.

He marked the one hundred spots for masters to stand on top of. Then he made sure to teach them the right incantation for this array to get activated.

"What's it for?" Anjie grew curious and asked, while she and the newly joined masters to the guild stood and formed that array.

"It's for gathering spirit power," William said, "just do as everyone, sit down and train."

"How about you?" Anjie asked, feeling curious about what William intended to do.

"Nothing," he shrugged, "you are more than enough to power up this portal. Let's start!" he turned to everyone and gave the signal for all of them to start.

There were a little more than two thousand masters here, not that high number actually. That made him estimate that activating this portal would take roughly five to ten more hours to get activated.

They did like he said, and then wisps of spirit power started to slowly rise up from the arrays, soon turning into thick torrents. At the same time, he paid close attention to the portal at the ceiling.

"It's taking much longer than usual…" William muttered, before turning to the statues around, "Any suggestions?"

Yet his question got no valuable answer. After all, the only one who knew everything about this portal was the wolf statue.

"We'll need more time this way," William had to deal with the current situation realistically, "I'll go and help them then."

He didn't take part in the ongoing battles as he didn't see any need for him to do so. But right now, things changed and he had to help, buy more time, without risking the loss of many.

The situation out there was slightly changed by a thin thread. The king and others were keeping the balance between their side and the enemy. Yet this balance was dangerous, as it was fragile.

If a single front got breached, tons of enemy forces would push forward and penetrate through the frontlines, ending up creating more chaos and deaths.

The king and others were aware of the reveal of the entire gate, and they might have thought it was close to getting out from there. But when they noticed William moving out, he knew things weren't developing for the better as they thought. 

"What's wrong?"

"Is something wrong?"

"What happened to the gate?"

"Why are you coming here?"

Many voices shouted in his mind directly using spirit telepathy. William felt an instant headache, and couldn't help but shout:

"Shut up! It's annoying to hear all of you at the same time!" he took a deep breath while running forward, "hear it well as I'll say it once…"