Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"The underground city is open? I thought it was off limits since that incident in the past month…"

"They went there to solve the problem," William paused, "everyone from my guild I mean."

"But it\'s super dangerous down there, damn! Why didn\'t she tell me? I should have gone there and helped!" Sloth seemed more worried about this, but William took things lightly.

"Don\'t worry, it\'s not that dangerous," he paused before adding when the expression over Sloth\'s face didn\'t change, "why not accompany me then? I\'m heading down there now."

"Lead the way then," Sloth wanted to add something, like Anjie better be alright when they\'d arrive there, but he knew it was pointless to say that. William would worry over Anjie the same way he would.

William got into the tower, where he found lots of masters who recognised him but he didn\'t get any familiar faces.

"Sure, sir William is super famous and our local hero, you can follow me to the underground city," one old man bowed slightly in an inviting gesture when he realised why William was here. He did what he promised, led William and Sloth towards the underground city corridor.

"The underground city is forbidden even for the different powers in the city, but our lady instructed that if you came, we\'ll let you through," the old man said while opening a door towards the corridor. And the moment William stepped passed the door, and loud noises came from the direction of the underground city.

"They are fighting hard," the old man paused at the door, "sorry, but I\'m not allowed to step in here for now."

"I understand," William nodded to the man while Sloth sized the man up and down. For a reason, Sloth felt like the man feared more to step into here than to follow orders as he claimed.

"What\'s going on here?" Yet when Sloth went past the entrance and stood by William\'s side over the hill, he froze in his place while watching a scene he never imagined.

He knew about what happened here, and heard about the restrain orders issued by the leaders of the city. But when he stood on top of that hill, he could see a huge number of masters down there, fighting constantly against monsters. The fight extended further deeper into the city, which looked now a truly ruined old city.

"They are sure of the heat today," William smiled widely before he started to release his spirit. And when he did that, the smile slowly faded away, and he started to show the same worried look that appeared first over Sloth\'s face.

From the first look, things were good. Masters were fighting the monsters and managed to push their way through the ruined city. But when he used his spirit sense, he could see much deeper details that changed everything.

"They aren\'t fighting to push forward, they are entrapped!" This was the first thing the two noticed, and Sloth muttered in a low tone filled with anger, "don\'t tell me you are behind this seriously bad situation!"

Sloth turned to William, while the latter didn\'t bother with what he just heard. His main focus was to try and grasp what was going on down there, and where his team was.

As far as he could tell, a great part of the master\'s down there weren\'t part of his guild. They didn\'t wear his guild uniforms, and there weren\'t any of his friends or the ones he knew down there.

"Something is off," after a few minutes of closely checking, he finally spoke up his mind.

"Everything is wrong, terribly wrong!" Sloth was also looking around, for Anjie only. That was why he missed what was bothering William.

"None of these are part of my guild," William turned back to the corridor they just came from, "that old man… Something smells fishy here."

"What do you mean?" Sloth started to regain his composure, linking the dots the same way William did, "are you telling me these masters are outsiders?!!"

"They aren\'t part of my guild," William didn\'t want to jump to conclusions pretty fast, "something is stopping my spirit sense, how about yours?"

William could see things clearly for an area of five kilometres radius. This wasn\'t that much compared to how huge his spirit sense can cover. But every single time he tried to see beyond that, he felt like something blocked his senses, turning him blind.

"Me too," Sloth nodded, "I was concerned more about the ones down there close to us. The outer area has monsters only, no masters."

He was right, but as William knew these masters weren\'t part of his guild, he knew his friends were in the zone he couldn\'t reach with his spirit sense.

"We need to inspect things ourselves then," Sloth took out a long sword, "if you want, you can stay behind me…"

"Follow me, old man," William didn\'t respond to Sloth\'s words except with actions. He took out a dark gold grade sword, and started to climb down the stairs without even waiting for Sloth.

The moment he stepped on the stairs, it felt like he entered a whole new realm. The pressure coming from the world around intensified, and for a moment there he felt how suffocating this pressure was.

"Are you ok?" Unlike him, Sloth walked past William like there wasn\'t anything at all.

"Can\'t you feel it?" William looked at Sloth, and the latter shrugged, "I don\'t know what you are talking about. Let\'s go, we just walked down the first few stairs. Like I said, stay behind me, you just woke up from a long coma as I heard."