Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1415: The Twofold Plan

"Aim well and shoot hard," she replied, her voice steadying as she felt the weight of the projectiles. "It’s as simple as that." Without another word, she unsheathed her bow, notched an arrow, and unleashed a whistling streak of fire into the fray.

As the girls began their desperate stand, William carved a path of ruin toward the fortress. He moved with a singular, grim focus.

He knew that if he spent days methodically slaughtering the masters in the courtyard, he would achieve nothing.

This fortress was a hub; its existence implied dozens of portals linked to various corners of the world, all feeding this central staging ground.

If he stayed here, he would merely be moving the "slaughterhouse" from Lara’s city to the foot of this fortress. The body count would rise, but the flow would never stop, and the overall course of the war would remain unchanged. He had to be more surgical.

Leaving the girls behind was a calculated risk, a necessary cruelty of war. He needed them to hold the portal, not just to protect the exit, but to force the enemy to divide their attention.

By creating a violent bottleneck at the gateway, he forced the enemy commanders to divert resources and focus away from the fortress’s interior to deal with the nuisance at their back.

Fifty monsters weren’t a legion, but they were elite—more than capable of acting as a living wall for Lara and Becky. He trusted that they would ensure not a single enemy master slipped through to the other side.

His plan was twofold: distract the enemy and buy time. He needed to give Fang and the masters back at Lara’s city a moment to breathe, to regroup, and to realise the tide had shifted.

He knew Fang’s mind; the man was a shark when it came to smelling blood in the water. If William could cause enough chaos here, Fang would recognise the opening and strike from the other side.

By the time he would need the two girls elsewhere, the battle at Lara’s city would be long over. He hoped for Fang and the others to not decide to follow him, and instead focus on fortifying the area around the portal, turning it into a perfect trap and grinding grounds for the enemies.

If they managed to lay down enough defensive formations, then no matter how many enemies passed through the portal, they would die without losing much on their side.

"The sole decisive factor to win this war is if I can take down that fortress before the enemy claims Lara’s city..." William muttered while getting close to the fortress grand walls.

This war’s fate depended entirely upon the outcome of these two battles: the battles for the respective headquarters. Whoever won here would win the entire war.

William didn’t just plan to win the war; he wanted to unveil the grand mystery behind it!

This was by far the first time since coming back to life that he had stumbled across the potential tracks of the main orchestrators behind the fall of this world in his past life.

He intended to see through the veiling mist and finally know who the real enemy hidden in this world truly was.

"Time to know the truth," William said as he arrived at the base of the Lookman’s fortress.

Standing down there made him feel like an ant standing on the side of a mountain! The fortress was so huge, so massive, that it made him feel completely dwarfed by its sheer scale. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

At this moment, a thought flashed through his mind—a thought of exploring the deepest secrets of this fortress and acquiring the architectural and spiritual methods required to construct it.

"I’m sure even in the upper realm, such a grand structure would be a headache for any big force to conquer," he entertained the thought for a few moments, admiring the craftsmanship that defied the standard of this era, before finally starting to act seriously.

All this time, his fifty monsters kept the pressure off him. These summoned beasts were a whirlwind of violence, cleaving through the lives of hundreds of enemies per minute, and yet it never felt like a gap was being created around him.

The enemy ranks were so dense, so utterly packed, that for every ten men his monsters tore apart, twenty more stepped over the corpses to fill the void.

Unlike how it was back at Lara’s city, where the enemies showed hesitation or tactical retreats, it felt like all the enemies standing around this fortress harboured a suicidal intention. They weren’t just defending; they were offering their lives as a physical barrier to keep him away from the stone.

"Let’s see... There is a strong defensive formation here, here, and here..." William observed, his eyes glowing with a faint light as he scanned the spiritual frequencies humming within the walls.

William knew the general theory of this fortress. It was a grand structure of stone, fortified by a complex layering of defensive formations and arrays. As any formation or array held points of weakness, this fortress’ heart was the collection of these weak spots.

William didn’t know how this could even be possible! In traditional theory, each formation had its unique structure, arrangement, and area to cover, along with specific locations for its key points.

These key points were considered the weak spots of any formation, as tampering with them would render the formation weak or ruin it completely. Usually, a builder would spread these points out to ensure that a single strike couldn’t disable the entire system.

He couldn’t imagine how a single structure of this magnitude, with tons of different formations, would gather the key points in one spot.

It was a design choice that was either incredibly arrogant or hidden behind a layer of complexity he had yet to unravel. If they were truly gathered in a central hub, it was a "heart" that, if pierced, would lead to total collapse.