Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1455: A Shift in Monsters’ Plans!

"But..." Becky started, her voice trembling slightly. "Is it truly wrong to want to save the world while also keeping yourself safe? Is self-preservation a sin if the goal is still noble?"

She fell into a long, heavy silence. William watched her, knowing that he had sparked a violent conflict within her mind and spirit. She was at a crossroads, forced to choose between the safety of her old life and the sacrificial path he was carving through the world.

"It's not like that, Becky," William sighed, his voice softening just a fraction, though the steel remained. "There is no such thing as saving the world and keeping yourself safe.

Those two concepts are mutually exclusive when the stakes are this high. If you want to keep yourself safe, then don't step outside your door in the first place. Turn your back on the world and go hide in a cave."

He turned away from her, looking back toward the town and the people who were now arming themselves with his knowledge. "Leave this task to those who are willing to sacrifice everything for it.

You can enjoy your life away from the blood and the fire, and you can enjoy the perks of their sacrifices for free and without pain. But don't you dare call it wisdom. Call it what it is: cowardice."

She blinked, momentarily stunned into a hollow silence. His words hit her with the force of a physical blow, dripping with a heavy, painful sarcasm that stripped away her defences.

The irony was unavoidable: if one truly desired a life of peace and safety, they first required a world stable enough to support such a life. You couldn't hide in a burning house and claim you were safe just because you hadn't touched the matches.

In that moment of clarity, Becky finally realised the fundamental error her people had made for generations. They had been trying to preserve the flame of their own lives while the forest around them turned to ash.

"I got it," she said softly. After what felt like a long, agonising hour of internal silence, her expression shifted. The uncertainty drained from her eyes, replaced by a sharp, hardened resolve. It was the exact look William had been waiting for. "I've made up my mind."

"So…" William prompted. He knew she wasn't the type to leave things hanging by a thread or to shy away from a choice, even when that choice was excruciating. Yet, the question still hung in the air: which side had she settled on? Would she remain a product of her cautious upbringing, or would she step into the fire with him?

"I… I really don't like the way the Mystic Arts masters have handled things up there," she began, her voice gaining strength with every syllable. William remained silent, his profile silhouetted against the glowing horizon, waiting for the final verdict. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"I won't do things their way anymore. If it's risky, then so be it! If you're going to be the target, then I'll be standing right there next to you. Let's get rid of those bastards together!"

"Good." William gave a simple, curt nod. On the outside, he remained stoic, but inside his mind, he was smiling with a deep sense of contentment and satisfaction. He had secured his bridge to the upper realm's secrets. "Then let's keep moving. We have work to do."

Even while he had waited for her to resolve her internal conflict, William hadn't remained idle. He had continued his relentless assault on the bears, carving a path toward the next objective until he successfully collapsed a second gate.

With his summoned monsters forming a protective, shifting perimeter around them, his physical safety wasn't currently in question, but their speed of advancement was another story entirely.

As they marched toward the third gate, the atmosphere of the battlefield shifted. The resistance grew dense and suffocating.

The monsters filling the region stopped wandering aimlessly; they stopped trying to bypass the thirty monsters William had left to guard the portal back to the city.

Instead, like a hive mind reaching a consensus, the entire swarm focused every ounce of its aggression on taking down William and Becky.

William wasn't surprised by the tactical shift. He was acutely aware that hidden leaders—high-level monsters with keen intelligence—were embedded within the ranks, watching his every move from the shadows and updating their manoeuvres in real-time.

Originally, the enemy's top priority had been to flood through the portal and lay waste to Lara's city.

At first, William had worried that he hadn't done enough to draw their ire, even considering diverting ten more of his summoned beasts to safeguard the gateway.

However, once his friends and the other masters began utilising the new spears, the enemy's behaviour changed.

It became obvious to the monster commanders that the other side of the portal was no longer a soft target. The masters there were well-prepared and disciplined.

Those flying spears were proving to be more than just a nuisance; they were a lethal deterrent that shredded the Scarlet Bears with mechanical efficiency.

This left the enemy with a difficult choice: they could attempt to send their rare, mutated monsters into the city—a high-risk move that could result in losing their most valuable assets—or they could focus on decapitating the resistance by killing William, the clear mastermind behind the entire defence.

William wasn't particularly worried about mutated monsters slipping through to Lara's city. There were a limited number of such creatures in this sector to begin with, and even if their numbers grew tenfold, they would struggle to bypass the elite monsters he had stationed at the breach.

Even if a few did manage to break through, he had absolute confidence in his friends' ability to handle the threat.

Between the ten monsters he had specifically assigned to Lara, the ten guarding Anjie, and the thousands of experienced upper-realm masters who had been fighting on their side since the war's inception, the city was a fortress in its own right.