Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1524: Fire What?!!

"It's better to search everywhere for him and do everything in our power to find him faster! Every minute we waste here is a minute he's closer to falling into that Fox's scheme!"

"I'll lead the scouts!" Becky's voice cut through the thud of her blades carving through monster flesh.

She levelled a monster with a flick of her wrist before shouting at the top of her lungs, "Listen up, all Blue Purgators masters currently embedded in our army! I'm Becky, a friend of your leader and a trusted ally of your force! Converge on my position at once! We have an objective that cannot wait!"

In that moment of chaotic slaughter, a plan was finally set. The scattered guild masters agreed upon a single, unified task: finding William. As the massive Fox Guild army surged forward, following the direction of the monsters like a river of deadly spirit power, Becky organised her specialised units.

With dozens of Purgator scout groups starting to move out under her command, they began to roam through the densely packed monster tide, acting as the eyes and ears of the hundreds of thousands of masters behind them.

Becky had specifically called for the Blue Purgators for two reasons. First, she knew they possessed the protective blue stones, making them the most resilient candidates to infiltrate deep and without any support into the most congested zones where the monsters were thickest. Second, as members of the same elite force, they could sniff out the location of their own leader and the floating castle.

Bernard's message had been crystal clear: the entire Blue Purgators force was currently locked in a life-or-death struggle to shield William. Therefore, simply heading toward the vague horizon wouldn't work in this shifting, monster-choked geography. Finding the Purgators' location was the only guaranteed way to find William in her opinion.

The search was gruelling. It took the guild masters five whole hours of non-stop, high-intensity combat just to get a lock on the Purgators position. Even with an army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the resistance was staggering.

They were fighting against a seemingly endless swarm; no matter how many hundreds of thousands of monsters they incinerated or decapitated, more would appear to fill the gaps. The pressure was heavy, constant and suffocating.

What allowed them to maintain this relentless pace without a single moment of rest was the quality of the masters in the army. This wasn't a mixture of normal masters; this army was composed of the absolute elite of the Fox Guild.

These were masters who had looked into the abyss of the initial apocalypse and survived. To them, fighting these chaotic, low-level monsters, while exhausting, was a pale shadow of the terror of facing the Scarlet Bears. Their resolve was forged in the fire of William's previous battles and victories.

Finally, one of Becky's scouts spotted the distinct azure glow of Purgator armour through the haze of battle. The scout didn't engage; he instantly retreated toward the main body of the grand army, signalling the direction. Like a massive predator sensing prey, the Fox Guild army pivoted.

Once they arrived at the coordinates, the scene was far too intense for any proper welcoming or diplomatic greetings. The Purgators' lines were buckling under a tide of monsters so thick they looked like a living carpet of teeth and claws.

Without needing orders, the Fox Guild masters slammed into the monsters' flanks, joining the Purgators in a desperate, circular defence around the spot where William was still working.

Now that the forces were joined, it became terrifyingly apparent that the monsters they had fought during their trek were nothing compared to the concentration here. Before, the monsters had simply attacked them because they were in the way.

Now, it was clear that every horror the Fox could conjure was being drawn from every corner of the world to this single point. They were coming from all directions in a 360-degree assault, relentlessly trying to find a single crack in the tight defensive circle to break through.

"This won't do!" Fang shouted. He cut a bloody path through the monsters, heading directly toward the Purgators leader's elite group. Even the leader himself was now personally engaged in the fray, his personal guards forming a whirlwind of blades around him. "We need firefighters!"

"Fire what?!!" The leader parried a claw, looking at Fang as if he had lost his mind. He thought Fang might be making a grim joke, but the raw, serious look in the old warrior's eyes told him otherwise.

"We need to form specialised elite groups!" Fang explained, his words rapid-fire. "We need firefighter squads aided by masters who excel in long-distance techniques, covered by our heaviest frontliners.

These firefighter groups will focus entirely on the monsters further out in the distance, attacking the rear of the incoming monster waves, while the vanguard maintains a tight circle around us. We have to limit the number of monsters that actually reach our inner lines to give our frontline masters a chance to breathe and rotate!"

"I'll add the floating castle to that strategy!" the leader replied, his decisiveness matching Fang's. "Using the castle's abilities, we can project a protective shield downward, covering a huge area and creating a zone these monsters can't easily breach from above."

"That would be the best," Fang said, pausing for a split second to steal a glance at the massive behemoth currently hovering high in the clouds. "But how fast can that thing travel? We don't need a slow-moving fortress, or we'll gain nothing while the monsters outflank us!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"It can match our fastest marching speed, don't worry about that," the leader assured him. He wiped a spray of monster blood from his cheek before adding,

"We can also mount the long-distance masters on the upper battlements. I'll order the castle to hover lower to match their attack range. The castle is equipped with defences and long-range weapons; we can rain down hell while we move!"