Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"Just keep scouting," William paused to let his message pass through, "see if there are any other monsters or enemies lurking behind."

[Are you sure?] Smith seemed quite eager to fight, [I can divert them away or buy you more time to prepare!]

"Do as I say," William's tone held his authoritative weight as the leader of the team, "and don't engage with anything without consulting me first."

[Tsk!] that dude didn't like the kind of answer he got from William. He wanted to warm up, kill a few of the weak bronze leopards, make them run after him in circles, before William would bring the team over and hunt them down.

This was the ideal fighting tactic in his mind, but he wasn't William. The latter didn't want to just kill these monsters, he wanted his team to get used to his unique fighting ways, get to know each other's abilities.

"Is there anything coming?" Ibra was the first to speak up, raising his glaive up and down as if he was warming his hand for the upcoming fight.

"You won't do anything for now," William gave him a warning glance, making the latter's face change slightly before sighing in disappointment and helplessness.

"Are they monsters or spirit masters?" Sara asked next, while her little team gathered around her at the same time.

"It's the Dirt Brown Leopards," William said, "do you know what they are?"

"Sure," Sara, Berry, Lang, and Peter nodded, alongside the silver and part of the bronze grade spirit masters.

"Sara, take your team and head out first," William didn't want his team to fight something they all didn't know about, "don't walk more than two hundred metres ahead. Explain everything about these monsters to your team, all of you shall do it."

"Sure!"

"What about the battle plan?"

"How many are coming?"

"Will we fight with Sara or what?"

The other four team leaders spoke up one by one, and William just motioned for Sara to start marching ahead of them.

"Sara will handle the initial charge of the monsters," as Sara moved out, William moved his attention over the other main fighting three groups as he added, "around fifty of these monsters are coming here, a mix of bronze and silver grade ones."

"This…"

"Will she be alright on her own?"

"Won't we go and help?" The three, Berry, Lang, and Peter, spoke one by one, while William looked at Sara at the distance. He ordered her to get stationed two hundred metres apart, so he'd be able to see her team all the time.

"She will handle the initial charge," William repeated what he said earlier, "then Lang and Peter will move out to help her. You two will flank the monsters when they arrive, hit them from the sides, pressure them to keep moving forward and not surround Sara…"

William leant on the ground, used his scabbard as a stick, and drew the general layout of the battle, "then it's up to Berry and her team to take down the incoming monsters."

"This…" even Ibra couldn't help but lament on the risks involved in this plan.

On paper, things looked quite good. But that was on the basis that everyone did their task quite well and killed the monsters they faced.

But their enemies weren't white grade monsters! They weren't fragile like glass! And that made everyone feel this was a plan that was destined to fail without even needing to try it out!

William looked at Ibra, at the doubtful eyes of everyone and couldn't help but inwardly sigh. He knew they all missed the most important point that would change everything in this battle, their new gears!

"Just do as I say," William stood straight, looking at Ibra who seemed not convinced by any of that, "as for my team, we will move separately, working to help any team in distress."

"That's more I like," Ibra finally relaxed his tense expression.

"What about me?" John suddenly spoke up, and William didn't know if this dude wanted to fight or missed what his team's role was.

"Keep your distance from this battle," William paused, "stay away from here by at least five hundred metres. Watch the ongoing battle, move all the time, and think about ways to help the team escape if I ever give you the order to."

"O… Ok…" John didn't really get what he should do here. And he wasn't the only one feeling so, everyone else felt that William was doing this to protect this commoner bronze spirit master and his team.

But that wasn't what William wanted. And he didn't care to explain anything. In his eyes, they might need to retreat once in the middle of this battle, and the toll of such a move would fall over the shoulders of John and his team.

*Roar!*

"They are coming!"

And just before John would take a single step away, the loud roars of the incoming leopards made everyone hurry to take their positions.

"Stay put, don't panic, we are going to just absorb their incoming speed and stop their momentum, then kill them all," William stood in the centre of this grand formation, just behind Berry and her team.

No one here noticed this, but this formation looked like a huge diamond. William knew this was the best formation used for newbies, as it had a very flexible nature.

It could be used for defence or offence, could be edited at any given time, adapting to any situation.

At the forefront, Sara and her team were just about to clash with the monsters. William saw many flashes of light, not only coming from Sara's direction, but from everyone else.

Everyone activated their spirit, all but the commoner spirit masters. Even the white grade members activated their spirits as well, prepared for the incoming enemies.

"Lang, Peter… Move out right now!'' The leopards were at least five metres in length, two and half in width, and two in height. They looked huge, and with that brown fur, long two curved tusks, and sharp looking teeth, they looked quite ferocious and deadly.