Back then, it had always been exactly like this, William leading the way, defying the common sense of the world, while everyone on his side scrambled to keep up with his pace.
"I need you to do something for me for sure," William said, his eyes moving around the immediate landscape, assessing the topography before he crouched down and started drawing a rough structural blueprint on the dirt ground below.
"While I am away harvesting, I'll need you all to work together to dig a trench around as big an area as you can possibly manage. Just make absolutely sure to let any of the shadow monsters that are currently inside your designated perimeter leave the zone before you close the trench lines over.
If you don't, they will be trapped inside with you, and we would be forced to prematurely kill them using our spirit power, which will draw the whole horde down on us."
