"What am I missing here?" William couldn't help but wonder.
A nagging sensation clawed at the back of his mind, an itch that suggested a flaw in his logic. Something kept bothering him—a loose thread in the tapestry of this invasion.
He felt he had missed a small detail, but with the roar of the monster gate vibrating through the very soles of his boots, he simply didn't have the luxury of time to sit and consider what it was right now.
Even if he knew the monster tide's true and scary nature from the start, he had initially related everything to the techniques he had given to Berry.
In his original estimation, the monster leaders would bring the gates here primarily to fasten their invasion of the clan, creating a shortcut to find him, or Berry, or both. It should have been a surgical strike to reclaim or destroy the knowledge he had unleashed.
