In the next week, the two kept sitting like this, rarely taking a break, rarely sleeping and resting. They just ate once a day, a small meal made of dried-up rations and such.
When they slept, Anjie insisted on sleeping in his embrace, surrounded by his arms. He didn't mind that, as being by her side made his mind a bit relaxed and a lot clearer. He woke up refreshed every time she slept with him, and he started to grow a habit of that.
"I'm going up," one week passed, and she had to go to meet others, "If anyone has a mysterious result, I'll leave him aside for you to check later, got it?"
He nodded and continued to train while she went away. She took ten whole days before returning back, and she told him how much she missed him all this time.
He also missed the peace of mind she brought to him every time he slept with her. In the end, he learnt that she found around a few hundred gems, had around a thousand with unknown test results, and she admitted roughly twenty thousand to the guild, or a bit more.
He was surprised about that, didn't know she used the help of Sloth, and the latter used the help of Panther and other old masters in the city.
They all learnt how to screen spirit power using William's special method. They worked and started to screen people fast, making it possible for her to screen such a large number in such a short period.
She didn't tell him about any of that, as she didn't know if he'd like something like that or not.
"Anyway, did you send everything to Lara's city?" He felt something was fishy, but it was impossible to use spirit sense while being in this place. There was something to stop him from seeing what was happening outside of this deep cave, and yet he was pretty sure she couldn't have done it alone and could guess Sloth got involved here.
"I sent all, except for the one thousand undetermined results," she paused, "you need to check them yourself."
"Fine, leave them up there for now," he didn't want to leave this place for now. During the past two weeks, his spirit power grew to a good level, and he was now at the middle stage of the dark gold grade.
He knew if he kept doing this for two or three more months, he'd end up expanding all the spirit power stored within the statue, and would end up at the high stage of dark gold grade, or the worst case would be a few points away from that threshold.
To do so, he had to first handle the situation Panther presented to him. The latter spoke about the long-term enemies Willaim tried to hunt for years and failed, those Transformers!
He knew they sent their newly joined young members away, but the old statues were still here. As they were lying in wait, he didn't like their presence this near to this city and his guild's main base.
Even if he planned to start a grand training schedule at Lara's city, gradually turning it into the heart of his entire guild, he still had to deal with the threats in this city once and for all.
Not to mention he knew these Transformers had a connection with the Nightmare monster. And he wanted to know how they did it, how they made lots of new Transformers, despite how hard such a thing was.
As he got a clue at last, he decided to give it all. And even if the panther warned him of the expected large number of losses, he didn't care.
Something told him there was a play under the entire thing, and all he needed to do was just see what Panther really saw.
To do so, he planned to go into the fate and destiny world, see what Panther saw, and get a grasp over what truly happened.
William put the possibility that something interfered with Panther's ability and made him see such scenes. That meant this was a trap, and also meant that no matter who he was, was someone that would be protected to some degree by the fate and destiny world.
As such a possibility existed, William prepared to use the help of other masters to do this using a fate and destiny formation. And yet when he heard from Anjie about the large number of masters awaiting for him up there to check, he decided to use them instead.
After all, they were going to be part of his guild, one way or another.
As the two slept for the entire night, William woke up pretty refreshed, and she got a wide grin on her face. She imagined the faces of other girls, watching her sleep in his embrace at night and they didn't. And that made her want to laugh, yet controlled herself to not make him doubt anything.
She was enjoying this and was glad she came all the way here with him. William then started to train for two more weeks, gaining a few thousand more spirit points while doing so. And then it was time for the meeting he determined with Sloth.
"Let's go," he woke Anjie up, before taking her up again. She couldn't do it herself, and so he took her out previously, before getting her in after receiving her call from her Bullet.
"I like this place, can we make something like this back in the other city?" She didn't like saying Lara's name, not when she was with him.
"I can't, I'm not the one who did all this in the first place," he slowly shook his head and went outside the central building to see Sloth standing at the main gate, alongside Panther and lots of the masters he selected.
"No need for them," William said even before he'd arrived at Panther's side, "I have my own people to help."
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