"That move of ditching your team was good. Unluckily for you, I already got to hear lots of your care about your team from the mouths of the team themselves."
"I have to teach them how to keep their mouths shut!"
"Of course not! They were the reason behind my interest in you."
"That's specifically why they should be taught a lesson."
William returned to his seat, while touching his soured nose, "don't you have a healing potion with you? Come on! Toss me one."
"Says the man who helped his team with many healing potions already," the old man laughed, but he didn't act stingy and took a potion and threw it to William.
"Now, can we speak a little more seriously please?" William opened the lid of the potion, sniffed its content before adding, "nice stuff you got here."
"It's a dark gold grade potion, so it's good."
"Do you have more? Extras perhaps?"
"What? Do you think I'm opening a charity or something? Brace your luck for having just this vial."
"I know people like you treat such things like grains of sand found on the side of the street," William drank another drop before closing the lid again.
He did feel great when he took this potion, much better than the one he got from Ellina back then.
"You do know lots of stuff about people like me."
"It's because of my master."
"Then let me meet her," the old man winked, "I'm single and need such a good lady to take care of me."
"Stop fooling around," William couldn't believe this old man wanted to mate with his master from his past life.
"I'm not!"
"Then stop having suicidal wishes, you don't want to die early, do you?"
"Speaking as if I'm going to meet a fierce tigress, not a human," the old man laughed, making William roll his eyes in return.
"Just tell me what you really want?"
"What do you want?" the old man returned the question back to William, "why are you here?"
"I believe my team must have told you the answer," William sighed, "they didn't keep anything hidden from you it seems. What did you do to force them to speak? Did you torture them?"
"I just exposed my true rank in this world," the old man laughed, "power has its privileges kid, something you won't know for a long time."
"Yes, tell me about it," William knew exactly what the old man meant.
"They told me a lot, but kept crucial things away from me," the old man sighed, "I tried to torture them, but they kept their lips tightly shut."
"I hardly believe so!" William pulled a long face, one that made the old man laugh in amusement.
"You don't believe they kept their mouths shut?"
"I don't believe you tortured them."
"Fair enough," the old man nodded, "now tell me, why are you here again?"
The old man already knew the answer to this question, yet he still wanted to hear William's answer. To him, all this was a funny and amusing game, one that someone like him would rarely rumble upon.
"You saw what I did back there, right?" William motioned towards the outside, referring to the battle that happened out in the forest.
"The fight with the dark spirit masters? What's about it?" The old man faked that he didn't get what William meant.
"We came here for them."
"You… Stop fooling around! We are talking seriously now!"
"I'm honestly answering you," William shrugged, "we are here to hunt dark spirit masters down."
"Is the grudge between you and them this deep?"
"No, it's just I don't like them."
"Don't like them? Hahahaha! That's the silliest and funniest reason I even heard about fighting these jerks, hahahaha!"
"It's great you share the same view about them as me, hahahaha!"
"You dare to make me second to you?" The next moment, that old man released his dark gold grade power at full cylinders, making William fall from his seat with a trembling body and ashen face.
"Anyway," and then the old man retreated his spirit power, feeling more amused and satisfied by the suffering William just got.
For a reason there, he felt a little desire to teach William a lesson. The latter kept talking to him like they were equal or something.
"You do know that this is child abuse?"
"So what? What can you do about that? Humph!" The old man acted all shameless while watching William sitting again on his seat.
"How did you find me?"
"Oh, and here I thought you were going to ask me again about the price for releasing your team."
"You already got my answer… If you asked for anything extravagant, then you can have this team for yourself," William waved both hands while shrugging, as if this was something already set in stone or something.
"Not this useless trick again," the old man rolled his eyes, and William couldn't help but scoff in return.
"I'm not kidding this time," he paused, before putting a serious look on his face, "if you desperately want my team, then have it! I can replace this team with ten others without feeling any pain or loss."
"Is that what your master taught you?"
"She isn't here, and you don't know her, so stop speaking as if you do!"
"Oh, it seems that I hit a soft spot of yours, hahahahaha!"
William kept his silence, while the old man laughed for as long as he desired.
"Fine, I will speak about what I want from you…"
"Why not tell me how you found me in the first place?" William crossed his arms and interrupted the old man.
"And why will I expose such a thing to you, kiddo?" the old man evilly smiled, a smile that looked quite creepy with all the white hair that covered his face.
"Whatever! I will go back and tell my master. She will find the tracking thing you left on me and then reverse it, find you, and beat the hell out of you."
"You… What an evil kid you are!"
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