"That's clear, genius!" she raised one eyebrow, "I'm part of the impact."
"And this team?"
"It's my team," Ro waved her long hair off her shoulders, making her look more tempting, "can you imagine that? Having me means having the entire team for free."
"Sorry, but free means trouble," William laughed, "did this team also participate in the competition?"
"What competition?"
"You didn't tell us his name yet!"
"How did you meet such a handsome and hot dude? Come on, spill out the beans!"
William raised both arms in the air, showing off how thin and wasted they were, "You think I'm hot? Thanks for that!"
The girls gave him a warning glance, as his tone was filled with mockery, with no honesty.
"He is that dude that I told you about," Ro ignored him as she added, "the one that started the current mess back at the Aspire academy."
"F*ck! You are the one who caused all this?!!!"
This wasn't a single shout, and it didn't come just from the direction of Ro's team, but from many others. William gave Ro a blaming look, and the latter just raised both arms in the air, as if things weren't related to her at all.
"I always knew my death will come at the hands of a sexy lady one day," William inwardly sighed, while recalling his previous worries of Ro.
She was there, the only living person out there to witness what he did close by, the only person who could link him to all this mess.
"Do you even take her words seriously?" and as she hit him in such a way, he retorted back in his own way, "you do know her and her team more than I do, and can tell how they love to make things worse for any male and toy around with them, right?"
"Oh, that's… Quite expected!" Many around moved their eyes at Ro and her friends and couldn't help but recall her infamous and cruel reputation.
"Don't let him trick you! He was the one who caused all this!" Ro felt more enraged and kept shouting at everyone, while William remained silent.
The more she shouted and tried desperately to convince others while he remained silent and calm, the more everyone didn't buy any of what she said.
And after a few minutes, she knew she already lost it. "I swear I'll make you pay for that!" she turned towards William, squeezing her fist in the air in threatening promise.
"And I won't let this useless attempt to frame me pass by this easily," and William responded with his own threat.
"Ro, is it true then?" If others couldn't tell if she was fooling around or speaking the truth, her teammates wouldn't struggle at all to tell the difference.
"This jerk! Don't let his innocent face trick you! I saw him with my two eyes! He mercilessly killed a team led by one of the Black Mamba, ending up creating that ruckus back at his academy."
"So… This little weak looking dude, a bronze spirit master, is the mastermind behind such a storm thundering out there?"
"I can't believe it!"
"Lend him to me! Tu wants to play with him tonight!"
"I'm leaving!" William didn't take it anymore, turned around and was about to move away when twenty gusts of wind passed by his body, as the twenty girls surrounded him inside a circle.
"Big sis, did you let him go?"
"Come on! You won't bully a kid, aren't you?" William rolled his eyes, and the ladies laughed.
"Why not?"
"Because…" William didn't add anymore, and simply touched the same spot that touched Ro's sensitive area before, "I can endure getting bullied if I'll feel such awesome touch again."
"Hell! I will torture you to death!" Ro roared but William raised his token in the air. And like before, it managed to stop and change every single lady's face again.
"Don't think I'm not without a backing," William didn't yet know what this token refers to or what it signified. But to his knowledge, it worked as a good deterrent for everyone here.
"Tsk! You are a doomed person! That madman sat his gaze upon you already and you dare to fool around and laugh?"
"If I were you, I'd run, run away from here, run like I got nothing else to do in my life but to do so!"
William heard many of such exclamations from the girls, but he didn't place any inside his mind.
After all, he didn't join that old man's side, nor he planned to. He just was here waiting for his team to arrive, finish the deal with that madman, and then leave this crazy impact.
As for what fate planned for him and this impact, he decided to let fate work its magic later on and not worry about any of this for now.
It was just like how that team he met in the forest before told him, this impact was indeed filled with crazy folks. Be it masters or normal members, all were insane.
"So… He is famous here," William carefully approached this topic, the one about him not knowing the identity of that old man.
"Ben? Of course, he is quite famous, or infamous to be more exact," one girl scoffed, "he is one of the few, one in a very short list who can rival all of us together and come on top of our infamy!"
"Oh, I'm satisfied right now," William now was more confident in severing all ties with such a crazy impact more than before. There was a list of crazy folks, like these annoying girls? And the old man was just one of them?
"Damn!" he shook his head for the third time, before pointing towards the stele, "what's all this about? Everyone here is still looking at this dumb looking stone."
"It's not a stone!"
"It's the judgement stele!"
"It's the one judging all the tests going on all over the region," Ro motioned her head towards there, "we are here to just check on the names of the ones we tested before."
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