"Time to test things out again," William stood up, took a deep breath, and started to execute the combined technique of light and lightning elements.
He didn't want to activate his darkness element. And so the moment he activated his technique, he hurriedly activated his spirit.
*Rumble!*
This time it worked. The first thing he felt wasn't the expected clash between his elements, but an ear deafening rumble that echoed in his ears.
He felt like something got broken inside his body, or a locked gate that got opened with a loud bang.
The next thing he felt was a weird heat feeling, a very warm and yet very hot wave appeared out from the core of his body and started to gush out like a roaring tide.
William didn't get to see what was happening to his body as he was busy feeling what was going on inside.
On the outside, his body started to grow and change. Instead of the thin looking, wasted body of the eleven years old boy body he always had, his body started to swell and increase in size.
He kept growing like his body was formed of a liquid that got to the boiling degree and started to release bubbles and expand. He didn't keep his human shape, and instead he turned fast into a ten metres height orange fox body with one tail.
He got two elliptical red eyes, thick orange fur that looked as if it was formed of fire. When his body finished transforming, the things he felt inside his body started to slow down.
"This… Roar!" and at this point, he finally saw his new body, his spirit body. He raised his head, and shouted in delight, a shout that came out as a mighty and thundering roar.
"Hahahaha! It worked! It really worked! Hahahaha!" William laughed, and his laughs turned into scary roars, "damn! This fox spirit is indeed special!"
William raised both hands in front of his face, to end up seeing claws instead. He inspected his new body and was excited to find out it wasn't just a fake body like usual.
The spirit masters in the tiny world would get their spirit activated as a holographic image surrounding their real bodies.
This was the case for all the spirit masters here, and the case in a fair number of spirit masters in the outer vast world. But the body William got just from activating a single tail of his spirit wasn't imaginary, but real!
This was known as the Solid Spirit Form, a thing that was unique to special spirits and high-grade spirit masters in the outer world.
But William just got this solid form at his first try, and that told him a lot about how special the fox spirit was.
"Time to test important things first…" he was truly excited. By this body, by activating his spirit, he got a scary weapon up his sleeve.
The first thing he cared about right now was his spirit power consumption rate. He got such an awesome spirit transformation, and that meant he'd expect a high spirit power consumption rate.
However…
"Hmm… I have to deplete my spirit power by ten percent per minute… That means without any other factors, I can maintain this form for ten minutes at most…"
He was lost in thoughts. This was indeed much better than what he initially expected. But giving himself just ten minutes wasn't enough.
If he was fighting a single foe, or a small group of enemies, then this was more than enough. However, if he was fighting in a big battlefield, fighting against lots of enemies, then these ten minutes weren't enough.
"I got to see what this fox got to offer me," he shifted his attention from his spirit solid form consumption rate over to what abilities he got with this body.
In addition to that, he also wanted to see if by using this spirit's abilities, would the consumption rate increase or what.
He knew he had three elements in his spirit, but he partially activated this fox spirit for now. So he tried to activate the darkness element inside his body, trying to see what it was going to do.
"Fwoosh!"
Just as he did so, he felt the world around got darker. In fact, and if he was standing away from his body, watching the changes happening from afar, he'd see another weird thing happening to him.
It wasn't that the world got dark, but his body did. The bright orange changed fast into black, and then it vanished!
It simply vanished from any sight or spirit sense, like he never existed there in the first place.
"Boring! What the heck happened to the mighty darkness element? Just turning the world darker? What a lame ability this is!"
As he didn't have any spirit sense to watch himself right now, and as he couldn't feel the changes the darkness element brought for him, he thought things wrongly.
All he could feel was the world turning darker. He thought this was the sole effect of the darkness element, an effect he didn't like at all.
His most ferocious enemies were all using darkness. And by letting the world grow darker, it was like giving them a hand, helping them execute their attacks and moves better.
This was indeed the last thing he'd ever want. So, he decided to drop using this element for now.
"Going by logic," he was frustrated by the useless effect his darkness element had, "I can't activate any of the other two elements right now. But I have to try… That darkness element thing is just a piece of sh*t!"
Despite feeling it was pointless, he still tried. And to his surprise, it worked!
*Fwoosh!* as he used the lightning element, his grand fox body flashed and moved like it got instantly teleported.
Before this, whenever he used his lightning element technique, he'd be able to cross one hundred metres straight. But right now, he managed to cross more than that, and he spent just twenty percent of his spirit power to do so.
And that wasn't all!