William returned back into his territory to not do anything else but have a long nap. He was indeed exhausted mentally and needed rest more than anything at this moment.
He let Thomas stay at any building except the seventh and central one. And yet, William slept in the open. He refrained Thomas from trying out the central building, as he expected the statue he wanted to be hidden in there.
Before he'd sleep, he made sure to make a rough copy of the entire arrays here for Thomas to use. It wasn't that hard to do this when he got the key to this place. And all he had to do was to spend little of his time studying this stone before copying the same writings over this key over another stone.
He could already grant anyone the ability to come in and out from this place. He did that before with Thomas when he let him go out and bring food over during the past days. But Remy wasn't here to grant her access, and he didn't want to waste his time giving others access when they'd join him.
"Use it to let Remy and others in," William gave the new copy to Thomas.
"Shall I test it?" Thomas was feeling a bit doubtful towards this key. He saw his master spend close to one hour looking at his key, before taking out a stone and starting to use his gold grade sword's sharp tip to write such symbols over it.
"Go and test it," William yawned, "do it fast before I'd go to sleep."
Thomas went out there before returning back. Seeing this, William yawned again before lazily lying to the ground and started to sleep.
William slept the entire night. And when he woke up, he found that Thomas brought breakfast and was waiting on the side patiently for him.
And he wasn't alone.
"You came on time, nice," William saw Remy who was standing by Thomas' side.
"Having a territory that everyone in the fort and outside are envying you for, to just end up sleeping in the open… What a kid you are!"
"Hahahaha, I like it here," William then motioned his eyes towards the many trays brought here, "let's eat and talk. Tell me, how are things out there?"
"Explosive, crazy, hectic… Name it as you want," she rolled her eyes, feeling that William was enjoying such an insane situation out there.
"I hope this continues for a long time," William winked, before having a bite from the delicious meat.
"They are placing their hatred and anger over the supposed master of yours. And they also place this place at high standards in their minds, linking it to your master not you," she said, trying to make him feel a bit guilty here.
"I don't mind that," but William simply shrugged and didn't care, "as long as they are seeing this place as something special, it's ok for me."
"Then… What do you plan to do next?" she started eating when she saw Thomas do the same.
"Nothing much, do you see the entire place here?" William motioned his eyes around before adding, "I want you to put a plan to construct more buildings here."
"How many buildings are we talking about exactly?" She knew this entire place was vast, enough to build tens of grand buildings without getting crowded.
"The more you can do the better," William shrugged again, "besides…" he pointed with a piece of meat he held, took a bite from it before adding, "I want to recruit lots of spirit masters from here. This fort lies in the middle of lots of main merchant routes. And so, it's possible for us to recruit lots of rogue spirit masters from faraway places."
"Hmm… You plan to build an army?" She sized him up and down. And he didn't speak for the next five minutes.
"Let's say I want to form a guild, a force that isn't less than any impact in this world."
"Then why use a weird name? Let's call it an impact!"
"No, it will be called The Fox Guild. It's already decided, and I won't change my mind about that."
"Tsk!" she rolled her eyes, not seeing any value in using a name that no one recognised. "Any specific requirements or conditions about them?"
"No, just accept anyone as long as he is a silver grade spirit master or higher," William paused, "don't limit the recruitment towards normal spirit masters. I also want secondary professions, especially artisans and alchemists."
"I heard about your deal with the Seven Heaven and the Blue Hammer groups… So this move is for them?"
"Sure," William nodded, before adding, "I want to expand their businesses, and make lots of products."
"But…"
"Just leave the blueprints and formulas for me, I'll take care of that," William laughed, "and if anyone ever asked about the source, you know the perfect answer for this."
"Sure," she didn't know how to respond to him, "but that lie is for them. How about an answer for me?"
"I got a master, a real one," William laughed, and she never bought any of what he said.
"Fine. Anything else? A massage perhaps?"
"I won't say no to such a thing," William winked, and Remy didn't realise that her face showed a faint tinge of redness there.
Thomas kept eating in silence from the side, attentively listening to such talk without even showing a single expression on his face. He returned to the old and all cold and careless looking Thomas, the one who didn't show a single expression on his face.
"How about the treatment of these recruiters?" They finished eating fast. Remy stood by William's side while Thomas was dealing with the leftovers of their meal.
"Nothing much," William paused before adding, "see what's the standard treatment for such folks and double it."
"D… Double it?!! Do you know how much you are going to pay annually like this?!!!"
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