He felt a little touched when he heard about their arrangement from that time. They decided to return and find him after half an hour of their departure. Then their tale started to shift towards the hectic run from the tsunami of monsters, before finally they fell into the trap of the Lockheart impact.
From there onward, things looked quite calm and peaceful. The people there made sure their stay was good and protected them until they got the order to return back.
And there they got ambushed just less than thirty kilometres away from the fort. And from what they said, William knew a lot about the identity and intentions of the dark spirit masters who attacked them.
"So… You are trying to give me intel, and at the same time trying to chop an arm off me? Interesting…" William thought to himself while listening to the description of the enemies they met.
He didn't need to think too much to link the same mysterious dark spirit master force that attacked his team with the mysterious spirit master who appeared in his dream.
And just from hearing about the attacks they witnessed, he couldn't help but recall something.
"Damn! Don't tell me it's someone related to that jerk!!!" William's thoughts drifted back, way back towards the incident that he caused at the academy Spar Arena.
There he killed a team of dark spirit masters, with one from the Black Mamba clan. And from their words, he couldn't help but link the two together.
"I hope it's not his father or grandfather or something," William inwardly sighed. He knew such grievances would be hard to deal with. And so, he started to take this matter quite seriously.
"What shall we do now?" as everyone said their pieces, Lang suddenly asked. And with his question, everyone focused over William, waiting in anticipation for his next words.
"What else?" William shrugged, "we'll do exactly what we came here for."
"But…" Sara looked at everyone before adding, "we heard…"
"That I got this place and lots of wealth?" William knew what got into their minds, "that's indeed true. But everything is for one goal, to keep our initial task rolling."
"..."
They thought he'd drop this task and retreat back to the academy, or best to remain here for a long time before heading back. However, they never expected that William would still be adamant over taking down the dark spirit masters in the region.
"Just take the next few days as a deserved rest. Take a tour around the fort, get to know others here. And in five days, gather up as we'll be moving."
"Ok," his words put an end to this meeting. In the middle of their talk, Berry found a chance to slip past his embrace and arms, standing with all red cheeks by his side, without saying anything at all. And when he motioned with his hand for all to disperse, she was the first to move out. Yet her arm got grabbed by his, ending up for her entire body freezing on the spot.
"Not you," William said to her, before turning and looking at a few others. William stopped his five vice leaders, in addition to Ibra, "we have something to talk about."
The five of them stopped in their tracks, looking a bit puzzled. As for Berry, her mind and heart were already in the middle of a storm of emotions and didn't know what to say except for her to nod. She didn't return to normal for a long time, even when William let go of her hand and watched everyone else moving away.
"Don't tell me you really missed us!" Ibra rolled his eyes, while Sara gave Berry a glaring look.
"I'm not that free," William calmly smiled, before turning around, "as you can tell, lots of teams are going to join us."
"That's clear," Peter nodded, "what about them?"
"I want all of you to go and scan them, find those who are worthy to join our team," William finally revealed his real intentions.
"This…" John was the first to panic. He already knew he didn't deserve a place among these high and special spirit masters. And from William's words, it seemed he planned to reshuffle the entire team, add more while removing many.
"Thomas, Remy, come here for a second," but before William would respond to John's inferiority complex worries, he noticed the newest two members of his trusted circle walking not far away from them.
As the two approached, William introduced the eight spirit masters to each other. "I don't like to swap people who followed me here, but we got white grade spirit masters for heaven's sake! They need lots of time to train. And as we got many gold grade spirit masters, it's time to form a new team, a stronger team…"
William paused, moved his eyes around his eight trusted subordinates and friends before adding, "but that doesn't mean anyone with gold grade is a good candidate. You know how I do things, and so pick me gems and trusted people from all this lot. And as usual, the final saying would be left for me."
"Don't tell me you plan for another test," Ibra seemed to panic a little, and everyone from the old team got their faces changed, looking a bit depressed and worried.
They got all the right to feel so. The last time they went on a test ended up in a grave disaster. "Don't give me that face! It's not that bad to hang out with me, hahahaha!" William laughed, turning to Remy before adding, "you are going to stay behind, rule over the place and arrange everything. As for you…"
He turned to Thomas and added, "you are going to follow me."
"Ok," the two nodded at the same time. And before William would say anything, Remy's eyes shone brightly for a brief second as she recalled something.
"There is a team of twenty… Twenty good looking girls…" her face changed for a bit when she recalled them.
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