He was too absorbed in solving this problem, and when he did he became truly excited to try it out. Missing such a trivial point was expected, and yet this little detail wouldn't cause any problem at all.
So when he started training, two weak seeds of these elements started to form into his spirit. As he didn't absorb a monster spirit directly, he didn't add any more tails to his two. And so these two elements overlapped over the other three, coating the two tails with two external layers, one red and one green.
William was already absorbed in training, sitting cross legged, regulating his breaths, and muttering the incantations once in a while. He kept moving his spirit power inside his body according to the diagram he created, while his spirit kept absorbing light and lightning spirit elements from the world around, fire and wind elements from the cores surrounding him.
William was closing his eyes. But if he was opening them and watching himself right now, he'd get totally shocked.
As he sat there, the hundreds of cores he surrounded himself with started to shine brightly in a slow fashion. It looked as if fire was slowly spreading, while torrents of wind were howling from within these cores.
After two hours of doing so, a faint shadow of a fox with two tails appeared behind him. It appeared gigantic like when he used his spirit, even looking a bit bigger and fiercer.
Just when it appeared, a swarm of energy enveloped William, rose slowly up and expanded outwards until it covered the entire cave inside with different colours.
As this happened, William felt more ease at training. But least to his knowledge that the statue that he failed to move before started to slowly shine.
Its eyes started to slowly open, showing two elliptical crimson red eyes that slowly started to shine brighter with every passing hour. At the same time, the statue started to produce its shadow behind it, a scary fox with five tails, covered up with scales, and had huge wings!
William was already immersed in his first training session. His senses were locked up and he couldn't feel anything of what was happening around.
Weird stuff like these kept happening, even the old message that he read before flashed and appeared once more. He kept himself like this for two days straight, before finally all the weird phenomena started to grow fainter, eventually disappeared.
"Phew! I really made something cool!" William opened his eyes after less than one hour from his and the statue's fox shadows disappeared. When he exhaled, a long bronze fog emanated from him, like he was breathing air vapour or something.
He looked around and didn't see anything unusual. "These cores… They still remained the same but…" he didn't know why his training abruptly ended. But he knew the reason when he examined these cores.
They looked the same, but they had zero spirit element at all. Their spirit power was the same, and that meant he could do this with monsters he'd kill later on.
"It's the first time for me to see cores without any element at all…" he muttered while closely examining the cores around. "I'll first use them in training before devouring them," his eyes flashed with excitement. Like this, he'd make sure to get the most of any monster core he'd gain from now on with his own blades.
He didn't know if by doing this he'd gain more spirit power or the same considering that his devour ability turned any core into ash after use. But he'd know after trying this later on.
"Time to see how much I gained…" After training for all this time, consuming all these cores, he held high hopes to get a decent amount of spirit power.
"Fifty-two points… Not that much…" he tilted his lips, feeling a bit disappointed at first. "But… Such an amount would have come from hundreds of bronze grade cores, or a hundred silver cores… Not bad!"
This wasn't the only thing to measure such progress, but the time he spent in gaining such an amount. For any spirit master, training for two days wouldn't add more than five points at most. And that explained why spirit masters spent months and even years to jump between high ranks.
William didn't know how long he kept training, but he was sure he got more than any normal spirit master would. First, he got such a legendary technique that no one here knew about. And second, it was his first-time training in it, and the first time in anything always held the best results.
That was why he felt little angry when the training ended. He wanted to remain training for as long as it needed, to get the most out of his first training session.
"It's time to return…" William collected the cores, took a long gaze around, before going towards the circle on the ground.
He activated his spirit body, and let the wind carry him up there to the surface.
"What took you so long?!!" Just when he came out from the building, he found his team members standing around the building. He spotted new faces among them, but the one who yelled at him was none other than Sara.
"Oh, how long did I take in there?" William didn't know how long he spent there exactly.
"Two days past due, tsk!" Ibra seemed to be annoyed, "I've been standing here, waiting for you, like I'm waiting for the patriarch or something!"
"I'm more handsome than any patriarch," William winked, and his comment made many laugh while others just smiled, "who are they by the way?"
William motioned towards the new faces. The ones who arrived here were around sixty, with only six of them belonging to his initial team.
"We found good spirit masters as you requested," Sara crossed her arms before adding, "they are part of the new recruits. You never told us you are going this big, recruiting thousands of spirit masters under your flag!"
"Thousands?!" even William was taken aback by this number. But when he moved his eyes around, his once empty place was now filled with lots of new people.
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