"Now? I'm going to take a tour around, eat my lunch, chill out, and do nothing," William raised his arm in the air as he started walking around, "keep up the good work."
"Damn you! You won't even step in and help?!!" she shouted from behind, and all she got was long laughs before he shouted back:
"What for? I got you to handle everything! Hahahaha!"
William moved while doing what he exactly said. He kept watching the new faces that filled up his territory and examined the building sites all over the place. And then he went to eat his luxury meal before asking the folks from the Golden Fork restaurant to prepare dried up rations to be taken out while adventuring, delivering them to Berry at the gate during the next five hours.
Then he laid on the ground, seemingly enjoying such peace. He was sure this was the peace before a storm, but he never expected the storm to be this grand.
"So… This is the necklace I kept hearing stories about?" As ten hours passed fast, William moved to the gate where he found his new team waiting there.
In addition to the old six vice leaders, and the five silver grade folks, there were the newly joined fifty-something spirit masters, plus Ro.
The entire roster exceeded sixty, and they looked ready for the adventure.
Thomas was there as well, in addition to Remy who gave William the necklace and a ring just now. "I got it as well as all the elixirs in the entire fort. You got to know that all the alchemists are dancing wildly in joy, promising to make more elixirs if you want."
"Make them work for me then."
"No, they refused!"
"What a waste of talent!" William sighed. He already went to the places where folks from Seven Heaven and Blue Hammer groups took as their temporary bases.
They were excited and enthralled by all the new formulas and blueprints William provided for them. Not to mention the tricks he included in all this. William just said some encouraging words and took all the high-grade potions, elixirs, and any gear of gold and silver grades they made.
As they didn't work for long, the total amount William got wasn't much to begin with. Not to mention they failed to produce a single dark gold piece of gear yet. But there was also another factor that brought forth such a result, the lack of enough working hands.
So William thought about roping others from the fort. Yet it seemed this wasn't going to do.
"Just try to recruit anyone of these talents, and let them make elixirs for me for now," William said, before turning again towards the necklace he held in his right hand.
It went without saying that this necklace was made for women to wear, not men. It was really shining and sparkling with all the little gems it got. It was formed of a very thin thread that was made out of special green ore, with little sparkling gems of crimson red colour.
Wearing it made William feel awkward at first. But when he hid it under his uniform, directly over his skin, he felt a little better.
"To activate its shield, you have to use your spirit power," Remy added, "and then a shield that surrounds an area of twenty metres will appear."
"Twenty metres? That's good," William thought it was just something made just for him.
"Well, that's the rough estimate when I asked about someone of your grade using it. If a gold grade or higher one used it, this shield would cover more than one hundred metres!"
"Give it to me then," Ro was still dreaming about having this necklace, stretching her hands out in a shameless way.
"No way! Stop dreaming!" William rolled his eyes and touched the place of the necklace around his neck and chest, "you won't even sniff it at all!"
"Tsk! What a stingy kid you are!" she harrumphed, and William just laughed at her insane level of shamelessness.
"I'm leaving this place in your hands," William waved his arm to Remy while moving out, "make sure you complete everything by my return."
"Go out, have fun, and let me rot in here!" she shouted back at him, and he simply smiled and said nothing.
As they got out of the territory, William finally experienced what being a celebrity meant!
The moment he got out, he witnessed lots of people already gathering around the territory. They didn't intend on joining his guild for now it seemed, and yet they were there waiting for anything interesting to happen.
Then as he walked past them, many started to run and gather around, making it literally impossible to walk in calmness and peace.
"Ibra, lead a team of ten gold grade spirit masters and keep a clear distance around," William got tired of dealing with all of these curious and excited folks about him. They kept asking weird questions like: Are you single? Is this your girl? Are you really the direct disciple for the legendary fox? And such weird questions which made William not know what to say or do.
He never heard a question regarding joining his guild or something. The most he heard related to his force was questions about what even a guild meant.
William refrained from answering all of these useless questions, and simply let Ibra and others handle the current situation. As the ten of them moved under the leadership of Ibra, things started to cool down a little bit.
And yet people never stopped gathering around as he walked in the main street. If not for the main gates of this fort lying at the end of these main streets, William would prefer to walk in less crowded and popular streets instead.
"You are really something now, hahahaha!" Ibra kept saying this from time to time, taking amusement in what William was suffering from.
"I bet you are enjoying this," from the side, Ro winked while evilly grinning, finding it like a fair price for William to pay in exchange for everything he put her through.
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