"Was bored so started to play with it," William laughed, "now… We are going there. And through the way, we'll meet lots of dark spirit masters. Our main goal is to capture the rings of anyone we meet."
"We don't need to kill them?!" Everyone was surprised when they heard what William said.
"No, we need first to gather rings, try to capture anyone alive from them. Then we can kill those struggling hard if we get the chance to."
"What if…" Berry paused, recalling her scary grandpa. And William got what she had in mind.
"At any sign of facing such troublesome folks, we will retreat," William said in a firm way, "we won't risk fighting anyone that we can't kill, got it?"
Everyone didn't need his firm gaze to not. After all, they got the highest grade to be in gold grade. And that was expected. Even with the lots of spirit masters joining the guild in the past days, those aloof dark gold spirit masters didn't come from their own to join them.
They might dream about fighting dark gold spirit masters and monsters, but none here wanted to do this right now. They knew they were done for if they faced such a scary foe.
Seeing their faces struggle and became a little darker made him quite satisfied. This was the proper lesson he wanted to teach them, the punishment for those six to not share his secrets again.
William was the only one who didn't feel like that. He got a necklace that was enough to protect him and few others from any scary dark gold enemies' attacks. At the same time, his spirit form and his full powered technique was enough to make him play with any low-grade dark gold spirit enemies, even wounding them before retreating away.
But he knew if he ever did this, then he'd expose the fact that he was the same scary fox master everyone was speaking and spreading rumours about in the fort. He knew he wouldn't be able to hide such a fact for long but hoped at least he wouldn't reveal it just on the first adventure outside.
By his arrangement, there would be eight different teams, each had eight members each. He made the scout team be led by the same silver member of his old team, Smith. Once everyone got arranged and prepared, William started leading them towards the place he selected.
As for Thomas, he joined his team for now.
William got different intel about the dark spirit masters. He learnt about dark spirit master bases from the fox message and the mysterious dark spirit master who visited him in his dreams.
On top of that, he also got more detailed intel about the future moves of the dark spirit masters in the region. As he got all these, he selected a spot that wasn't that close from any main enemy base.
He wouldn't go over his head and directly clash with these scary folks at first. Even if he got a way to handle dark gold spirit masters, he wouldn't seek them out before getting support from the various forces in the fort.
So, he selected a place that was around two hundred kilometres away from the fort. It was slightly to the North-West, slightly away from the main trade routes in the area.
He selected this place for different reasons. It was one of the most bustling areas with red dots on his map. And that meant the enemy had to scatter lots of their forces there, even a few months prior to the upcoming movements.
Also, he selected it as it was quite far from the fort. If he selected something close to be safe, he'd end up getting trapped, left with little space to run if things went wrong.
But like this, even if the enemy had some scary folks coming at him, he'd be able to run away with his team in the middle of that vast space around.
[I found a group of Earth based monsters. They look like this…]
Just in five minutes, Sith sent a message over using the Bullet. And through this Sith started to describe the group of monsters he met.
"Silver and gold grade Earthen Brown Salamanders… Not bad…" William recognised the breed of monsters Sith and his team located. "Listen up, just circle around them, and leave them to us."
[Ok!] Sith already got used to his role as a scout. He kept moving forward in stealth, without asking again to join the battle like before.
"How many are they?" Everyone heard what William said. And as all knew about Bullets, they didn't find it weird.
"A large group of thousands…" William moved his eyes around his team. They were just sixty something, and the first battle they were going to have was against thousands of monsters. "Are you afraid?" he had to ask.
The ones who accompanied him during the last adventure smiled as they knew this was really nothing. As for the new ones, their faces showed how they felt, showed doubt and worry.
"Just listen to my earlier arrangement. Let's go, we are going to take these monsters down."
William was the most excited one among them. He already exhausted all the cores he had before. And now he got lots of gold grade monsters, which was very good news to him.
He was coming close to the high stage of the bronze grade. His spirit power was now nearing one thousand mark, only five hundred points remaining before becoming an official silver grade spirit master.
Once he stepped into that realm, the value of silver cores would greatly diminish, while the bronze and white cores would lose most of their values by then. All they could do was to replenish his lost spirit power, and that wasn't a bad thing in his eyes.
And that wasn't all! When he'd arrive to the silver grade, he'd be able to use the two-tail form of his fox spirit. And that meant his battling prowess would escalate and reach a new height.
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