"William's master?!" Alfonso paused, took a long minute before his mind jumped to the simple and crazy conclusion that was evident in front of his eyes, "holy sh*t! You… You… You are alive?!!!"
"What do you think?" William laughed, and his laughs turned into scary roars, "now… I want something in return for the great help my disciple did for you."
"This…" Alfonso's mind instantly jumped towards the yellow river. However, before his thoughts would run wild and take him all the way down the wrong abyss, William explained in calm tone:
"I know you are busy making weapons to deal with the Scarlet Bears. That's great news indeed. But I'm not that interested in any of this, I just want this base."
"Want the base? Just the base?!" Alfonso didn't directly buy William's words. But when the latter kept his calm and didn't say anything, Alfonso's tense face eased up as he added in a cheerful tone, "sure, you can have it! There are tons of other bases around anyway. But…"
"But what?"
"This base seems a bit different," Alfonso knew this was the same legendary old fox he kept hearing about in old tales. And right now, he just felt more lucky and grateful that he let William handle that problem for him, "it's filled with tons of forces, and of course it'll be filled with deadly traps."
"Don't worry about this," William said, while landing his eyes over Thomas. The latter cleared his throat, knowing what William wanted from him.
"Cool," Alfonso then turned to a few of the strong masters around him, "go and spread the word. This base belongs to the Fox master. If he wants help, then everyone here is going to help him on my behalf."
He indeed didn't need to add the last part. But as any businessman, he'd not let such a chance to get to the good side of this scary fox master, even if others didn't need him to say such a thing.
Least to his knowledge that he was standing in front of William, not the old Fox master. And when he'd realise this, he'd slap his forehead while laughing on how William's luck was great.
Things then turned out quite smooth for William. Everyone stopped their attempts to get into the base, clearing a huge area for William and his team to work at.
Thomas was indeed a valuable piece for William. Using his karma spirit element, Thomas kept pointing out towards the right spots they needed to check, allowing them to deactivate all the blockages that stopped the spirit master army for a long time.
Not only that. When they started walking down a long path leading to the bottom of this place, Thomas kept pointing out towards different spots where many deadly traps and arrays were stealthily hidden.
Like this the journey of William and his team inside the base was really smooth. These traps were nothing like the ones that were in the fox territory. And William could easily identify their points of weakness and exploit them.
His vast knowledge astonished the newly joined members again. They all were high grade spirit masters, veterans who witnessed lots of things including traps and deadly arrays.
They knew walking through such a path would be like walking down a landmine. It was a dangerous work to deactivate all the traps and arrays here. And eventually someone had to miss and do something wrong, ending up detonating the deadly traps.
But William never made such a mistake. In their eyes, Thomas turned his eyes and hair all purple, pointed towards various places, while William just started to examine these for a minute or two, before doing the right thing to deactivate them.
In their eyes, it was like childish puzzles that kept getting deciphered easily by an adult.
"Who are you?"
And just as they crossed that path in an hour or so, they finally arrived towards a huge underground space. There they found nothing, but a single person cladded in black coat, waiting for them, "show your face!" William said in an arrogant tone. While the other party complied and lowered their cape, showing a face of a young man who wasn't any older than twenty-five years old.
William looked into that man's eyes directly, not recognising him. But he felt like he had already met him before, "Who are you?" as he failed to identify him, he had to ask again.
"You once promised me of something insane, promised to help me stand at the frontlines and fight like any proper spirit master. Will you keep your words now?"
"This…" in everyone's eyes, this dark master was indeed saying bullshit. But unlike them, his words were like a symphony in William's ears.
"You are that dream master, hahahaha! You decided to join me then?" William laughed, cancelled his form before adding, "how can you tell it was me?"
"I can smell the same arrogance I felt before when I met you there," Moore said the truth. Once William arrived here, Moore didn't recognise him from his fox form, yet he knew for sure he was William.
"Interesting," William knew this wasn't just based on a hunch and felt this dark spirit master had more than what an eye could tell, "what's your name?"
"Moore."
"Ok Moore, I'll tell you my conditions first. If you don't like them, then you are free to go."
"William!" "Boss!" Many exclaimed in surprise and doubt, while William kept his calm and confident smile on his face, "but… You'll have to try out your luck in surviving the lots of spirit masters waiting outside."
"No need to threaten me," Moore waved his arm in a tired way, "I'm already aware of how dangerous my current situation is. No matter what conditions you have, I'll fulfil them honestly."
"A dark spirit master speaking about honesty? That's a first!" Ibra harrumphed, while giving William a long look.
If it was up to Ibra, if it was up to anyone here, they'd prefer to kill this dark spirit master and get rid of all the trouble. But to William, he was ready to risk it to get such a gem, a very rare and unique gem.
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