"Great then," William clasped his hands, acting carefree about all this, "first you'll have to let a totem on your chest. If you tried to remove it by force, it'll detonate your heart. If you tried to resist a direct order from me, you'd get killed right on the spot. How about that?"
William looked at Moore, and like seeing a man who lost everything and was willing to risk it all to survive, Moore nodded without any speck of hesitation.
"Killing without my permission isn't allowed," after William drew lots of small symbols over Moore's chest, he finally said, "you aren't allowed to speak with any of the dark spirit masters, including your former lord, without my permission. You aren't allowed to betray me, disclose any secrets or intel about me, my team, my guild, and any of my business to anyone. Is that clear?"
William stated his conditions down, and with every and each one of them, Moore obediently nodded.
"Great! Now, tell me everything you know about your past lord, the dark forces you belonged to, and this base," William moved his eyes towards Thomas and other team members, and they nodded in understanding.
Then they took their leave, led by Thomas who started to thoroughly scan this base and look for any hidden traps or treasure chests. At the same time, William stood his place motionless for hours, listening to lots of words that Moore was saying without pause.
From this moment onward, Moore kissed a goodbye kiss to his past life as a dark spirit master. He warmly embraced his new identity as a proper spirit master, a man who was working for this eleven years old kid in front of him.
William listened for hours without getting bored. Moore belonged to one of the main dark forces in the entire region, part of the Black Mamba clan.
On top of that, his old master was treating him quite special, keeping him by his side most of the time. So, it made sense how deep and vast the amount of knowledge this youth knew.
His intel was crucial for William and later on would play a great role in the second crusade the spirit masters here would launch against the other dark forces in the area. The region around the Scorching Lands fort was cleared off the dark forces. But there were still lots of other places that didn't get affected by any of that.
And without knowing it, William was doing exactly what Panther previously foresaw. Panther said before to his friends and allies that they needed to save William and follow him, and that was why.
William made sure to memorise everything, ask about any doubt he got, and even took out his map and started to draw more circles, dots, and lines there.
Moore was shocked when he saw this map. Many of the dark forces' grand plans and movements were recorded correctly and in great detail there. And Moore was sure he didn't share with William most of this intel before now.
He wanted to ask William about how he got his hands on such intel. But a single glance from William, a warning one, silenced him and made him stand there motionless, answering everything that William asked, and explaining what this map missed.
During this, William's team was doing a great job. The dark forces lived here for a long time. They left in a hurry and in a very sudden way. So, they left most of their treasured belongings hidden here, and Thomas found all of these.
Most of the forces here left in a hurry to aid their entrapped folks facing William, Panther, and others. A good deal also moved to stop Alfonso back when he first arrived here. It was expected they'd not take away most of their treasured stuff. As for the ones who got trapped here till the end, they took anything they knew about, but missed tons of stuff.
The dark spirit master world was built on the concept of treachery. No one entrusted anything to anyone else, even if he was their brother or part of their family. So just in the first few hours, it wasn't a surprise for the team to find rings equal to the total amount they gathered so far from the hectic fights earlier.
This was just the start. As they kept searching around, they kept finding hidden rings like the entire place was constructed from rings and not rocks.
"Is that all?" William raised his head and looked at Moore. After half a day, this man stopped speaking as he said everything he knew.
"That's everything I know about the dark forces in my entire life," Moore said, "I bet with all this, you can uproot the entire dark forces in the region."
"Do you regret it or something?"
"No," Moore wasn't lying. He never felt any real attachment to such a dark community before, like anyone else working for them, "but..."
"Don't be hasty, we are going to clear this entire place first before returning back," William knew what Moore wanted to say, "then a grand training program will be designed, not only for you but for all those who I personally selected."
"I shall consider myself lucky then," Moore bitterly smiled, and William laughed.
"That's indeed true," William said before storing away this valuable map. He decided to give it to his trusted teammates, letting them copy this map in detail. Then he'd distribute all these over Panther and his trusted folks.
William could already imagine how grand the impact of this simple map would bring to the entire region. But he never imagined that dark forces all over the world copied the same formation and lineup. And that would make many dark forces suffer tons of damage when this map would leak and spread all over the world later on.
William then returned to his team, received a shitload of rings. Seeing this made him inwardly sigh. "I must open a ring stall when I'll return," this was a must. After all, the number of rings in his possession was now in tens of thousands!
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