"Great work everyone," William stood in front of his team, with a big smile on his face. During the past week, they toured the entire base twice, collected everything they found, and made sure they didn't miss anything.
They didn't just find rings, they also found stored materials, cores, scrolls, training manuals, fighting techniques, even lots of food in there. William wasn't a generous one, took everything he found and stored them away.
The number of rings alone reached a staggering number above one hundred thousand. Just from these rings, he knew he wouldn't suffer at all for an entire decade, or even a century.
But that was in case he lived a normal life. He intended once getting back to the fort to start expanding his guild. With such wealth and assets, materials and gears, he could easily expand without any worries.
He didn't plan to just expand his guild in terms of spirit master numbers. He sat his eyes over the grand prize of alchemy and forging.
William didn't want to expand before as this was going to place lots of pressure on his pockets. But right now, he could easily do things he planned for years in just mere months. And that was why he knew even with such scary wealth and resources; he'd end up exhausting most of these by the end of this year at most.
"What are we going to do now?" Ibra asked while everyone started following William outside. They remained here for an entire week. They slept for an entire day after William joined them with Moore. And right now, they felt like they didn't live through such a hectic war a week ago.
"One week has already passed, so it's safe to assume the war outside is over," William said while walking inside the same tunnel they came from, "we'll go back to the fort. A big training program is waiting for all of you."
William got to know all the team members during this adventure. They all proved their worth and value, proved how capable and trustworthy they were.
So, William decided to go on full cylinders, training them like his master once did. He already scanned all of them, saw through their spirit power, spirit elements, and had lots of plans for all of them in his mind.
He didn't plan to just devise a general training plan for all of them. He'd give every single one of them a separate training system that he'd design according to everyone's unique abilities.
"Oh, Alfonso is still staying here," William returned to the surface, finding Alfonso still standing beside the deep hole leading to the yellow river. He got the impression that Alfonso wouldn't leave this place for a long time. And his hunch was indeed right.
"By the way, when do you plan to give my disciple the other gems you promised before?" After exchanging little words with Alfonso, William realised this man decided to wait here for a long time.
He planned to establish a camp here, to make use of the underground base. He just waited for William to finish what he was doing there before starting renovating the entire base.
And so, William recalled the old promise Alfonso made to him and didn't yet fulfil.
"Oh, I got absorbed in testing what you told me and forgot about that," Alfonso scratched his head in embarrassment, "I'll send for them to join William at your place."
William was standing in front of Alfonso in his fox form. The moment he left the base, he activated this form.
"Cool then," William turned around before adding, "by the way, from my experience and from what William told me before, finding one yellow river means there are others around."
"For real?" Alfonso was nearly this close from grabbing William's shoulders. But as he was in fox state right now, it felt impossible for him to do so, "is there a chance you do know where I can find them?"
Alfonso kept trying to find more yellow springs at other bases, but he failed. And soon enough, he lost hope and dropped such thought, stopping his men from doing this.
"It's simple," William smiled, motioned with one of his two tails towards one direction as he added, "just keep digging the river until you'll find its origin. There you'll find a grand spring, one that gives birth usually to around five up to seven rivers in total."
Alfonso realised why his force didn't find other yellow rivers at other bases. It seemed like he was looking at the wrong places for what he desired. And when he thought for a moment about what William told him, he couldn't help but feel blessed.
"Five rivers? Hahahaha! That great!" Alfonso already got the idea of monopolising this place and turning it into a profitable business, "tell William greetings and thanks for me. And tell him that he will get all the meals he likes for entire ten years for free, hahahaha!"
William wouldn't reject such a generous offer. He said his goodbyes with Alfonso after hearing the latest updates about the entire war. Then he started walking with his team back to the fort.
Unlike what William expected, this war didn't end by this week. It seemed the entire community of spirit masters here got riled up and excited, chasing the fleeing dark spirit masters all the way down to the main roads to the capital of the kingdom.
William didn't know if this would escalate any further or not. If the dark spirit masters lost it, then they'd point towards the places of other dark forces far away from here during their retreat without intending to do so.
If that happened, then more battles would occur, and this war would be far from over by the passage of another week, or perhaps a month.
As things here cooled down a little, William decided it was time to mind his own business. He led the way back to the fort while sending messages to Panther and other leaders of this grand army whenever he met any spirit master groups in his path.
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