William wanted also to take a grand tour in the fort, buy lots of places inside and outside. He believed in the Panther's viewpoint about the future. And the earlier they move the better they'd gain lots of great spots in the lands outside the fort.
There was also the problem of Transformers and their allies in the fort. William knew the Scorching Lands entire zone got cleansed off all the dark spirit masters and monsters, but there still existed the dirty Transformers and their allies who didn't join this war.
William wanted to go through everything he acquired, especially from the base. He hoped to find a lead or something to help him identify the traitors inside the fort, and better if he found any clue about the true places of the Transformers.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
However, just before he'd arrived at the fort, a loud and violent series of explosions rang out there, shocking the entire fort and large space of land around it.
William and his team paused in their tracks, looked towards the fort while not knowing what was happening out there.
"Don't tell me the war extended to the fort as well!" one of the team members muttered in a low tone. And for a reason, William felt this was indeed something that could happen.
But when they entered the fort, they were surprised to see it was quite empty. They imagined seeing lots of spirit masters here, fighting traitors in the fort. But all they found were scarcely few groups of masters running in panic, trying to put down the grand fire that appeared from these sudden explosions.
"Excuse me, what's happening here?" William had to stop one of these scarcely seen groups and asked one of them.
"No time for that! Lots of places suddenly exploded, and we need to hurry and put down the fire, save these places and people who were inside."
"This…" even William got shocked by what he heard. But when he took a tour around the fort, he finally got it.
He got what happened when he saw the hotel he once stayed at and saw the Transformers inside explode as well.
It went without saying what truly happened here. It seemed the Transformers got anxious from all the ongoing war outside, and decided to cut all the loose ends that might point towards them.
This was indeed a smart and quite decisive and bold move from them. William got this hotel, Mark and the other worker who led him to see the Transformers before, as the only links towards those beings.
And now? By this hotel exploding like this, with many places that also suffered from the same fate, William was sure all the leads he hoped to find were gone!
There were no links left to guide him towards those Transformers. And that made him quite wary and a bit worried.
"Shall we help?" Berry asked out of her pure heart.
"Not our problem anymore," William landed a last gaze over this hotel bathed in wildly raging flames, "I'm sure no masters were here when these explosions happened. Let's go, we have lots of other things to do."
William led them back to the guild, where he found it quite empty. He sighed when he saw this and knew from the few who were left there to continue constructing the various buildings inside that his guild members got summoned by the grand masters in the fort.
They all moved out under the lead of Remy, went to fight and kill the dark spirit masters and monsters.
William wanted to send his guild members out to look for any running away masters, start a big hunt before they'd vanish at the hectic war going on outside. The explosions just happened not long ago, and those traitors who owned these places weren't that far away.
He was new here, so he didn't know who owned what. But for the ones who joined his guild and were living in the fort for enough time, finding these folks wasn't a problem.
William turned to his team, to entirely drop the idea of sending them out the next moment. He lacked the needed numbers to go over such a wild hunt right away. And like this, he knew these Transformers already secured their secrets from his reach.
"Good one, good move indeed," William sighed, while turning to others before adding, "you got one week. After this, whoever will stay here will enter a long period of training under my direct supervision. The ones who will leave won't get anything but wishes of good luck from me."
"Hmm… How long do you plan to keep us confined here?" Sara knew it was a hard call to make. She wanted to be with William, not only for his promised teachings, not because she got feelings for him, but mainly because he was the only person who could help her unveil her mother's mystery.
But that would come at the cost of not seeing her grandfather and brother for a long time. Berry also thought the same, but to her she was leaning more to be with William than returning to the clan.
"I'd say five years at least," William paused for a long minute, "give or take a few months. I won't call it over until you reach that high grade in power. And then you can go out and visit your clans and academies but won't dream about staying there for long time. At most, you can go away for a few months before returning back."
"That means… We won't join the academies and clans again!"
"Dark gold grade?! Jumping from gold grade to dark gold grade in five years?!!!"
"Damn! I'm still at silver grade! Can I make it?"
"Hey, you are all stronger than me," John rolled his eyes, "I'm at bronze grade. Can I really make it?"
William looked at his team's stupefied faces before a wide smile appeared on his, "of course! If you follow my teachings to the letter, then getting there won't be a problem. The worst any of you will get will be just rising up to gold grade, and I'm speaking about those in bronze grade."
"..."
"Now go, rest and heal. Think about this deep enough and give me an answer in one week."
"No need to wait for a week! I'm in!" John was the first to agree, followed by Ibra, Berry, and Sara.
Seeing Berry and Sara agree made Lang, Peter, and the silver ones who came from the academy agree as well. Moore didn't need to decide anything, his fate was already sealed with William since the moment he walked away from his last lord.
Thomas also expressed his willingness to join. As for the rest, they hesitated, asked for time to think about things over. And William didn't show any emotion at all towards their decision.
"Time to rise up like a rocket then," William was excited about this training period. It wasn't only dedicated to his team and selected unique members with rare talents, it was also meant for himself.
He knew he'd face lots of trouble with the absence of monsters around, but that didn't mean he wasn't without any solutions to solve this. He had his training manual, the technique he got from the black fox, and his spirit purity technique as well.
Not to mention he also got the fox statue, which he planned to start absorbing its power madly from now on.
And like this, five years passed…
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