Berry matured fast during the past five years, supported by her twin spirit. And yet, her merging final spirit didn't take form yet, not even when she reached the gold grade.
William started to believe that she'd show her final spirit at the pinnacle of dark gold grade, or perhaps when she'd travel with him to the outer world. For a reason, the newly formed spirit didn't show itself yet, not even showing a shape or giving William any clue about its identity.
Berry showed an exquisite shaped female body that was enough to stir storms in any heart. And Sara also didn't fail behind. When William looked at the two, he couldn't help but recall the fierce competition that kept happening between these two girls over currying his favour in the past few years.
Sara was always a fierce girl, but Berry seemed to grow wild when she grew older. In these five years, Berry wasn't the same crybaby she always was, never showing a single moment of shyness or hesitation when it came down to William.
Aside from these two, Lang, Peter, Thomas, Moore, and John were present from the old team.
William started expanding the guild and found lots of gems. He didn't stop there, and selected two of the most capable ones, added them to his trusted circle of friends.
These two were one male and one female. He found them not in the fort, not in the newly constructed city, but when he was adventuring outside.
The male was twenty years old, with green hair, green eyes, and the rare spirit element of life. He could heal and even replenish the lost spirit power of any team member using various techniques that William taught him. And his name was Jax.
The girl was eighteen years old, brown hair and crimson red eyes. She was Alex, and she got a very rare spirit element as well, the rage spirit element.
She could use various techniques and release different sized aura fields, enough to augment any team member around in strength and add more to their lethality.
In William's eyes, the two were true gems that he only heard about in old tales and legends before.
"I can't do it while you can?" Ibra motioned towards William before adding, "I heard you already fought one from them, ending up killing him!"
"Ahem, he deserved that," William cleared his throat while calmly smiling. Ibra grew to be more ferocious, especially when he learnt lots of techniques suiting his darkness spirit element from William, "let's talk about your mission… Did you do it?"
"We tried to locate it, but failed again," Sara sighed, "can you at least explain why we are looking for that specific monster all the time?"
"I want to settle scores with it, so I'm ok with going after it from time to time!" Ibra waved his glaive in the air, while everyone sighed and rolled their eyes.
Ibra was like this, a battle maniac! He loved nothing in the world more than fighting. Be it sparring with team members, fighting at the Spar Arena in the city, or even killing monsters.
William looked at her and didn't help but recall many things. The monster Sara spoke about was the Nightmare monster.
Since that epic battle, the situation in the fort grew to be much calmer than before. But to William, there were few little things that kept annoying him.
One of them was the Nightmare monster. The scale of the dark master crusade war that occurred five years ago stretched out to cover thousands of kilometres in the end. And yet, William never heard from anyone about meeting such a monster before.
He kept trying to look for it, trying to find and capture that copy of his archenemy. However, all his attempts failed, just like his attempts to locate the Transformers.
When the war ended, William met with Panther and lots of other formidable masters. Everyone was puzzled by the damage that touched the fort during the war. And yet William didn't explain anything to any of them.
He knew this was a tactical retreat from those scary and ancient beings. And he wasn't sure they called back all of their eyes and spies in the fort.
He kept looking for their hideout, using any means possible, and yet failed. And that made him not feel at ease at all.
Two of his strongest enemies were missing for a long time. Finding no trace of them at all kept him on his guard all the time.
So, he kept collecting old records about that war and the fort, trying to see anything that others missed. From time to time, he'd find a clue that could help, send a team with his trusted friends to check the location just like now.
"You don't need to worry about that," William kept his reasons for himself, "go back and rest. Then I'll check on all of your training."
"Not again!" a new voice came from the door, and it was Ro. Ro was already a hot looking girl when William met her. But now? She became sexier, and her lewd and shameless attitude grew to a new level as well.
She never stopped playing tricks and jokes with everyone, especially William.
Ro never dropped her attempts to make William fall for her. And eventually William started to grow closer to his selected girls, including her.
Nothing real happened between him and the girls, but the sight of him sitting with one of them alone, chatting and laughing, got repeated many times, especially during the past years.
In the eyes of everyone in the guild, in the fort, these girls were seen as his. The old spirit masters like Panther and others knew given time, these youths would be much closer, ending up being real lovers. As for Ben, he never stopped trying to convince William to man up, try the delights of being a man surrounded with hot fruits. Yet the latter always turned those lewd thoughts away for now.
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