William wasn't a saint, but he got his time occupied with tons of things actually. Not to mention most of the girls here were still young, except for Ro who were considered a young lady now.
He always dealt with Ro in caution. After all, she loved to play tricks on him, even when the two sat together, laughed and talked about different things and old times.
"What? Don't tell me keeping track of your training is bad!" William rolled his eyes when he saw Ro. But everyone else seemed to share with her the same opinion about William's harsh methods.
The way William tested them was simple, and brutal. He'd spar with them one on one, with things ending up quite bad for them each and every single time.
No matter how they tried, no one was able to even keep up with William, especially when William kept growing stronger.
They all trained starting from the end of the big war. And yet, when they compared themselves with William, all they could think about was how monstrous William was.
It wasn't the issue of spirit power. As they experienced it with William, they got to know how spirit power and their overall grade didn't matter!
During the past five years, William didn't grow much stronger in terms of spirit power. In fact, he was the slowest out of all of them in that regard.
Even the two Selvators, Lina and Tina, went all the way from being without any spirit power towards reaching gold and silver grade accordingly.
That was indeed quite an amazing feat, crossing at least two stages in terms of spirit power. As for William, he didn't even pass the silver grade he was in five years ago.
And this was for a very good reason.
William didn't struggle just because of the lack of monsters in the areas around the fort and its city. In fact, the lack of monsters came as a blessing and a curse to many spirit masters in the fort region.
The ones who didn't like the life of fight and danger embraced such opportunity with wide arms. This wasn't just exclusive for the people of the fort, not limited just to spirit masters, but extended beyond. Normal people and spirit masters from the continent or even the other continent came all the way and lived here. It was as William, Panther, and others expected. And with such a grand move, the entire region became bustling with activity, very crowded to be honest.
On the other hand, the ones who knew there was no true peace in the world didn't like it here. Without monsters, spirit masters would lack enough training and their sense of danger would grow dull. Not to mention tons of spirit masters depended entirely on collecting monster cores and materials, selling them to gain their daily living expenses.
And so at the same time, a reverse migration began. It all started with the clans and big academies in the region affected by such a phenomenon. And that made this entire zone change drastically.
People called it the miraculous migratory move, where a shitload of people left and many more came in. And William agreed to such a name. Only few spirit masters, including his guild, Panther's people, many impacts, who remained behind, struggled to find a decent place to train and kill monsters at.
But soon enough, someone appeared here from another continent. He was a mysterious spirit master, at the pinnacle of power in this tiny world actually. However, that wasn't what made him mysterious in William's eyes, his love and greed for wealth was.
William considered getting addicted to wealth and fame was something contradictory for any spirit master aspiring to reach the very top in the world. But against such a theory of his, this old man was the exception for this.
He came here, with lots of pocket worlds that no one knew from where he got them. That wasn't the only weird thing, but all of these pocket worlds were filled to the brim with tons of monsters.
William even suspected that this master belonged once to a dark force, or perhaps he emptied the treasury of a big dark master force in the world.
Pocket worlds filled with monsters were a common weapon in the hands of dark spirit masters in the outer world. It was like moveable fortresses, able to contain an endless number of monsters, ready to get deployed at any time, any place.
Pocket worlds were easy to hold and carry in anyone's rings. And that made such pocket worlds quite scary. However, it was solely a privilege for strong and formidable dark master forces to obtain such a weapon.
The issue wasn't in obtaining pocket worlds, but to how to fill these with monsters. If a normal master wanted to create such a weapon, he had to travel far and long, enter hellish and endless battles, struggling to capture monsters alive and store them inside the pocket worlds.
But to any dark spirit master, he could easily control the monsters and led them into these pocket worlds. For this reason, William kept his vigilance against this master for long months until he witnessed an incident that proved this master unguilty of such accusation.
Removing his suspicions off this man didn't prevent William from envying him. This master alone was winning as much as William's entire guild, or even more!
But this master came to save what remained of spirit forces in the fort and newly constructed city. The masters who still wanted to train and form their forces here found a way to train and kill monsters.
It was a magical solution for the direst problem many masters faced. On top of that, it became much weirder after a long time.
The man appeared just one year after the end of that great war, just a few months after the building of the grand city here. Since then, tons of spirit masters entered his pocket worlds on a daily basis. But after all these years, there wasn't even a single incident of one pocket world getting dry of monsters.
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