"Half of this grand city isn't enough? Come on! You have a big appetite!" William laughed when he stepped at last over the stairs.
Like this, the hellish experience he went through ended at last. He didn't just find that portal, but also secured such a place for himself for later uses.
William didn't take long in letting Lara bind the formations with her blood. During the process, she and her team of guards were on the edge. After all, they were walking in the place that took the lives of lots of masters, mostly not much weaker than them.
William didn't find a single corpse of any force left behind. He thought he could extort these forces more, collect rings and gain more loot. But they were a half step ahead of him.
"See? This is just a small part of what I had to deal with!"
Just after they left the entrance of the Lost City, through the same long corridor William walked through when he came here, he found lots of forces waiting for him outside.
According to what Lara said, this corridor was the single entrance that all forces used. Every force got a door for it, and for a reason new door kept popping up after the passage of five hundred years.
William counted fifty doors or so while walking back. And when they walked out, they appeared at the portal area. It was the place where her great grandfather linked the entrance to the Lost City with, the first thing that belonged to the Vancouf family in the city.
As this was a very common place, where lots of spirit masters could enter and leave without many restrictions, it was expected to see such a grand number of masters lying in wait around the main building.
"So what? Your family is enough to deal with them, right?" William didn't place any of this at all in his eyes. He let Lara and her family share the city with him just to shoulder such trouble.
"Sigh! It will take forever to control all this mess," she tiredly sighed before adding, "what are you going to do now?"
"Me? Nothing," William shrugged, "I'm just going to rest here. I believe you have a place for me and my team to rest at, right?"
"Come on! Do you think we got a hotel here or what?"
"It'll be a nice thing if you got one," he laughed, and she glared back at him, "just deal with this mess, and let someone handle my new territory papers and such."
"At least let me handle this disaster first," she waved her hand, "go back, go and rest inside the main building for now. When I'm done, I'll come and find you…"
She paused for a moment, seemingly recalling something, before adding, "next time I won't be alone. The family elders will attend that meeting. So it's better if you think carefully about what you are going to say."
"Don't worry, I got everything under control," William pointed at his head while giving her a confident smile.
He then gathered up his team. They weren't that far from the main building, but had to wait until Lara led the angry mob away to join him. William led them without explaining anything while the entire place was looking like a bomb that was this close from exploding.
He knew Lara and her family would handle everything. And that was why he didn't care about anything happening around.
The team asked lots of questions, especially his vices. The last time they saw him, he was going out to do something and would return to lead them towards the Long Feather academy.
But he vanished for long hours. And without any warning, he ordered them to evacuate the hotel and come here. They saw how tense the entire situation was, with a big internal war on the verge of happening at any moment.
What puzzled them was that William's fox identity was mentioned a lot. It wasn't a secret that he was the fox master, but they didn't get why everyone was speaking in such hostility about him.
William just explained what his team didn't know. He talked about how he ended up in an underground grand city, and now half of this city belonged to the guild.
He also told them about the deal he made with Lara, about purchasing a piece of land here and expanding the guild.
Of course, he kept the biggest secret about the interworld portal presence hidden from them.
"Tsk! Why is it anywhere you go, trouble must happen? Huh?" Ibra rolled his eyes and said in a tired tone.
"Don't say it as if this was something bad. Everything is under control now, and we ended up with expansion of our guild and half of a grand city as well," William shook his head, "go and rest for now. We'll live here for now."
William was already led by Lara's people towards the top floor. The entire place looked ready to welcome guests, with lots of rooms and even workers who were ready to serve their needs.
William let his team retreat to rest, while he didn't sleep. It was already night, but he got something to think about.
"I wanted to solve this problem using these materials… But now it seems it will be hard to secure them anytime soon," he was lost in thought. He knew dealing with Lara wasn't enough to secure his needed materials.
She told him that she'd prepare materials once per week per his request. And that meant he had to waste an entire week here if he wanted to get the materials he needed.
He wanted to prepare something before leaving, some sort of a grand and deadly weapon. Yet he felt like he wouldn't be able to secure enough materials right away. And that wasn't all. Even if he accepted such a one-week period, he knew this wasn't even a sure thing.
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