"Speaking about that…" William suddenly thought of something, "I believe it's not just right to leave all these behind, right? You are going out, and the entire family is turning against you."
"What do you mean?" She looked at him in puzzlement, while she felt he was about to say something unexpected.
"You should link all this to you, not to the family," William paused, before an evil smile appeared on his face, "they believed the circulating rumours, or perhaps they were the ones behind them… Anyway, you shall link these innovations with you, take them with you when you go out. Don't leave them to that bastard when you leave, got it?"
"This…"
"Like this, you'll show to everyone who is the boss, right?" he winked, and she got what he meant.
"Ok," she nodded after a long minute of contemplation, "let this jerk dream about having all of these products when I'm away."
"Speaking about that," William finally returned to the goal he did all this for in the first place, "I know we got a contract and such, but can't you make an exception and give me the materials I need right away?"
"This… You do know how everyone is focusing on me and you right now. If I tried to do it, the entire thing would backfire at us."
"What if I said I got a way to solve this?" William didn't feel disheartened or something about such subtle rejection from her. He already knew about the pressure she was experiencing, and expected she wasn't going to simply agree on this proposal.
"Like what?"
"I own half of the city, that Lost City, right?" William winked, and for a moment there she didn't get his meaning. It wasn't until he made a motion with his hands, like he was holding a box or something.
"Oh, that… That's nice! I can do it!" she finally got what he meant, and her eyes shone in excitement before nodding, "give me till the night. And then all the materials you need will be delivered to you and even more."
"No need to bring me other materials," William knew what she meant, "just replace any extras from your storage and bring me more of the materials I need."
"Ok," she paused, "but may I ask what you need them for?"
"You'll later see," William didn't like explaining himself, not when the one asking was going to experience the true might of the weapon later on, "anyway, return back and make arrangements. Don't let these scrolls fall in the hands of any of those belonging to that bastard's faction, to avoid copying them."
"He will copy part, that's something I can't prevent," she sighed, "but don't worry, I'll try to limit the amount of the copied scrolls, ok?"
"Good luck then," William saw her away, then returned to his room while thinking about everything he learnt about.
"Why does this place smell the same as the old academy of mine?" he had a weird feeling, like there was something in common between this place and the Aspire academy. In fact, his hunch was correct. There was indeed some sort of connection between the two, yet he didn't realise it yet.
William's answer to the problem of the delivery date of his materials was quite simple. He'd not take materials from the Vancouf family directly. In that city, materials would appear out of thin air from time to time. As he lacked manpower to spread down there for now, William decided to let Lara collect the materials for him. After all, her men were filling the entire city in large numbers.
In return for half of the gains, he'd take all the materials he needed in any quantity she could provide. If there were other materials, she'd just switch them with the same set of materials he needed.
"I can at most control three of them right now with my current power… But it's not bad to have more, right?" William learnt his lesson quite well, the lesson of having little flying knives before while his power kept rising up.
So he decided to make more copies of this weapon, just in case his power would grow in this adventure. And that was something he knew he'd achieve.
As he knew Lara wouldn't fail him, he knew the worst that'd happen was for the other faction to secure part of the materials from their people in that city. Yet that wouldn't greatly affect anything at all. In the end, Lara could just get materials from the family vault and give them to him on the premise that he got his share that the other faction got.
So, he'd end up with his set materials, one way or another. The most important thing about this was that he wouldn't need to pay a single crystal for these and wouldn't wait for a week as mentioned in the contract.
As he secured his set of materials, he started to think seriously about how to make the weapon. "I need other materials and stuff…" he was lost in thought, before deciding to go out personally this time.
The things he wanted were all common and cheap, but he didn't have anyone right now from his team in the city to buy them for him. Everyone was sent out there to recruit new members to join the new branch. He didn't want to wait for them to return and didn't want to waste more time like this.
Just as he went out of the main building here, he vanished fast inside the ocean of people who flooded this place. But as he felt like no one would notice him, three people were keenly following his moves.
"He is out of his hole at last," Richard muttered, "it's time to try and take him down."
"Isn't it a bit rash?" Larry seemed a bit hesitant, "he is going to meet his end out of here. Why should we risk such a move now?"
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