"What? I know you have a way to let us better control these beasts, hahahaha!"
"I didn't mean that," William rolled his eyes, "I meant to say… I can help in reproducing these monsters, ending up having more."
"M… More?!!! For real?!!!" Zin got instantly excited, yet just by a single look at William's face and current evil and greedy expression, all his excitement faded away, "what's the catch? What do you want out of this deal?"
"Nothing much," William calmly shrugged, and that made the heart of this old man sink further, "I just want half of the entire produced monsters, given to my guild. What do you think about this?"
"Half? Damn! You have such a big appetite!" Zin was speechless for a few seconds before adding, "let me see others before giving you the answer…"
"If so then let them know doing such a thing will require tons of materials, many of which are rare and quite pricey. And you'll shoulder all the costs equally among the forces in the city, including my guild of course."
"..." Zin knew the earlier offer from William seemed too nice now compared to what he just said. What William implied was that the forces would take care of most of the expenses, and only would gain a small cut from half of what was going to be produced.
"Let's speak about this later," Zin could only put an end to the discussion here, "ah, I heard there is a mysterious force that appeared out of nowhere. They were the ones who dealt with the sky problem, and they were led by someone called…"
"Leo," William completed Zin's words, nodded to him before adding, "they are my friends and allies, came here to help. Make sure they are warmly treated."
"That's something we don't need to discuss about," Zin felt like William still kept tons of secrets that no one knew. This force wasn't just useful and mysterious, but from the tales he heard from other leaders who arrived there for many hours, they used novel methods to deal with the black cloud issue.
These black clouds kept Zin on his toes, knowing nothing about them. And when he saw a group of people not only identifying the true nature of these clouds, but also having a way to deal with them made him more perplexed.
On top of that, William introduced them as his friends and allies. And that meant they were on his side. William was just a sixteen-year-old youth, one who defied all logic and common knowledge about youngsters of his age.
Zin inwardly sighed, realising that the future did indeed favour those new generations than the old ones.
Just as they flew towards the safe zone outside, William suddenly turned to Zin and said in a serious tone and expression on his face: "I got severely wounded from what I met inside that dark academy. I'll train and heal, so please don't disturb me."
"..."
Zin didn't know what was going on. In his eyes, William was totally fine. But if the man said it himself, William didn't have anything else to respond with but nod.
William did indeed look fine, and he didn't want to train or recuperate or anything. Just as they were flying, he heard the voice of the black fox, asking him to get ready to enter his world and meet up with him in a minute.
William didn't delay, sat on the ground and closed his eyes, mimicking the stance where he'd train in. He didn't know if he'd vanish or show any change, so he came up with this idea of training to make sure nothing would attract anyone's suspicions.
Not to mention the last thing he'd want for others to interrupt him.
As he expected, the moment he went inside the black fox world, his body changed, and his spirit got activated. Yet against what he expected, this time there were two weird looking spirits residing on his back, closing their eyes, seemingly sleeping or something.
One looked like a snake and the other looked like a dog. They were small, covered with halos of white light that made it hard for anyone to depict their features clearly.
Seeing this made Zin feel more curious about what William was doing. He tried to spy on William using spirit sense, to find out that his spirit sense got smashed and crushed the moment it touched William's body.
"Damn! What's wrong with this youngster?!!!" Zin even got a backlash and coughed up blood. He looked at William as if he was looking at a monster.
William didn't have the power to do such a thing, and Zin was at the very top stage in this world. So just thinking about the presence of some sort of power that could outweigh his spirit sense and power, ending up for him to have such severe backlash, was impossible.
As Zin was left to his puzzlement, William entered into the black fox world. This time he found himself standing in front of the black fox, appearing in his spirit form, with the two sleeping and annoying spirits on his back.
William didn't feel surprised by seeing this. Instead, he turned to the black fox and sighed. "Couldn't have you been more detailed about your previous warnings?"
"What warnings?" The black fox pulled a face that showed a puzzled expression. And that told William it wasn't wise to speak about this matter.
"Ahem, I wanted to speak with you about these two. As you can see, I got two uninvited guests in my spirit zone."
"They look cute," the black fox seemed to joke, yet his face and tone were quite serious, "don't you like puppies?"
"P… Puppies? This one is a beast! It can devour my spirit power without showing any bottom!!"
"Just deal with it as a side effect, just mere flies that would annoy you from time to time."
"..."
William felt there was something wrong here.
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