William held high hopes for his meeting with the black fox, a thing that ended up with literally nothing in the end. He was left alone to handle the two spirits dormant in his fox spirit, with nothing but weird writings on his back that he couldn't yet read.
"At least I'm in the gold grade now," William pushed aside all these worries and troubles, focused mainly on the big milestone he crossed.
As he got nothing else to do, he started to absorb the gold and dark gold cores he had. They were enough, but not that much to add many points to begin with. They were barely enough to add a few hundred points to his spirit power.
To enter the dark gold realm, he had to raise his spirit power by seven thousand points, a big gap that would take a long time to cross.
"As I expected, the effect of the Devour ability grows weaker the higher I climb…" William saw that absorbing a single gold core only gave him five points at max. As for the dark gold cores, they gave him twenty up to thirty points. And that was when he was still at the early stage of this grade.
The higher his spirit power became, the lower the points he'd gain.
"I need to focus more on training," he already had various techniques he devised, but they would require lots of time to show real effects compared to the Devour ability.
William planned to try and gather all the cores he could, absorb them first, and raise his spirit power to the furthest he could reach. As the higher he'd climb the more useless the cores would be, he decided to focus first on devouring cores.
In the next three days, he did nothing but train. He levelled up his spirit power, but not his spirit purity grade. He depended on absorbing the snake spirit at least to add one more tail and raise the grade of his spirit purity.
But now he had to wait until he'd be with his entrusted vices, select one of them to read the writings on his back.
During this time, the Cardinals meeting was still going with lots of objections about William's request. Those formidable figures didn't believe there wasn't a single trace of evidence pointing towards the culprit behind such an incident.
So they asked Leo to return back and check the entire area, looking for any evidence or clue about the culprit. Leo executed the order using the help of most of his legion.
If William went out during the past few days, he'd find out that the entire place was empty. But he was too much absorbed in training, not that much interested in spying on anything here when he got a direct way to obtain what he needed.
As Leo and his legion returned back to the destroyed Blue Hills zone, the city masters returned to the city while celebrating their crushing victory.
The normal masters were very happy by such victory, and the high-end masters knew the city just started its new era by hitting on all the right notes.
They didn't just crush a very scary monster tide, but they also defeated a strong dark force. This added not only confidence, but also made them look more righteous and invincible.
The future of the city changed dramatically from being bleak a few weeks ago into being glorious.
The first thing the higher ups decided was to spread out the news all over the continent. Like this, the name of the city would be spread far and wide, get to be known by many, sought out by more masters than before.
Then the leaders of various forces started to expand the city in expectation for the grand wave of masters coming here. As things were heading for the better for the city, William's friends started to make the best use of this chance.
They spread out stories about how their mighty leader managed to bring one miracle after another. William's name already had its own weight from before. And with the miraculous victory over the monster tide and against the dark academy, his name became more vibrant in the ears of many masters.
Offers to join the guild were now more welcomed by masters than ever. As the team got the final instructions before leaving William's side, they appointed a group of capable members of the elite Black Tails team to lead the branch here.
William already left instructions about how to make the best use of this chance. He already read through what was going to happen and expected much more influx of masters to the city than anyone else.
The Black Tails team took two days before they were ready to depart. And when they arrived at the portal region, they met with an unexpected surprise.
"You want to come with us?!!!" Sara and others stood in front of Lara, while the latter appeared there beside few of her guards.
"Why not?" Lara chuckled, "I already arranged things here. My family got back on the right track, the same for the city. My role here is going to be quite boring. I'm coming with you and having a little fun."
"But…" even Ibra was taken aback by what she said, "did you inform William about this? And your family, are they ok with this?"
"William vanished before telling him my decision," Lara paused before adding in a confident tone, "and I doubt he'll say no. I'm coming not only to help, but also for the grand project of the city that'll happen in the near future."
"What project?" Berry didn't feel settled or at ease with Lara's sudden decision. She and other girls in the team felt like she wanted to be closer to William. And that smelled like trouble.
"An academy," but what Lara said took everyone by surprise, "we are going to be a very huge city. And one like ours needs certain things to flourish and add more to its glory and name. One of these is the academy. My adventure with you will aid our goal greatly."
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