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When he watched the crystal for ten minutes, he noticed a sudden change in the movement of the spirit power. Spirit power was in pale gold colour, looking like lots of tiny sand dots swirling inside the crystal, taking the shape of the fox.
Yet after ten minutes, he saw these dots change their movement, disturbing the fox form, and showing a weird shape of something he never saw before.
It just happened for a brief second before everything returned back to normal. After another ten minutes, the same thing happened again, confirming what he saw before.
"This… These two damn spirits… They are trying to do something with my fox!!!" When it happened for the third time, William was sure the two new spirits weren't dormant or sleepy at all.
They were slowly doing something, something that he didn't recognise. He tried to grasp the thing they changed his spirit power into but couldn't.
It got no known shape of anything he saw before, nothing that could be described as a spirit or anything. If he wanted to better describe it, it'd look like something exploding, releasing shockwaves all over the place.
"Don't tell me they want to kill me…" William felt a cold shiver back at his spine when he jumped to such a conclusion. Right now, he realised that this issue wasn't simple, and he needed to urgently find a solution.
He already got one, the technique the black fox left for him. He now realised the severity of the situation, knew why that fox risked everything to leave such a technique over to him, even with the risk of stirring up the wrath of these mysterious stars.
"I have to find a way to see these marks over my back…" He started to seriously consider leaving this place and returning back to his team, asking the help of Lina, Berry, or Sara. he'd ask them to draw what was on his back over scrolls, and then he'd start training in this technique.
Just when he decided to do that, the door to his room opened and Jeremy appeared. From the look on his face, William knew something bad was going on.
"You are asked to come with us towards the main headquarter," Jeremy's tone and attitude told William that he wasn't joking or simply inviting him over. And with the appearance of a group of twenty dark gold members of the legion, William knew this wasn't just a nice invitation to visit their base.
"What for?" Even when he was surrounded like this, William didn't show any sign of fear or panic on his face.
"The Cardinals asked me to bring you over," Jeremy paused, seemingly a bit hesitant before adding, "they think… You have a curse that affected Leo."
"A curse?!" William was surprised by how quick the Cardinals linked this to him, "how so? I'm totally fine as you can tell!"
"Well, I can't say I know everything. But they told me this thing is a new curse that they never saw before. They wanted to see you, check your body and see if you have a curse without knowing it."
"This…" William was thinking about leaving and returning back to the city and meeting his team. Yet right now it felt like he wouldn't be able to do it.
When he thought about this, he felt it was ironic. He kept asking to go and meet those folks, get to know them better. And when he didn't want to go, they wanted to force him to.
"I have no other option, right?" William sighed, and Jeremy bitterly smiled.
"Leo is in danger, that's the only thing the Cardinals could think of, the only hope we have to save him."
"How so?" William felt curious about this, and Jeremy told him that they spied on Leo's fate, to find it gloomy and dark.
What the Cardinals didn't tell Jeremy about was that when they tried to see Leo's fate and destiny, they ended up facing two scary beings. The ones who tried to do it got severe backlash, a thing that was indeed quite terrifying as the ones who performed this task were all Cardinals.
But before the connection would get severed, they identified one face of the two. It was William's, and they didn't need to know the other face to realise it was the one who did the curse back at the Blue Hills.
So, they asked Jeremy to bring William back to the main headquarters, to check him thoroughly and know more about him. They knew the mysterious face belonged to the Curser who did all this mess in the first place, and that meant he was their enemy. But William wasn't.
So the answer to all these mysteries laid in William's hands, and that was why they asked Jeremy to bring him over even if he had to use force.
"Fine, lead the way then," William thought about resisting them, ending up giving up this idea entirely. They didn't mean harm to him, only were worried about their leader. Besides, even if he tried, he wouldn't be able to get away from here without their help. And he wasn't strong enough to force them to let him go.
Not to mention he didn't want to enter intense battles without getting a way to solve the problem of the two rogue spirits in his body. Who knew what these two spirits might stir up if he fought freely and unleashed his spirit power, causing trouble to him in the end.
"Follow me," Jeremy turned to a few of his legion members, "take care of our boss and follow us as well."
William followed the legion elite members through different corridors before arriving at a wide hall. There he found a portal, one that was big and seemed to be different from the ones he saw at Lara's portal zone.
"We planned to take you to the main headquarter in the continent, but now plans have changed," Jeremy pointed towards the portal before adding, "this baby will take us towards the headquarter. And from there we'll board another portal, one that can take us towards the other continent."
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