William kept jumping from one windstorm to another, until he found something new at the third one.
"This… It's a ring… A spirit ring… One that comes from the outer world!"
William stopped what he was doing the moment he found something shiny at the ground. When he inspected it, he found it was a ring, one that suited a giant race, one of those monster and human hybrid races who got intelligent enough to be considered a different race.
He didn't hesitate to store it away. Just from the size of it he knew it never came from any place other than the outer world.
Such discovery made William pay more attention to the ground. And soon enough, he found more rings buried under the layers of dust and bones. He collected all from this windstorm, and the next one he found normal spirit master's rings, which he collected as well.
He didn't check anything yet, and he knew he might find nothing much inside these. Ores wouldn't get affected by the passage of time, also gears and weapons. But herbs and alchemical products would be ruined if a long time passed.
He didn't know how long these remains were entrapped in this world, but any gain was something worthy of celebration in his eyes.
"Found you!" Just as he arrived at the sixth windstorm, he found a group of people gathered there.
"Who are you?!!!"
"Monster! Monster is attacking us!"
"Stand up and fight! Fight for your lives!"
Just before he'd draw closer, many shouts like these came out, startling even himself.
"Wait! Hold on! I'm a human…" Just before he'd complete his words, lots of attacks came out from the large group of people he spotted just now.
He didn't hesitate to wave his weapons, flash around, evading and blocking lots of attacks. He had to retreat for a few tens of metres, and soon enough he realised that no attack using pure spirit power managed to leave a trace over the wind or even on himself.
When he got relieved from such a sudden escalation of the situation, he started to slowly examine these people. They were living inside some sort of shining ring of light, one that kept flashing with different colours fast like it was about to explode or something.
When he looked closer, he noticed that the wind was getting pushed away by a dome of lights, one that emerged from this grand formation. It was grand when he got close enough, he spotted how massive it was.
"I'm a human," William said, but his words got nothing except fierce waves of attacks and many fearful cries and rallies for deadly battles.
"Tsk! Ok, watch and see by yourselves," William didn't risk doing this close from these scared masters. So he withdrew first for hundreds of metres, then he started to spread his cannonball attacks like he was going to exit this place.
He still didn't get who these people were or where they came from. But as they were normal spirit masters, and he found them, it wasn't a problem to save them and then talk later.
After ten minutes he pushed the wind away to enough distance. Then he cancelled his spirit body and returned to look like a teenager at sixteen years old.
"See? I'm human, a spirit master just like you. And what you saw was my spirit body, something any master can use."
William didn't risk staying like this for long. He pushed the wind away but the moment he cancelled his form, it seemed like the wind got stirred up as if they were hungry wolves spotting a fat sheep or something.
Outside the wind bubbles, he could return to his human form without any issues. But here, it was safer to always remain in his mixed fox and snake spirit body.
Once he showed himself and the attacks suddenly ceased. He heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't want to end up fighting or leaving these people behind if they kept their hostile activity against him.
"We never heard of masters doing something like this," as they stopped attacking, he approached that gigantic bubble. As he got closer, a youth stepped up as everyone else retreated a few tens of metres away, as if they were declaring in such a move that this twenty year old youth was their leader or spokesman.
"What do you mean? Masters can activate their spirit bodies and transform like what I just did!" William was surprised by what this youth said. If not for the tone of doubt William heard, he'd have thought this youth was toying with him.
"Only monsters can take such form, no human can," the youth seemed pretty confident in what he was saying, adding more puzzlement to William.
The latter stopped just ten metres away from this youth, and a crazy thought flashed in his mind.
"Where did you come from? Tell me about that world… Do you have two continents there? North and south? From which continent did you come from?"
"Two continents?!!! What the hell…" just from the shocking expression over this youth's face William could confirm his unbelievable thought.
"You came from a world other than mine…" he muttered these words while looking at the youth and other people standing inside that protective bubble, "that's… That's amazing!"
"What do you even mean by that?!!!" the youth was already feeling like he was knowing the world for the first time, "there is only one world, our world!"
"Then how can you explain the presence of this world here?" William calmly said, "how do you explain what I just did? You said it yourself, there is no human in your world who can use their spirit body. From the world I came from, this little trick can be done by almost everyone out there."
"..."
William's words were convincing. And that made not only this youth but everyone behind him get a shock they never imagined feeling ever in their lives.
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