The fact that William came out without even a single scratch was mind blowing to them. Even when he was travelling in the outer zone, William suffered lots of wounds and was deeply hurt on many occasions.
And yet the most shocking thing they noticed after they started flying and got closer to him. They missed a simple difference in William's body… He was a giant fox, with weird features of a snake, with five tails, four long and one short.
The moment they noticed this, they exchanged messages of doubt and confusion, shock and delight. No one knew how William managed to change into this, and it seemed like he was growing stronger the more he entered battles.
They mistook this as a natural born ability to grow temporarily stronger in the middle of battles. It was expected, as masters in this world didn't know how to use their spirit bodies.
That was quite weird to William, especially when he heard the intel from the monster lady. He thought at first that masters here didn't have spirits. But when he got cursed, he started to think about them being sealed and their spirits were shackled.
According to Angelica, there was no such sealing tattoo on her chest, not anywhere on her body. Yet according to the monster lady, she used masters of this world, activated the portal using their spirit essence with spirits within their bodies.
"I need to think about how to help masters here when I'll come next time," he thought to himself while moving alongside the grand entourage of formidable masters.
When they arrived, they surprised him by how deeply and truly worried they were about him. Their honesty and care, happiness and even pride of him getting out from the depths of that zone touched his heart.
He never thought that masters he never dealt with before, never befriended or spoke with even, would be this honest and caring towards him.
At first, he was vigilant, but when they all spoke up, and from the looks on their faces, he knew they weren't lying. They asked to accompany him on his journey back, defend him against any monster or dangers. He'd never say no to such an offer. Even if he wasn't hurt, he was mentally and physically drained.
As they travelled back to the city, William kept trying to know these formidable masters better. In fact, he didn't need to exert much effort to do that. They were all excited about speaking with him, feeling like they got another son or grandson to be proud of.
William got tons of questions about what happened inside, to end up most of the answers with the same sentence: "I don't recall things clearly, I felt like something wiped out my memories or something."
Such answers added more mystery to that zone. As for what was going on to the entire swamps, he also responded by his ignorance and negligence.
The group moved fast and didn't need to rest in the middle as not a single monster could get close to them. William kept leaning over them at first, but later on he started to join the battles as he grew itchy to try out his new spirit body.
He was now a four tailed spirit fox, and with each tail he held a different weapon. In addition to this, he noticed that his speed, strength, and reflexes were all enhanced alongside defence.
The Holy Sword technique he used for a long time was now forming double the damage it did with three tails. He assessed that by the magnitude of explosions happening with each attack, and the size of the leftover deep hole.
In addition to that, he discovered a new ability that he never had before, spirit element fusion!
Before this, he could use his spirit elements separately. If he wanted to mix them together, he had to put a lot of thought into that, try many times, before ending up with a result that didn't satisfy him.
But now he could simply add two elements together at his four tails, merging them forcibly even if they were antagonising each other. He tried it accidentally and was delighted to notice such a great result.
He used a darkness element alongside lightning, ending up with a scary merging lightning-darkness new element that made him dash not just for a thousand metres, but for thousands of metres in one go. And the best news was that his spirit power consumption rate was still reasonable and didn't increase that much.
The changes didn't just happen for his crossed distance, but also in the ferocity of his attacks. The merge further doubled the damage dealt by his technique, making him heave a sigh of relief.
As he grew stronger, he started to get in contact with more formidable enemies, masters and monsters alike. He was planning to go towards the Black Hole area, clash with the dark masters ruling the area there.
He was concerned about the high-end master power these dark masters had. But now he got a strong boost to his strength, not to mention he gained new friends and allies.
"You plan to go to the Black Hole dangerous area next?!!!"
"Are you out of your mind? That place… It's not just as scary as the swamps, but it's controlled by those dirty masters!"
"Come on, don't tell me you plan to go there alone again!!"
Many exclaimed in surprise, but more in worry and concern. William didn't expose this until they got closer to the city, just less than one day away from it.
"I have to go there," William paused, turning to these masters before adding, "I don't have the power nor the right to tell you any of this, but if you want to come and accompany me, I promise you to see something you never expected to see before."
"Like what?" one asked in curiosity, while others went silent, thinking about William's offer.
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