When they arrived there, they found everyone confused, feeling like there were lots of changes in their world… And in themselves.
William wasn't attentive to their feelings or thoughts. He already met with his friends and team. His team got a big hit, but at least he didn't suffer any losses at the main pillars of them.
His thoughts now were fixed over the next step, how to get out from here. He already got the way out, but he wouldn't do it without going to pick up the lady monster.
He saw her as a future investment. She told him to wait for a month, but things went hectic during this adventure, and he wasn't sure if she meant what she said, or he'd have to wait for more.
The journey back took much longer than what he initially expected. The army was exhausted at first, confused later on, then the leaders started to order other masters to spread over, take testimonies from people of different towns and cities.
This wasn't an act out of their boredom, but because they started to notice something weird. The memories of the people living in different places were different!
Many spoke about things that no one heard about before, events that weren't even real. The leaders at first thought this was some sort of a prank, or perhaps a side effect of the shocking events. But as they heard more and more of this weird stuff, they decided to start gathering everyone's recall on various events, history of places, and other stuff.
William heard about this, and he was sure this was all connected. What happened to the dangerous zone of the flying beasts, what happened to the monsters and the area around, and lastly the alteration of people's memories.
Yet as they approached the city he sat off from, he started to develop another theory.
"Don't tell me this is what he truly meant…" Others didn't get what was going on here, but William did. After hearing tons of side talks from everyone walking around for many days, William started to pick up lots of things that he recognised.
Be it arrays, training techniques, and even ways to forge and concoct pills, potions, and elixirs… These were all knowledge that stemmed up from the outer world, things that weren't known before here in this world.
Many didn't have such a change in memories, or how William saw it as a recalling of what was truly theirs. The curses that shackled this world for endless years were now removed. But it seemed not all got relieved from this curse.
William recalled the mysterious words of that higher being. He said that the fate of this world was in the hands of people and monsters living in it. And he now was able to see that.
There were two big factions now in this world as far as he could tell, one who regained part of their knowledge, and others who didn't. And now it was up to the people of this world to decide their fate, embrace the new knowledge and accept them, or fight against them.
William knew that such a decision was up to the ones living in this world. Not everyone was the same, and the end result would be for many to fight among each other.
Yet as the higher being said, this was in the hands of the ones living in this world. William hoped masters would be reasonable, curious to test out the knowledge others had, and try out the new stuff they were speaking about.
The main obstacle still was in the other knowledge of the weird events these people narrated. William didn't know if these were true or not. If what they were saying was true, then it meant these events happened long, long time ago. He grew curious to listen to these stories, but he had no intention of staying here.
"Do you want to establish a branch of our guild here?!!!"
As they returned at last to the city, William made a grand meeting with everyone remaining of his team. He spoke a lot and spoke about how proud he was of all of them. He wasn't lying or trying to curry their favour before speaking about his future plans for this world. He really did mean every word of praise he said. And that touched their hearts.
But when he spoke about his desire to build a branch of the guild here, leaving few to lead and recruit others, everyone went into deep silence.
They were people who accompanied William for many years. As for his friends, they were ones who joined him long before the establishment of his guild.
William knew this was something hard to ask, hard to accept, and that was why he decided to let the decision fall in their hands. He waited for long minutes, while his team was discussing this among themselves.
"Can I stay here then?" out of the blue, the last person William would consider applying for this task stepped forward and spoke up.
"Tina! What are you doing?!!!" The first to speak wasn't William, but Lina. she looked at her younger sister, the one she took care of for long years, suffering tons of hell for her.
Yet Tina didn't feel any guilt or hesitation. She looked in firm way towards one direction, towards William, "this is my life, and I'm free to do whatever I want with it, right?"
"No! You have me by your side, and I won't allow you to do it!" Lina was on the verge of collapsing. Anyone watching these two grow up would notice how Tina grew to be a bit rebellious, not succumbing to her older sister's wishes.
She wanted to feel independent and didn't like how tight her sister kept her life. William watched all this unfolding and decided to stay away from this.
He knew Lina was sincere and honest, truly caring for her sister.
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