The guild whose leader managed to uproot all the dark masters in the area near it would grow to fame like never before. Not to mention he'd secure his guild branch in the region, protecting it from many dangers at the early phase of expansion.
"This… Is your master confident about this?!" The leader of the city was a bit sceptical about this. After all, all the masters sitting here faced these dark masters for a long time and suffered tons of losses on their hands.
"As long as you provide him with intel and resources, my master can do miracles," William hinted in his words to the miracle that happened already in their world thanks to his proclaimed master. And as he hinted about this, everyone in the hall went into deep silence.
"What are we going to lose?" a master of another city suddenly stepped up, "the worst will be for us to lose this battle but end up sending our boys away. Let's do it!"
"That's true," another stood up, "we lost a lot against them. One more loss won't make a difference. In the end, we'll deliver them into that Black Holes area, and then leave."
"It will be considered our win in the end," the leader nodded, agreeing on what these two said. He wasn't the only one agreeing on these words, but everyone else did.
William could only watch this and inwardly sigh. It felt like masters in this continent lived a life of suffering and loss against these dark masters.
He knew his abilities. As long as he got deep intel about these masters and monsters in the region, he'd devise the perfect counter plan to take them down.
"Prepare a large army," William stressed over this, "let's hit them hard and crush them once and for all."
"The intel will be delivered to your master in one day," the leader paused, "about your departure…"
"We'll stay here for one more month… But I need to go out a few times," William knew he had to stay here and do more things, yet that didn't mean he'd stay all the time inside the city.
He wanted to go to the Swamps region, to check over the lady monster. She was his biggest trophy in this adventure, and he wouldn't let anything happen to her.
"You can do whatever you want," the female sitting on the side of the leader said for the first time ever, "you aren't our prisoner or anything."
"Thanks," William cupped his hands, taking his leave after arranging more tiny details with them. As he went back, he delivered the good news to everyone.
"You need to stop using me as your master," Sloth felt much bitter when he heard William's words, "you already gave me a hard time. Do you know how many people tried to curry favours with me? Do you know how many questions I got? I'm not a god!"
"You are a formidable master, right?" William winked, "besides, it's not that bad to have such a great reputation here."
"One that I don't deserve," Sloth couldn't bring himself to admit it out loud. But deep inside him, he knew such a reputation should belong to William.
"Let's stay here for one more month then," William ignored his complaints, turned to his team and friends, to see the latter unable to hold their laughs back.
They already fell for William's trick and lie before when they were part of the Aspire academy. And after interacting with William for this long, they all were sure such a mysterious master didn't exist in the first place.
Everything stemmed up from William. And that made them recall such old times when they heard Sloth's complaints.
As the leader promised, lots of scrolls were delivered to his house. Sloth was staying here now, so they delivered everything there.
William locked up on himself and started to go through these scrolls alone. He didn't even bring Sloth with him, as he knew no one was able to help him in this.
"Hmm… These dark masters can use their spirit bodies… Strange!" William read through lots of scrolls, which mostly described intel about old battles against these dirty masters.
From these, he could easily tell the big difference between masters in this world and the dark ones laid in the ability to use one's spirit body. Not to mention dark masters always used the darkness element to hide themselves in any place, and they were able to control and summon armies of monsters.
William could handle monsters, could deal with the darkness element and their ability to stealth themselves, attack when no one ever expected.
But the problem of using the spirit body was something that started to give him lots of headaches.
"I can't just let masters in this world learn how to activate their spirit bodies…" William didn't agree on such a solution. First, it would take a long time for masters in this world to adapt on how to summon and use their spirit bodies. And second, he wanted such an advantage to be limited only to his guild branch.
He decided to let Ibra and Tina teach everyone joining the guild branch here about how to do it. Like this, the name and fame of the guild would skyrocket in the world.
Not to mention the overall strength of the guild would be on another level than everyone else. Like this, he'd not only add a great tempting factor, but also would be reassured about his guild's and his friends' safety in this world.
"If I can't counter this… Then I shall find another way to arm up and enhance this world's master's fighting prowess…" William knew he reached a dead end after considering this matter for long hours.
As he couldn't solve this problem using a counter measure, he decided to use brute force against it. If dark masters had such an advantage thanks to this point, then William would find another aspect and arm up the masters of the cities with.
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