"Listen, this time I'll take this as just an unintended mistake of yours. But next time, I swear I won't let you live through," before William would come close enough, the old man vanished. The massive rhinoceros' body vanished as if it was a bubble of soap that got burst by a needle or something.
"What did he come here for then?" Karoline was feeling puzzled, the same thing Lina also felt.
"Are you ok?" William didn't explain anything, just asked even without shifting his eyes away from the spot the rhinoceros vanished.
"We are fine, but…"
"The headache will vanish in a week," William said as if he knew what was going on with both of them.
"How did you know that?!!" Karoline was surprised as she was feeling an intense headache already.
"Just endure," William didn't explain how he knew that, "let's go. That bastard won't come again."
William knew this attempt came to scare him away from interfering in this world's affairs. And yet the unexpected visit explained and solved many mysteries to him.
He now knew who was behind doing such a thing here, the person behind the attempt to destroy the capital. The Holy Shifters were indeed quite scary folks, especially when they could come here with many things brought from the outer world.
What he couldn't get was why they came for this world, or why they were this fixed in destroying it. They were extremists, ones who wanted to rule the outer world. And so they sent their clones to smaller worlds, building armies of monsters before sending them out to meet with them in the outer world.
They wanted to turn any world into a factory to produce lots of monsters. And yet they never cared about destroying any world. They saw the normal masters in any world as the perfect training grounds for the monsters they breed.
"Something is off here," William knew something must have changed for such a Holy Shifter to come here and try to ruin the world, "what happened out there I don't know about? Is it a solo action? I doubt that…"
William was sure this Holy Shifter wasn't the only one here. By normal situations, they used to send a small army of thousands of them to any world they set their eyes on. If he was alone, then this act wasn't going to be important.
William knew he got the answer to the question he had, but ended up acquiring more puzzles and questions without any explanation or answer.
He walked silently by the girls' side, without saying a single word to them. The two kept exchanging silent gazes during their walk, feeling how serious William was.
Karoline might be new here, but Lina kept herself by William's side for a long time already. She never saw him acting like this unless there was a grave issue at hand.
They arrived at where the king was without saying a single word for hours! The moment they arrived there, William noticed the changes this place experienced since the last time he saw it.
The traces of battle vanished and got replaced with lots of fortifications getting built. William got distracted from what he was thinking about and started to examine what was going on here.
"You finally came," Sloth appeared from the middle of the big crowd of people working to build a grand fort here. And as he approached, William turned to the two girls and motioned them with his eyes to keep what happened to themselves.
"I was walking slowly," William yawned, "you do realise we didn't sleep for weeks!"
"The master's life is very harsh indeed," Sloth laughed, "come, after you'll meet with my king, you'll have enough time to sleep and rest."
"What are you doing here by the way?" As William followed him inside, he was surprised to see more of the building process happening all over the place. In his eyes, he thought the king wanted to build a wall and a few towers here, turning this place into a private mansion for him or something.
He didn't know if the king liked this place here or not, but when he went deeper, he was surprised to see tons of fortifications and foundations getting laid everywhere.
He spread his spirit sense and saw that this was currently happening all over the place. Even the areas beyond this valley were experiencing changes as well.
This wasn't an attempt to build a resort for the king or even a temporary place for the masters here to live in. This was like building a grand fortress here, one that would become a thorn in the back of any incoming forces, trying to invade the capital again.
"The king wants to turn this into a fort," Sloth confirmed what William had in mind, "he wants this place to stay in the memory of the entire kingdom, and the royal family in particular."
"The royal family?" William didn't follow the issue of the traitor, the idea he planted in the mind of Sloth before, "Don't tell me…"
"It was the grand uncle," Sloth paused, taking a deep breath before adding in a low tone, "Please don't bring this matter in front of the king. He is still shaken by such betrayal."
"And the man in question? Did you catch him?" William asked despite expecting the answer. When Sloth shook his head, he knew the man ran before everything would fall over his head.
"You'll catch him," William was sure such a blood feud wouldn't get forgotten quite easily.
"The king is waiting for you," as they arrived at the king's tent, one that was like the old tent that Sloth once smashed using his spirit power, a strong looking middle aged master said, stopping the four of them outside the tent's entrance.
William didn't bother to spread out his spirit sense to see what was going on inside. In fact, he wasn't that enthusiastic, to begin with by meeting the king.
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