"He would have run around, waving his glaive, and wanting to test and challenge any master marked as special by William," Ro laughed.
"As if you'd leave them alone," Jax laughed, and Ro puffed her cheeks while making a fake angry face that looked a bit funny.
"Say it to John, he is the one crazy about going around and challenging people!" she pointed at John. The latter grew up to be a strong master, a fierce one who was walking on the same steps of Ibra.
He started as a commoner, but with William's teaching and care, he ended up being in the dark gold grade. That wasn't all, as he learnt tons of techniques, making him very scary in any fight.
The more he grew stronger, the more he leant towards calmness and silence. Yet whenever a new gem would emerge in the team, he'd go crazy to challenge him.
William knew this was expected and natural. Such a commoner master, one who was always looked down upon held such immense power, so it was normal for him to feel itchy against prodigies.
William looked at John and recalled his greatest weak spot, his lack of any spirit. In fact, John wasn't alone, as many members of the fox guild didn't have spirits.
This was all thanks to John and his continuous activity during the past five years to lure in any common master to the guild. He promised them a great future and support, something that all had without doubt inside the guild.
"After all this is over, I'll take care of those without spirits using my special method," William muttered to himself, deciding to grant all the masters spirits, and help those with ones to evolve and grow stronger.
He intended to go full out in supporting them, turning them entirely into a force that was worthy of going to the outer world with him. Yet this would take lots of time and resources, and he'd not do this for just anyone.
That was why this selection round was very important. The ones who'd miss it, would miss the most valuable opportunity ever in their lives. And those who weren't going to impress him would also deeply regret it later on.
"Let's start then," William stopped his friends from elongating this anymore by their jokes and gave the order for them to start the test.
The next few minutes, the entire empty place became crowded with many masters. The rules were clear, any master coming had to undergo a first screening test. If he was cleared, he'd leave from the back door. If he got a chance, he'd go and get screened by William himself.
Everyone knew getting the chance to meet William meant a life changing opportunity for them. So when few got selected, many looked at them with envy. And those who got lucky to get selected went towards William with total respect and veneration.
William didn't limit any age for masters coming, but he set a rule that anyone above twenty-five years won't be sent over to him. He knew old masters were strong and got lots of things going on in their lives, but he did want to support the young ones.
Sloth strictly objected to this, and yet William didn't change his mind. He had limited time to spend over nourishing his team, and trying to deal with old masters was going to give him lots of headache.
It was like a cup, if it was filled with water then there was no room to add more. William tried to explain to Sloth a few things about spirit purity and spirit elements, but he ended up without making any progress with the old man.
Even if Sloth was interested in all these, the latter found it difficult to do anything William said. Even the spirit purity training techniques looked quite challenging and hard for him to execute.
William stood in his place, tested lots of masters, finding many great talents. And yet, there wasn't a single one who picked his interest.
At this point, and with the large pool of masters the guild had, selecting a single master was going to be difficult to join the Black Tails team.
He wasn't just searching for good and rare talents, but for true gems. He was looking for people with spirit fusion, twin spirits, masters with extremely special elements, ones like time, space, fate and destiny related elements. He was looking for masters with spirit affinities, and all of these masters were quite rare, hard to find.
So even if he tested hundreds of special masters, he didn't grant any access for a single one of them to the Black Tails team. Instead, he established another team, the Golden Tails team, and let them join it.
This team would be the secondary team for the guild, the one who'd take over things when the time would come and he'd leave with most of his friends and Black Tails team to the outer world.
And who knew, he might find a hidden gem with great potential later on in that secondary team.
Hours passed without finding anyone interesting, until he met Ford!
"You are called Ford? How old are you?" William examined the giant masters standing in front of him, so tall that he could block the sun in front of William.
"I'm seventeen," Ford said, a shocking number that made William raise an eyebrow, "you can ask around at my home and see that I'm not lying."
"Ok," William nodded, while not believing such a behemoth was just seventeen. He turned his eyes again to the crystal he held in his hands, and focused over what laid beneath the shimmering gold particles there.
Ford was a gold grade master, one who was at the early stage of it. It was remarkable how such a master did it, especially when he had no spirit inside him.
But when William looked deeper, saw through the dancing golden particles without taking a fixed form, he could see something shining deep below.
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