Karoline handed him the crystal, and kept dancing around as if she was really waiting for magic to happen. He rolled his eyes, looked at her and didn't say anything when he noticed how excited and happy she was.
He also got why she mistook this as a fortune telling game. During that test, he and others kept assessing masters' talents and potential, while many commented as this was their life turning point and such stuff. She must have taken everything a bit wrongly, though they were seeing their future or something.
It was indeed partially true. Using this method, William could tell if anyone got a good potential or not, would have a bright future ahead of them or not.
He then turned to focus over the crystal he got in his hand. When he saw the little white dots there, he couldn't help but recall the first time he tested his spirit power after coming back from the future.
His crystal was weirdly like this, one with little white dots, without a spirit, without anything special about it.
Yet he was sure her crystal would show more features and hidden treasures than what he once showed before.
As he looked closer, out of the few tens of white particles, he could see something down there.
"A stamp!!! A spirit stamp!!!" he couldn't help but feel his body shiver, slowly turned towards her, and looked at her as if he was seeing her for the first time.
"Yes! Yes! My future is great, right? Hahahaha, I knew it!" Once she saw the fiery look in his eyes and she laughed, raising both fists in the air as if she was punching air or something.
"You need to focus, calm now and focus with what I'm going to say," William took a deep breath, partially telling this to himself not to her, "you have a stamped spirit."
"Stamped? What does it even mean?" she paused, before asking in seriousness, "is it bad? Am I going to die?"
"Die? No, no it's not like this," he shook his head before adding, "your spirit is marked with something that's extremely rare and valuable."
"Phew! You got me a heart attack just now," she placed her hand over chest before adding, "but what does it mean? You didn't explain…"
"It's like your spirit has a blessing, the type that 'll absorb spirit power from anything, evolve fast and get a highly purified rank."
"Purification rank? Ah, you do mean my spirit is going to be pure, right?"
"Not that…" William started to slowly introduce the terms alien to her. The stamped spirits were something considered legends and myths, only mentioned in ancient scrolls.
William never heard of anyone having such a thing for thousands of years in the outer world. The last master to have such a thing was this close from reaching the top of power in that world, and ended up getting killed by a great herdes of monsters and dark masters.
Not to mention his rival masters who felt great envy towards him.
He was this close from levelling up and leaving this world.
"Don't tell me that fox also has it!" he suddenly thought of a possibility. If that was true, then that monster was indeed worthy of all the power it had.
William kept explaining things over, before she finally asked the most puzzling question she had in mind.
"But… You told me I don't have a spirit…"
"That's not true," he shook his head, "every living creature has a spirit."
"Then… What's mine?"
"Yours? It's in your body," William already thought deeply about this problem. He knew monsters didn't have normal spirits like masters, but when they'd turn to humans, what would their spirits be?
According to what he learnt, the giant bodies monsters had were considered their spirits and spirit forms. And that made him have such a theory, one that monsters like Karoline, turning to humans, would end up being like Selvators, like Lina and Tina.
They got their spirits in their bodies. And to activate these, William needed to just use the same method he used before over the two girls.
"We'll do it this way, listen and pay attention to my words…" he already prepared everything for her to unlock her spirit. As he started to explain what was going to happen, she started to follow his instructions down to the letter.
"Good girl," like Tina and Lina, she ended up unconscious, "the last time these two took a few weeks to wake up. Hopefully you won't take more than two months…"
One of the reasons he extended the duration of the girls' contest for all this time was to allow Karoline to evolve and unlock her spirit.
As he got done with that, he left her surrounded in dense layers of arrays. He established defensive ones, with many spirit gathering ones to help in accelerating the process.
Back when he did this to the two girls, he lacked enough materials to do such a thing. But now he lacked nothing.
"Time for me to train… A stamped spirit, I truly envy those monsters…" he kept muttering to himself while returning to his room, started training there, and forgot everything about the contest, his girls, and Karoline.
He continued training, and didn't know about the grand storm he started by what he asked Sloth to spread. When news spread, it was like fire contracted an oil mine or something.
All the masters who were standing on the side, watching and cheering, all got hyped up!
"Forming a team to support the royal princess, who is coming to support our Anjie?"
"Lina is a girl without backing, with the lowest chances of winning. I'm going to bet on her success, do everything in my power to help her succeed. Winning will give me tons of profit in return, hahahaha!"
"I'm supporting the two angels, supporting Sara and Berry!"
All of sudden, endless masters started to recruit others, shouting to support one girl over the others. All of them weren't driven by loyalty or admiration, but out of their pure interest.
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