All of them bidded already on one girl, and they all wanted to see their girl win. It happened as William expected, and yet the magnitude of this went way beyond what he initially thought.
The main reason behind this was the fever of bidding that spread across the entire continent. Many bet over girls as a source of fun at first. But when news about the forces standing behind each girl spread out, many joined in to have more fun.
It was interesting to take part in such a risky and close end challenge and bet. When William spread the new rules out, many more who were watching from the side decided to take part in this.
Masters loved adrenaline driven events, that was why they went outside and ventured the dangerous forests and places of the world. It was in their DNA, fighting and risking everything to enjoy such a feeling.
Bidding on something and waiting for the odds to settle on someone was always tempting. And when it was connected to one's abilities and powers, the motivation increased by a ton.
The fever spread even to the other continent, where lots of bidding happened. The auction houses there worked fast to collect biddings, and many masters decided to work on that continent, fighting dark masters and monsters there, spreading the fever from the other continent all over here.
William's new instructions were clear, it didn't matter where you killed monsters and dark masters. All one needed to do was to collect cores and rings of the dark masters he killed, deliver them all to the guild branch in two months time, while registering this under the name of one girl.
This might appear like an innocent way to determine the winner, but William never said anything about returning any of these loot back. A group of masters might kill thousands of monsters, hundreds of dark masters at best. Their loot wasn't going to be massive or something they'd regret to offer for free like this.
But imagine if endless masters donated their loot? Wouldn't this be something impressive? He sat his eyes over collecting all this, to give his guild another push forward.
Using all the upcoming wealth William would push his guild to new heights. He planned to send envoys to the other kingdoms in the continent, and even to places in the other continent. He wanted to buy lands, build branches, recruit masters there, and start operating from various locations.
He'd use the fame and attention his guild garnished thanks to the girls, and expand the guild to new heights. He was looking for a breakthrough point, one that'd allow him to expand his guild to further places, especially to the other continent, when he heard that the final master contest would be held out there.
He wanted a foothold there, one that'd gather intel about the big teams and strong youngsters in that continent. And it went without saying that he also wanted to do it here.
He took that contest quite seriously, and wanted to win first place there. One of the main rules of the contests was to prohibit the use of potions, elixirs, and even arrays in any competition. And that meant he had to depend more on his carefully selected team.
Knowing the strong and weak spots of his foes was going to help him that much. It'd be weird if he went there before the contest, tried to collect data and such. It was much feasible to open branches there, let his loyal members gather intel over these masters for long months, exploring all the ins and outs of each prodigy and promising team.
And yet his highest hope was to obtain two up to three places on the other continent. By how things are going right now, even buying a dozen pieces of land there wouldn't be impossible!
As for this continent, if he wanted, he'd have the capital to purchase lands in every kingdom and empire here.
The contest started to escalate to a new height, with everyone pumped to fight to win. Soon enough, many started to notice something else. The dark masters and monsters were getting wiped out at many places like they were nothing!
The scary enemies any master would be wary of turned into mere rats! They kept running and hiding, unable to stop the flood of humans marching at them.
It was always happening the opposite way, with dark masters amassing tons of monsters, assaulting master's places. Be it a town, a city, a clan's home… or even a kingdom's capital… All were getting hit mercilessly and without enough time to prepare or call for aid.
This time it was totally the opposite! Masters ran down over the enemies, crushing them like nothing. They landed over them like thunder, out of the blue. And if the dark masters tried to seek aid from their dirty allies, they'd end up hearing the same distressed signals others sent, looking also for aid!
It was an amazing and unique feeling, one that made more masters want to take part in this. Without realising it at first, they were fighting to purge many places out of monsters and dark masters' infestation!
William knew it was going to be bad if the entire world got emptied out of monsters. They were the training grounds and dummies sat for masters to evolve and get stronger. Not to mention they provided tons of materials that would be used to forge and concoct great stuff.
However it was still impractical for the entire world to live under the threat of monsters. He hoped after two months of battling, many places would turn like Lara's and Scorching Lands cities, being safe haven for humans, places where people would live in peace without any worry over what would happen tomorrow.
This was indeed what was going to happen. But as he expected, at many places in the world, monsters were just too strong and too much to handle.
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