"As you woke up, it's time for me to put an end to the ongoing contest," he shifted his eyes outwards, spreading his spirit sense to cover up the entire guild branch here.
As he expected, the guild was filled with tons of masters, all were laughing and celebrating with the grand success the guild achieved in the past two months.
He spotted the girls, and noticed how each was now surrounded with lots of new faces. "They started to form their factions… At last!"
It was time for his guild to expand, not only in quantity, but also in quality and order. His strongest and most trusted masters were in his two special teams, in his friends. But they were all alone, without any gang to support them or move by their orders.
He hoped his girls would start a trend, one which would drive everyone else in the two teams to start their factions. Friction between guild members was forbidden by him since day one, and that would solve tons of problems by forming these factions.
He decided to leave Karoline sleeping here, and went outside in slow steps. The moment he appeared out of the building, it felt like a bomb dropped and all the masters here stopped what they were doing.
They all turned to look at William, looking at him as if they were looking at some legendary figure. He was the one who started all this, introducing to the entire world the new term of guilds.
As he appeared, his girls, friends, and two special teams were the first to move towards him. And then everyone else approached the guild headmaster, waiting for his next words and orders.
"I see you finished the contest," William looked at his girls first, and they all glared back at him.
"Dammit William! Why did you need to do it?" The first to complain was Berry, and she shouted in pure rage stemming from her bitterness of loss.
"Hahahaha, you lost and you are complaining now, hahahaha!" Anjie didn't let this chance slip by, laughed and bragged about her win. Other girls glared fiercely at her, showing their enmity wide in the open.
"Let me be clear about this," before anyone would say anything else, William added in slow tone, "you all made a grave mistake to start something related to me without consulting me first. I interfered and changed the rules as a form of punishment to all of you. Yet I can tell you all enjoyed your time and had fun, right?"
"But we lost!" Lara was feeling more bitterness than anyone else. She was contending neck to neck with Anjie, until he came out and declared the new rules. If not for this, she'd have a better shot in winning.
"Lost what exactly?" As he heard this word twice in a row, he crossed his arms, calmly looked at them before adding, "you betted on who will stay by my side for six months, but that doesn't mean you won't be with me."
His words made Anjie choke in the middle of her laughs. At the same time, other girls' faces beamed with bright smiles, looking at Anjie as if they were telling her: You won nothing, and we lost nothing!
"But…"
"Let's speak first about what you did," William paused, stretching his arm towards Anjie. And the latter moved slowly towards him, feeling a bit hesitant and confused.
But when William placed his arms around her waist, all the negative thoughts vanished like they were never there. Her eyes looked at him, from this close angle, seeing him standing by her side as if there was nothing else in the world out there but him.
This made her heart thumb, thumb hard like never before. And without feeling it, her cheeks developed two faint rosy touch. Seeing the two like this made other girls forget what William just said, looking at Anjie in great envy and deep regret.
They knew William meant what he said, and yet Anjie still ended up close to him, something that not any girl enjoyed except for Berry, Lina, Ro, and Karoline.
"You'll need to prepare the scrolls of what you did, go through your loot, organise these and then hand everything over," William then turned to Lara before adding, "I want an extra thing from you."
"What?" Lara was feeling terrible every time she looked at Anjie enjoying his embrace in front of everyone. She recalled the portable mansion she asked others to make, and couldn't help but feel more bitterness and torturing regret.
"I want you to send envoys to all the kingdoms," he paused, "send envoys to all the kingdoms in both continents."
"Both continents?!!" She wasn't the only one to say this, but many did. All looked at each other, while a crazy idea popped in their minds.
"We are going to expand," William rolled his eyes, "what's wrong about this?"
"Expand? To both continents? How?!!" Anjie got jolted awake from the awesome feeling of being held by him like this, "you know this will cost a fortune! Not to mention you need these kingdoms to agree first… Wait… don't tell me…"
As she was speaking, she suddenly realised something. She connected all the dots, and felt like William did intervene before in their contest not just to punish them, but also to pave the path for such a move.
And when she realised this, she couldn't help but feel shocked at how farsighted he was. He planned this from the start, knew what he was doing when others were just immersed in watching or taking part in the contest.
"We need to expand our forces," William nodded, "send envoys out, ask for permission from the kings to allocate pieces of lands in their capitals, the main cities in every kingdom, and the big towns as well."
"..."
They all thought William hoped to establish a branch in every kingdom's capital. And yet his appetite was much bigger than what they took him for.
"You… You want to rule the world?!!!"
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