"Who the hell are you?" William looked at the middle aged master who just spoke, feeling a bit familiar with him despite not meeting him before.
"He is my uncle," Anjie realised she didn't introduce the two, looked at her uncle while feeling much weirder and a bit unsettled. She was held by her man, in front of one of her closest family members. This was quite embarrassing, a situation she never faced before.
Out of impulse, she wanted to distance herself away from him. And yet William's arm looked as if they were stuck by glue to her, unable to push it away even in the slightest.
"The king's brother or cousin? I'm honoured to meet you, sir,"' William acted both haughty and politely at the same time, not showing any weakness or much arrogance in front of this man.
"Brother," the uncle paused, assessing William up and down before adding, "you didn't answer my question."
"Why answer something you already know?" William looked innocent, but his answer made the uncle raise one eyebrow.
"You know doing this will stir others against you."
"Going to the top isn't easy."
"That's given," the uncle nodded, "but it doesn't mean you have to butt your head against a rock and complain later on."
"Who said I'm going to complain?" William tilted his head as if he just heard the most absurd thing ever, "and who said I won't crush that rock?"
"You aren't that naive or arrogant to not realise your limits."
"And that's why I'll aim to the very top in this world," William smiled, looking around, in an intentional way, before adding, "and I won't go there alone."
"..." Anjie's uncle got the hint William hid in his words, but others didn't. "What a nice and daring youngster he is! I bet my brother will be fond of him when he meets him a few more times…" the uncle thought to himself, while returning to watch in silence, and doing nothing.
He was here from the start, and saw how William dealt with the problem of his girls. He liked how he handled the situation, and yet couldn't control himself when he heard William's aspiration to expand all over the world.
This was a move that could crush all the success William had with his guild. And so he had to make sure this youngster knew what he was doing, and he got impressed by his self confidence.
"As for the two special tail teams…" William finished handling the problem of his girls, distributing orders about his future plans of expansion, and then sat his eyes over the newly recruited and old members in the two teams, "deliver your reports to John, he'll assess everything."
"Why me?!!!" John shouted from the side, while everyone else looked at him in sympathy.
"You do know what mistake you did," William icily looked at John, and the latter gulped in nervousness, not knowing how William knew what he did.
But it was expected how Anjie bragged about what John did with her. This solved all the mysteries of her sudden rise, and made many girls hate John for what he did.
John didn't know that William was trying to help him. His girls were adamant at torturing this poor master for picking Anjie and not any of them. Even if he'd swear on his spirit and life later on that all this happened by accident, and he picked that place randomly without knowing Anjie was there, no one bought any of what he'd say.
"I will return to train again," William then looked at Anjie, before moving a few strands of hair away from her face. He felt her body tremble faintly in his arms, and he stopped doing anything else with her for now.
William returned into the main building, checked first on Karoline. She was sleeping like a baby, even snoring! "At least she is fine," he paused, listening to her loud snores, shaking his head before leaving.
He went back to train, and this time he was expecting something new to happen. But he got disappointed as the three spirits returned to clash among themselves without showing anything abnormal again.
As nothing happened, he returned to train diligently, leaving his friends and team members to do what he ordered.
His friends found it hard at first to do all these tasks alone. But when Sara suggested using the newly joined masters in their factions to help, they started to feel much better.
Each girl's faction started to help greatly in organising the loot and recording everything. As others saw this, they decided to mimic what these girls did, and started to announce the formation of their factions.
The two special team members made many friends during the past two months. And yet it wasn't enough to make them even close to what the girls did.
They never thought about inviting everyone they met and fought with in the past couple of months to join the guild. And only a few of the masters who took the initiative to join were here. That made them regret missing such a chance, and work hard to recruit more members from the guild's huge pool of masters.
As William retreated, the entire guild was experiencing a new makeover move. For the weak period he gave to everyone, the two team members now were faction owners, with different sizable factions getting formed.
It wasn't a surprise that the girls' had the biggest factions, but it was a surprise for John and Smith to have two big factions as well.
The former already invited tons of common masters into the guild. Common masters might be weak and not united, but they were still holding loyal feelings towards John to introduce them here.
John was a silent person in the Black Tails team, but out there with other commoners, he was a very talkative person. He had tons of relationships with other masters, and this proved its worth at this moment.
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