As for Smith, aside from the small clan he moved in the guild five years ago, he was someone feared and respected. He was seen as a grand artisan in making, one who always provided the guild members with grenades for free.
The masters in the guild always tested the great use and value of his grenades, ending up holding such favour to him deep in their hearts. In addition to respect. So when the time came and he asked for others to join, he managed to establish a big faction.
A third member who wasn't here could have established a large faction, perhaps even rivalling the girl's factions. It was Ibra, and unluckily for him, he was away and not present during these times.
He was seen as the bullish member of the guild, one who was like an idol to many masters. He was cold, strong, decisive, and very capable. He'd never stand alone in front of any injustice, and for many times he travelled far distance to aid and help entrapped guild members in any mission.
As for William, he returned and checked over Karoline. She was still sleeping as a baby for five days in a row, before finally waking up. This time she found him waiting by the side of her bed, not training like how he used to be.
"What happened?" the moment she woke up, she felt a terrible headache alongside recalling what she experienced after activating her spirit.
"You activated your spirit body…"
"Did I return to being a monster now?" she said it in a tone that held both joy and regret at the same time. Luckily for her, the answer she got was a shaking of his head.
"You are now a human, and it's normal for masters to activate their spirit bodies."
"I see…" she paused, looking at him in a weird way before pointing to the air above and around him, "before I saw… Saw something… Something weird… It's like I was drawn to you by magnet force… It's weird…"
She couldn't describe the feeling she had back then. And yet he got what she wanted to convey.
"Don't worry," he approached her, patting her head, "you are going to be fine. The only regret is that you missed tons of fun."
"Fun? Did you say I missed fun? What happened?" when she heard what he said, she literally jumped off her bed, held his hands, looked him in the eye, before adding, "tell me everything!"
Just before he'd continued half of what he wanted to say, she went all out, ran outside the building, went to the girls, and started making a huge fuss out there.
"Tsk! Even if she was a million year monster, she is still acting as a six year old girl… She reminds me of Tina, somehow…"
He shook his head, knowing that he got nothing in his power to stop her. At the same time, the girls kept laughing at Karoline and her reactions, and were glad to narrate what she missed in great detail.
Even if everything started and stemmed up from the same point, each girl had different tales to tell. Karoline kept jumping from one girl to another, and soon enough all the girls learnt about her actions and expected her to pump into their places and interrupt their business at any given moment.
Yet they were never mad at her. They dealt with her enough to know how pure hearted a person she was. And she was very naive and a bit funny, especially with that monster background history story of hers.
William decided to have a long nap for a day, before he woke up and sent a message to a certain person.
"So it's time? At last!" Sloth appeared in the next hour inside his building, with a wide smile on his face. William knew this smile wasn't for calling him here to start talking about that weird place and monster. It was all thanks to how brilliant Anjie performed back at the contest, and how she rocked everyone and won in the end.
"You need to know that place is quite dangerous," William stressed over this point. Yet before he'd continue, Sloth raised a hand to interrupt him.
"Listen to me first, you need to apologise."
"Apologise? For what?!!" William was surprised and puzzled by what Sloth said.
"We, old masters, did learn the techniques you told me about," he puffed his chest, and William realised that he guessed the reason for such a smile wrongly this time.
"You are kidding!"
"Be polite, kiddo, humph! If not for me being in a great mood, I'd have knocked your stubborn head with my knuckles…"
"Don't do it old man, or else you may break a bone or a nerve," William laughed, and Sloth's smile vanished before getting replaced with a brutal expression there, "anyway, how many learnt my technique? Five? Ten?"
"Humph! You are really underestimating the old masters," Sloth's smile returned, and this time it was a wide grin, "I taught this technique to a group of five thousand masters, and out of them four thousand learnt it!"
"F… Four thousand high end masters?!!!" William was shocked when he heard that, and Sloth puffed his chest even more, looking cocky.
"That's great," William laughed, "they are all invited to come with me towards that place."
"Who said we needed your permission to do it?" Sloth scoffed, "besides… I also learnt these techniques! Nothing can stand against this old man, hahahaha!"
"..."
William didn't know why Sloth was taking this matter far more seriously than it was. Yet in the end he was happy with such a result. If old masters could learn the spirit purifying techniques, then great things awaited them!
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm They needed to raise their spirit purity level to a certain extent to be able to pass through the world's barrier. And the key to all this was to learn the spirit purification techniques.
And then it came down to the Scarlet Bear monster.
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