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Yet unlike what he expected, nothing happened! He kept absorbing spirit power and didn't get into that fox's world like how it should have happened.
"What's wrong?" for the first time ever, he started to worry over the fox spirit, "is it dead or something?!!"
William knew such a possibility wasn't practical or even possible. If the spirit was gone, then his spirit would be gone as well. "Something bad must have happened to him… But if I missed this chance to meet it now, when will I be able to meet it?"
He grew puzzled by this, feeling there was something wrong about all this. The dark gold grade was the end journey for everyone. And even the next stages were just made up by masters to organise things.
The dark gold grade spanned for tens of thousands of spirit points, which was a very huge distance to cross. And yet it was all considered as one grade. And that meant he wasn't going to meet that fox spirit again until he'd cross the final threshold in this world, and be ready to move towards the outer world.
"See you later, fox," he bitterly smiled and returned to focus on the task at hand. He didn't waste any more time thinking about anything and kept absorbing the insane amount of spirit power coming out from that monster.
Unlike him and other younger masters, the old masters like Sloth were advancing slowly. They were already at the pinnacle of high stages, and that meant they'd require tons of spirit power to advance.
Even so they were happy and satisfied with all this. By normal means, they'd take years to get the same amount of spirit power they gained in just a few hours!
As for the younger masters, they grew stronger fast like William. Many started to climb ranks, reaching the dark gold grade, and even many crossed the early stage milestone, reaching the middle stage of it.
The most to gain from all this was Karoline. She was at bronze grade before absorbing the spirit power. And in the first hour alone, she jumped from bronze to silver, then gold grade in the following hour.
She kept absorbing spirit power until there was nothing left to absorb. William knew if he had less number of masters here, then he and others would have benefited more from this. But that would also mean they'd have to face tons of dangers, and they wouldn't even have made it this far at all.
He wasn't that bitter about this. He ended up at the early stage of the dark gold grade, just a few thousand spirit points away from entering the middle stage. As for the rest of his friends, they all arrived at the middle stage without exception. Only Karoline stopped at the gold grade, lacking a few hundred points to reach the dark gold grade.
It was like a dream, and everyone woke from it and didn't want to do so. They felt like they were in heaven, and jumping up in ranks was a simple matter that wasn't that difficult at all!
The moment the spirit power influx ceased, everyone heaved a deep sigh of regret and sadness. They weren't happy that the fountain of spirit power dried up, and hoped it would last a bit longer to reach another milestone in their power.
"Shakey wakey, the fun is over already," William stood up the first, and stretched his body, feeling like he was reborn anew, "let's get up, stretch our bodies. We may not take lots of time here, but our spirit power surged with a sudden gush. Our bodies need training, adapting to the new power we consume, so don't slack off and start working out."
He took initiative under everyone's bitter and sad gazes. He seemed to be the only person here happy about this being over, him and Karoline of course.
"I'm going to join you, hahaha, I feel great by regaining part of my former power, hahahaha," she laughed, jumped off the ground, and started to stretch her body as he did.
As these two did that, others couldn't help but sigh, stand one by one, and join them. William let them do this for a few hours, while he started to collect something important.
"Hehehehe, I killed a pinnacle-grade monster, hehehehe," he evilly laughed while holding a core in his hand. It was a lot bigger than any other core he acquired before and felt much heavier as well.
He was so excited about this. He knew he absorbed most of the spirit power from this monster with others, but there was still lots of spirit power inside this core. Once he'd absorbed it, he wouldn't get surprised to surmount the remaining distance to the middle dark gold stage and even might gain a few hundred more points on top of that.
Everyone watched him doing this without saying anything. Even Sloth and other old masters didn't speak. They all felt like they lost something dear and precious, as if they missed something extremely important to them.
They watched William collect that core, then different parts of that monster. It was a very unique monster, and he decided to not even leave behind a single hair.
He even went to collect the shell that protected the monster during the promotion process. And then it came down to the shield that stood like a mountain, blocking the top of that hole.
"I want to go there," William wanted to go and check the hole, wanting to see if he could find anything useful. Yet when he saw how others looked, quite gloomy and depressed, he decided to put that thought on hold for now.
"It won't go anywhere," he shrugged, deciding to visit this place sometime in the future if he had time to do so.
"Don't look like that," even after leaving them for ten hours, went to collect that shell, he returned and found them looking the same, "you should be happy and excited about this chance, not looking like this."
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