Chapter 1173: Back After Many Weeks
"You are finally back!"
The moment William's feet touched the grounds of Lara's city, he was met with lots of familiar faces and shouts.
"Oh, you all came to welcome me," he smiled while two heads with long hair pumped in front of his eyes, blocking his vision, as Karoline and Berry threw themselves over him.
"Hey hey! I'm standing here and you dare to do that?" Anjie crossed her arms, and raised an eyebrow while shouting in a tone that showed no intention of holding back.
"You got him for fcking too long already, aren't you satisfied yet?" even Sara stepped up, giving Anjie a defying look.
She wasn't alone, as other girls also stepped up, even Lina did. They were all stuck here, training and ruling everything back at the guild's new base. And when they heard the news of what William was doing, they all regretted not being there with him.
They waited for his call when they learnt about the grand call for reinforcements, but all they got was a surge in newcomers joining the guild, with clear instructions delivered from him to not step into this mess.
They first thought it was going to be an easy battle. But when news spread weeks later, they heard how legendary and tough that battle was.
News spread just one month ago. The return of the Novistic Kingdom's king was heard by many, and news especially spread in the kingdom and reached their ears.
They appeared far away from here and brought a ton of enemies alongside them. Luckily the place they appeared at was at the border of three other kingdoms, and one capital was close by.
Lots of masters moved there to help, and the battle raged on for ten days straight. In the end, the enemies stopped appearing out of nowhere, and a huge base of the dark masters was undermined and crushed in the middle of all this.
Then the king and others were warmly welcomed at one kingdom, the one which had a capital nearby. They remained there for a whole week, recovering and healing. And then they started going back.
William took his time to return. In fact, he found a good place there to recruit more masters. His fame skyrocketed, and many were willing to follow him.
At the same time, he spent some time with his newly gained allies, the statues, and the Nightmare monster. These two knew tons of valuable information about the dark masters and monsters, and he delivered all this intel to the four kings who were present.
He knew they wouldn't make a move right away. After all, the statues and the Nightmare monster provided a very detailed map of almost half of the entire continent.
There were tons of layers for dark masters and an insane amount of places to breed monsters. Most of these were located too deep in the vast forests, and that was quite challenging for anyone.
Just four kings weren't enough, and William knew that. These four kings agreed to start recruiting more to the cause, plan things accordingly, and set a date one year later to hit and purge all these lairs.
William didn't bother himself with any of that. He entrusted this expedition to all of them, retreated, and rested for a few days at the capital with Anjie, before deciding to come back.
Before coming, he had to go out and help the statues to farm spirit powers from monsters there. They had to shift into the light balls form again, and that was going to place huge pressure on their spirit powers.
In the middle of all this, two were causing him a headache; Fang and the Nightmare monster!
Fang was obsessed with the lightning formation William made. He kept pestering him for days after the battle ended, asking him to make more formations for him.
In the end, William gave up and taught him the way to make that formation. "Don't forget, these materials can't be replaced with any from this world. The only source I know is in Lara's city…"
"Then I'm going to rob that city and control it!"
"Shut up! It's my girl's city! Don't ever dream about touching it!" William went speechless for a few seconds when he heard Fang's words back then. Then he warned the old man to drop such madness.
In the end, the two agreed to let Fang gain access to the underground city when they returned. He'd farm the materials he'd need, and try to purchase the rest he lacked.
This was the best outcome for William. After reaching such an agreement, Fang retreated and stopped nagging him.
Yet the Nightmare monster was a different type of pain. That monster kept asking William tons of questions about the Fate and Destiny world, about the future plans, about the nine-tailed fox monster.
It kept asking, and William never answered a single one of these. He helped Fang as the man was already part of his guild, part of his special team. And Fang proved his worth back at the war.
He was a freak, very strong, very reliable. His hunger for power wasn't a bad thing either. But the Nightmare monster was a different case.
Even if William knew it couldn't betray him, he still didn't like that monster. So no matter how hard and desperate the Nightmare monster tried, William never gave him any answer at all.
William's constant rejection didn't undermine the Nightmare monster's will. It kept throwing tons of questions over William's head every time William came out of his room. In the last couple of days, William decided to lock himself in his room and train, better than getting a headache from that monster.
On his side, Anjie never left. The two at a few moments had very intimate situations, ones that ended up with both sleeping in the same room and on the same bed, while enjoying the delicacies of each other.
That was why when Anjie challenged other girls, William couldn't help but roll his eyes.