Chapter 196 Control Type Spirit Masters Problem

This scroll came to Sara's hands from her mother. And so, William knew the real start of unravelling all this was in the hands of the missing Sara's mother.

Even if he deciphered the scroll, managed to read it, he wouldn't get satisfied. He wanted to dig deeper, get to the bottom of such a weird mystery and learn how come such weird language was here.

He wanted to know everything about the origin of this language, and more above anything about how it wasn't known in the outer world.

It was the first time for him to stumble over something in the tiny world here that wasn't present or known in the outer world.

He got used to the opposite kind of situation. And meeting such an anomaly stirred up his desire to know the truth.

"I'll have to put this aside for now," William knew thinking about this any longer wouldn't help. Besides, he already had other matters to care about at this moment.

He went into sleep out of his exhaustion and couldn't get everything sorted out in his mind. As he put Sara's issue aside, he started to focus on the techniques he saw at the grand library of the academy.

William knew his optimal team requirements, but he also was aware that every spirit master got their own traits and likings.

Some would like to defend, others liked to attack. He knew it was hard to find someone who would be interested in controlling the entire battlefield, setting up traps all over the place, and even securing a way out for them.

He got a low number of candidates right now. Only Berry, Lang, Peter, and Sara were confirmed members of his team so far.

He still got a good chance to add more to his roster. There were many of Lang and Peter's teams who didn't yet meet with him.

​ William planned to meet up with Lang, Peter, and Berry first. Then he'd move to his next step, asking them to bring the most trustable and capable kids in their teams.

He didn't want just numbers. Putting aside the threat of having spies in the team, he didn't want to focus on more than twenty people right now.

Just this number was enough to give him a headache. William knew his limit in teaching others and didn't want to get distracted especially at such a crucial early step.

He planned to teach twenty first, focusing more on the big four in his team. "And when I'll help the two sisters in unlocking their spirit, they'll be a good addition, especially Lina."

Tina was still a little girl, and she wouldn't be able to help much in the team. In few years to come, she would be a good member of his mercenary group, but not right now.

Unlike Tina, William placed much importance over Lina. The latter was older, got tons of experience, and was quite daring and courageous.

As William decided, he started to consider how his little team would work.

"At first, I'll start by examining their spirit power and purity," he thought about this as the basic and foremost important step in the entire plan.

After knowing each individual's unique spirit traits, he'd help to select the best role for them to play.

The best candidates to play the control role in the team were the ones with darkness spirit element. But it was already quite rare.

These folks were able to use darkness to their advantage. And if William considered that forests were filled with rich darkness element, then it could easily explain why they were quite ferocious as control sprit masters.

They could lay down traps, arrange the entire battlefield and control its tempo using surprise attacks. They also were able to secure a path out, enabling the entire team to retreat safely at times of danger.

In William's eyes, the best ratio to have in his little team would be one spirit master to control the tempo of the battle, and another to help the team escaping deadly attacks and even escape the entire battlefield.

He got darkness spirit element already, and Sara was going to have one. But aside from these two, there wasn't anyone else.

If William got the choice, then he'd assign himself to be the real killer in the entire team.

For first, he was the only one with rich battle experience, enough to enable him to survive any deadly fight and select the best plan to take down enemies.

He wanted to play the role of their leader, and the main killer in the team. Like this, he'd end up having the right to absorb the gained monster cores from such battles.

Yet if he did that role, then the role of controlling the battlefield would be vacant. And there was also the problem of Sara's dormant spirit element, making this situation harder for him to solve.

"Tsk! It seems I can't start with my ideal lineup from the beginning," he thought to himself, reminding himself that he should focus more on how to use the available assets to him, not dream about the impossible.

"As for the scout spirit masters… I need those with fast speed like those with lightning elements and such…"

William was still thinking in his perfect world. When he realised that he was speaking about the lightning spirit element, one of the rarest spirit elements, he sighed.

"I can replace those missing elements with techniques…" He got to do that to make up for such missing pieces in his grand scheme.

Without having scouting and control spirit masters, his team would be vulnerable and weak.

He didn't want that to happen. And so, he had to make up for the missing elements by the available common techniques he learnt.

That made him change many aspects of his plan. He wanted to select techniques to suit the nature of his team's spirits and spirit elements. And now he had to select techniques regardless of all this.