As for their punishment, thinking about the harsh battles they were going to face was enough to let them not forget this lesson.
But just before they'd walk for a hundred metres, one of them paused, turned to William and shouted: "What about the old ones?"
It was Peter who suddenly asked, attracting the attention of the other old five in his team, stopping everyone else in their tracks.
"Well… All of the silver grade ones will join us…" William thought for a moment before adding, "as for the bronze grade ones and lower, let them rest here for now."
"Ok," Peter moved his eyes towards John, and the latter couldn't help but show a weird expression on his face.
Till this moment, John thought that he was going to be taken out from William's team. After all, he was bronze grade, came from a common background, and didn't have anything special about him. He didn't even get a spirit form to begin with!
But William trusted him. And so, he got this chance of accompanying such a scary team out.
Just as his team finally moved towards the gate, William started to take a tour around his territory, he couldn't help but admire the effectiveness of the people Remy hired.
The entire territory was now best described as a place filled with heaps of dirt and rock. William doubted that anyone would find it easy to dig here. But it seemed the ones Remy hired knew their stuff quite well.
William didn't vanish from this place for seven days. And now he could see lots of buildings starting to take shape, rising slowly from the ground.
Seeing this made him smile. The number of buildings here wasn't less than fifty. And just from their initial shape that appeared on top of the ground, William could tell they were going to be massive looking buildings.
"I see you came out from your shell at last," just as he was walking around, he met Remy and Thomas. The two were supervising over the delivery of a batch of materials and items needed here. And they stood by the side of huge caravans, ten in number, with lots of people moving stuff from inside all of them.
"I see you started changing my place," William smiled in response to her words. While Thomas walked to his side in silence. Willima turned to Thomas and added: "Be ready, we are moving out in ten hours at most."
"Ok," Thomas didn't say anything, didn't even ask about what they were going to do. But Remy was different.
"Where are you going? Don't you know you are now a celebrity out there?"
"Who said I can't walk outside?" William rolled his eyes before recalling something, "send a word to the Lockheart impact. Tell that Panther that he has to give me a week before I'll go and meet him."
"Panther? The same scary spirit master from that crazy place?!" She instantly recognised Panther. And William simply nodded.
It seemed Panther got a great fame, one that he felt little envious towards. It was better to be called strong and feared for your strength than to be known for being wealthy and rich.
"Ok," Remy paused, "the Seven Heaven and Blue Hammer folks are already working here. Do you want to check on their progress?"
"Just bring me the elixirs they made," William paused before taking out batches of gears that startled Remy, "use these to arm up our people. There are ten thousand sets of bronze gears, and another ten thousand silver grade sets."
"Damn! Are you planning to go to war or something?!!!" Remy couldn't help but mutter in deep shock. And William simply smiled and said nothing.
If she considered these to be enough to form an army, then how about the rest of stuff he gained accidently and luckily from those dark spirit masters' rings?
He decided to spread these gears over his guild members. Like this, he'd use things he got from the dark spirit masters to strengthen his forces without the need for him to pay anything.
"Just take them," William smiled, "and as you can tell, we are open to recruit tens of thousands of people. So, no matter who applied, just scan them and if they are good, accept them."
"O… Ok…" Remy knew the main problem of having lots of people in any force wasn't just limited to the scary amount of spirit crystals needed per year. The main problem lied in their supplements, a scary figure of gears, potions, etc. but seeing this made her change her viewpoint of William.
She thought he hired these two second profession groups to make up for this great lack in gears and supplies. Who knew William just waved an arm, and took out enough gears to arm up twenty thousand spirit master army from head to toe?
"Do you need any help in the upcoming war you are going out right now to start?" She asked after storing away all these gears.
"Who said I'm going to war?"
"Come on! If you don't stir up trouble everywhere you go, you won't be William!" she rolled his eyes, and William couldn't believe how bad his image was in the eyes of his closest subordinates.
"Just make everyone stay inside," he paused, "let them train, get to know each other, and form smaller teams. Speaking about teams… Let Ro come to the gate in ten hours. Also send someone to buy all the elixirs in the fort."
"Elixirs? You don't mean those insanely precious and pricey elixirs, right?"
"Sure, what else?" William laughed, "you got enough spirit crystals to do this, right? Also make sure the Refos group will find ways to buy more elixirs from outside the fort."
"Damn rich folks!" Remy couldn't help but sigh, while William only laughed.
"Also, any elixir made from the Seven Heaven group will be stored aside for me, got it?"
"I know, I know," she kept shaking off her head before suddenly asking, "what are you going to do now?"
