Even if they ended up winning this battle, the city was ruined. There were tons of work left for everyone to do. And to make the city shine again, it needed the help of everyone.
William estimated that the rebuilding project of this city would take long days, even weeks, before the city would return like it used to be. Yet he knew they didn't lose that much.
The city just got cleaned from its useless masters and dirty weeds. As long as the main pillars of the city remained intact, which were most of the city walls, part of the defences, the entirety of the portal zone, and the Lost City, then things were going to be fine.
He even expected that the city would look much better than it was before this war. And his guesses proved to be right after two weeks from this war.
Grand building projects started in the city. And during which, lots of meetings happened between the new higher ups of it.
William felt real headache during the first week after the end of this war. He didn't suffer the same back at the Scorching Lands fort five years ago. It was all thanks to Panther who made him freed from such headache.
But this time he didn't have Panther, or anyone like him. When William got really tired from such long discussions and planning, he tried to throw everything over Lara's shoulders. Yet the latter was smarter than Lucas and read through his intentions.
She decisively refused such a thing, letting him join all the meetings. She justified that by his highly valued opinions in these meetings, which was something true.
When the different forces were discussing how to arrange themselves in the city, William proposed expanding it. The forces residing in the city before were just half the current total forces. Not to mention the city lacked lots of space for any new force to come and expand here.
So, he suggested increasing the city's initial space by tripling it. His suggestions didn't stop there, and he even asked for many auction houses and sparring arenas to be built.
In addition to that, he suggested that the Lost City would be left as a general ownership between different forces, managed by Lara's family, his guild, and Zin's force.
The access towards that place would be granted for certain fees. And like that he turned the Lost City into some sort of instant dungeon or something.
Such a trick was used by many forces in the outer world once there was a chance to do it. As for the underlying interworld portal, William asked for his guild to repair the damaged buildings down below so the Lost City could be also used for sightseeing.
As different forces accepted his suggestion, William left the task of filling the holes and repairing the buildings for his guild. His guild members were very puzzled by such a weird task, a thing they'd feel appreciative in the future for doing.
Then William suggested that recruitment notice would be left at all the places the portals led to. In addition to that, he asked a crusade calling against the dark forces living in the Long Feather academy.
As the Nightmare monster guessed it, William planned to amass a huge army and head directly towards the academy to destroy it. Lots of masters and forces answered and they were gathering right now in the city.
William took this chance to let these forces and others know about the future purpose of the city and his guild. He wanted to turn this city into a centre for any anti-dark master opposition force, a thing that this world lacked.
Like this, this city would always be filled with tons of masters, gathered up here to move later on towards a dark force fort or base. As for how he'd find out these forces, William was confident to find lots of clues in the possession of the dark masters at the academy.
After going through tons of stuff, and after one week passed, William was finally freed to do what he wanted. The first thing he did was to visit his guild's place.
He managed to gain lots of lands surrounding his guild, and also gained another spot of land at the new lands added to the city. The walls surrounding the city were planned to be left intact, and another grand wall would be built surrounding the new city.
As he checked on the progress of the guild, made sure his vices knew what to do to recruit more masters, he went towards the Lost City and examined it.
All the holes were now covered, not to be seen anywhere in that city. The buildings that once were damaged and ruins were now rebuilt, totally renovated and looked brand new.
As for monsters, they got restless thanks to all these movements and processes. Yet the masters of his guild were experienced now on how to deal with these monsters thanks to the lectures given by the vices.
William then found a building and fortified it and started to examine his spirit. He tried to absorb the Arbatros Snake spirit, yet he failed again. And this time he lost around one hundred spirit points.
He spent roughly ten thousand gold cores to replenish the one hundred and fifty points he lost so far. And he only lacked a little bit to jump over the last hurdle and become an official gold master.
He didn't do it as he wanted to do it when he'd attack that academy. As for the annoying spirit residing within him, he planned to absorb it later as well.
As he got nothing else to do, William started to train in his spirit purification technique after sleeping for an entire day. He kept training, receiving reports about the current progress of the different projects in the city and the Lost City, while another week passed fast.
His vices kept pestering him about the date of the upcoming tournament.
