Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

Chapter 68 A Thing They Missed

?For example, whom they'd bring with them for extra protection in this competition. They got quite a long list made up of the strong spirit masters they'd recruit from the academy and other clans to bring with them out there.

They also discussed telling others of their allied clans about such danger. But they reached a conclusion that they shouldn't.

And the main reason behind this was that they wanted to keep a close eye over the traitors inside the academy. If they spread the news around, then they'd end up alarming them and perhaps making the dark spirit masters change up their entire plans.

At least they got news about what was going to happen. And the two agreed that at some point, they'd try to get more information from Lina.

William didn't place much importance on the map she saw, but these two did. And luckily for them, there were still a few months before that competition would start.

"Should we send him?" After long hours of intense talk, the headmaster suddenly asked, referring to William.

"Why not?" Kong seemed to agree with what the headmaster had in mind, "he is showing quite the progress. It'd be a shame to not use him in that competition."

"Ok," the headmaster gave his friend a long look, trying to see through his inner thoughts but failed.

"But we first need to clean his name up," Kong added, "I won't feel safe bringing someone I don't fully trust with our kids."

"After what he said and did so far?" The headmaster already cleared any suspicion he previously harboured against William.

He heard what William said about the dark spirit masters and got to learn about his stance about them. And if William was one of them, then he'd end up trying to kill Lina to silence her.

But Kong didn't think like his friend. He still was quite suspicious thanks to his worry over his beloved granddaughter.

"We need to wait for the reports of investigation to arrive first before making such a decision," Kong shifted his attention back to watch William before adding, "and I'll also wait until meeting with him face to face before making my final decision."

William remained in his room all this time. He was trying first to inspect his ring before finally dropping such an idea after gaining zero clue.

So instead of wasting his time and effort on such a matter, he started to think about how to deal with his current problems with his new technique.

He finished executing the first and third parts of the technique. And from what he learnt, if he managed to pull successfully this technique, then it'd end up being quite scary.

Its strength would be on a whole different level than what he imagined before. However, the same problem still kept haunting him down.

"The spirit power consumption is still quite high for me to tolerate," he muttered to himself. He felt how the entire situation looked ironic.

He started everything up trying to solve this problem using his technique. And yet he ended up suffering from the same problem in the end.

Not to mention he didn't fully succeed in executing the third move. All he did was to throw the sword away for the technique to get done without exhausting much of his spirit power.

But in the grand scheme of his technique, he didn't want to do that. "I will try the second move first, and then I'll see if I can come up with something to solve such a problem later on…"

The world outside was already starting to get dark. He didn't know if this was a coincidence or not, but he was going to test out his technique again in the middle of the night.

"At least that can help me better execute the second move…" he thought to himself while returning back to the devastated garden.

Like last night, he started first by digging holes in the ground and placing his materials there.

"This lad is going to damage my garden again…" and far from his place, the headmaster said while bitterly smiling.

"Your garden is already gone, suck it up," Kong said with a short laugh. He knew how his friend deeply treasured his gardens, even treating them as his kids.

That was thanks to the thing the headmaster had towards alchemy. And Kong knew the specific reason behind such weird affection even when the headmaster was a lousy alchemist himself.

Kong ignored the glaring eyes of his friend and focused again over the array William was making. "This kid… How come we missed this little thing before?!"

"What are you talking about?" the headmaster returned to spy over William and failed to notice what his friend did.

"Last night we did the array in the same way he did," Kong slowly said while closely inspecting something, "but we jumped over a little matter and didn't notice it before."

"Which is?" Kong said many things but failed to give any answer to what the headmaster asked about.

"He didn't use all the materials he got from you yesterday," Kong was now confident about this point before adding, "he is just using ten percent of the entire amount!"

"Only ten percent?!! How come?!" the headmaster finally realised what Kong meant.

The two took care to notice every move William made but missed such trivial detail about the amount of the materials he used.

They thought he placed the entire amount he received and didn't focus on how much he used. In return they just focused over what steps William took to form such an array.

"If he used only ten percent of the materials… Then… That…" the headmaster's eyes shone brightly while his mind stirred and imagined what it would be like to use just a small portion of these materials.

"Breaking such an array is possible!" Kong's eyes shone in determination as well. They were trying their best all this time to take down an array that was ten times in strength compared with what William had.

By realising this, they knew that breaking that array was going to be an easy task for them.