It was like poisons, without using the proper spirit element and techniques to counter it, the target would eventually die.
"You speak as if you are aware of what hit me," Fang coughed blood, and this time he couldn't walk on his own. Two of William's guild masters moved fast and supported him to not fall.
"I'm fine," but Fang didn't thank them, instead he pushed them aside as if he was enraged by the help they offered.
"You need to know the more power you exert, the faster you'll lose your life," William rolled his eyes at this stubborn old master, "help him, and don't let him fight any monster..."
"I'm not that old to get support from kids!" Fang's pride kicked in and made him shout, interrupting William's words.
"I just told you to not get enraged or driven by your emotions, and here you are... Tsk," William shook his head before adding, "this poison works on your spirit power, eroding it away and with it your spirit will perish as well. So don't use your spirit power, you already made things worse by continuing the fight in such a state."
"As if they would have let everyone live without me stepping in," Fang rolled his eyes while he was supported by two masters to walk, "so... About this poison..."
"We'll talk about that when we get back to our town," William evilly smirked, and that made Fang feel like he was going to suffer big on this youngsters' hands.
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William knew Fang wasn't here just fighting monsters and finding out what went wrong with them. He was collecting materials, and that was something William sat his eyes on.
It wasn't his lack of materials; he knew Lara and her city's leaders were stacking these materials in huge amounts for a long time now. But he didn't like Fang to have more of these materials. Who knew what might go into this old man's head and perhaps would dream of repeating the same formation with other elements or masters.
These materials were top secret of the city of Lara. The more news spreading, the more masters would flock here, the harder it would get to stop them from discovering the underground portal.
"He can't be from our world, impossible!"
"Shut up!" Sara's mother shouted, to silence everyone. She knew going by logic, it was impossible for William to come from her world. But nothing else explained how William knew about her and the palace.
"Even in our world, only those wielding a certain level of power and authority know about our existence... Something is missing here..."
She kept lingering about this point for an hour, then she raised her head, looked at the masters around, "Max, you'll disguise yourself as someone from this world. Find your way to the town outside, and gather all the intel you can get about that youngster."
"Sure my lady," Max said, "do you want me to try and get closer to him?"
"No, this was never a man's job," Sara's mother rolled her eyes, "Lingar, go back and bring Jenny back."
"Jenny?! Are you sure?!!" the moment everyone heard that name and their faces changed colour.
"What? She is fierce and untamed, but still one of us," Sara's mother paused, "besides she is the most beautiful girl we have around that lad's age. She'll do fine, just go and bring her."
"..."
Masters around didn't have anything else to say. As the two moved out to do their task, Sara ordered everyone else to keep guarding and clearing this spot from monsters around.
As she got a moment for herself, she took a seat out of one of her rings. It looked more like a throne than a seat with all these golden decorations, depicting phoenixes. She was in her forties, but she looked as stunning as someone in her twenties.
She recalled everything that happened, recalled her conversation with Sara, her talk with William. She even recalled everything William did since he stepped into here.
"This kid... He is bad news..." she couldn't stop herself from feeling like that. She saw so much in the world, and she knew she couldn't judge a book by its cover.