Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master
Chapter 68 - 68: A Thing They Missed

"It's better for one of us to go there," Kong slowly said, while feeling more anger towards the daring actions of the dark spirit masters.

Things weren't that clear to their eyes yet, but their reaction was totally different from William.

The big contest that was held each few years wasn't something they couldn't retreat from. This competition was responsible for putting academies at their rightful ranks in the entire continent.

Based on such ranking, the academy would get resources from the kingdom, and even get a few applications from wandering strong spirit masters or disciples from far away locations.

If they didn't send anyone, that meant their rank would end up at the rock bottom. That would be quite severe for their prestige and future in the next few years.

On one side, they knew danger lurked and awaited their potentially strong offsprings. And on another side, they knew they couldn't get away from such danger or else the consequences would be quite severe.

"That's a good solution… I will also accompany you," the headmaster refused to believe that with the presence of the two of them together, they would fail to protect their kids.

"Who said I'm going?"

"Don't try to trick me, I know you already made up your mind the moment you spoke up," the headmaster bitterly smiled, "do your preparations, and do them quite well and quite discreetly, ok?"

"I won't risk anything to happen to my people," and in his heart, Kong added another line, "I won't let anything happen to Berry."

The headmaster had the same type of thoughts. As the two decided on such a response, they started to speak further about other things related to this decision.

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.

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.

"We also 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, "after all it's better to keep him safe for the future prospects of the academy and our clans."

"What if we didn't find a clue?"

"Then I'll try to pry further about his background. I'm sure he already got wind of the big family he belonged to."

The headmaster nodded, as this was the only way they got to solve such a mystery. Then the two kept talking about their change in plans about the upcoming grand contest.

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.