Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master
Chapter 84 - 84: Reaching The Patriarch's Place

That was quite shocking! Gran wasn't shocked by William's bronze spirit master grade. In his eyes that wasn't a spirit master worthy of his attention.

But the way William reached this grade was enough to drive anyone crazy! William turned in a few days into a spirit master from a porter, and he just heard that William stayed as a porter for almost two years in the academy.

Not to mention what he did to Berry, something that even the grand patriarch confirmed to be true.

These were all shocking to him, making him not know what he should do with this annoying brat in front of him, one he failed to read or even fathom.

Lofias confirmed what William told him before, the patriarch was waiting for him and sent him an invitation to come.

And Gran could guess correctly part of the truth. He could tell the old patriarch, his uncle, wanted to confirm what William did with Berry.

"Is everything ok, elder?" Once Gran stood a few metres away, looking in such a weird way towards William, the latter couldn't help but ask, with a pure and innocent smile that made Gran's eyebrows twitch.

"Shut up kid! Let's go, the patriarch is waiting for you," Gran just said these words before turning around and starting to move.

"Damn me! It's true!!" and from behind, Ary couldn't help but comment in such a funny way.

Till now, Ary didn't even buy a single word from what William said to him before.

As he took the lead, Gran wanted to ask William many things, yet he refrained. First, he cared about his image in front of these kids. And second, he knew the meeting with his clan's patriarch was going to reveal everything he wanted to know, and even much more.

For a reason he felt that the old monster of his clan was also feeling interested about William. Or else why would he ask him to come here and meet with him personally?

If it was to thank him for whatever he did to Berry, then Berry's father would be suitable for such a task. Even if the patriarch was curious about what William did to cure Berry, he could have assigned this task for her father, while that scary monster would watch from the shadows.

The more he thought about this, the more he got puzzled. So, Gran decided to wait for the meeting to start to confirm his doubts. During their silent walk inside the huge Long clan's residence, Gran was occupied, recalling his meeting with William in great detail.

"Thanks by the way," and as the group walked towards the patriarch's main residence, Gran suddenly said this out of the blue.

"For what?" William already knew why Gran was thanking him for. Yet he kept acting innocent and pure, faking not knowing a thing.

"You do know what I'm speaking about," Gran rolled his eyes, and William laughed at last.

"No problem, I was helping a friend anyway," William shrugged, as if this was something trivial for him, something not worthy mentioning.

And that made Gran inwardly sigh. 'The new generation is always scarier than the old ones.'

Gran recalled everything this kid did and said. What puzzled him was the weird question about his vision about porters.

At some point, he couldn't help but steal a gaze at William, sizing him up and down. 'Damn! Was he trying to assess me back then or what?!'

He guessed it right. William wanted to do this exactly. After knowing everything about William, Gran knew that question was never a simple one.

William wasn't a porter, and yet he spoke as if he was still one. He didn't lie when he said he was once a porter, never lied about anything he said actually. And that made Gran add more points to William's assessment in his mind.

William wasn't playing around, not acting as what kids of his age should. If such a kid got himself powerful in such a short time, turning from a mere porter into a spirit master of bronze grade, then he should be acting arrogant, or jumping around and screaming in joy, showing off what he accomplished.

Yet all he noticed from William was calmness, like what happened wasn't that big of a deal to him. Gran didn't even feel a speck of joy or pride inside William, not even once.

He was acting like a grown up man, one with a deep and unfathomable mind.

"We are here," after half an hour of walking, and as Gran didn't answer any greeting coming from spirit masters who met him on the way thanks to his distracted mind, he finally stopped in front of a big mansion.

It was the clan patriarch's residence, lying in the heart of the entire region. William looked at such a grand building, five stories high, spanning over a wide stretch of land as if ten buildings merged together to form it, with a large wall and big gate.

It was a nice building indeed, one that reminded William of the big residence he once had before in his past life.

"Impressed by our patriarch's place?" Gran noticed and mistook the longing gaze over William's face when he saw this mansion.

"It's… Ok," but what William said was against what Gran expected.

This mansion was even grander than the academy's headmaster's mansion. Gran didn't know what to say and so he led the way towards the inside.

Passing the big gate led to a wide garden. William noticed the presence of many good herbs here, giving him a good impression about the long vision and care for alchemy of this patriarch.

Others might use good looking flowers and plants to decorate their gardens. But this patriarch placed the important use of these herbs for his clan's alchemists above anything else. Which was something that would benefit the spirit masters of his clan in the end.

"Oh, isn't it Gran? When did you arrive?"