Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master
Chapter 86 - 86: A Slip Of Tongue

William did this on purpose indeed. He could understand why this father issued such a spar request at the moment he met him. But for a moment there, he felt Callom was slightly overreacting thanks to what Berry just did. And so he decided to tease him further by what he just did.

Just seeing such a reaction from Berry's father was enough for anyone to do what William did back then. He was grateful he didn't stick behind, or perhaps he'd not have gone out of this clan's clutches for a long time.

But William didn't know that this was how this caring father used to get to know people better.

He was such a strict spirit master, even on himself and those close to him. He didn't like talking to get to know others.

As he always kept saying: Tongues can lie and cover up fake spirits and twist intentions, but swords don't.

So, he issued this challenge to get to know William better, and to see how capable and promising William was.

Callom was curious about him. Such a weak looking, bronze grade spirit master, even shorter than his daughter, managed to cure his daughter's incurable disease by the opinion of all the grand and prestigious physician spirit masters in the entire kingdom and even beyond.

As William dared to accept his challenge without even pleading for him to stop, this father placed a few good points in his favour, just a little.

In front of the two stubborn males, two of the closest to her heart, Berry couldn't help but tremble in fear while her eyes released silent waves of tears.

"How are we going to compete?" William stood twenty metres away from this scary spirit master.

Spirit master spar had many versions, and so William wanted to know what they'd compete in right now.

Trying to fight him using spirit power was insane! As for techniques, William knew a lot but didn't have time to practise any except for his Holy Sword.

If he used it to compete with such a dark gold spirit master, the grade William expected Berry's father to be at, he'd end up without getting any advantage on him.

His technique was overbearing, enough to wound gold grade spirit masters. But Callom was stronger than that.

From the first moment William accepted this spar, he didn't even think about defending and keeping his life safe. All he thought about was how to win, how to crush this master and prove his worth to everyone watching this.

"I'm your senior as you just said, so I won't use any of my spirit power. But don't celebrate it too early… A spirit master of my calibre isn't weak without his spirit power."

"A dark gold spirit master you are, right?" William didn't show any expected sign of joy when Callom said he wouldn't use his spirit power. And that made Berry's father a little surprised.

"My daughter told you about my grade... Interesting!"

This was the only explanation for how William knew his spirit master grade. But William got it from just not sensing a single speck of spirit power from him, even when he stood this close by.

Such a thing meant this father was a spirit master higher than him by at least two grades. As he was now a bronze spirit master, that meant this father was dark gold grade at least.

Not to mention Gran was around his age and was an elder like him. As Gran was a dark gold spirit master, William guessed that Berry's father wasn't any much weaker.

"What are the rules?" William asked again, and that made everyone watching this feel that William was the stronger one amongst these two.

"You got balls, I give you that," the father slowly nodded as his will to fight got stirred up by William's calm attitude, "I heard that you use different ways to take down monsters. Bring it on and show me what you got."

'Killing monsters using different ways?!!' and just by hearing this, William became vigilant for the first time ever since being here.

When he met the academy headmaster, he realised that those traitors who pointed a finger at him faked it all.

He never thought that someone was truly trailing and watching what he did.

But from these casual words of Berry's father, William got that he was indeed being watched.

He killed monsters without any companion, except for the two girls here who belonged to him and never spoke about this with anyone else and would never do.

Since that time, he never met a single monster or killed one. So, if anyone saw him do it, it must have been since that time when he was in the forest.

Even Berry didn't get a chance to see him in action.

'Who is the one who saw me fight?' This was the second question that got in his mind, 'is he a friend or a foe?' and that was the third question that popped up in his troubled mind.

Berry's father wasn't slow at getting things. When he noticed the slight frown over William's little face, he got what he did out of his carelessness.

'Damn! Why does it feel that it's too hard to deal with this little kid? He got so suspicious from such a clue I slipped. No way! That's not a kid's attitude at all!'

He got a point here. Even if he mistakenly said something like this in front of his clan's prodigies, the chance of them reacting in such a way in such a short notice was quite far.

Yet from William's change in face, his weird silence, and the vigilant feeling he got from him, he knew the latter grew quite suspicious about what he said.

Callom got to know this from his father, and that old patriarch stressed over not telling William anything about that before meeting with him.

Yet from just a mere unintentional mistake, William suspected that someone watched him back then.

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