Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master
Chapter 94 - 94: Convincing Kong

After using his relationship with Berry failed as well, he had to ask him directly the most puzzling question he and his friend were trying their best to find an answer to.

"I'm just a nobody," William honestly said, "I came from a family with no big history like yours."

"But…"

"All I have here is thanks to my master," William wasn't lying. But he didn't know that Kong already knew about possessing three spirit elements. And in the latter's eyes, only belonging to a big family or hailing from one was the only possible explanation.

"Ok," but from the tone and look on William's face, Kong was sure this kid wasn't lying, "tell me then, what do you think about the dark masters?" he asked all of sudden, changing the topic, trying to get to know William better.

He already overheard him while he spoke about his enmity with those despicable dark masters. But Kong wanted to hear the answer himself.

"I hate them! In fact, I'm considering them my sworn enemies," William said in pure hatred that Kong could easily tell.

"Speaking about them, I believe we have a problem that needs our attention first."

"That thief you mean?" The old man got what William meant, and also got what he wanted to imply by linking the two topics together.

It seemed William suspected the dark masters to be behind stealing the scrolls. Or perhaps he just wanted to frame them, so he could use Kong's help and crush the ones around the academy.

Of course Kong wouldn't say no to such an offer, but the problem still lied in the right way to identify these dark bases. He hoped William here would be a bit willing, more easier to handle and speak with than now.

"What makes you think they are dark masters who did this?"

"Well, dark masters or not, this matter isn't that simple," William shook his head when he felt how lightly Kong was taking this issue, "whoever took these scrolls knew they belonged to your clan's precious girl. And yet, he dared to do it."

"Such a wrong decision would cost him his life."

"What if he was still in the academy?"

"What do you mean?"

The old patriarch didn't place much importance like how William here did over this issue. He knew that William was the one to write these down, and that meant the lost information could be replicated by him.

Not to mention whoever did this would end up severely punished in the end.

In his eyes, he considered what happened as a mere mistake, a greedy moment where one of the dirty folks back at the academy lost control over himself and took these papers to inspect them.

"What if the one who stole these belonged to the agents of the dark spirit masters in the academy? The real traitors?"

Kong eyed William in suspicion before asking:

"What makes these traitors eye my beloved Berry's things? What's so special about your training manuals? To the extent of risking exposing themselves?"

Kong already knew what Berry missed were the training manuals provided to her by William. And in his eyes, no matter how special these things were, there was no real motive for those traitors to act and risk exposing themselves for them.

"What if I told you that I got these from my master…" William paused for a long moment, letting the silence add more weight to what he was going to say next.

"... What if I told you that my master got these manuals from the outside world?"

"Bullshit!" the answer came swiftly and decisively from Kong, "no one can reach out there! It's our dream to reach such a stage!"

William knew he piqued the interest of that old man, despite his show of disbelief and rejection of what he just said.

"I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but dark spirit masters are this strong and unique thanks mainly to their ability to get in contact with the outer world. And like them, my master has her own ways to get in touch with the outside world."

"Stop saying something unbelievable and quite impossible like this!"

"That's why the methods that I learnt from my master look weird and unheard of in your eyes. That's why anything I did would look alien and suspicious."

"Even so, this is something that you only know. Why would they even risk taking such a reckless step?" Kong wanted to agree with William, but he found it a bit unrealistic.

Kong already guessed the true aim of William. He didn't want to target the dark masters outside, but wanted to clear the house from inside.

"Then tell me, why two mighty and formidable training manuals, two which my master described as being one of the rare manuals that held true paths towards the gate of this world to the outside one, got stolen from the hands of Berry? Even if the thief didn't know about their value at first, he must have read and recognised them.

Or someone else did, and they dared to hide these scrolls and not return them back."

"..." This time, William managed to silence the old man in front of him after exposing his true colours.

"If you dug deep enough and took this matter seriously, you can uproot many bad weeds from the academy and even the clans affiliated to it," William finally said what he wanted loud and clear.

"I will see this matter personally then," Kong finally decided to accept William's weird theory, "but for the records, I don't believe any of this."

"Then explain to me why the dark spirit masters will place such importance at framing and even killing someone like me?"

"Because you jumped over ranks, turning from a porter to a bronze spirit master rank," Kong thought this reason looked a bit acceptable.

"It's because they linked these scrolls to me," William rolled his eyes, "this is something that they won't let others have, at least for the big shots in the dark masters community. So they had to get rid of me."

William kept calmly speaking, yet his words seemed more convincing.

"Ok, I promise to dig this matter deeply until I find the ones behind it."