Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"I fought you once and beat you already," William already retreated back enough to make him feel little secured, putting lots of his team in between him and Ibra, "why shall I do it again? In the end, I crushed you once already, and there is no point in letting such a record slip by!"

"Despicable! I'll come and beat you till your parents won't recognise any of your features anymore!" Ibra got hyped up with what William said, moved fast towards him in a big circle, evading others.

But in return, William moved opposite to his direction, keeping the distance between the two fixed.

"Stop running! You are a spirit master for god's sake!"

"You owe me! You agreed to follow me out if you got beaten up by me! And I did beat you up, so pay me back!"

"I got nothing to pay you but my glaive, dammit!" the more William spoke, the more Ibra's rage got ignited. After doing this for a few minutes, the rest of the team couldn't help but change from being overly nervous and deeply worried, into struggling to restrain their laughs.

"Dammit! You are quite a runner indeed! I don't want to hurt anyone! Be a man and take responsibility for what you did!"

"I swear if you dared to renege on your word, I'll go all over the academy, shouting that you mistreated good spirit masters. At least those high up in the elders and masters circle know about the real reasons behind your past crimes! But now you have nothing to defend yourself with!"

"Dammit! I want to just cut that damn tongue off and chew it right now more than anything else!" Despite issuing such a threat, Ibra finally got to stop in his tracks, "one mission, you'll just get me to follow you for one damn mission. Then our deal is off, and I can fight you again."

"That's the answer I wanted to hear… Come, welcome you in the…"

*Bang!*

William moved while extending his arm to shake hands with Ibra, welcoming him in the team as friends should. Yet the latter launched a fist that landed on William's face, interrupting his words.

William saw through Ibra's intentions and yet he decided to let this punch fall. As he expected, the power behind this bunch wasn't that much, and with it, the rage swelling inside this dude's chest got relieved a bit.

Or else he had to guard against any sneaky attacks launched from this dude during the journey.

"What was that for? You are despicable!" But even if he anticipated such a hit and accepted it, William stood up and bellowed in rage while touching his swollen nose.

"I learnt this from the master!" Ibra shrugged, as if he didn't bother anything about what he just did, "now… What role will I play here? I won't settle with nothing less than a vice leader position."

"Vice leader my ass! Why don't you come and replace me instead?" William retorted back, and before Ibra would add anything, William added, "if you plan to stick around for a long time with us, then yes you are capable and trusted to be a vice leader. However…"

"I won't remain after this mission is done!" Ibra knew what William offered, and instantly rejected it on the spot. William didn't take any of what he said seriously, knowing that after this mission, it'd be Ibra who would beg him to stay.

"Then it's settled! You'll work as part of the team, like any member here."

"This…"

"This or you join us for a long time!"

"Tsk! How do you deal with this kid? He is acting as stubborn as my six years younger sister!" Ibra didn't answer William directly, instead issued his complaints over everyone else.

And at this point, not a single one could control himself anymore, smiling at least, ending up laughing at what Ibra just happened.

This dude barged his way here wanting a rematch yet ended up falling to the obvious trap William sat for him.

And the way it all happened made everyone laugh to their heart's content, switching Ibra's anger on again.

"Ahem, ahem, that's enough folks," William cleared out his throat, to stop any unneeded punches coming from Ibra at his face again, "it's time for us to start moving. Scout team, take these Bu… Message Papers… They are all linked to me."

"Wait a second, I'll prepare Message Papers linked to me," and the moment William spoke up, other vice leaders started to either give these papers to the scout team members or make more on the spot.

And the five started to do the same, with only the single white grade kid asking the other four first about what he should do. Then he learnt how to make these Message Papers, as it was quite easy actually to make one.

"What about me?" Ibra asked, while touching his glaive as if he was threatening to use it against William if he got an answer he didn't like.

"Just keep your silence and vigilance, follow us around," William didn't even spare him a glance, turned to his team, took a scroll out, and spread it over the ground.

It was the same map he received from Sara before, and there she found many lines and points, words and comments added over the same map she once owned.

"This is where we are right now," William pointed using his scabbard towards a point on the map. There was a little star there, and it seemed it represented the academy, "and that's our destination, the Scorching Lands territory."

Compared to the academy, the Scorching Lands couldn't be represented by a star at all. The area belonging to this place stretched to cover hundreds of thousands of miles at least.

So, it was expected to be represented on the map by a formless shape that was a few centimetres in radius, taking the form of a deformed circle or deflated ball.

It was a very huge area, filled with flat lands, mountains, hills, and even swamps! There was everything there, and in one direction in the middle of such a vast zone, the one closest to the academy, there was a little star there.