Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"I slept for one month?!!!"

William was sitting on a big bed, surrounded by lots of familiar faces. He just woke up an hour ago, finding himself in a place he never expected.

To him, it seemed like he passed out for a day or something. He examined the black fox's lair, found lots of good stuff and tons of things he didn't understand.

Yet one day passed after the end of the battle before he found himself getting out from the spirit world. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying over a bed, in a spacious room, while sun rays passed through opened windows and curtains.

He didn't recognise the place, but knew the fact that her owner threw herself over him. It was Lina, and she got two big bags under her eyes, looking much paler than ever, as if she never slept well for a long time.

Soon enough he learnt about the place he was in. It was the current base town of the Fox guild, outside Lara's city.

Before he'd ask Lina about anything, she ran out and spread the news. Soon enough, the room got crowded with all of his friends and trusted team members.

They kept asking about his condition, what happened, and he also asked the same back. Soon enough he learnt about everything, how he passed out for the entire month, which was quite surprising for him.

He doubted what he heard, but as everyone was agreeing on this, he couldn't refute this fact. "One month… I only felt it was one day…" he felt more puzzled the more he thought about it.

This wasn't his first visit to the black fox's lair, and yet it felt like this visit was quite special and different. William listened to how things escalated for the team when the monster exploded, how the underground city experienced almost total destruction, and how the surface city got massively hit and damaged.

Ruins were everywhere, and lots of people died or were injured. The city was known for being safe, so most of the people living there were common and normal ones, without powers to even protect themselves from falling walls and buildings. Yet with the help of masters, including the Fox guild members, things stabilised fast out there.

William didn't doubt Lara and other city leaders' ability to fix things. According to everyone, a massive rebuilding started on the surface city, yet the main problem still remained at the underground city.

William was far interested in hearing about the current development of the underground city. His friends described how the entire city got destroyed, only a few buildings remained, and they even had one or two walls standing.

"Rebuilding the underground city isn't important," William said when he noticed how the team was anxious about failing in rebuilding the city, "we just need arrays to defend us against monsters."

"Monsters… They changed," Sara paused, before she started to explain the current situation down there.

The monsters before were huge in number already, yet they used to come out from underground and hunt humans while walking around the city. They never managed to sniff the isolation arrays, never had the chance to attack these.

But this all changed. By Sara's and others' words, William could grasp a general idea about what was going on down there.

"Are you telling me the monsters can now sense the presence of any array? Attack and crack it open?!" This was quite surprising even to William.

"That's what teams sent down their experiences," Berry sighed, "I went there with Sara and few others, and watched from the safe stand at the stairs how these monsters attacked masters even inside isolation arrays."

"Hmm… That's new," William's thoughts drifted towards the explosion that happened after taking down the monster.

The monster absorbed tons of spirit power from the portal for who knew how long. And when it died, it exploded and released most of the power stored within its body.

This spirit power seemed to work its magic over the monsters dwelling in the underground city, evolving them to a dangerous new stage.

"... And like this we couldn't do anything at all down there. The best is to go and watch monsters move around, as if they were mocking us…" Sara added which jolted William awake from his thoughts.

"And the materials? Are they still appearing?" This was a very important point to ask about. Unlike what the team members and friends here thought, William wasn't interested that much in these materials.

What he was caring and worrying about was the portal itself. He knew the secret behind these materials popping up. As long as they were still coming, the portal was still functioning.

"No one knows," yet Fang delivered the bad news while walking in the room, "you slept for a long month kid, what? You never slept before or what?"

"Let's not talk about this," William had zero explanation of what really happened. So he bypassed answering this question and asked back, "did you check?"

"I couldn't go down there and keep my life safe," even Fang seemed to face trouble dealing with these monsters, "they aren't the same breed the masters here used to fight against."

"I doubt they can be a threat even for you," William was surprised by these words, raising an eyebrow while Fang cleared his throat in response. It really felt awkward especially by how William said his last words to him.

"It's not that they are stronger than myself, but they changed their tactics," Fang cleared up his throat again, feeling more desire to go down there and kick those monsters' as*yes, if he could.

"Tell me more…" William planned to go and pay the underground city a visit. He learnt about many changes considering the ground, but the monsters were a problem he never anticipated.

Fang started to explain what changed in these monsters. "They got hit by all of our attacks, yet nothing worked against them," he added after a few minutes of talking.