Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

Pride disciples were those who had their parents died serving the academy or the kingdom. Their luck was bad that they got no other relatives around, making them orphans.

As a payback for what their parents did for the academy and kingdom, the academy accepted them as disciples and nourished them to grow and be strong spirit masters.

This might seem fair. But in such a harsh community of spirit masters here, they got ill treated and looked down upon.

In the eyes of arrogant disciples like Guanin and his likes, Pride disciples were just spirit masters without any backings. They were considered the second lowest spirit masters in the world, even coming lower than those who hailed from weak and poor families and clans.

Only porters and normal people came lower than them, and the three were looked down upon as trash in this world.

The sole reason behind that wasn't because they were just orphans, but because they got all this support in return for selling their services forever to the academy.

The academy could easily appoint them to do missions, go outside and do dirty or hard tasks, even asking them to stick around certain clans and families, even serving powerful figures.

The Pride disciples got no saying in any of that!

So, they were looked upon as servants, not spirit masters with their own freedom.

And that was why the face of this disciple dropped when he heard what William asked for.

"Listen…" William gave the two girls a silent meaningful gaze before adding, "let's forget about this bet. I'll prove to you that I'm a spirit master and we can all let this matter drop, alright?"

He was speaking in the name of the two girls, while waiting for this disciple's response.

"I… Have no issue with that. Let me get a crystal to test you then…" That disciple left in a hurry, still feeling awkward from such an unexpected situation.

He thought William was part of a prank pulled on him from his mates. It was a common thing to happen, and now he knew this wasn't the case.

William and these two girls didn't look like bad people.

William waited on the side while lost in deep silence. He could feel how helpless and powerless this disciple was, as he was living a similar life before like his.

He waited for a few minutes before that disciple returned back with an orange crystal that he held in his hand. William poured his spirit power in that crystal. And the next moment, the colour of the crystal turned bronze while dots appeared. This disciple was shocked when that colour appeared. It meant William wasn't lying, he was indeed a bronze spirit master, a disciple of the second year class.

"Wow! I… I'm lost for words…" and as William wasn't lying, the disciple felt he did William wrong here. "How about this… Let me accompany you to the Long clan… I hope you really got an invitation to the clan, or else…"

"Don't worry about that," William said while blocking the path over Lina to say anything to irritate this disciple.

In William's eyes, this senior was living a hellish life, one that he once lived and suffered from.

"We were invited by the clan… One of the clan disciples here invited us," William felt that saying he was invited by the scary patriarch of the Long clan would add more doubts to this disciple, "and thanks for the trouble. If senior isn't free, you can just tell us the directions and we will go there."

"No, I was just passing by when I met you," The Pride disciple waved his hand while his mood started to grow slightly better, "my name is Arnold, and my friends call me Ary."

"Nice to meet you, Ary."

"Nice to meet you too," Arnold said before pointing at the gate behind, "let's go. No one is going to stop you as long as we are together. Of course, they might get the wrong idea… Ahem, but that will be temporary until you change these clothes. By the way, why are you wearing the uniform of a porter?"

As they started to move outside, Ary proved to be a more talkative dude than he seemed before. To William, he was inwardly cursing his luck. He was just having a headache from Tina's habit of talking all the time. And now he got himself another companion who wasn't worse than her.

Soon enough, Tina and Ary made a perfect duo. They kept speaking, speaking all the time, to the degree of making William and Lina didn't know if they were just talking and not listening to each other.

And to their shock, the two kept speaking and responding to each other's words and questions, like they were actually listening while speaking at the same time!

"Sorry young master," as they walked like this for almost five hours, Lina couldn't help but whisper to William.

"Sigh! It's just lucky he wasn't going to stick around for much more," William tried to console himself by repeatedly saying that.

"Are we still too far from that clan?" Lina asked after another hour.

During their march, they were taking a formal road. It was one that was paved with limestone, with special ores that were embedded at its edges to scare the weak monsters away.

This road was moving inside a small portion of the forest, a part that only had weak monsters within.

It wasn't that dangerous to walk here alone thanks to such ores, but the problem lies in the possibility of losing one's direction here.

Each few miles, the path would divide into two, and sometimes three, each heading towards a different direction. Gradually, even William lost track of the direction they were heading at, feeling remarkable at Ary's ability to know the right path each time.

If they were speaking about useful stuff, like how to raise one's spirit power, how to fight, or even how the situation in the academy was, then the march wasn't destined to be a torture for William and Lina.