Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"Hmm, I see, but why does it feel like it's the wild wild west out there? You are speaking as if all spirits want each other dead or something…"

"It's something a human like you should stay away from," yet unlike how William expected, the golden spirit didn't continue spilling any more beans, "just focus on your shitty stuff and don't die."

"Is it dangerous here?" William looked around, "there is no one but me and you."

"I meant in your shitty world, hmph! You were this close from getting your neck snapped by that ant."

"But I still killed it!"

"With the help of another human," the golden spirit snorted, "anyway, I'll take a tour here… Why are you following me?"

"To make sure you won't do any harm to my black spirit home," William followed the golden spirit when the latter moved.

"You are such a suspicious and funny little human indeed," the golden spirit laughed, "do you think I can do anything in such a form? For real?"

"I don't know anything about you guys," William shrugged, "besides I got nothing else to do, so will tag along."

The golden spirit had nothing to do to stop William. As it stated before, it didn't hold any ill intentions, only toured the place.

The home of the black fox wasn't small at all. As the two moved along, William saw lots of areas that he never visited before. There were valleys, underground tunnels that led to a few huge halls, with gigantic pillars of stones and tons of black fox decorations.

There were many hills, and one mountain. The golden spirit seemed used to such places, as it didn't issue any question or comment during the journey. As for William, he never thought the home of the black fox was so massive and rich in detail.

He kept asking questions and getting only short and useless answers. The golden spirit seemed so tight lipped about the spirit world and didn't say anything that'd teach William anything new. And yet the latter never stopped asking.

As William kept annoying the golden spirit, the latter started to speak about the last moments that William missed. It tried to divert the talk around the spirit world and its secrets, which was something that might bring a catastrophe for the golden spirit if it dared to speak.

"Are you saying that the core started to turn into ash the moment I touched it?!!" William was surprised to hear that. And with the golden spirit confirmation, he couldn't help but jump to the only conclusion that could explain everything.

"I'm absorbing it right now?!!" he couldn't help but mutter to himself in doubt and disbelief, "but… How?"

His mind started to drift about what caused this to get activated, and why he was dragged here this time. It wasn't the first time for him to absorb a core, and yet it felt like something was extra special about this core.

"It seems when I was thinking about absorbing the core, I accidentally triggered it," he couldn't think of anything else but this, "yet… Why the f*ck am I here?"

"Don't ask me, ask yourself," the golden spirit laughed, feeling relieved the past few minutes from William's annoyance.

"That's something related to spirits without doubt, and you are one, not me," William shifted the topic magically back to the spirit realm, "tell me, why am I here? What brought me here?"

"You…" the golden spirit couldn't help but stutter, couldn't believe William jumped back to the same topic in such a way, "won't tell, even if I know something, which isn't true, won't tell."

"Don't believe you!"

"No, it's something related either to you or your spirit," the golden spirit hurriedly added, "I don't know the black fox personally, but heard lots of stories about it. Yet can't tell why you were dragged here."

"Hmm…" William could tell this spirit wasn't lying, and that made him think about what brought him here.

"If I was brought here out of my will and intentions, then it must be related to the black fox," William started to keep his thoughts focused on this point, something that gave the golden spirit a final breath of relief.

The first thing that made William take this thought quite seriously was the fact that the black fox wasn't here. It was the home of the fox, and it was weird for it to not be present.

"Tell me, is it common for spirits to move around your world and leave their homes?" as he felt more suspicious about this point, he couldn't help but ask.

"We don't like to travel a lot indeed," the golden spirit seemed to think the same as William, ending up spilling little information without realising it, "going out means we are vulnerable to attacks, something that's not trivial to begin with. So, when we leave our homes, we tend to leave in groups… F*ck! Why am I telling you this?"

The golden spirit seemed to return to his senses, realising that he was speaking of the nature of the spirit world without realising it.

And such sudden realisation made William evilly grin, "see? It wasn't that hard after all, hahaha," William laughed before adding, "so if the black fox left the place, then he must have done it with other spirits, right?"

Even if he was laughing, William's mind couldn't help but recall the fierce scene he witnessed when he came to meet the black fox before. In his mind, it seemed like the black fox was going out for revenge, and yet that didn't help answering why William was dragged here in the first place.