?William wanted part of this grand loot for his future ns, and he wouldn''t be stopped by such ame excuse of being seen as a materialistic person, being greedy, or something like that.


    When he arrived in the back room section, he saw a long corridor with many doors opening at it.


    Through the slightly opened doors of some rooms, he found out that everyone inside was in deep sleep.


    At this moment, and through the opened windows in these rooms, he noticed that it was pitch ck outside, and that meant he slept for a long time but still awoke in the middle of the night.


    "I''ll rest then," William excused himself when the butler led him to an empty room in the side of the long corridor, "I''m going to leave tomorrow, so I expect to get my reward before leaving."


    "... Have a nice sleep," the butler knew if he lingered around for any longer, he might lose all respect for this kid.


    When he left, all he thought about was that kids were really kids, no matter what. Even if William had such a formidable master, pulled such a miracle, saved their n, he was still acting and thinking as a kid.


    William closed the door behind to be weed with a veryrge bed. In his eyes, this was much more worthy than any other rewards at the moment.


    He never got the chance before to sleep on such arge bed sinceing back. Even the sofa looked like a dream to him.


    He discarded any of his thoughts and simply jumped over the bed. As his body felt the cosy feeling of the sheets, he couldn''t resist falling again under the magic spell of sleep.


    This time, it wasn''t just fatigue who drove his body to sleep, but also the desire that deeply came from his body to enjoy a moment of rest, just like his past days when he was a mighty figure owning a ce much grander than this.


    Morning came fast, and the first thing William saw after getting out of his room was the faces of Lina, Ary, and Berry.


    Others were nowhere to be seen. William didn''t need to ask as this was considered an internal matter of the n.


    "Did you sleep wellst night?" seeing himing out from his room atst, Berry couldn''t help but hurriedly ask.


    She was concerned about him, eyeing him as her man from yesterday''s battle.


    "Uhm, it felt great," William honestly answered, oblivious to her thoughts he turned to Lina and Ary, "are you ready to go back to the academy?"


    "I… I received an order to remain here," Ary suddenly showed a weird look on his face.


    For someone like him, his life wasn''t his own to control. To his surprise, a messenger from the academy came with this simple yet shocking order.


    He was asked to stay here and be one of the guards of the n.


    And that wasn''t all! When the messenger left, the butler of the n, Lude, told him that he was selected by one of the elders to be a direct disciple and a personal guard of his.


    This was an honour he never expected. But he wasn''t that delusional to think he really caught the eyes of that elder.


    It was all thanks to William.


    He was seening with William''s group and seemed to have a close rtionship with him. So, the n higher ups seemed to try their best to get the favour of William by doing this.


    William wasn''t stupid either. He knew this was done to get to the good side of him.


    ''But… Did they intend to get away from the rewards just by doing that?'' he frowned before he saw a girl running and jumping over into his embrace.


    It was Tina!


    "Young master! I heard about what you did! It''s awesome!"


    Seeing her bright face and hearing herughs made Williamugh and leave such troubling thoughts behind.


    He''d have to worry about such matterster on when he''d meet with the old man.


    "Little devil, where were you hiding?" William yed with her hair and Tinaughed. She seemed happy as she said:


    "I hid in the house. It''s a very huge one. And after the battle ended, I got to y with many kids during the morning while waiting for you to wake up. Big sis stayed all this time in front of your room''s door, waiting for you to wake up."


    The moment she said these words, William turned towards Lina, and thetter looked to the side.


    If not for her mask, William imagined a face filled with redness waiting for his eyes to meet.


    He ignored such a remark, turned to foil with Tina''s hair as the little devil enjoyed such treatment and considered it as a game or something.


    Tina seemed to enjoy her time, and this was what kids should do at her age. But William knew with her background, she and her sister didn''t have the luxury to enjoy such life for long.


    William kept such thoughts to himself. He intended to raise up these two and support them with things he only knew in this world.


    If they had such a troublesome background and bloodline, they were fortunate enough to meet him.


    "Are you really leaving today?" Berry stood on the side and watched this warm atmosphere before slowly asking.


    "Don''t tell me you n to keep hiding here forever," Williamughed, "if I''m leaving, then I''m taking you with me."


    "Take who with you, ignorant brat!"


    Just before Berry''s smile would brighten up her face, a snort came from behind and a man showed up.


    It was her father!


    "What? Isn''t she part of the academy or what?" William knew how hostile this father acted towards him. And he wasn''t the man to back down from such confrontation.


    "Humph! The n just got out from such a disaster. We need everyone to help rebuild everything we lost."