?"Thanks master," William received back his spirit crystals, stored them inside his ring, before walking inside.


    As he walked in there, a couple of the disciples standing here retreated and walked away from the Forging department.


    They got great news to deliver and felt that delivering such news was much more important than taking the test.


    William didn''t know that a little storm wasing his way right now.


    As he followed the direction that master pointed towards, William noticed the slight difference inside the Forging department thanst time he was in here.


    Last time he came here, the ce was filled with forging noises. But right now, the entire ce looked eerie quiet, and all the buildings around hadbels on them, with random numbers. He saw fifty, twenty-three, and forty-one through his walk. The deeper he went, the more random numbers he saw.


    "Who the hell arranged things here in such a messy way?" After walking inside for ten minutes, he couldn''t help but express his puzzlement from such a random arrangement of numbers.


    "It was me," and just as he said these words, a sharp tone came from one side, startling and stopping him in his tracks.


    He turned and saw Ellina walking out from inside a building. That master told him she was inside test building number twelve. And yet she came out from a building with a number of five."


    "I was looking for you," William smiled, one that held more greedy intentions than happiness to meet her.


    "Don''t try to change the subject," she stopped a few metres away, crossed her arms, "are you not satisfied with my arrangement of disciples on the various tests?"


    "It''s… Too random!" William couldn''t find any other word to describe his puzzlement but this one.


    No matter how he thought about it, the numbers arranged here didn''t follow any logic or pattern.


    "That''s to prevent cheating!" she eximed in defence, not moving her eyes off him, "you changed!"


    "In a good or bad way?"


    "You are speaking to me more daringly than before," she raised one eyebrow before adding, st time you kept telling me senior this, master that… And now you are just speaking directly to me."


    "Aren''t we friends?"


    "We didn''t meet except for once, and that wasn''t too long ago!"


    "Destined friends don''t need a long time to be considered friends," William looked around, "can we talk here or what?"


    "About what?" Ellina''s face showed how much she was annoyed, "you promised to give me blueprints from your master after your return. And you came back, went to the Long n, and had lots of fun there."


    "And here I am," William spread his arms, "will we talk here?"


    "Follow me," despite showing such annoyance on her face, she moved away, leading him towards the deeper parts of this ce.


    She was indeed excited! Just the few things William showed her before inspired many masters with great ideas. So, she ced high importance on what William brought with him this time.


    When she heard he went to fight with the Long n against the scary monster tide, she got scared! She thought he''d end up throwing his life and she''d lost the promised great manuals.


    However, when she heard the story about what happened there, she couldn''t help but get inwardly shocked. The old patriarch of the Long n shared what William did back there at the forging region of the n with the Forging headmaster, ending up adding new light to their limited forging world.


    The forging masters here couldn''t help but see William as a walking treasure trove. Every single time he did anything rted to forging, they''d discover new things, techniques and tricks they never knew they even existed!


    She didn''t lead him anywhere else but towards the ce of her boss. She didn''t even inform him about William''s presence, and yet that old man was already standing in front of his mansion, waiting for the two with a clear excited look on his face.


    "Master Sang," even if Ellina was a forming master, she would still address Sang as master. It wasn''t just a title out of the position difference between the two, but that Sang was indeed an admirable figure in the world of forging.


    "You must be William," Sang ignored Ellina totally, and insteadughed as he gestured for William to enter, "let''s talk inside. I heard tons of stories about you and wanted to meet you a long time ago."


    "Thanks headmaster," William gave Ellina a silent side nce before following Sang inside his mansion.


    And it was truly a ce that belonged to a genius forging spirit master!


    There wasn''t a single table or chairs inside, and the entire ce had its walls demolished, turning the entire ce into a giant and open working ce.


    William saw a bed lying on one side, while the entire ce was filled with pots, stoves, hammers, anvils, wood, different materials, and the scent of something burning was thick in the air.


    William couldn''t believe this was the ce of the forging headmaster. Shouldn''t he live in some neat ce? A ce that could be called a home?


    William looked around and couldn''t even see a single piece of furniture aside from that bed. The entire ce was suited to be called a big forging ce, not a residence for a headmaster or any spirit master at all!


    "Sorry about that," Sang felt the weird gazes of William, and couldn''t help butugh before adding, "once I learnt about the new techniques and ways of forging you used, I didn''t stop training and testing things out… However…"


    His face slightly changed, turned to look towards one spot. William could see arge pile of failed products, gathered up in one ce near the wall.


    William couldn''t tell what Sang wanted to do here. There were spears, swords, shields, and even helmets. All were ck in colour, with parts falling off, leaving holes in the end product.


    "I wanted to replicate the way to control your knives in all these, but failed," Sang didn''t hide his intentions from William.