"Just look at the fifth paper," Lucas motioned his head towards the scrolls, "in mid-section you'll find the na of the Long Feather academy."
"And?" William asked while fiddling with the papers in his hand, until he found what Lucas was speaking about.
"Read the nas there," Lucas said to William, as the latter started reading. And when he did, his eyes narrowed as a serious look appeared on his face.
"Did you find your na there? And you dare to claim you won't join, hmph!" Kong said in impatience and slight anger, "if you are going to take part in the contest, why join another academy other than ours? Huh?"
"It's not ," William paused for a long minute before raising his head towards the two old n, "I didn't join this team at all."
"Then how do you explain your na ntioned clearly in the official record? Huh? You do know that this contest is being held and arranged by the kingdom. And that ans to join, one has to send an official letter with his na, spirit power, signature, and all this!"
"I said it's not ," William returned the scrolls back to Lucas, "soone is impersonating this ti."
"What a daring youth he is," Kong said in mockery, while Lucas cleared his throat.
"So you didn't promise anyone from this academy anything, right?"
"I didn't even et anyone from them, never heard about such a na before," William said, while his mind kept recalling the nas of the academies that ca to recruit him in the past few months.
He t many academies' elders and masters, but there was no such a na like the Long Feather academy. However, and for a reason, William felt like this na did ring bells in his mind. Yet he couldn't tell why.
"Do you have any news about this academy?" William was bothered by this feeling. And so he turned to the two old n in front of him and asked.
"Well…" the two looked at each other in a loss, before Lucas added, "we hoped you will tell us everything about it."
"What does this an?"
"We never heard about such an academy before," Kong said in an annoying tone, "and we thought…"
"You thought that as I joined them then I'm related to this sohow… I get it now!" These two n didn't co here just to speak about him joining this academy, but also to get information about it, "are you telling that an academy appeared in our continent out of thin air? Co on! Don't tell even the kingdom doesn't know!"
"Well…" from the look on their surfaces, William got the answer to his question already. And that made his weird feeling grow to a higher level of alertness.
Academies weren't like clans; they couldn't exist without anyone knowing it. Academies needed a large place of ground, lots of clans to join, and much more spirit masters to study there. Any academy would have strong ties with any force around. Be it rchants, rcenaries, and even dark masters and monsters… Not to ntion academies had to affiliate themselves with one of the kingdoms or empires in the world.
So the thought that an academy appeared out of thin air without anyone knowing anything about it was weird and suspicious.
"Perhaps it's a new academy or sothing," Sara spoke for the first ti since William's ca out from the central building.
"That's not possible," her grandfather said, "if such an academy got established, even in another continent, soone must have heard anything about it. But so far, none of the academy headmasters and elders in the entire continent ever heard about this na before."
"Perhaps it's soone from another continent," Berry intervened as well.
"Not possible," it was her grandfather who rejected her theory, "we already thought about everything. The kingdom responded that they heavily investigated and asked for proof for any small and not famous academies to be listed there."
"And that ans this academy is inside the continent," Lucas added, "but we can't get to know anything about it."
"Didn't the kingdom ask for proof of existence from them?" William paused, "didn't they provide their whereabouts?"
"They proved they are inside the continent, provided a place that's just adjacent to the kingdom's borders," Lucas paused, "we sent people there, many did actually, and they did find that academy at that spot."
"Then it's solved," Ibra shrugged, waving his glaive in the air for a few seconds, "you can send spirit masters disguised as rchants to infiltrate this place…"
"Not going to do," Lucas tiredly sighed, "we tried everything, everyone actually tried to collect information about this academy. But none ever succeeded."
When everyone gave him a weird look, he added, "they closed their doors in the face of others, saying the academy is under a lockdown for now."
"A lockdown?" William knew the reason behind other academies intense interest was that his na was on that weird academy's roster.
In the scrolls, he found one hundred nas stated there, including one with the title of the Fox master.
There was one single Fox master in the entire world, and that'd make anyone interested and curious about this place.
William didn't et anyone from this academy before, never said yes to join anyone's roster. "Sothing seems off here," he muttered, before deciding, "bring out the maps, and please mark that academy's location for ."
He said these words to Lina, Lucas, and Kong. "What do you plan to do?" Kong asked, feeling that William planned to do sothing crazy.
"What else? Soone dared to fake my identity and created all this ss. So it's just right to pay them a visit and knock on their doors."
"Don't tell you plan to fight them head on!" Lucas' face slightly changed. And Kong did as well. In fact, all of the team here had a change in their faces as well.
"I won't do such nonsense for sure," William casually said, but no one here believed him, "prepare my Black Tails team, we are going out for a long adventure."
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