After settling the main points, William stepped back, ceding the stage to the Blue Purgators masters. It was time for them to discuss the upcoming training schedule.

William stood to the side, listening intently as they laid out their plan. He nodded in agreement with their approach, though it differed from his own.

The Purgators weren’t planning a high-speed focused training like the one William had envisioned doing for his elite guild masters. Instead, they decided to approach the training normally, using the traditional, stable methods of the Upper Realm.

Their plan would take many months for the selected masters to bridge the gap between their current standing and the true pinnacle of the lower realm. William didn’t interfere with or edit their curriculum.

He had originally asked the Purgators to stay back and help for only one month. But as he had previously suspected, they intended to stay much longer than that.

"We have decided to wait with you until you are ready to ascend yourself," the leader of the Blue Purgators said after the meeting concluded. He prepared to follow the Fox Guild’s guides back to the training grounds.

"We have nothing big going on up there right now anyway. Spending a few more months with you and your people won’t be a problem."

William responded with a calm, knowing smile. He knew the truth behind their generosity. After the private meeting where he had mapped out the Upper Realm’s secrets and laid out his plans, the Purgator elders must have realised his real potential.

They were staying behind to study his methods. They wanted to see more of the man who wanted to lead not only them, but a grand force of the elite upper realm masters.

On top of that, the leader made an additional offer: he wanted to send several of his elite units with William as he travelled to the different lower realms. His excuse was flimsy, that they had nothing much to do while the elders handled the primary training.

William could see right through it. They wanted to watch him in action. They wanted to see what he intended to do with the broken, scattered worlds under his control.

The leader was personally curious about William’s long-term strategy; he wanted to know what was so special about the lower realms attached to this Medium World that made William fight so hard for them.

He could tell that William wasn’t the type of person to get interested in anything of low value. In the eyes of a master like the Purgator leader, there must be a huge, hidden gain behind taking control of these specific worlds, a resource or a tactical advantage that the Fox had coveted.

William didn’t mind the company or the scrutiny. In fact, he warmly welcomed these Upper Realm masters to his side. To him, they were the perfect tools.

He planned to give them a mountain of orders, letting them handle the heavy lifting of reconstructing the destroyed worlds and uniting the disparate masters of the lower realms into a single, cohesive force. If they wanted to watch him, they would have to work for the privilege.

He wasn’t worried about anyone reading through his intentions. No one in the upper realm placed the masters of the lower realms in their eyes. And that was for many good reasons.

So even if they watched him care about these lower realms masters, there was no risk involved in them linking the dots. The last reason they would think of would be related to his real intentions.

No one from the upper realm would ever consider saving time to help nourish and train the masters of the lower realms, as this was a waste of time and effort in their eyes.

Seeing his guild masters off alongside the elites and elders of the Blue Purgators made William feel free from this problem. He then headed with tens of thousands of upper realm masters, heading towards every single lower realm.

The moment he stepped through the first realm, his old buried memories resurfaced. These worlds were destroyed in the same way his world was in the past lifetime. Seeing what his world should have ended up at in these lower realms gave William a melancholic feeling.

He didn’t say a single word, but his face spoke volumes of what he was thinking about. The first thing he did was to go through the leaders of the existing forces in each world, organise them properly, while watching convoys from different guild factions work to recruit these masters to their side. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

After the end of his long speech with his guild elites and faction leaders, they started to do things the way he planned. Different major factions started recruiting their respective forces, roping in masters who matched the parameters William had placed before in his speech.

He was content with how swift the faction leaders were, especially his girls and friends. Yet this was just the first step in restoring these worlds. For days, he kept arranging different master forces, giving them various orders, and planning for a grand reconstruction process of their worlds.

His orders spanned sending lots of masters around the world to seek any hidden masters and let them join the grand singular force growing in the heart of their world. Then he tasked the plans of constructing large cities, different towns, and linking them together with a grand net of roads and portals to special masters who had experience in doing so.

If there weren’t any such masters, William would simply shove the responsibility onto the upper realm masters he brought with him. On top of that, he made sure to leave behind a garrison force of them, acting as a last resort in case any chaos erupted for any reason.

William knew these worlds had been severely hit, but there was still a single problem unsolved: the dark masters. There was no way to tell in the middle of this chaos. So the only possible way to lure these dirty weeds out was to let them make problems first, then hunt them down later.