William's words echoed in the entire portal area, even his allies heard him crystal clear. This made everyone stop fighting.

Even if no one knew what was going on, it was clear that William intended to spare the enemies, accept their surrender. Or else he wouldn't give them such a chance to come up and get spared!

"What's going on here?!!" Yet after ten minutes of giving such an order, William was totally confused by the result, "not a single master here knows about you? For real?!"

Even after what he said, even after ten minutes, not a single master stepped up to speak or say anything about this lady. William knew that the enemy forces here were from the palace or dark master powers in the upper realm.

In other words, none here had any loyalty towards anyone! They might be working together, but they were fully prepared to backstab each other if there was an extra gain or benefit from doing so!

"I'm sure many are loyal to me…"

"Cut the crap already!" William interrupted her in a displeased tone, "these are all dark masters or masters from the palace, not the loyal type of masters in this world!"

William dropped any hope of getting any information about her identity from the masters here. But this didn't mean he was out of options, "I just happened to have someone who can tell me more about you," he evilly grinned, while sending a message using spirit telepathy!

As he said these words and sent the message, he could see more anxiousness over the lady's face. She seemed troubled, as if she was a thief who was on the verge of getting caught or something!

"Why don't we just get a private place for us, have some fun, and discuss all this with a glass of wine…"

"Shut up!"

"I know of a proper way to get rid of these bombs for you…"

"No need, thanks, I know what to do about them!"

"Just let me accompany you, I won't be a nuisance and will be a great help for you…"

"Shut up!"

William didn't even spare her a look anymore. Putting this lady's mysterious identity aside, there was something else he needed to think about, the fate of masters here!

It was clear that they lost any desire to fight. They were all dark masters, and normally he would kill them without second thought. But he had something in mind, something he knew these masters would be the only ones able to help him in!

He thought he knew much about the dark master world in the upper realm, yet he still lacked a lot! Putting aside the normal forces like that palace and the big twenty, there were lots of hidden forces he was still not aware of!

What was the best source of information than those masters? Even if they came from the upper realm, they were confined to this realm's rules. The strongest they could ever reach was the pinnacle of the dark gold master realm, which wasn't a problem if they were entrusted to large forces, or the kingdom.

William intended to throw those troublesome folks to the king and Sloth to keep. He knew Sloth would warmly welcome this, even if he would complain on the surface from handling such criminals.

After all, these masters came from a higher realm, and the knowledge they possessed was priceless to any big force. To William this meant nothing, but to the kingdom this was huge news!

"Listen up," as no one stepped up to give any clue about the mysterious lady, William started talking out loud, "I want every one of you to give their belongings over. Be it rings, equipment, weapons, literally everything you own that's of value!"

"You don't expect them to give you all this without nothing in return," the lady laughed from the side, as if she was trying to stir troubles for William. Yet the latter totally ignored her, as he knew she just wanted to attract his attention again.

"I also want you to draw maps about the places of dark spirit master forces in the upper realm. You will also write down every single information you know about these forces, about monsters, about literally everything you know of the upper realm!"

"Oh, we'll have to wait here forever then for them to do that, hehehe," The lady kept speaking and trying her best to nag William, but William didn't give her any heed.

"Do it on recording crystals, do it fast, explain everything, and you won't be killed. Try to hide anything, and I swear to not let you live a single further moment!"

"You need to first secure your life, there are lots of ticking bombs there, hehehe!"

As usual he simply closed an ear over anything she said. In return, he simply sent orders to his friends, to send masters over to reclaim everything he asked for from the enemies.

Even if he intended to send them over the kingdom with Sloth, he didn't plan to let them go with any fat loot like that!

As expected, the enemy masters lost any will to fight. With the presence of a way out, they totally complied with William's orders and cooperated with his guild masters.

After all these fights, the number of masters alive on the enemy side still surprised him! He thought there were up to four thousand masters. But it felt like there were at least ten thousand masters standing here, if not more!

As he watched everything progressing smoothly and without trouble on that end, he needed to solve the problem he got on his side, that lady!

"... Don't ignore me like that! I'm here, hello!"

As he kept treating her like she didn't exist, the lady grew more anxious to the extent of moving to stand in front of him and even wave her hands like a clown!

"Did you call for me? Is it finally over?"