Chapter 22

The dinner had been chaotic but it somehow ended peacefully. William was kicked out by Claudia as she was going to have a girls-only meeting with his new 'friends'. William had some of his own stuff to take care of, so he walked away after just a little bit of protest.

After coming to his room, he quickly jumped into the Dragon Farm and took a good look at the new and completely changed scenery. His house now looked more like a stone apartment which tried very hard at being a medieval castle, but failed miserably at it.

Rie was playing along with the energy dragons besides the large lake that had formed after space had reached Level 10 - unfortunately, the water in the lake was just that, simple water. William had bought some military strategy related books for Rie and she had become completely enamoured with them - seemed like her species was given the name war dragon for a reason. She would practice various tactics by forcing other dragons to 'play' with her.

The farm area had also increased tremendously, which was not very surprising. But what surprised him was that the area of space itself had also tripled. The thought that this space could be as big as a planet one day, made William feel giddy with excitement.

While he was taking a look at everything Itachi had quietly appeared beside him. After seeing such a tremendous development of something which he owned, a sense of pride filled him. But when he noticed Itachi, he was reminded of why he was here in the first place.

"Let's go to the summoning altar. I plan to use the free ticket I received when the farm levelled up. Saphira told me that it should take 3 years at the current pace to reach Level 15, but if we can catch 5 more energy dragons within 2 months then it should only take 1 year. After reaching Level 15, she has the full confidence to make a safe passage to your world."

"Thanks."

Although his response was brief however both people present were close enough to understand the heavy sentiment that simple word. William gave an hmm of acknowledgement and they continued walking forward calmy in a complete silence. They reached the altar very quickly even though they were walking in a leisurely manner.

William dropped some blood on it and gave it the required amount of knocks. The blow glow of the altar abruptly increased in intensity and the glow started to hurt William's eyes. Still, he was somehow able to endure it.

After the glow dimmed down William was finally able to see his next summon. It was a small creature and it looked like a mix between a puppy and a snake. It had the body resembling a small puppy and it looked really cute with its four pudgy paws. That's where the similarity to reality ended though. It had three snake-like head coming out of its body, and it had a serpentine tail as long as its upper body. But due to how round and pudgy it was, the creature looked more cute than fearsome. It didn't help that he had a smooth baby blue skin, and big, round, and sparkling black eyes.

'Umm...Saphira, did the summoning ceremony go wrong? I don't see an anime character anywhere.'

(*Ding* I never said that only anime characters were summoned using this altar. Anything that is living has the opportunity to respond to your summon. This time you summoned a baby hydra. Its a pretty good summon if I say so myself.)

"Yeah, right. Yeah! this is completely normal, normal..yeah totally. Let's make a soul contract with this puppy and get on with the next task."

Using Saphira as a medium, William made a soul contract with the hydra and named it Bailey. He wanted to drop it in the lake and let it play with other dragons but Bailey insisted on staying with him. The deal was sealed when it used 'puppy-dog-eyes jutsu'.

After playing with Bailey for some time William finally decided to carry out today's most important task - planning on how to make Earth the safest place for him and his loved ones.

"Itachi, I want you to find at least 100 people, within a month, who are talented enough to join the guild. It doesn't matter what their talent is, as long as it can be useful for the growth of the guild then recruit them. You can check between both worlds if you want, but I'd rather you select them from this world as their main job would be complete my orders in this world."

"It can be done. Anything special should pay attention to while selecting them?"

"Yes, make sure that around fifty of them are from Asia, especially China. For the remaining, choose them as you wish. I want to start an information network in China as soon as possible. Its main goal is to monitor any individual who became famous in a very short time, pay more attention if the individual was a failure before his unexplained success. I want the information organization to be completely operational within four months. After that, our goal would be to expand it to the entire world. I want to kill those three beings who know of Saphira, as soon as possible."

"Okay. I will depart right now. You should take care of yourself while I'm gone."

William gave a small nod and Itachi vanished from the farm silently.

"Now, what should we do Bailey? Should I train some more with Zangetsu? I feel like I will be able to use something above Bankai very soon, though I don't know what it is."

All three heads of Bailey gave him a soft purr and vigorous licking.

'Saphira, are you sure that Bailey is not a dog or a descendant of a dog?'

(*Ding* Will, I have checked again and I can confirm with full assurance that Bailey is a purebred Hydra.)

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***In a suspicious bedroom in a not so suspicious mansion***

"So, how did you girls meet William?" A gloomy female asked the four other females sitting in front of her.

"He was summoned as my familiar and that's when everyone met him." Three quick and fierce nods followed the pink-haired girl's reply.

"I don't care if he is your familiar or not. I don't want you vixens to lead my pure baby boy down the wrong path. I-"

Suddenly, the red-haired girl with big breasts jumped up from her seat and exclaimed in a passionate voice, "You can't stop me from loving William. We both love each other a lot and you would have to walk over my cold body if you want to separate us."

"Love? Do you even know what it means? And William is just a child, he doesn't even know what love means. Don't mislead him, young girl." The gloomy female gave a swift and deadly counter to the red-haired girl's passionate attack.

It seemed like the lavender-haired girl finally couldn't take it.

"Ma'am, pardon my rudeness but who are you to decide to stop us from loving him. I know that you are his mother, but that's it, you are his MOTHER, not his girlfriend. And, I think even you should know that he is a lot more intelligent than people even thrice his age. He perfectly understands the consequences of his actions."

"I think we are missing the point here. All of us love him, even you Miss Walker. We have to remember that he is only six years old right and he has an ambiguous relationship with four people already. I think we should call a truce and find ways to keep him to ourselves."

A deep silence fell over after the blue-haired petite girl finished her speech. Although her voice was soft, her words hit everyone's heart like a sledgehammer.

(AN : Anyone knows how to balance final exams and writing stories?)