Rebirth: Supreme Soul Master

“We…we’ve just been running from them,” Lina’s voice trembled as she realized what had happened. Her sister had collapsed from exhaustion, hunger, and thirst.

When she realized this, she also felt a strange weakness.

"Wait here for a moment." William didn't rush to leave, and examined the dead child's body. Even if they were traitors, they were still from one of the famous families of Golden Heaven Academy.

"A good haul." Sure enough, he found something valuable on the leader he had shot with his arrow. A deep red ring with a black salamander symbol was on the leader's index finger.

"Young Master...don't..." Just as he was about to take it off, Lina stopped him. "This ring has tracking runes. Our people can track its movements and find you."

“Thank you for your warning.” William sensed her genuine concern for him, but he masked it. The ring was a storage device, like Berry's. It suited him better than the bag he carried on his back.

"These little tricks can't stop me." He gripped the ring, infusing it with his soul power, but didn't examine it. He sensed the ring itself first, then finally found the small rune and crushed it.

Like hay caught in a fire, the salamander symbol burned into billowing black ash and then vanished. "That makes it untraceable," William said, placing it on his middle finger.

The leader was larger than him, so the ring was wider than his index finger. "No wonder he comes from a prominent family." He had just checked the contents of the ring and was delighted to see what was inside.

There are tons of resources there! William could tell at a glance that there were tens of thousands of spirit crystals inside. The ring's space was about fifty square meters, much larger than his bag, offering more room to store items.

He was somewhat disappointed because he couldn't find a single decent piece of equipment to use. As for the equipment the children were wearing, he collected it all and put it in his ring.

The best piece was the armor worn by the leader. But it was damaged by his arrow. William decided to find a way to repair this gold-grade armor later.

Without a second thought, he took everything out of his storage bag and put it into the ring. As for the bag itself, he gave it to Lina to use herself.

A ring like that would cost at least 100,000 spirit crystals on the market. Losing the 5,000 yuan bag I bought before is no longer a problem.

"This... give her a few drops, and she'll get better." He took a bottle of potion from his ring and tossed it to Lina.

She didn't refuse or hesitate. She hugged her sister, slowly opened her mouth, and poured a few drops into her mouth.

“Her condition has improved.” William checked on her and found that Tina was not in any danger.

The potion he used was obtained from Alina.

“Let’s go.” After doing all this, he left with the two girls. He knew the next few hours would be tense, as other teams would arrive and discover the massacre.

He left Tina behind, and Lina carried her on her back; the two of them began to leave.

However, William had no intention of returning to the academy immediately. Instead, he led the two girls on a long detour into the depths of the forest.

He knew that doing so would prevent him from avoiding the monsters, but it was better than heading in the direction the enemy predicted.

After all, this place is very close to the territory of the Academy of Desire. Even a genius could guess who did this to the group of people from the Academy of Desire from the Golden Heaven Academy.

So he had to take a long detour, wasting even more time wandering around, before finally returning to the academy.

"Do you have a story?" William began asking the two girls about their backgrounds as the three left the site of the massacre.

He was genuinely curious about what had happened to them and what their background was.

“We belong to the Salvatore people,” Lina answered without hesitation.

William nodded in understanding. Slaves were a special minority in this world; they were neither human nor monster.

Unlike these two, the Servites have no known souls. William knew this was the main reason they couldn't use soul power in this world.

But he knew far more than that. Nothing was more important than a species without a soul. Yet the spirit of the Servitos was unique. Unlike humans and monsters, their souls were one with their bodies.

This means that their bodies are a repository of the souls they have acquired.

The slaves of this world are known for their inhuman physical strength. In fact, their bodies grow stronger much faster than a Soul Master can increase their Soul Power level.

When he learned they were Serbito, he withdrew his previous assessment of Lina's age and considered lowering it by at least two years.

In other words, Lina, who looks like a ten-year-old girl, is actually not older than him.

“We are a small family, though we used to be a large one, but we have shrunk in size. The grandson of the patriarch of the Lokos family saw me at the academy and wanted me to be his daughter, but I refused.”

"Why is that?" William asked. "In fact, it seems better to be associated with a more powerful family, right?"

“We cannot betray our masters just because they have weakened,” Lina replied firmly and unequivocally. “Whatever benefits he offers, my loyalty remains to the Tross family, the Tross family I swore allegiance to from the very beginning.” I was born.