Rebirth: Supreme Soul Master

“Let me see,” Thomas said in a cold, monotonous tone after William finally nodded, reaching out to take the core.

At this moment, almost everyone in the restaurant was staring intently at the table, waiting to see how things would unfold, as if watching a spectacular performance.

William then noticed that the man's black eyes and hair had turned purple. William was quite surprised by this, because even in the vast outer realms, he would never miss such a rare phenomenon in the world of spirit masters.

"Karma elemental?! Impossible!" At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on Thomas. Therefore, they all missed the few seconds that William's body trembled slightly when he saw Thomas make his move.

Everyone missed this subtle reaction, except for one person: Luo. She was sitting right next to him and didn't even realize it, but she felt his body trembling.

She gave him a strange look, but it disappeared a few seconds later, and William returned to normal.

"I will definitely recruit you and bring you into my team!" William vowed silently. If he were left in this place, it would be like a jewel being thrown into a quagmire.

Using the spirit of karma to determine whether someone has killed a monster? This is the most blatant insult William could think of to such a once-in-a-century genius.

But when William's gaze fell on the man who seemed to own the place with his family, he knew that recruiting this young man would be neither easy nor safe.

However, even though he knew the risks, he accepted the consequences.

“That’s right,” a few seconds later, all the purple disappeared, and Thomas’s eyes and hair turned back to black. “He killed the monster in the core.”

He returned the core to its owner, but the old man's body was trembling violently with disbelief and he was unable to reach out and take the core in time.

“I’ll take it back, thank you.” William acted quickly, retrieving the core from his hand. “Now? Do you believe me?”

"What...what's going on? How could this be?!" The man was utterly shocked, and even began to doubt whether he had lost all awareness of the world.

He scrutinized William repeatedly before finally asking the obvious question:

"how old are you?"

"Eleven years old."

"Is this your real age? Or are you using some kind of disguise technique to hide your true appearance and age?! Perhaps you're using some kind of technique to make you look younger and stay young forever!"

“Come on, that’s the funniest joke I’ve heard since I got here,” William laughed as he responded to the astonished man in front of him. “Now… are we going to make a deal or not?”

He tossed the core into the air and played with it as if it were a stone.

“Ahem,” the man’s immediate thought was to take Thomas to a secluded room, interrogate him, and hear in detail what his men had seen with his technology.

But he needs to get over this strange meeting before he can do anything else.

“As I said before,” he cleared his throat again, trying to calm himself down, “one core isn’t enough! If you’re the one who killed it, then the price of this core will increase by another 250,000 crystals. If you want red membership, then one core is simply not enough, absolutely not enough! You’ll need at least thirteen more cores like this, and the remaining 500,000 crystals will, of course, be repaid on the spot. However…”

The man wanted to tell William that he didn't need to be disappointed and that he could simply sell him the core components or the few he carried with him.

But the next moment, the man's gaze involuntarily turned serious, and his daughter and Luo slowly stood up. The customers who had been listening to their conversation and closely watching this table all gasped, and many even let out a loud exclamation.

Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Jingle bells!

“There are twenty here,” William said, rubbing his hands together as if brushing away imaginary dust or grime. “I’m going to register this red membership in my name, William. As for the extra cores, we can exchange them for crystals.”

“This…” The man did not rush to answer William, but turned to the person standing behind him like a statue. Thomas slowly nodded.

After all, William took twenty cores similar to the one he initially took. If he hadn't killed the monster himself, but had obtained these cores from someone else through any other means, then this price would have been just right for membership.

Thomas then went back to examine these cores, and during the examination, he used karmic elements, causing his eyes and hair to turn purple.

"This person was killed by him..."

"This one too..."

"This looks too much like the others..."

But contrary to the restaurant owner's guess, Thomas repeated similar phrases over and over, each time using different words, while putting down one core and picking up another.

This shocked everyone, even those dining in the restaurant were quite surprised.

This matter was widely known throughout the fortress and even in many surrounding areas: anything related to the Crimson Monster was extremely sensitive to the old man. He would behave abnormally, even committing some insane acts, whenever anything involved the Crimson Monster, even if it was a monster at least at the Gold level.

Now, William has just taken out twenty cores, plus the one he already has, for a total of twenty-one cores, all of which came from the monsters he killed.

This matter has become a hot topic here, and will soon become the hottest topic in the entire upper levels of the fortress.