Scram!
To get such benefits, one had to be at least one rank lower than the rank of that Transformer.
Going by logic, all the ones here were at least dark gold grade. And that meant none of them would benefit from this statue.
"It's either they suspect me of having a fox spirit, which is something that doesn't make sense. Or… They got newly joined Transformers, weak enough to get the benefits from this statue…"
William didn't show it on his face, but deep inside his heart, he decided to kill any damn Transformer he'd find. And he already had a guess about the place where these new Transformers were, the dark spirit master lairs.
That explained everything to him, explained why these statues acted in such an intense way towards his earlier words.
They weren't just defending their interests with dark spirit masters, but they were also defending their newly joined Transformers.