A Third Spirit

"But…"

"Just stop mentioning rewards and it will be fine," William stopped her from saying anything else, "now let's talk about what we shall do about your problem."

She watched him bringing up the crystal closer from his eyes as if he was examining something inside with interest.

She knew if she pushed the matter of the reward further, he wouldn't agree. But that didn't mean she would resign to his words. In her eyes, the person responsible for helping her held the highest place in her heart and her life.

So she remained quiet and watched in silence what he was doing without expressing any of her inner thoughts. She pledged that if he managed to really help her, she would definitely do everything in her power to help him back.

A person like William, coming from a weak and poor family, was in need of all the help he could get. She looked at his face, his weak body and couldn't help but inwardly sigh.

She never expected her problem to be sorted out by someone like William. she even doubted that if she came back to her father and told him about William, her father would believe her!

William didn't know about all this. He was totally focused on observing the red and golden dots inside the crystal.

From his knowledge, the phoenix spirit was always pink in colour. That spirit might hold a degree of redness in it, but it wasn't that golden.

The reason he recognized the phoenix spirit here was the famous mark of the phoenix spirit. He wouldn't tell Berry this, but in his eyes, he wasn't seeing dots but a general pattern the dots were taking as a shape inside the crystal.

There was a dragon spirit pattern side by side with the phoenix pattern. But what were these golden dots then?

There was no pattern at all in that gold light, making him more confused. When he closely observed for the next five minutes, he finally realised what was going on.

"Damn!" he couldn't prevent himself from cursing out loud when he reached such a crazy conclusion.

"What? What is it? Is it bad? Is it this bad? Am I going to die?!" As a normal girl of her age, she was quite impatient to jump to conclusions.

She mistook his reaction for discovering something bad. It was something big indeed, but not bad at all.

William glanced at her without knowing what he should say. For a second, he felt envious towards her. A girl in her age having, not only a twin spirit, but also such an extremely rare and precious opportunity. It was something worthy of being envious of.

"It's a good thing," he finally got over his shock, "you… are really blessed with luck."

"Me?" she pointed at herself in a weird way, "what did you discover? Come on, I knew all the time that I was a genius, hahaha!"

In a rare moment she showed a side of her personality she never showed to others; a carefree one. William looked at her without knowing if he should smile or laugh.

"Your two spirits aren't fighting only for dominance, but for unknown reason they are merging together," he said before pointing at the crystal in his hand as he added, "come, do you see these red and faint red dots in the middle of the golden tornado?"

The golden dots were surrounding the red ones in a shape that he decided to call a tornado for now. As for the red dots, when he looked closer, he discovered they weren't of the same origin.

After all, he was looking for the place of the phoenix spirit in this mess and finally found it. He was previously wrong when he considered the red dots to be only a dragon spirit.

Half were dark red, while others were slightly fainter. Without looking closer and examining it with great attention, one would simply miss that.

But who was Berry? She was a girl! And girls had such innate talent to recognize colours, not like boys.

"Yes, there are definitely two different types of red colours there," she only took one single closer look before raising her head away, "are these the two spirits I have?"

"They are," William nodded with a new envy towards her ability to simply recognize the two.

"Then… What about these golden specks of light?"

"They are the result of the merge, a totally new spirit," William said in pure envy.

"A third spirit?!!" but unlike what he expected, she was surprised for a different reason. "I have three types of spirits inside my body? Wow!"

William didn't know how his master would react if she was here. "There are three spirits for now, but in the future only one spirit will remain," William paused as he tried to simplify things over to her, "consider it a spirit mutation… Yes, it's like that."

"Oh, so I have to wait until the two are finally merged together?" She was smart enough to realise this point by herself.

"We can't do that," but unlike what she expected, William shook his head in decline, "if we left them to continue fighting and merging, not only will they damage your body, but they will also harm your spirit channels and meridians."

"Spirit… What?" as he slipped off and said something of his vast knowledge in such a casual way, she couldn't help but ask.

"Never mind it for now," he hurriedly corrected his slip of tongue, "now we need to deal with this process and try to control it in a better way. Once we make the two spirits more compatible with each other, you'll break through."

"Compatible…" Berry frowned as she was lost in deep thought, "but aren't dragons and phoenixes like fire and water? How can we make these two hostile spirits compatible with each other?"

William wasn't surprised by her way of thinking. After all, this world was rudimentary in its knowledge regarding spirits and spirit masters.