Only few who followed the trends in the academy recognised William. But they kept such knowledge to themselves, fearing to instigate the elder's wrath even more if they spread William's news.
William wasn't attentive to any of that. His mind was simply focusing on reading the techniques he got from the elder.
'These… Damn! This is wrong, this is all wrong!' After flipping through many scrolls during the past ten hours, William couldn't help but inwardly curse every time he grabbed a scroll.
He could identify the techniques described in each scroll, and yet when he read the general instructions and saw the drawings in the scrolls, he knew these were all wrong.
Each and every single technique he read did things in the wrong way, ending up getting the strength and effects of these techniques downgraded by a huge margin.
