William held high hopes for his meeting with the black fox, a thing that ended up with literally nothing in the end. He was left alone to handle the two spirits dormant in his fox spirit, with nothing but weird writings on his back that he couldn't yet read.
"At least I'm in the gold grade now," William pushed aside all these worries and troubles, focused mainly on the big milestone he crossed.
As he got nothing else to do, he started to absorb the gold and dark gold cores he had. They were enough, but not that much to add many points to begin with. They were barely enough to add a few hundred points to his spirit power.
To enter the dark gold realm, he had to raise his spirit power by seven thousand points, a big gap that would take a long time to cross.