Nearly 15 different people wearing all sorts of clothes were following the spirit, but the spirit easily outran them all.
As it got closer, Ning realized that it would be hard to keep it still with so many people following it.
"System, what's the easiest way to bond with a spirit?" he asked. Until now, they had been going off of what the headmasters and others had said, but now he wanted to learn exactly how it was done.
<Entice the spirit with something it might look forward to.>
"Entice the spirit with something it might look forward to," Ning repeated the words for everyone to hear. "What might the spirit be looking forward to?"
"Is it possible for a spirit to be materialistic?" Trevain asked.
"Probably not, what about freedom? Although it should already be free," Tessa said.
"I… I have an idea," Ori said.
"What is it?" Ning asked, but the spirit was already at their side already so there wasn't much time. "Never mind, just try it."
He gave the way and the spirit flew directly in front of Ori, who immediately took off her helmet and put forth her hands towards the spirit.
"If you bond with me, I will show you all the amazing places in the world outside of just this small island," Ori said.
The spirit suddenly jingled and cocked its head to the side in amusement. It flew around Ori, and even as the crowd came up to them, it made a thinking face.
Trevain and Tessa looked nervously, but none of them could be as nervous as Ori herself. The spirit kept moving around her, increasing her anxiety all the more.
Then, it finally stopped in front of her, and even as the crowd stopped right in front of their group, it touched Ori's hand and a bond was formed.
Instantly, Ori's hair which was perhaps the worst amongst everyone here suddenly turned violet from the stem and moved all the way out to the tip.
Their group and the crowd of 15 that had gathered looked at Ori in shock, for entirely different reasons.
"What the hell are you doing?" one person cried out.
"Who are you? What is that dress?" another person asked.
"That was our spirit. You can't simply bond with it," a third person cried out.
Instantly, the 15 different people cried out injustice and some even prepared to attack them.
Ning was the only one aside from the slime there that wasn't wearing the spacesuit to block the head, so he walked in front of them all and smiled.
"My friend here has bonded with the spirit. Please go away," he said.
"Then have her cancel the bond or we will kill you all," a girl spoke from the side.
Ning's casual eyes narrowed all of a sudden as he stared at the girl who said that.
"I don't take threats of death easily," Ning said as he started walking toward the girl. A spear came out of nowhere in his hand as he pointed it at the woman.
"If you are willing to die in the process, then come ahead and try," He said.
The group hesitated a bit. 3 of the people from the group that belonged to the First Bond school had already recognized Ning as the person that summoned the Draconic beast in the sect not long ago.
If he was really let to go all out here, who knew how far he would go with this? So, without any hesitation, they turned their tail and ran.
The rest of them were hesitating not because of Ning, but because their group of 7 had 2 spirits flying around them.
Not only was Ori with a spirit now but there was also a violet slime that seemed to be with a spirit as well.
Some of them backed away as a result and left angrily. Still, some of them were just too angry to just leave after spending so much time chasing the spirit.
They started shouting again, demanding that the spirit be unbonded.
"These bastards!" the slime got angry. "The spirit wasn't yours to cry about. Also, we didn't steal it, it came flying towards us."
"Do you want to fight them?" Saphandra asked Ori, who was still trying to make sense of the fact that she had bonded with a spirit and had violet hair.
Her father was ready to destroy her brother's life just for a chance at this, and now she had it.
And she didn't know what to do.
Ning turned around to look at Ori. He wanted to ask her to fight, but given that she was only Rank 4 at the moment, it didn't feel right to have her fight.
"It's about time for sunset, let me get rid of them," Saphandra said and suddenly pushed them all back, regardless of how strong they were.
"You all want to fight? Come!" she dared them all.
The half dozen people stood up to fight, but Saphandra pushed them again, this time sending them tumbling down the dune.
Suddenly, the many beasts that had run away not long ago returned and this time they had a feast for them.
The youngsters that were full of anger were suddenly scared for their life and did not dare to even think about fighting Ning and his group.
They needed to think about their life instead.
"Sigh, that girl is going to die," Ning said with a reluctant tone in his voice. "You figure out what her new powers are, I'll go save them."
Despite what he had said about killing them, he still couldn't just sit and watch as the beasts overwhelmed the 6 different people and killed them.
So, he went to help them out.
"Ooh, let me help too. I might want to tame some of them," the slime followed him and teleported directly onto the shadow of one of the beasts in his vision.
"Ori, are you alright?" Trevain asked after getting rid of his helmet. He was having a hard time believing his sister had done it.
"I… I'm fine," Ori said, unable to hide the smile on her face.
