Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1445: The Unheard-of Long Clan’s Disaster!

"You are wrong," Berry said, stepping forward at last. Her voice wasn’t loud, but it carried a weight that silenced the room instantly. "This has happened once before. It happened at my clan’s lands."

"Impossible!" Fang muttered, voicing the collective thought of the room. "If a Scarlet Bear tide occurred, the world would have known. And you say they attacked the Long clan? If that were true, how is it that your clan still exists today? No one survives a tide like that."

"It’s because William was there," Sara stepped in, her voice ringing with conviction. She looked around the room, meeting the eyes of the doubters. "That is why he asked for her specifically. Berry knows how to stop them because she was the only person standing beside him when he pulled off that miracle. She saw the method. She practised it."

"I wasn’t the only one," Berry corrected softly, though her eyes remained hard. "I have a few others with me—not many, but enough. We can form core groups to replicate the techniques William taught us back then. We can’t stop them with raw strength, but we can turn their own nature against them."

The tent fell into a stunned, thoughtful silence. In that brief exchange, the pieces of the puzzle began to click into place. The masters realised that the calamity they were facing—a phenomenon even a veteran like Fang considered a myth—had already been conquered once before by the Long clan.

To an outsider, the idea that a young girl held the secret to defeating a legendary monster tide would sound like a delusional fantasy. But in this room, under the shadow of war, no one laughed. They looked at the maps, they looked at the dark gold core, and then they looked at Berry with a new, desperate kind of respect.

The reason for their sudden faith was simple: William. If William said she was the answer, then the laws of logic no longer applied. They didn’t need to understand the ’how’ yet; they only needed to know that William had provided a way out.

The silence that followed Berry’s revelation was not one of peace, but of profound, unsettling realisation. In the minds of the gathered leaders, the timeline of history was shifting.

They looked at the young woman before them and saw the shadow of a secret that had been buried for years. William’s intervention back then had done more than just save a single clan; it had altered the very trajectory of the kingdom.

Had that tide of Scarlet Bears broken through the Long clan’s defences, the ensuing calamity would have swept across the map like a forest fire, consuming everything in its path until the entire realm was nothing but ash and bone.

The only reason this triumph hadn’t become the stuff of common legend was the isolation of the Long clan and the tight-lipped nature of the Aspire Academy. They had kept the miracle a secret, a private treasure of survival, until the world turned dark enough to require it once more.

"Let’s not waste our remaining hours in asking redundant questions or slowly digesting our shock," a voice boomed from the shadows behind Berry.

An old man stepped forward into the flickering light of the command tent. He moved with the practised ease of a warrior and the unyielding posture of a king.

"I’m Kong, the patriarch of the Long clan. I am the same man who stood as a primary witness to the miracle William pulled off on that fateful day. I am also the man who saw, with my own two eyes, exactly how terrifying that damn tide was when it first crested the horizon!"

His words landed with the weight of a falling mountain. The leaders of the thirty-five armies exchanged wary, silent gazes.

In the rigid hierarchy of the guild, it was highly irregular for an outsider—especially one from a localised clan—to step onto the stage and speak with such blunt authority. To many of the subleaders, it felt as though he were bossing around the very elite of the continent.

"Grandpa, please... I’ll handle the diplomacy," Berry murmured, feeling the prickling tension in the air. She cleared her throat, gently placing a hand on her grandfather’s arm to guide him back a half-step, softening his aggressive stance.

She turned back to the council, her eyes sharp. "But as my grandfather said, we have no time for the luxuries of doubt. The method William taught us is not a myth. We have spent the intervening years teaching it to the most astounding talents within our clan. We can replicate the miracle, however..."

"However, we are facing a mathematical impossibility," Sara interrupted, stepping up to stand beside Berry. Behind her, another figure emerged from the gloom—the Headmaster of the Aspire Academy, a man whose reputation for wisdom was matched only by his reputation for secrecy.

"We have also taught this method to the entrusted clans of our academy," the Headmaster said, his voice a calm, academic contrast to Kong’s fiery outburst.

He did not seek to dominate the room, but his presence commanded it nonetheless. "We brought every talented youth we could gather to support these two girls. But even with our combined numbers, it is far from enough to stem the tide on a global scale. We can defend a point, perhaps a city—but we cannot confront multiple tides simultaneously with the handful of practitioners we currently possess."

Fang’s eyes widened, his mind racing through the tactical implications. "Are you telling me you’ve already standardised this method? That you’ve taught it to dozens, perhaps hundreds of your people?"

His tone suddenly shifted, exploding into a rare, cheerful burst of optimism. "That means it’s teachable! We can simply train the rest of the guild, right? We can turn every master here into a slayer of Scarlet Bears!"

"Yes, but it isn’t that simple," the two old men said in unison, exchanging a grim, knowing look that mirrored the one shared between Sara and Berry.