Chapter 1117: Plans of the Players
The shadow mice gave some information regarding the players as well as the two large groups that arrived in the city.
The first information is that the players are indeed planning something and Kumar who is in company with some unknown group is trying to do something at the Thunder Phoenix valley.
As for Dayus, the information is not much valuable, because Dayus refused to talk about the plan and he even directly said to the young master he is accompanying that some is listening their conversation.
Even though young master repeatedly assured that there is no one, he still insisted that someone is listening and if that person listens to their plan, they would be back to square one.
They only communicated through writing and that too in a cipher.
Sam suspected that Dayus might be implying about him, but there is no way to know at the moment.
As for the information regarding the two groups, they are from the remaining two puppet branches of the Puppet organization and they are here for some kind of internal competition between the youngsters of the organization.
Apart from that information the rest of it is not that important. The remaining players are no where to be seen and only one of them was caught by one of the shadow mice.
It is Noah. But she managed to disappear after she entered the forest.
Sam doesn't know what they are planning.
But it didn't take long for them to figure out Dayu's plan.
That afternoon.
In the city.
Many people are visiting the city to witness the Internal competition of the Puppet organization. A large arena was also prepared for this.
Dayus is currently sitting in a bar along with the young master he made friends with.
He is currently holding a communication token and spoke.
"Are all units in position?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
A bunch of voices sounded from the other side.
"Report to me when the target is fifty meters away from the location."
They waited for a few minutes and soon someone spoke from the otherside.
"Target reached the hundred meter point."
"Good."
Dayus said and looked at the young master before him.
"It is your turn."
The young master nodded and ran off. He ran quickly towards one of the groups who are making their way to the arena.
The group consisted of the young master from the second branch of the puppet organization and his personal entourage. He caught up with them and talking with the young master with a smile.
"Hey, Brother two. You are already going to practice in the arena? You didn't even meet me after coming to the capital yet. Come on, let us go and have a meal. You can practice later. I hired a new chef for my restaurant, he makes the best wyvern stew that you ever tasted."
The young master of the second branch looked at the young master of the first branch with a startled expression as he didn't expect him here.
He smiled and said.
"Brother One. I am not going for the practice. There are many people in our branch who never came to the competition and they are completely unfamiliar with the arena. I just want to show them so that they wouldn't be confused during the competition."
"Come on brother. It has been a long time since we met. Some of our hunters caught a fire wyvern, bring your juniors too, we can have a feast, then I will give you a tour through the Arena myself."
As they spoke, Dayus listened to the whole conversation carefully and when the group was about to turn around, he gave a command in the communication token.
"Activate the setup."
At this moment, within the arena, there are a bunch of people who slammed some formation flags on the walls of the arena and ran outside through a secret entrance.
A large amount of fire elemental energy gathered
*BOOM*
The main entrance of the arena suddenly exploded with golden flames.
Sam watched the whole scene through the surveillance and was stunned and so were the rest of the team and Arkiv.
Before long something even more surprising happened. A bunch of people started running off through the streets of the city with a bunch of city guards and the puppet organization members chasing them.
When the team and Sam looked at the attires of the people who are running away, they felt like beating the crap out of Dayus, because they are wearing the attires that are similar to that of Sam and his team.
Sam more or less understood their plan and as he expected the group of people managed to escape the chase of the city guards.
Meanwhile, the Brother two looked at the entrance in shock after the explosion. He could estimate the time and if Brother one didn't come, then he would be under that explosion. Even if he managed to survive the explosion, the rest of the juniors wouldn't be able to.
As he thought of this, his heart ran cold.
A city guard member ran towards Brother one and whispered something.
"Brother two, a group of city guards spotted some suspects escaping the city. I also have some suspicions on someone, a friend of mine said that someone has eyes on our Puppet organization. Let us go and see if they are the same. If they are, you can count on me to give you a proper explanation.
Let us go to my restaurant and we will talk there."
With that he led the group to the restaurant. All of a sudden, Dayus also appeared there while panting and said.
"Brother One. My guess is right. It is indeed that guy."
Looking at Dayus' ragged state, no one would believe that he was sitting in the restaurant a while ago.
Brother two looked at him with a frown, but when he saw that Brother One let Dayus sit beside him and even pour some water, his frown was gone and looked at him in anticipation.
Dayus drank some water and said.
"It is indeed that guy, Sam. He is the one who did this. He really is after your organization."
"Who is this Sam? Why is he after the organization?" Brother two asked coldly.
"Sam is a powerful guy from my native place. He takes on mercenary jobs and someone might have given him a job to take down your organization.
At least that is what he told us. He destroyed the Night Demon family, the Phoenix tail sect, the Black Curtain and many other organizations. At first we really thought that he is just a mercenary, but one of his companions who cannot take on his evil ways betrayed him and only managed to let out some information before dying.
He said that Sam is doing this as a task from some devilish forces. He is going after some specific gods' followers…"
Sam looked at the whole scene with a cold smirk. He didn't expect that Dayus has such creativity in him. He really created a proper plan to make Sam an enemy. It was always Sam who does the damage first and reveals himself later, but this time, the situation changed. Even before he finished his scouting, the other party already marked him.
As Sam looked at this situation, something else is happening at another location which is being recorded by the shadow mice and some of the recording puppets he gave the mice.
Kumar arrived at the Thunder Phoenix valley along with his own companions.
They stood a few hundred meters away from the valley and the companions stood in a formation to activate something.
A vine appeared and drilled into the ground. It rapidly travelled underground towards the valley and came out slightly in the middle of the rib cage of the skeleton.
The vine immediately started growing a flower which gave out some invisible gas which spread throughout the valley rapidly and forced the kids inside to faint.
The vine buried back into the hole after the flower wilted, withered and disappeared, before turning to stone mysteriously.
The guardians who came with their kids were stunned by what they saw.
The shadow mice that got the video collected the puppets and started moving away.
But on their way to Sam who is five hundred kilometers away, in the middle of a dense tree patch a woman suddenly appeared and used vines to catch the shadow mice.
"Sorry, little ones you cannot go and show them to Sam. If he is added to the mix, things would grow complicated. Particularly if he knew about the incident immediately. Let it blow up a bit. I will let you go after our plan is done."
It is Noah. The shadow mice continuously struggled in the trap. Soon Kumar and his companions arrived.
Kumar looked at Noah and captured shadow mice as he frowned.
"Did Sam already know?" Kumar asked.
"I don't think so. It seems like these mice recorded things but didn't deliver."
"Why don't we finish them off then?" One of the companions of Kumar asked. They heard of this person named Sam a lot of times from Kumar and Noah. But they felt like their stories are a bit exaggerated.
Kumar looked at him and said.
"It is not that simple. Sam would know which mouse is which and he would definitely know we killed it, then we can forget about peace. We don't have any enmity with him and it is better to not start one now."