Chapter 1300: Trap
Disciple five followed the whole entourage of the elders chasing Sam for a good hour deep into the woods and all of a sudden, Sam stopped running.
He is standing in a clear patch within the woods and with one look anyone could see that it was cleared recently.
Disciple five who was estimating Sam's arrival understood why the delay is. Sam was setting a trap here and now he managed to lure every one of his targets into this place. He doesn't know why he did that, but he just started making mental notes of everything.
That is his job with this scout mission. He needs to follow Sam and understand what he is doing in the process of destroying these organizations. He needs to understand how Sam moves, how Sam fights when he is surrounded by a group, how he deals with individual battles, how does he approach the organization that he is about to destroy, these are the things that he needs to understand and explain to the rest of his fellow disciples.
Then they would be making a proper plan on how to deal with Sam.
But just after five minutes, Disciple Five felt that something is wrong with the current situation. Sam fought back and his movements are back to normal. They are smooth, precise, and lethal. Every single attacker is dying with a maximum of three attacks.
This is fast and efficient, but the more the fight was like this, the more puzzled Disciple Five has become.
If Sam is this good, he couldn't think of any plausible excuse for him to lure every one of them this far away.
After all, if he is this good, they might as well be chucked in a small room and Sam would still come out on top, so the question is, why did he run so far and brought them all here?
As he tried to connect the dots, Disciple Five stumped, he cannot think of any proper reasons and when Sam is almost done with the attackers, he found out one plausible reason and it is not good.
He activated a token and wanted to disappear from that spot, but all of a sudden, Sam took out a token and broke it.
*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
A series of explosions occurred in the surroundings and Sam finished off the remaining attackers while they are happening.
When the dust settled down, he called out for specter.
"Collect the souls. Where is our target's location?"
Specter pointed to a particular direction and went there. Within two minutes, he looked at a large crater that was filled with the debris of the trees and roots, and in the middle of it all, the Disciple Five is lying down while bleeding profusely.
The damage he took from the explosions is too much.
Sam went into the crater and picked and brought him to the center of the empty patch.
He made him lean against a rock while Sam himself sat on one and smiled.
"Hello, nice to meet you. You must be Disciple Five."
Disciple Five who is barely holding together didn't even react. He just looked at Sam silently.
"You must have already known me. I am Sam. Your target. So, how is the trap I specifically set up for you? You fell for it pretty hard didn't you?"
Sam said with a smile that made the Disciple Five want to crawl and bit him to death.
Sam has planned this since the start. He knew that these disciples will come after him once again and from Sivan's memories he knew which person is which. He actually waited after he destroyed one of the three main branches of the organization to take a look at the disciple.
Even though these people are good at sneaking and scouting, they are just too full of themselves. Sam managed to identify who is coming after him and decided to set a trap.
In fact, he even prepared just in case multiple disciple might come there, so he created these formations for controlled explosions.
Too bad, he didn't have time to create the liquid energy, otherwise, this would have been even more destructive.
Luckily only one of them came and they are within the range of traps.
Specter used some of the extracted soul fragments as the formation spirits that kept an eye on the people within the vicinity.
So, when there was even a slight energy fluctuation caused within them, Sam would be notified. When Disciple Five used the token, he got the news and he activated the formations immediately.
The explosions stopped the token from activating completely as well as did some great damage to Disciple Five.
The backlash from the token is an added bonus.
"So, where the rest of your fellow disciples? When are they coming?"
Sam asked with a smile.
Disciple Five is also a Peak stage Transcendent cultivator of the Astral Plane. He should have been stronger than Sam if it was a head-on battle with direct confrontation, but currently, he is in this state, because of one trap Sam properly set up.
After grilling him a bit more, Sam killed him off and collected his soul too.
He then made Specter turn this guy into undead and attached the lowest quality soul in the collection to the body. He also looked through the spatial ring and took out some items.
There are some tokens that let them escape the place and reach the node set up. The range is quite big. Big enough to cover the planet. Sam guessed these disciples might have been on the same planet. He also looked through the beast pouch.
It has some birds that looked similar to the silver pigeons, but when Sam examined them, he understood that they are the result of the mutation studies. These pigeons are now mutated with space elements, adding more speed to them.
They are even altered in such a way that they would be able to sense the direction of the node and fly in that direction, after all, creating tokens like these is expensive. Sam knows from experience.
After looking through everything, Sam finally found one formation plate.
This is a formation plate that freezes space for a while and if the user has enough skill, he can control the specific portions of the space and make specific people halt as he desired.
Sam took out an inscription brush and started altering the formation disc. Even though he doesn't have a space element, he doesn't need it to just make a few modifications. He only tampered with the neutral portions of the inscription and after it was done, he gave it to the undead that was made from this injured body and made it use the token to go back to the node.
Meanwhile, far away from the spot in another cave, the remaining eight disciples are gathering. There is a pillar placed inside.
They sensed the spatial energy waves and this time they all went out together.
Once again they were greeted with one of their fellow peers arriving with severe injuries.
Disciple eight who is the first to arrive outside ran towards Disciple five hurriedly and he was followed by Disciple six and Disciple Three.
Disciple Three who is stronger than them and had higher cultivation suddenly felt that something is wrong with Disciple Five and started yelling.
"BACK OFF."
*BOOM*
An explosion occurred before the Disciple eight and Disciple Six could even react to his yelling.
The undead Disciple Five activated the formation just like how Sam ordered.
The formation disc focused on the space within its influence and it locked on to it firmly. But instead of stably holding the space, it started twisting it, creating an explosive spatial turbulence clash.
All the disciples that are coming for them were blown away.
Disciple five's body was completely destroyed and the two disciples closest to him, Disciple Eight and Disciple Six were severely injured. Both of their bodies have slight spatial energy corrosion and there are severe injuries all over the body bleeding profusely.
Disciple Three also lost one of his arms, but he is the least injured of the three.
Disciple one came back to his feet first and ran to Disciple Eight and Disciple Six to check on them.
His calm face distorted into anger and unwillingness.
He is filled with hatred and rage towards Sam and didn't even know how to react to it.
But first, he has to bring these people back to his teacher and he did exactly that. This time, he needed the help of his fellow disciples though.
After the treatment was arranged, Disciple One and Butler Si decided to talk alone.
"You didn't even start engaging with him, you just barely started tailing him and he attacked five of you. Out of which, one died, three of them wouldn't be able to do any battle for a while and the last one is going to need some time to recover.
I remember telling you guys to be careful."