Chapter 1321: Retarded Genius
Sam and Grivon once again went to the clan, but this time, they are taking a different route as the old man is currently roaming around the clan grounds.
As they were going, Sam suddenly came across something interesting.
There is a young man who is of same age as Grivon working in a large patch of empty ground with some rocks.
The rocks are actually sculpted into different shapes and sizes with a lot of holes created in them and even the holes are of different shapes and sizes, some circular, some square and some triangular.
Some rocks had their edges sculpted off too making them into an extremely irregular shape and these rocks are being piled up on one another on the and there are different piles in different sizes.
But the main attraction to anyone is the way the young man is sculpting and the way he behaved.
He is using light elemental energy and the light beams to sculpt the rocks which made Sam feel refreshed. He didn't come across anyone that could use light element for attacking, these light beams are good enough to snipe out a candidate from hundreds of meters away.
As Sam was marveling, Grivon spoke.
"He is retarded."
Sam looked at him in surprise.
"Retarded?"
"Yes. He was like this since he was born, he has great cultivation talent, he has affinity to both light and dark elements, he even managed to use the light element to attack, but he cannot heal, he cannot do necromancy, curses or any other dark elemental attacks.
All he does is play around with these rocks for half a day and the other half a day, he would just look through the books.
Nobody knows what he is doing, his father is powerful which makes it possible for him to survive, but not all youngsters lay off of him, they make his life a living hell and a few months ago, after taking some severe beating, he started making this.
I think he is making a sculpture or something to get his mind off of the torture he has to endure, but he feels at peace here."
Sam nodded as they walked forward, but he couldn't help but look at the piles of differently sculpted and structured stones being arranged weirdly like that. He felt like he is missing something.
"Did he make anything similar in the past?"
"Of course he did. His personal courtyard is full of those things. But they are of a much smaller scale."
"I would like to see them after the tests are over."
They walked over to the old man who is sitting under a tree as he looked at a lake and Sam took out the basic frame of the leg as he attached it to the old man.
"Try standing up and see if this would be able to handle your strength, of course, along with the reinforcement of your energy."
The old man stood up and shook the leg for a few times before nodding his head.
Sam sighed and felt relieved. He really didn't know if this thing would be enough or not, but now that he the proper material and the structural integrity, the rest of would be easy.
Time consuming, but easy.
They walked away and on their way back, they decided to visit the guy's courtyard.
The courtyard was singled out from the rest. The yard is completely full of dead leaves and debris, there are a bunch of stone sculptures and they looked like abstract art, as Sam looked at them, he focused more on the shadows of the sculptures than the sculptures themselves and even when as far as using energy vision for some time.
He couldn't help but smile in excitement when he was done.
"I want to meet this guy."
"Why? I told you, he is retarded, he doesn't speak well with others. Did you really like these abstract sculptures that much?"
"Retarded? He is a fucking genius. I am not coming back without meeting with him."
With that, Grivon just shrugged and brought Sam back to the place where the young man is sculpting. When he saw Sam and Grivon walking towards him, he smiled calmly.
"You have a good relationship with him?"
Sam asked in surprise.
"Of course, I like him better than all of my brothers and sisters. He is a great guy and has a pure heart."
"That is great. What is his name?"
"Milind."
Sam walked forward and extended his hand.
"I am Sam. Nice to meet you Milind."
Milind hesitantly extended his hand and when Sam didn't do anything and just shook the hand, he had a delightful expression on his face.
Sam looked around the sculptures and said.
"You are doing some great work here, but there is a small problem."
"W.. What. Is. It?"
Milind asked as he spoke brokenly.
Sam smiled and took out a large leather scroll before scribbling something on it, Milind took a look and had a frown on his face.
When Grivon and came and took a look, he felt extremely confused. There is not a single word in the scroll, Sam only drew different diagrams which he couldn't even understand.
He was done within a few minutes and gave the scroll to Milind.
"I think this will help. You have a great medium but you lack the basic concepts a bit. Once you are good at those, this will be much stronger and the defects would be completely gone."
"Thank. You. Sam." Milind said with a smile of a child. Sam once again shook his hand before leaving.
"What was that about?"
Grivon asked as they walked towards the clan gate.
"Are the houses of the people that bully him very near to that empty patch he is using?"
Sam asked instead of replying for the question.
"Yes. Why?"
"In around two months, let's come back here. I will show you something amazing and along with that, I got some insane ideas that I can explore after I go back into my body and I cannot wait to do that.
So, let's speed up our process.
I will give you the next set of information. This time lets go after one of the twelve heads of Sivan's foundation."
Grivon suddenly became excited. He is really looking forward screwing Sivan over and he is only waiting for Sam to give the information out.
"Let's go to my personal estate outside. We can discuss there with my special team."
Sam nodded and then they went to the personal estate which is a few kilometers away from this place. There Sam saw the rest of the blue cloaked people who are Grivon's aces.
He started explaining the details of the organization and what they do, a brief layout of the organization that he could get from the memories, the number of people in charge and their details and so on.
The team started making plans and Sam was included in that as well.
But as they were speaking, someone contacted Grivon on his personal communication token.
"Young master, one of your subordinates died today in the city."
Grivon frowned and he immediately made a move. Sam followed him to take a look at the situation.
They reached the city and went directly to a bar where Grivon's subordinate was lying dead.
There is a lot of blood coming out of different orificies of his body and it was extremely gruesome.
"This the same way the subordinates of my brothers died. This is troublesome. We were still unable to identify the microorganisms that are doing this."
Grivon said as he refrained from going near the body, he turned to the owner of the bar and said.
"I will give you a new location and building in the street outside of the estate. I am really sorry for this, but I don't think it is advisable to keep this bar open, we need to burn it down."
The bar owner was not least bit sad by those words, in fact, he became extremely happy when he heard the words building outside the estate.
That is a huge steal.
Meanwhile, Sam frowned as he looked at the situation. Even though the death is extremely similar to some of the deaths caused by virus, he felt that there is something more to it.
Sam has seen a similar death before in his previous life and he still had a vivid memory of that, even now after so many years.
He looked at Grivon and said.
"I don't think he is infected."
Grivon looked at him with a frown.
"What do you mean?"
"I think he was assassinated."
"Assassinated? In the city? I don't think many people would dare to do that. And no one saw this guy with anyone.
From the witnesses he suddenly screamed in severe pain and started rolling on the ground, before he started bleeding and finally he died. This is the same way the first few members died."
"I know, I understand how he died. But trust me, he was assassinated, try using the soul extraction if you don't believe me."