Chapter 150: Suspending the business
While Philip and the rest are dealing with the damage of the restaurant, Sam and the remaining candidates in the military are having a morning assembly before their departure outside.
"You guys can stay outside for the remaining day and you have to report back before dawn tomorrow. I will be your trainer for the next three days in the next fifteen days session.
One more rule you have to follow is that you have no permission to intervene in the business side of things, you can give suggestions to your teammates but you shouldn't perform any trade which will be calculated in the competition or you shouldn't help them in forms of negotiations.
The most you can do is financial help and personal suggestions and some advice.
Dismissed."
All the candidates exited the camp.
Sam took out the communication token to contact Watt.
When he got the location of the restaurant, the trio went there as fast as they can.
By the time they got there, there are no customers. Everyone left, only his teammates and Watt are sitting there with the gloomy atmosphere.
Sam was not that surprised by the situation. He casually picked a seat and asked.
"Tell me the details on what happened since the day one."
Watt slowly narrated everything on how, they were unable to buy or rent any shop, on how they finally bought the land in this remote location and how they built the shop and bringing back Mackey and his staff.
Sam listened to the whole situation and just showed his assent that he understood.
"Let us go back to the Estate."
Sam said and stood up. They walked back to the estate slowly. On the way back he observed the situation of the market and how the things or going on here.
One thing, he observed is that in this city, the average person can be considered as well-to-do than poor. They can afford a considerable luxury.
He is thinking on how to use this to his advantage.
Many people might be thinking that his team might be at a disadvantage for now, but he can make sure that it is only a temporary thing.
He has enough confidence that he can turn his tables around.
All the way back, Sam could feel a gaze on him. He knew that the General put a man to keep a watch on him.
One mistake and he would be done.
The General is behaving completely beneath his title. He is using all kinds of despicable means by bending all kinds of rules.
Sam just wanted to test waters and didn't take any measures in the first fifteen days, since they are trying so desperately, he would make sure that he would win.
Since, the military general himself is making it hard for him, he would earn all the money from the military itself.
This time, Sam also dashed out one of his self-made rules and that is not making the fire-arms and explosives.
Since, he came to this world, he met so many people that he wanted to make the fire-arms many times, even though a normal gun won't be of much use, he can use the materials exclusive to this world and make it possible to make a weapon which could make some serious damage.
There are two main reasons he didn't want to create these.
First one is that, a gun is one of the inventions on earth which brought many changes to the world and he didn't want to bring that thing into this world. That thing can give someone the unfounded courage and guts which they actually don't have.
If it was landed in wrong hands, things would be disastrous. All this while, the people in this world depended on their abilities to kill and everything they had depended on their abilities to achieve. But if guns pose same level of lethality as in his previous world, things would change because the control over people's death in this world is less.
Even though, he could control the exposure of the weapon, he didn't want to take a chance. But he slowly lost the compassion to the people in this world after spending all this time and meeting these people.
The second reason is, guns are too addictive to him.
Towards Cold weapon, Sam has endless adoration and admiration along with respect. For him, all kinds of cold weapons they might be some swords, spears, claws etc. They are like true love. Using them is like having a better half.
You would be going through all kinds of tribulations with them and them being with you will give you courage and satisfaction at the same time. It is like having a wife.
But guns and explosives. They are like a mistress. Using for satisfying the carnal desires like animals, without involving many emotions and just using it for some temporary satisfaction for some specific times. There are no strings attached. He can never replace a sword's position in his heart, if he made one himself.
But guns are different. Every gun is a different kind of vixen, he likes to enjoy the satisfaction of using one and he doesn't get attached to it emotionally except if those guns are really, really special ones. But the problem is one can get addicted to the vixens and desire to enjoy the pleasure repeatedly.
If he starts shooting, he will desire to enjoy to his heart's content.
At first, he didn't have that many enemies. But now, he is gaining more and more people on his hostile side and having these guns might be helpful.
But before making some for his personal use, he will make some average shooting devices to make some quick cash.
If doesn't make the military bleed some money and blood for what they did to him and his teammates, he will can't sleep peacefully.
For these fifteen days, his patience is stretched thin and he almost broke several times.
Now that he knew the extent of the other party's determination to hinder him, he could shed all his cordiality.
Right now, he is full of evil intent. If not for the fact that he is not strong enough and he personally wants to teach the general a lesson with brute force, he would be with his shadow mice on his way to deal with that Old man.
He is at his breaking point. One more push and he would make designs to kill that general. His team lost almost hundred points without even doing anything.
After entering the estate, Sam sent everyone to the mansion while he stayed outside as he looked at the impact crystal.
He has some ideas on how to use these 'worthless' things to make some money out of the military. Not only for now, but also for a near future. And he can save the best for himself.
Before that, he has to do something and that is to extract the crystal.
The main problem of these crystals is that extracting them is actually quite difficult.
These crystals are just like piezoelectric materials from the modern earth. Those piezoelectric materials use the mechanical vibrations and convert them to electric energy.
But these impact crystals can change any kind of physical force acting on it, the kinetic energy, the strong impact of wind force, the water force, even the pure impact strike of normal physical force which makes it absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
After the spiritual energy reaches the crystal's limit, it would explode and completely disintegrates into the thing air if it didn't find a proper outlet.
There is only one way to extract the crystal and that is to melt it with a high temperature fire and collect it when it is in the liquid state.
This is the most feasible method and if there are any other methods and that is to collect the whole part of the earth as one and throw it away which is almost impossible
Sam placed his hand on one of the crystal protrusions which is as tall as a tree. He started using his observation ability and he is handling the spiritual energy so delicately so that it would not absorb any of it.
He is trying to probe the whole dept of it and when he was finally done, he was stunned.
The impact crystal occupied almost more than twenty meters below the surface. This will make this whole place a large pit after extracting the whole crystal.
And the whole estate is of 1000 acres that is a whole lot of impact crystals. And he is planning to make it into a whole lot of money.
He started making is preparations. His main advantage is that he has an unlimited access to the Artisan tower.
That is more than enough for his plans.
He went inside the house and entered his personal room and then entered the divine dimension's second floor, his time is a lot valuable now. He has to report back to the camp before morning.
First, he imagined the design of the product inside his head and then after that he simulated everything in the second floor's simulation mode. After more than twenty trail and errors, he finally got the satisfied result.
Sam took out some scrolls and started drawing his new design. The design is mainly of various dies for the hand press. For his next plans, he would need a lot of casings, which in turn requires a lot of dies.
After making some required dies and moulds, he went to the bas.e.m.e.nt and started taking out the equipment which his teammates would use in near future.
He gave the scrolls and a list of materials which they would need to Watt. Along with that, he wrote a letter along with his spiritual signature and his Artisan badge. With this, Watt's words would be equal to his and there is no way that he cannot buy these things from the Artisan tower.
He sent Watt while he went to the yard.
He has to collect the crystals with his own methods and that is powder disintegration.
Sam closed his eyes and started his operation from near his hard. Since, the melting point of this crystal is quite high, it would be quite troublesome for him to do the regular method, it is still a little earlier than after noon.
If he can use this time, he can clear off several yards before the reporting time.
Sam placed his hands on the crystal and started turning it into the powder, while throwing the powder directly into the storage.
Since the crystal structure is not that complicated and the crystal properties are mostly due to its molecular nature instead of granular structure, he has not qualms on turning it into powder.
So, for the whole day, Sam just cleared the space around his mansion.
He even ate while doing so, and even after Watt came back with the required material, he called up on his teammates of the business side and explained the procedure on how to operate the machines to them while clearing the crystal.