Chapter 282: Making a Deal
Arc was surprised by what Sam said. What Sam said is indeed right. He needs a lot of money to recover the damage caused by the war and he also has to cover the rewards for the soldiers. Although, he rewarded the prime contributors, he still has to give rewards to other remaining soldiers.
"What do you have in mind?" Arc asked curiously.
"Black Water." Sam's words directly stumped him. He didn't expect the method Sam said would be this.
"Black water is not a small one. Even with all the efforts I put in, I wasn't able to completely snub them off.
It is the biggest underground faction, in the western continent and the leader of that is a Transcendent. I don't know where he lives, I once battled him after I took over the regime, but he escaped.
In Arian, his influence dwindled a lot. But he escaped to Orion. If we want to deal with the Black water, just destroying the bases is not enough. I have to catch him too. But one sign of crackdown, he would escape."
Sam smiled at Arc's words.
"Are you sure that Black water is only part of Western Continent and that too Orion?"
"Yes. Even though, there might be some traces in Arian, it is still not much they are at most some influential gang there."
"Then, that makes things easier. From what you said, that person who is leading this behind the scenes can only be dealt by you. Do you have confidence in defeating him completely?"
"Yes."
"Then, I have a way. All you have to do is attack all the branches of Black water at the same time."
"How could we even possibly achieve that?" Arc couldn't believe it. "Even though, you did have some dealings, I highly doubt that they took you to their head-quarters, at most you would have met them in a meeting point. It is not feasible."
"You don't have to worry about that. I will give you locations of all the Black water Head Quarters in the Nine Dukedoms. All you have to do is, attack them simultaneously at the same time and make sure that you cut off their leadership.
There you would be able to get two things, one is the location of the subordinate factions and their details and the second one is the location of main headquarters. All you have to do is catch the boss and take information out of him.
Just make sure that you could bury the news completely and don't give them a chance to communicate within themselves.
The very next day, you can raid the remaining places."
Sam said it so simply.
"What do you want in return? I don't expect you to help with this much without expecting anything in return."
"Every Blackwater leader will have some hidden spatial ring, namely three of them. Which are put aside. In them, you can take the rings with spatial rings and materials, all I need is the third ring with these boxes." Sam said as he took out a cube of meteorite sand.
"What is this?" Arc asked in confusion.
"It is my research material. They wanted to steal my invention at a point. Of course, they didn't know it was mine. This is the partially developed invention of mine and they distributed among themselves so that they can test it to finish it.
But they were not able to find anything. I want them back. It is my Blood and sweat after all."
Sam lied with a straight face. If Arc doesn't know about Meteorite sand, it is all good, but if he is playing dumb, two can play this game.
"They are extremely important to me. Tell your subordinates to search every nook and cranny of their bases. And don't even think about stealing it away from me. I know the exact number of cubes that are present in their hands and I know for a reason that they are not used.
After the whole operation is over, your nine heads who will deal with the nine-dukedom headquarters should come over and hand over the things to me.
Apart from that, I have something else that I need.
A person who uses Blood Golems to attack. I want that person alive. No matter what. I want him captured and handed over. He is definitely a part of Black water and is supposedly working in the main head-quarters.
If you are okay with the conditions, we can proceed to work together."
Sam explained his terms in a single breath.
Arc went into a deep thought. He doesn't know if he should accept this and that glass cube is another thing that arouse his interest. He doesn't know if Sam is lying about this or of what he said is really true.
After considering the Pros and Cons, he finally agreed to the arrangement and accepted the deal.
Anyway, Black water is a malignant tumor in his empire, it is best to deal with them.
Sam gave the locations of the black water bases.
He might not have dealt with all the dukedoms individually, but he passed through all of them in his journeys and in every Dukedom capital, he met some people from Black water to get information.
The Black water might think that Sam doesn't know anything about their bases, but the shadow mice are not for show.
After discussing the remaining details, Sam sent the emperor off and went to check with the former Artisan tower head of the Orion.
After the empire has collapsed the people from the four professional towers of the Orion can leave to the thunder god temple tower to take on some auxiliary jobs or go to their respective association head-quarters and wait for their new assignments.
But Sam's plan gave them a new choice. They can now work here as they collaborated with Sam.
As Sam travelled over the city, he could see the constructions going on. They all have massive structures. The whole architecture artisan manpower of the former Orion has been moved to work.
He saw the buildings being constructed. They are quite complex huge; the work is going on slowly.
After seeing all of this, Sam entered a temporary building which is used by the Artisan tower head as his residence.
Sam was received by an attendant and was sent to a private room where there two people discussing something.
One of them is the former tower-head and another one is actually someone familiar with Sam, the artisan tower-head from the Southern Star city. His face was gloomy and frustrated as he saw Sam walking inwards that displeasure only increased.
Sam could guess what is happening. This guy might have been here for something related to his position.
He took a seat and said to the Artisan tower head whose name is Aasif.
"Artisan Aasif, I hope that the construction is going well without any problems. You know, that I don't like any variables right?" As he spoke, he glanced at the southern star city head, Beaver.
The latter looked angry, but didn't dare to flare up.
Aasif immediately understood what Sam was implying and looked at Beaver before answering.
"There are no problems with the construction Sir Sam. A part from the construction of the city, the remaining constructions at the cities also started. Even the secondary base also started its construction." He handed over some doc.u.ments regarding the construction progress of various buildings.
After examining them, Sam asked.
"What about the component manufacturing?"
"We already met the target. All the component manufacturing was complete and we are waiting for your further proceedings." Now he passed over another doc.u.ment.
After checking them too, Sam said.
"I will be working one the core components now. Send the second rate artisans who are less skilled with ordinary aspects, even the attendants with less expertise would do. They will be working in the factories where they would produce the required components."
He took out some scrolls and handed them over to Aasif before saying.
"Hand these over to the formation department and these to the inscription department. Ask them to study them properly. They might have to start working in a month.
A part from that, use this structure and start creating the communication tokens, they wouldn't work as some core components are missing, but do it anyway. And select the best…"
Sam started explaining all the details of the scrolls.
After dealing with the whole thing, he left the place and went back to his residence. He has to work on the core components.
While Sam is busy working, there are many people all over the planet who are all over the planet and are discussing about him and his friends.
At a certain corner of the world, in a majestically built palace of the island, a man who seemed to be in his twenties sat down with a shocked expression on his face. His fingers are clutching his black hair as his black eyes widened in surprise.
In his other hand there is Sam's picture drawn on a small scroll.
The subordinate who was kneeling in front of him was also surprised, but not for the same reason.
The man came out of his shock and said to his subordinate.
"Seal of the picture, don't send it to the rest of them. Only give them details and descriptions and it is fine to release the rest of the pictures."
"Your subordinate understands." With that the servant left while the man burned the picture to ashes with just a thought.