Chapter 424: Ceremony
After Sam finished, almost everyone raised their hands. Sam smirked at this and said.
"I don't know who among you is the right guy for the position of the leader. But this world is judged by might, so all you have to do is prove that you are right.
With that he pointed towards the door and Philip led them to an arena.
Inside the arena, Sam entered after them and sat on a chair and said.
"I don't care what you do. You can use, techniques, tricks, bitch moves, sneak attacks, poison, ganging up. Make sure you are the last man standing. I will set the rankings and the top twenty will get the leadership.
I don't want to see any deaths though."
Sam just sat there and in the next two hours, Sam saw the biggest dog fight that could happen in the whole western continent. But instead of dogs, there are hundred nascent stage cultivators fighting left and right.
There are blasts, slashes, smell of blood and the spiritual energy rocking around.
After two hours, only one guy stood in the middle with a spear supporting him to stand.
Sam walked towards him meanwhile, some attendants came and started feeding the potent high-grade pills to them and they could see their bodies healing with the naked eye.
Sam extended his hand towards the guy who is barely standing with the help of his spear. There is a lot of damage on his body. There are scars all over and burn marks, there is even a place where the flesh was crushed.
He is bleeding all over.
Sam started emitting light elemental energy and started healing him. Actually, he didn't heal him completely. He just healed all the skin and left the scars there. After all, the candidate's time is actually very much higher than that of Sam. He is in late stage nascent realm. But Sam is actually only in the initial levels.
After he fed the pill the guy slowly recovered and the spiritual energy is slowly flowing through his body.
"From now on, you are the leader of all the nascent stage cultivators under me. But this applies only to the people who are specialized in combat.
If I am not there to rely orders, he will be the one to take charge. Do you all hear me?"
Sam said loudly.
"Yes." All the cultivators shouted in unison.
Sam then looked at Spear guy and asked.
"What's your name?"
"Dustin."
"Dustin, you will get a new cultivation technique and a brand-new weapon. This is the reward for you. I don't know if you have leadership qualities, but what I do know is that, it is hard to just control hundred fighters with mere leadership skills, after all at the end of the strength reigns supreme.
So, I have only command for you. Lead them with whatever brain you have. If you think you are unfit, then find the person who is fit and ask him to help you make decisions. But if I hear that you are showing favoritism, then you are dead.
Learn to be a leader. After one year, another competition would be conducted and that time, the might is not the only thing that is going to be tested.
And in that assessment, the organization will also announce the titles.
I don't say things like equality and bullshit. Because, there is no such thing as equality. The one who performs better gets the benefits.
If you feel unfair, prove it to me why I should be fair to you.
I want my nascent stage cultivators to be the best there is in the whole planet. For that, I will provide anything that is needed, the only condition being you guys prove to me that you deserve to be the best of nascent stage cultivators this planet has to offer.
Now, everyone is dismissed. In five days, there will be a ceremony in the new compound and after that is conducted, you are to leave to your duties, in this while find your teams. A team of ten from Novice cultivators, ten from Great realm and ten from the Grand realm cultivators. That is all I am going to give you.
Find them and select them. I am not going to order them to join. All I provide them is the salary they deserve and the benefits they should receive according to the organization rules. As for the rest, you should convince them yourselves."
Sam then looked at Dustin and said.
"I am sorry that I left your scars deliberately. But I wanted to do you a favor. Look at the scene around you and your scars. Every time you see them you should remember why you deserve to be the team leader and at the same time understand why you should work hard to not lose that title.
The only reason you lost the title to another nascent should be by the fact that you became a Pre-transcendent cultivator."
With those words, Sam left the place without turning back.
Similar situations happened in different places, but the tests are not exactly fighting. For formation master, their formation skills, inscription masters for their inscription skills, artisans for their artisan skills, healers for their healing skills.
Intense competitions are set on blaze. But not all of them are for deployment.
They have their own problems.
Sam didn't send any of the candidates with other skills with the mercenary teams. At least not yet. Sam has other plans for that.
After conducting the final tests and arranging all the things that needs to be arranged the fateful day came.
All the employees of the organization who are in the city are there, some nearby cities' high-level employees also came.
Along with that the Emperor Arc came along with the ministers, Dukes and even some Marquises who are of some higher statues.
Along with that the four tower heads are also there, but they are not the centre of attention.
At this moment, the whole thing was being heard by all the other employees and the citizens of the whole empire at the same time.
In the new compound, tens of thousands of people gathered. Some of them are normal citizens. They are the ones who come to city and stay there for a few months to indulge or explore. After the city's park is the best in the whole empire, so they would definitely people who could afford to test their limits here.
Philip, Watt and Jack came onto the stage and landed stood in their positions. In fact, there are no seats on their stage at all.
The crowd quietened down after they saw them and Sam slowly walked towards the stage. He is wearing his usual Black coat. As he walked to the centre of the stage, he looked at all the people in front of him with faint arrogance.
He is the man of the moment and he achieved it all by himself. He would be lying if he said he don't feel proud of himself.
He is the man capable of summoning so many people to his place when he willed. And more than ninety percent of them are at his beck and call.
He had a special communication device mounted on his ear and this will transmit his voice all over the empire.
"Good Morning everyone.
I am Sam and many of you know me or many of you might have heard of me.
You might have heard many stories about me. Let me give you guys a brief introduction and the orphans who are seated in the group, this mainly for you guys, so listen up.
I am an orphan. I don't know who my parents are. I was brought up by a tailor in the outermost village of the former Orion.
There a Novice is the strongest person. I learned tailoring from the person that brought me up and along with it, there are some other skills I picked up because of some fateful circumstances.
That is all I had. All I had is some knowledge and a beautiful lady from a nearby small city came to our village to get some cloths, that is the time my life changed. Fifteen spirit stones, that is my first payment. I started my journey went to a small city.
I studied my ass off. Every chance I get I studied and learned. I took my artisan exam, formation master exam, inscription master exam. I went to an academy in which I barely cultivated.
Then my journey started because of a competition that was hosted by emperor.
In the whole way until I reached the imperial capital, I didn't have any form of strength to compete with all the figures that I made enemies with. All I had is these three people who are standing on the stage with me.
We four struggled like no other. Many of you might think, the luxury mansions I had, the food I eat and the way I spend and think that I am bullshitting, but the thing is the money I had is the biggest bane. I used all cards up my sleeve to protect my ass.
I even beat the crap out of a prince and the Emperor wanted to kill me. After the whole competition is over, I was targeted and due to my luck and some other treasures that acquired with my ability, I was able to escape.
Now, we are standing in the same city that the former emperor used to live and rule the whole empire.
I don't know how to put it nicely, but simply put, I slayed every fucker that wanted to deal with me. Even the former emperor of Orion was dead in my very own hands.
Now I have a city under my name, riches, men under my command, but everything I achieved was due to my knowledge and also the my resolution which is strong enough to make me harbour thoughts of killing a Transcendent realm emperor when I was barely a Great realm cultivator.
And behind all those miracles I made, there are somethings in common. The desire to learn, the desire to raise, the desire to persist in front of a formidable enemy.
To the orphans that are here, I am telling you. I cannot give you all three of those things that I have, but what I can do is that if you do have those things, I can make sure they are put to use with the aid of the resources and the opportunities they need.
To the western continent, I hereby announce the opening of the THE SCHOOL."
With that a plaque was revealed on behind Sam with the words The School engraved on it.