Chapter 428: To the Snowlands
For the next fifteen days, the team didn't have any contact with each other. Sam is inside the tower, Philip was doing administrative tasks while Watt and Jack went to the Arsin empire to gather their required date.
Only after fifteen days did they appear in the city again and met each other.
On that day, they are set to start their journey. They didn't discuss the matters of the Arsin at the moment, they only talked about the meteorite sand island which would appear in another month and Sam is not sure if the three underground organizations are completely dissolved or not.
In the war with the Old one who used the Black fire, Black wind, and Black rock to do his bidding in spreading the Undead Plague, Sam didn't have many details regarding the heads of these three organizations who are Transcendent stage cultivators.
Sam wasn't able to get any definite information on these three people because a lot of transcendent stage cultivators popped up in Old One's army by the end of the war and many of them are killed.
They could identify all of them and Sam doesn't have any form of identity information regarding these people.
If they are still alive, they would surely come to this island.
After all, their current situations will be extremely pathetic even if they were to survive the attack. They would surely try to use the benefits the meteorite sands could get them at this moment. If they could get enough of sand in their hands, then they might try to buy their way into the major powers or better yet, they could get someplace in the Artisan association which has enough influence and has access to resources that are beyond some major powers.
After all, the major powers only control a certain area of the planet while the associations have influence in all the areas. They can get whatever they want.
Sam doesn't want to confront these guys. They would be extremely powerful.
Even though coming there will be difficult, there is a chance they could be there. So, Sam has to reach the place as early as possible and deal with it as fast as he can.
He is mostly betting on the fact that it is actually hard for them to cross the continents without the help of the major powers.
After making necessary preparations and picking up everything they needed to, the four of them went out of the city. There Sam waved his hand a metallic object appeared out of nowhere.
It is Sam's latest creation. One look and any modern person would think that it is a car and in fact, it is actually true.
But it is not a normal car. It is a hovercar. It is created by a Meteorite sand alloy Sam made. If the artisan association head and the Usaine sect head knew that Sam is mixing up the meteorite sand alloys, then they might beat him to death.
After all, no one in the world would think of doing that. Generally, the weapons in this world are not made from a single metal, alloys are always used, even if they don't use a premade alloy, they would mix up the metals in the process of making them.
But the meteorite sands, Black star gold, and any other metals of such grade wouldn't be alloyed so easily.
In fact, this is the second time Sam doing this. He once alloyed the Gray meteorite sand and Silver meteorite sand to make some tools in the machine.
But this time, the amount of sand he alloyed is nowhere near that. At this moment, Sam is almost running empty on all his meteorite sand stock. He might be able to make some daggers or a couple of swords with them.
When the three of them looked at the car they are a bit surprised and didn't know what to think of it.
But Sam didn't care. Actually, if he made a real car, it would have taken a long time. Even the one hundred and fifty days in the tower wouldn't be enough. But this time the concept behind this working is not much.
The hovercar has the same principle as the harbinger and the silver wind. There is no complicated engineering design that would make his life difficult to manufacture.
The bottom layer of the car has four energy cells which have the same shape as the energy cells Sam used on his board. But the size is a lot different.
Even in the back, the thruster pipes are rectangular and there are two of them side by side.
The design is not so overly posh. There are two seats in the front and two in the rear for the four of them.
As for the defense and offense, there are not many arrangements regarding attacks, and only defensive arrangements are made.
Sam didn't care much about offense and strictly speaking there are only three attack methods.
The main reason for that is that it would take a lot of time.
Sam needs to conduct extensive research and experiments to create a strong enough vehicle that can be focused on attacks.
Sam opened the doors and four of them took their seats.
Instead of the steering wheel, Sam has two joysticks like handles to control the vehicle which is attributed to the thrusters of the rear which provide the forward movement as for the lower end thrusters those would be operated by his feet.
The car floated in the air as they zoomed past the streets, people and after a few minutes, they are traveling towards the imperial capital along the rail track.
The speed of the car is extremely high. High enough to leave the car far behind. Due to the increase in Sam's mental health and the lot of wind elemental energy that involved along with the size of the energy cells, the speed is fast enough to catch up with a transcendent level beast.
That is the reason Sam made sure that he made the car strong enough and used the alloy of some meteorite sands so that it would be hard enough to resist the force, air resistance, and any form of possible damages that might happen in the journey.
And he also had to make sure that the whole thing is light enough to pick up such speed.
They traveled to the imperial capital in less than two days. From there, Sam has to use some of the communication means that Arc has with the people of snow lands so that they would be informed about their arrival and not take them as a hostile party.
Sam has a faint idea about the location they should go to. That would be the place where they should take to the sea.
After informing the people of snow lands, Sam and the group once again went on with their journey.
In another half a day, they are able to reach the snow lands and entered their territory.
After they entered deep enough and see human activity, they decided to travel by foot and stored the car away.
The people are all dressed in smooth white fur garments and they are looking at Sam and his group in a weird way.
After a while, the head of the tribe came over to greet them. He is a transcendent stage cultivator and behind him, a familiar person is walking towards them. He is none other than Yash, one of the three people who came to the Falcon cliff city to participate in the tower of will.
"Welcome to our tribe. His majesty has informed us about your arrival. Please come, I will show you your residence, the food is being prepared and we can talk over a meal about what you need our help for."
They followed and after settling in a small ice house, Yash was left to keep them company and see if they would need anything.
But there is nothing much they need and there was an awkward silence for a moment before they were called for the banquet.
When they entered the area, they noticed that there are a lot of people on the main table sitting on all sides.
Sam noticed that more than half of them are pre-transcendent cultivators which surprised him.
"So, Sam. What is it that you need? You came all the way here from the city." The tribe leader asked.
"I need to find an island in the northwest."
Sam said without any reservations, everyone was silent and didn't speak. The tribe leader said after that awkward silence.
"Sam, tell me you are kidding? There is nothing in the north-west but danger. What island can you find there?"
Sam was puzzled. "What do you mean?"
"We go to fishing in the northern part of the seas and we covered most of the coastline, the sea blessed us with many resources. But the north-western coast is something we don't dare to enter.
We believe that there is something wrong with that Sea?"
Sam frowned and asked.
"But I am sure that there is a team of explorers who went in that direction and came back, almost twenty years ago. They even discovered an island and that is the same place I am going right now."
Everyone was dumbstruck and Sam could sense some sort of strange atmosphere in the air.
"The exploration is the one that made us realize not to step in that direction. Since you know of this, there is no point in hiding from you.
That place is actually not that dangerous in the past, except for deep seas, we could roam in those shallow waters all we want, but the problem started after that exploration team. They came with a map and took most of our skilled explorers of the sea with them and by the time they returned, only one of our explorers survived and even the explorer team was almost wiped out. Only a handful of people returned.
From that time, that region is completely covered in thick fog and no one who ventured inside was able to return.
Rumour has it that only a transcendent stage cultivator would be able to travel that place and even their safety is not guaranteed. I advise you guys to withdraw."