Chapter 515: Hunting
Sam is having the most leisure hunt in his life. The people inside don't know about the speed of the harbinger or the existence of the Bee-puppets.
They are searching high and low, they don't know how Sam is killing them, or sometime, they don't even know if Sam killed any of their comrades. After all not every attack gives of an explosion like a grenade.
Most of the deaths are swift and silent with the sharp shots that are being fired at them and Sam is never late to collect the corpses before other people could notice the situation.
By night, Sam has hunted down around fifty soldiers and only used the grenades for five times.
As he hunted he was quite amazed by the forest. These fifty people are at the borders of the forest and most likely the surveillance for the main force hiding inside deeper.
Sam decided to continue his hunt, this would be easier at night.
As he moved all over the forest, the troops deeper inside the forest also started to notice their missing comrades.
They are waiting to hear the news of Sam dying since he came all alone and they also received the news that he entered the forest.
So, it doesn't make sense that their comrades are silent all of a sudden. So, they started sending teams of soldiers to take a look at the situation.
As Sam decided to move deeper, he noticed a team like this in his path.
This is a team of five and there are two Half-Nagas inside.
Sam decided to sneak up on them with the two puppets. So, as the five of them are cautiously moving forward, they suddenly felt a chill pass through their spine and turned around abruptly.
And as soon as they did that, two of them fell down immediately and Sam also shot a projectile from the Harbinger which sliced through the neck of the target.
Two people remained standing and Sam decided to ask them some questions.
But they took this chance to attack Sam, but Sam dodged to the side and along with that hard turn, the tail wind of the harbinger created wind blades that sliced on backs of the two men.
Their defense is much stronger than their human counterparts.
But it is still not enough to handle this, they screamed at the top of their lungs, Sam waved his hand and one of them was caught in a golden flames slowly but surely burning bit by bit, he pointed his hand at the remaining person and said.
"If you speak, I will let you die peacefully, or else you would die like this."
The Half-Naga looked at the person burning slowly and didn't dare to experience it himself.
So, he nodded his head slowly.
"Why are you guys coming out at this moment?"
"The scouts on the edge are not reporting at all, we have to report our position to the commander for every hour if we are not in any activity and if we don't report for three hours straight the person would be considered eliminated.
The commander wanted to see if you are dealt with or not and also check with the scouts."
Sam nodded his head and waved his hand, a wind blades sliced the head of that person.
It seems like he had overthought. Sam didn't expect that they would send teams out for him this early. After all, he is alone and he expected to be underestimated by the enemy's commander, but that person seemed to be more cautious than he thought.
Sam overthought the situation and felt like these teams are trying to make a move on their base in the middle of the night. It was just to deal with him, the single intruder.
Sam pushed all the unwanted thoughts out of his mind and started dealing with the rest. He just searched for the remaining teams.
For the next two hours, he took down three teams after searching long and hard. The forest too vast that even five hundred members can play hide and seek. It is becoming harder and harder to search for individuals. If he went in a little deeper, he would definitely go to the ambush points of the regiment.
He also found the tracks of the remaining groups that already went to the edge of the forest, so his deeds would definitely be reported back to the commander and soon, they will definitely find out about the disappearance of the three groups too.
So, they will move and try to search for Sam or they would wait for him to come and fall in the ambush.
If Sam was in their position, he wouldn't choose the second option at all, he would search for the intruder immediately. Otherwise, the intruder will always have the option of leaving when he felt like it.
And this commander also took the same decision. Sam felt extreme movements of energy from many positions in the forest, he could see the energy waves running rampant in many positions with his eye technique.
But he didn't worry. As he decided earlier, he would hunt them down, discreetly until they caught on to him. He would avoid any form of direct confrontation until that point.
Sam started scanning the whole forest with the eye technique as he went deeper inside. He noticed that there are some formation that are being activated. It would only take a few minutes for him to reach that area, so he moved.
Bee puppets are going ahead of him as he watched the screen and whistled.
Soon, he arrived at the formation area. The place has twenty people and it seems like a formation that was suited to attack.
As soon as the puppets entered the formation, the people are alerted and got in to their positions, the leader is connecting them and the twenty of them are acting as the secondary nodes that provide the sword rays for the formation.
A killing formation using swordsmen. Sam couldn't say he was impressed, their unity and coordination are great but their technique and the formation itself are sloppy as hell.
Even without his commands, the puppet spirits activated the defensive mechanism around them. A spiritual energy bubble appeared around them and the swords rays were unable to hit them.
As they moved, the bubble moved along with them, and only after a few minutes did some minor cracks appear on it.
Sam sighed and started controlling puppet. Two grenades dropped almost at the same time, in two different places of the formation. They are not at the people, rather they are the formation flags that are creating the foundation of the formation and Sam destroyed it easily.
Even though, the formation flags are not destroyed, he was able to destroy the energy flow of the formation without a problem.
Sam arrived as the smoke and dust slowly settled to see that the soldiers are grouping together to search for the intruder. There are five Nagas in this group and all of them have red scales and one of them even has white hue over the red scales.
Might be some noble scions. The puppets went after some loner in the mess and shot them down before reloading the energy cells. Sam took out the reaper sword, which he didn't use in a long time. Since, this is not the camp be can use his powers without any reservation.
Sam came down from the harbinger and activated his wind elemental energy to achieve partial fusion. He zoomed towards the group of people and started a battle. They are all skilled swordsman, but not as skilled as Sam.
As they clashed, Sam's wind blades started tearing them down, the whole formation zone is being torn apart as it a cyclone stuck it.
In this mess, the only drawback towards Sam is that his puppets are not getting a proper aim at the people, they are moving constantly which is making them miss the vital parts like eyes, ears, throat and such.
But they are still being shot and the each shot is immobilizing their limbs or causing them serious wounds in the abdomen, chest or somewhere else.
Soon, the stage is almost cleared with only the five Nagas left.
He noticed that the Bee-puppets regular bullets are not making much damage to them, the Nagas changed into their original form and they grew in size, now all five of them are at eight to feet tall and at the same time, their feet disappeared replaced by snake tails.
Sam didn't care though, the scales are acting like tough armor. And particularly, the scales that are on the spine, they are extremely hard that Sam had hard time cutting through them.
But they were still cut and that too only because of the direct contact of the blade, the wind blades didn't go through the spinal scales.
When the five of them are finally dead, Sam looked at the bodies a bit curiously, he was thinking that if he could use those spinal scales for himself.