Chapter 533: Evaluation
Sam walked out after saying what he wanted to say and didn't wait for anyone to reply. He did his job, there is no reason for him to stay there and deal with the hypocrisy and delusions of these people.
After he came back to his barracks, he leisurely sat down and looked at some of the items he stole from the spatial rings. There is a blood-colored seed that is the size of a quail egg, a bottle of blood that the person drank, some scrolls, and some notes of the research from the blood mixers.
There is also some information on the changes in the body.
This process is called Blood Mutation and it increases the quality of the blood inside the body to increase strength and power. The spiritual energy that was morphed into this is called blood spiritual energy.
These people have completely different bodies and constitutions after the mutation happened.
There is nothing in their bodies that is the same as before except for the appearance.
Their muscles, their strength, their bone structure, their meridian network, everything has changed in one way or the other.
In short, this mutation will cause them to abandon their current cultivation methods and they have to cultivate differently.
These people are trained like this since their awakening and the flower pod is responsible for filtering the energy from the blood and aiding their bodies.
They have to use the flower pod until they reach Nascent stage power, after that they can evolve themselves and grow with just the direct consumption of the blood.
The blood inside the glass bottle is also not something that was altered or modified, it is completely normal blood, but that blood belonged to the humans.
In the documents he had on hand, there is also said that the human blood is the most effective to the consumption, followed by the humans who are Naga offspring and then the Half Naga's blood and finally the beast blood.
This is something that Sam didn't expect. As for using such a large amount of beast blood with a small amount of human blood that is to nurture the flower pod.
The flower pod who is not only responsible for injecting the purified energy from the blood but also responsible for protecting their bodies from excess mutation needs some energy too.
The beast's blood is to give it the energy so that it wouldn't prey on the person within the flower.
Sam felt like his poison might have quite some effect on the blood flower. He guessed that the corroding and decaying effects of both poisons would have made the flower want more energy and killed the person inside.
Actually, his guess was correct but not entirely, after all only half of the flowers are dead and the rest of them managed to escape the situation before they died.
As he was reading the reports and all, he sensed that someone is coming. He has activated a formation that could sense others coming to him.
So, he immediately stored all the items away and just laid down on his bed as if he was resting.
Yodha directly came in and asked.
"How was the mission this time?"
"I already told everything there, what else could there be?"
"Come with me, I want your opinion on something."
Sam stood up and followed behind him and both of them went into the woods nearby in the middle of which a large open patch was cleared to make camping grounds. The place is so large that the forest they crossed over is small compared to this, there are close to five thousand people and there are five colored tents here.
They are red, blue, brown, white and finally purple.
"This is the special division they talked about previously. These divisions are actually created by the Marshall and some of the Generals and previous generals, most of the time these five divisions act separately, and they are stationed near the imperial capital, they will be only deployed when the war became extremely serious and we are on verge of being defeated.
These people are elites and specifically trained. Most of them are warrior mages and the rest are mages. They are solely based on the elements they use.
There is a lot more competition between themselves and every time they had to merge and fight, it was always difficult, since I became a nascent stage cultivator, I always came here to find sparring partners.
All of them are mostly late-stage and only a few are middle stage, the initial stages, and even Grand realm cultivators are still in the imperial capital's training camp.
Right now, the main teams of the five of them are deployed.
Many of these people are someone I surpassed and I am the only one who commands them and they will only follow my commands without any friction and prejudice they had between themselves.
They just arrived and I need to practice battle formations with them. Since you fought with those weird creatures, help me judge these people's capabilities against the enemies."
Sam doesn't have any choice. He just agreed. Apart from the tents, there are several formations within the forest that are used for the training. At this point, it is not even suitable for calling this a forest. It is a forest is all a ruse.
One of the formations is similar to that of the formation furnace in which the fire elemental mages and warrior mages are practicing, there is a formation that has both ice and water properties, this is the formation of the water division. They are not a strict water element division, rather there are some ice element users too, the earth division is not using a formation, they are everywhere all over the camp.
As for the wind element they are also using a formation, but they are not using a large one that could accommodate hundreds, rather there are very few people inside and they are using smaller formations like that.
As for lightning division, they are mostly practicing individually.
They just arrived, but they already made so many preparations.
One could easily guess this is not just prepared, this might as well be the training camp they used before.
As all of them are practicing and also doing sparring; the leaders of the respective divisions are all supervising their training.
Yodha whistled loudly after they toured through the camp once and all the people in charge of the respective training all gathered towards them.
From every division, five people came and as for the lightning division six people came, the sixth one is Arman.
Arman was sent to this division by the authorities, for every elemental user in the army, entering this division is a dream.
They have different privileges, different stardom, and completely different treatment.
So many of them thought that it is Arman's honor to get this opportunity.
But from the expression on his face, it wasn't. Arman is way too skilled to be dumped along with these people. Although Sam ravaged him mentally that period of time is also excessive training and he is an elite that is all above his peers on the home planet.
"Spar with all you got, just refrain from killing and crippling. Apart from that do your best." Yodha said and took a step back along with Sam.
Sam gestured for Arman to come towards him and both of them started talking.
After hearing what Arman has to say, he lost all hope in these special divisions. Arman has said that he can fight three on one with these people. They are skilled and elite but compared to the blood mutants, they are just some paper tigers.
Sam watched the sparring and was at least not bored, but after the fights are over, he marked a few of the twenty-five people.
Two from each group, who has a chance at the blood mutants in a one on one.
Apart from them, he marked one more person in each group who can be on par with them but with some improvements.
As for the rest, he doesn't care. They wouldn't be able to endure the onslaught of the blood mutants.
After everything was over, Yodha looked at Sam asking him to say something.
Sam pursed his lips, he wanted to spare some dignity to Yodha and said.
"It is better if we talk in private."
With that, he walked backward and Yodha followed him.
Sam told him his honest opinion on their capabilities and Yodha couldn't help but frown. He has some pride in these people but Sam is disregarding them completely, of course, it is just some disappointment, not displeasure.
Sam shouldn't mince his words at this moment, the war is right around the corner.
Seeing Yodha's frown and tension, the twenty-five special division members are all anxious and when Yodha repeated Sam's words, they are all frowning in displeasure.
After all, who will like being underestimated, particularly when they were told all their lives that they are some elites.