Chapter 746: Entering the Cave
That night, Sam left the camp with the help of the shadow mice. He left the shadows in the camp as they worked to make an illusion that he is still ordering them around.
Soon, Sam reached the spot where the observer is located.
There is a large rock on which the observer sprawled on the ground and looked through that small telescope without any movement. He is extremely stable and there are not too many energy waves around him.
A normal cultivator can easily ignore him if he hid like this.
Sam came out of the divine dimension. He is currently wearing his cloaked black clothes and is in his shadow mode.
The observer flinched a bit and turned around to look in the direction where he felt an extra presence looking at him.
But he didn't find anything. He just looked around for a bit and after finding out there is nothing, he went back to his observation. But as soon as he turned, his body jerked.
He turned his head around as much as possible to look at what is on top of him only to see a dark shadowy figure leaning onto him with a metallic claw impaled into his back.
Sam held the observed in his place and placed his second claw on his neck and pressed it so that he would stay quiet while the first claw is working.
Sam made a very simple but detailed modification to the claws. It is around the small hole left there to make poison flow through the claws, this time, he created an extremely small hollow compartment in which he can either secrete poison directly into or place some external liquid.
When he impaled the claws, he would be able to inject the contents into other's bodies more effectively than just scratching. But this would take a little more time. At least three seconds which is actually a short but also long time within the battle.
He even made a special modification where he can place a small cartridge on the rear of the claws which is directly connected to these hollow compartments. The liquid in the cartridge will be constantly moved to the hollow compartments which in turn can be used for injection.
Currently, Sam is using three different liquids in the body. The first one is the paralytic poison, the second one is actually a medicine that is a blood essence of a fire-type beast and the third one is the blood essence of an ice-type beast.
And he is injecting the last two liquids in large quantities.
From the side, there is a bee puppet recording everything that is happening.
After injecting everything, Sam could feel the energy fluctuations inside the observer's body. He then took out medicine that can alleviate the effects of the paralytic poison and force-fed that guy before getting up and setting him free.
The observer wanted to attack Sam, but he felt like his body is collapsing. His whole body is feeling like burning and freezing all at the same time. He couldn't even speak.
He wanted to yell and scream but no voice is coming out.
After noticing that Sam is not making a move, he decided to try his last chance at survival that is to meet the rest of his companions. He forcefully stood up and tried to run, but he couldn't. His legs are also acting in a weird way.
He walked down stumbling here and there for every step to reach his team before something happens. He has a feeling that as long as he got rid of his hot and cold energy, he can live.
Sam didn't follow him. He just let the bee puppet follow that guy and record everything while he picked up the telescope that was left behind.
It is not that long. It is at most as long as the forearm.
Sam looked through it and he was surprised to see the range. He can not only see the camp but even the city wall and the city.
There are many inscriptions placed on it and there are many options. He was clearly not expecting such a piece of work to be here.
There are many things he can learn and refer to this and he can see himself getting new ideas. He could really use a meeting with a person that made this.
He stored the telescope away and followed the route the observer did.
Soon he caught up. He didn't do much too observed. The paralytic poison is not just to keep him stationary, but also to make his bodily functions halt a little bit which would let the two blood essences that are being injected mix with the blood easily.
Now that they are mixed and they are injected in such a large quantity and also since they are also two different elements that are extremely conflicting, they are trying to take over the bloodstream and combating each other. And on top of that, the elemental energy of the person himself is also in question which would try to battle the two foreign entities that are taking their own home ground as their battlefield.
If only fire blood essence or the ice blood essence were injected, the effect wouldn't have been this great.
Three elements clashing is causing him to have a seizure. If he wasn't injected with the paralytic poison, then he would have had a minute chance to stop the foreign elements from wreaking havoc.
But now it was gone.
Sam leisurely followed him as he timed the speed of that guy.
He injected the quantity with a certain estimation of the time. But it didn't reach the desired effect. He wanted the person to struggle until he reached the underground cave entrance and see his companions before he died, but it didn't seem to be the cave.
Because as soon as he reached the outer cave entrance he fell. He is weaker than Sam thought.
Sam just went towards him and extracted the soul and made the specter get the memories.
He wants to see if there is anything useful and soon some useful info did come out. When he saw the images, he couldn't help but feel a bit surprised and excited.
The memories confirmed many of Sam's suspicions. One of them is that this group is responsible for meteorite attacks. But it is not an attack of a single person. It is a group attack.
The second thing, they indeed belong to faction 1 and they are indeed sent by the Raunak's future inlaw.
He knew this because he asked for the images of that guy and his daughter before doing this.
And it turned out that guy just didn't send any other force. This force is something directly under his control and he gave the orders to them directly without any intermediary like how the attacks on him through the criminals took place.
In fact, that criminal attack is just to gauge his strength. It was to make these observers understand just how strong he is.
Sam was surprised that he got so much information just from one scout.
He looked at the body that is still under the influence of the two opposite elements clashing. The hair is burning on one side while it is frozen on the other. One arm has become an ice while the other was cooked.
He cut open the chest and placed something in his body before kicking him down the slope that leads to the underground cave.
The Bee puppet followed the body recording everything while Sam followed the puppet down the way.
After the body hit the ground, some limbs that are frozen collapsed. There are several cloaked figures inside the underground cave all waiting.
There are a total of twenty-nine people all cultivating or practicing their battle skills when the body hit the ground.
The nearest to the entrance looked at their comrade's dead body that too in such a weird state, couldn't help but feel angry and run towards it.
When they saw that there is something in the chest of the body, they are even more infuriated.
There is no way they could tolerate it.
They tried to pull the metallic thing out and it is actually a grenade. But it is not a grenade with a trigger switch, rather is a grenade with a pin all it takes is a small modification after all.
Sam locked the pin with a bone in the rib cage, so when they pulled it forcefully, the pin was removed and before they knew what is happening, the grenade exploded within the hand of the holder.
The group moved back, while that one person has his hands mangled.
Sam who is slowly descending the slope and staying in the place with his earth elemental energy, looked at the explosion and couldn't help but smile.
Whenever he pulled out these grenades in a new place, he managed to fool them easily.
They don't really think twice about what that thing could have been before pressing or triggering it leading to their foolish loss.
He jumped down the slope to land down along with the bee puppet that slowly descended beside him.