Chapter 1002: Split
Paras looked at the surroundings and went through all the things Sam did in just one day. The whole elven branch crumbled itself as if it was made of sand.
Even though it escalated because of some unknown information, it still played in their favor.
If he did this all by himself, he would have taken another month and would have been in a constant war trying to kill every single one of them before he reached the elven branch.
As for the last words that Sam said, he felt conflicted.
Planet Jaman is his home. It didn't even have a wormhole connecting to any other planet sixty years ago. The energy level is so low that the Consummate stage is the limit for anyone there.
But one day, a wormhole opened, the people of different races came there and gathered. They destroyed everything that he viewed as his home. Not a single person from the Jaman Planet survived except him.
He escaped using the same wormhole as his parents fought tooth and nail to let him escape.
The only person that survived from a planet with millions of people.
He didn't even know exactly what happened until now. Until he got the memory of the elven branch leader installed into his brain.
He finally understood, what exactly happened, but he only got the information the results of what happened, even though he could see the face of some holographic person that gave the orders, he didn't know who it was.
From the looks of it, Sam knew who it is, but couldn't tell him at the moment.
After some thought and some hesitation and a conflicting conversation with himself in his head, Paras looked at Sam and said.
"I want you to make a soul contract stating that you know who is behind this and you understand what I want. I want to make sure that you are not taking advantage of my revenge to make me join your team."
"Sure."
With that, Sam has another member in the team and even this guy joined because he has a necessity which he believed Sam help him with.
The more members he recruited, the more conflicted Sam is feeling. It never believed in coincidences too much. Even though the whole life is nothing but a union of different coincidences, there is a certain degree to what could be coincidental. But now where he goes, and whoever he wanted to recruit, it was all becoming coincidentally convenient to him.
He is no conceited enough to think that he is indeed that resourceful that he has the capabilities to satisfy the needs of everyone he encounters.
He believed he is just meeting everyone that has needs that he is able to satisfy and that is making him feel weird.
He shook those thoughts away from his head and left the elven branch. They didn't stay in the city for long and went away. Many people saw them and even though elven branches are considered as separate entities within the elven community they would still be affiliated with some main elven entity that is going to send someone to investigate.
Their faces are all over the place and any from the city could easily recognize them. They have to make sure that they are not here before they came here.
Sam decided to go back to the desolate and plan further.
Now that the first phase powers are over, there is not much need for the troops. He sent them to their original places and let them train.
From the second phase, things could be handled by the small team.
Now, he decided to split the team into two smaller teams.
In the first team Five-Elemental King, Gran, Tamas, Jwala, and Argan will be going to move on their own and deal with the lowest level of the Phase two organizations.
Their mode of operation would be the same as before. They would go after the families in a specific order just like Sam gave them and Sam would select the first family or organization on the list.
They would move to that organization and first propose a business deal for the heirloom. If they didn't agree, then the team would proceed to use money and resources to convince the rival organizations to deal with them.
Even if that is not possible, they could just storm the whole thing and capture the head and grab the heirloom.
Sam would get the indication on the list that it was finished and he would select the next one.
They would bring the captured head of the organization to the desolate and place him in tempest valley where they would be tamed and toned down by the Old beast until Sam comes back and throws them into the chessboard to make the mellower.
While the first team moves like that, the second team would stay with Sam and their first goal is to make the last two candidates join the team, and then they would also join the first team in finishing off the second phase.
Everyone from the second team except for Sam.
In this months-long journey, Sam realized one thing. He is not exactly doing much of combat while he is focused on recruiting.
Even though he is sure that he would be in the top form, there is no improvement whatsoever. He got many new additions into his arsenal. He didn't even get to use the wings properly after he got them.
He didn't get the chance to test his power once he broke through.
He is too busy with the whole planning, roaming around, and recruitment.
So, after the team was assembled, he decided to get away from the whole task and organizations thing and go on a journey on his own. He would take a page from Kiran's book and fight with some of the people across the realms who are on the same level as him.
He would place various restrictions on himself in different fights along with various expectations so that he could self-evaluate.
But for now, he needs to concentrate on recruitment.
The next person in the recruitment can either be too easy or too difficult as he is a bit cranky.
He is a guy who doesn't do much in recent years. He stays in a large mountain palace and takes protection fee.
Every year he would take in a bunch of cultivators at different levels and teach them something before letting them go.
His expertise is in three things, Lightning element usage, Archery, and formations.
The legend has it that he fought all kinds of people and even though he doesn't practice with different weapons, he can give advice on how to use and point out the weaknesses of people so that they could correct them.
It has been over five years since he came out of that place and people only knew that he is Early stage of Astral Plane Transcendence from that time.
Nobody knows if he improved the cultivation or not.
The only contact he has with the rest of the world is the students and the monthly protection fee the organizations in the realms pay him so that the other organizations from foreign realms don't enter and do something to their realm.
As for the students.
Every year, he would take in a bunch of students based on a test and train them exactly for eleven months.
In the last month, they would be sent to different places to finish some tasks as a final exam.
If they finish the task they would get a reward from him.
The only condition for the student selection is that they need to be cultivators of Astral Plane Initiation and they can go through the tests as they want.
As for other ways to meet with the man directly without being a student or a person paying protection, there is one.
There is a path on the mountain that leads to the top. But it is filled with various lightning obstacles which a person needs to cross.
There are only a select few who barely managed to reach the top.
To be precise only three members. One of them asked the man to help them take revenge and he did. Another one wanted to be a student and learn from him for a long time and he was given a chance.
The third one is a woman and she asked him to marry her, he didn't do that and told her to move out of this realm and roam around for a few decades, he told her to enjoy her youth and if by the end of it, she didn't find someone she loves, he told her to come back and he would marry her.
She agreed and left.
Sam was pretty intrigued by all the information he saw on this guy's profile. This was created by five elemental King.
This man is eccentric, to say the least.
Sam doesn't know what it would take to recruit this man. But if his assumptions are correct, he would find a necessity that man has and would take advantage of it, just like he managed to do for the rest of the team.