Chapter 1243: Holding Hostage
One hour later.
Sam and the team including his friends are all walking into the inner city. At the gate, the team spread as they started taking out the patrol guards and other people that are roaming around.
They took one person after another without hesitation and they moved slowly.
After an hour of this hunt, they finally arrived at one place they are looking forward to entering.
The place where the battle between the sect leaders happened. The three sect leaders are all laying on the ground with wound-ridden bodies. They couldn't find any energy in themselves to even stand up.
The Earth Sect master, not only kill the Water Sect leader, he managed to fight the other two sect leaders to a draw right after that. Sam is really willing to see how strong the Fire Sect Leader is. But too bad, he is not here at the moment.
But luckily, that was to their advantage as Sam is not sure that he would have been able to do what he did now with him present.
Things would have ended extremely badly.
Sam neared them along with the team as they looked at the three groaning middle-aged men in pity.
The battle has just been over. They figured that they would make their way here in time for that, so they started exactly an hour after the battle started, and here they are.
The battle lasted almost two hours.
Night Ghost sent his ghosts out to take a quick patrol to check the positions of the remaining Grand Elders, who didn't show up at the scene which is kind of confusing.
With the commotion these four people created, it is almost impossible for the Grand Elders to not sense it with their cultivation level.
But he didn't care much.
He just looked at Paras and said.
"You can do what you want with them. It is all yours now."
With that, he took the spatial rings of the three alive leaders and the one dead leader as he walked along with the rest of the team. He left the Ghost Chimera there which is something only he can control so that Paras can have some backup.
Currently, all the three sect leaders are wasted and they wouldn't be able to recover for months with the best treatment, much less attack now.
And thus, the torture for the revenge began. Specter was also left there just in case Paras wants some memory extraction, so Sam doesn't have to worry about that side of things and can proceed with his plans.
Sam entered the nearest sect headquarters, the Water Sect headquarters.
When he entered with the team, all they got to meet are the young masters and some normal elders. There is not a single sign of the Grand Elders. Sam frowned at this.
He put all of them in a formation set up for a controlled expression within a single hall and left one of his friends there with the trigger as he left for another sect.
He was met with the same sight yet again and he did the same again and the same for the next three sects.
Now, he essentially held all the people inside the sect hostage.
He went to one of the high-level young masters and asked.
"Where did the grand elders go?"
"I don't know." The young master answered resolutely.
*PAK*
A slap was landed on the face as the young master fell onto the ground with blood coming out of his ears.
He turned to another young master and asked.
"So, where are your grand elders? Where did they go while the sect is about to go extinct?"
"I… I…" He wanted to say that he didn't know but when he looked at his peer on the ground, he gulped and said.
"I don't know exactly where they went, but from what I heard, they are making preparations for the backup plan. They are there to arrange things."
"Where?"
"I don't know. But all of them went to the Wormholes."
Sam nodded and threw him back into the formation.
"You guys might have heard and some of you might have even seen the explosion that occurred in the grand hall a few days ago.
I am the one who did that and you are currently inside the formation that could do the same but just a dozen times stronger. So, even if you are stronger than your sect leader, you wouldn't be able to escape and even if one of you tries to do that, the formation will trigger and everyone will die without even a piece of your body left. Be careful.
I don't want to create another genocide today."
After that, he went to the buildings with wormholes. Sam doesn't know how these wormholes appeared in this world. In every realm, they are different and at least one set of them would always be in one place whereas if someone carefully put them there.
He got one of the guards and asked to show which portal leads to that special place and which portal the Fire Sect leader used to take the grand elders for the treatment.
After marking both the portals, he got ready with some formations. The first thing he did is set up the thunder prison at the mouth of the portal used by the Fire Sect leader. The second one is a controlled explosion formation placed at the mouth of the second portal leading to the backup.
After setting them up, Sam and the group waited.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the first portal out of which Sam is eagerly waiting, a realm existed which housed The Palace of Divine.
The Palace in which Vardar the one who is famed as the Divine Healer stayed.
At this moment, he is sitting in front of the kneeling Fire Sect leader, who has all the grand elders laid down on some stretchers behind him.
Vardar is an old man who looked to be around the sixties and had white hair. He had this weird feeling of divinity and holiness surrounding him.
He had a gentle smile on his face, which seemed harmless to say the least.
"So, the Fire sect leader of the Five Great Sects. I didn't expect a visit from you."
"Thank you for granting the audience for my unworthy self, Lord Vardar."
"Don't lower yourself like that. What is wrong with your subordinates? They look pretty unwell. That much elemental energy corrosion, that too of different elements that have conflicting properties, you seemed to have offended quite a formidable enemy."
"We don't know who the enemy is my lord. We were suddenly attacked out of nowhere and this is the result of an explosive trap set directly in our grand hall. Our Sect is in utter chaos and because of some altercations, we lost at least ten other grand elders. We are in a pretty weakened state right now and we are potentially seeing a mass exodus to preserve our legacy."
Vardar suddenly frowned. His calm demeanor was completely gone for a second and he was completely silent. He seemed to have been thinking something seriously. After a minute of that silence, he finally spoke.
"My disciples will do the initial treatment. After that primary cleansing of the corrosion, they would need some special medicine for a few days and I would deliver the final treatment. Don't worry too much.
After the primary cleansing is completed, you can go back to your sect and take care of the matters there. You don't need to be present here."
The Fire Sect leader was delighted, but he didn't show it and only showed the expression of sincerity and respect as he bowed once again.
"Thank You, my Lord."
"Do not worry about the payment now. We can talk about it after the situation with your sect is over. You can leave now."
With that, the Fire Sect leader and the grand elders were taken away by attendants.
After that, Vardar immediately stood up with his gentle and holy smile completely gone. He went into his personal room as looked at the large expanse of land in front of him.
"What the hell is this? Why am I having such a bad time now of all times? First, the grasp over the Black Ghosts is completely gone, and right after that, within a few days, Grand Elders of the Five Great sects along with those young masters are also gone.
All the moles placed in different places completely disappeared. The situation is completely going sideways and the deadline is nearing for me.
What should I do?"
He muttered to himself as he looked at the serene view in front of him.
He thought for a moment and called for a disciple of his. The most recent disciple. A young dark elven woman.
"Eleven, I want you to go with the Fire Sect master of the Five Great sects and take a look at the situation there. I want you to learn everything that happened there and who the enemy that caused all of this is."
"Yes, Master." The Elven woman agreed and bowed before she left.