Chapter 336: Finding a Safe Place
The temple-head doesn't need to turn around to take a look at Arman to know how desperate he is.
He spoke casually and collectedly.
"There is a faint possibility that Sam is in his weakest state right now. From the information I got from the beast faction, this is the conclusion I came to.
There is no way for him to be unscathed after dealing so much damage, but there is nobody of his or his friends and any other remains that are found at the battle-field.
So, I am sure that he is alive, albeit weakly.
He has to recover after that and there is only one safe place for him. At this moment, the whole world has its eyes on him and it would be extremely difficult for him to recover to his health and even after his health is recovered to reach his prime and reload his arsenal, he has to find a source of income and resources.
There is only one place in the world which could provide him all this and that is the western continent.
This place is the only place where he can hide, recuperate, defend, and recover without any hindrances. He has many sources of income, information, and resources in that place.
So, for him to not have the previous amount of resources and arsenal, you have to stop his access to those resources.
If it is only him without any of his tricks, you can fight him directly and even the thunder god temple could help you.
But if he gets access to them, there is no way for you to escape." Temple said slowly.
Arman went into deep thought and said.
"What do I have to do?"
"Go to the western continent as an envoy from the thunder god temple. There are around fifteen months for the next palace of inheritance trails and we have to recruit a new batch of candidates anyway. The trials and competitions should have already begun a long time ago.
So, I will be helping you by sending you as an envoy from the thunder god temple to overview these competitions and candidates and this will be the only help, I am going to provide you.
This is also at the price of all your merits and credits you have gathered in the thunder god temple.
After going there, you have to work hard on your own, to slowly penetrate Sam's network and take over that, at least try to get a major part of it under your control, in this way you can stop Sam from accessing the resources.
If this succeeds you will live and if you fail, you will die and thunder god temple will completely refrain from taking any responsibility regarding your actions,"
Arman fell into a deep thought, he is too involved in himself as he bowed his head and bit his nails and failed to notice the crafty grin on the temple heads face.
But that grin is gone as soon as Arman looked up.
"I will go." Arman agreed and his tone sounded a lot calmer this time.
After that they discussed some more details, Arman left the room and soon Moriya entered the room.
"You will be accompanying Arman to the western continent, that is Sam��s territory and they both seemed to have some disputes and Arman seemed to want to do something to Sam's things while he disappeared.
Generally, we don't allow this to happen if any of our members are in a situation like Sam, but our relationship with Sam is more of a business deal than that of an actual disciple, so leave him be.
Unless he involves innocents and heavy casualties, you don't have to interfere.
If Sam returns and a dispute arises while you are staying there, don't interfere no matter what happens. Arman should be responsible for what he is doing."
Moriya nodded his head and left.
While the temple head is plotting something against Sam's territories, he is still unconscious.
At dusk, when shadows are at its largest state, Sam's body started reacting weirdly.
The Blackness of the patches became intense as they oozed that black foggy aura even more.
Right at that moment, he is inside a cave that the trio dug on a hill.
They created a makeshift bed and Sam was laid down on that.
The trio is looking at him as the black fog oozed out intently as time passed by, they tried to control it by injecting spiritual energy, applying medicine to them, feeding some pills to Sam, and so on.
But there is no solution.
As they watched helplessly, the time passed and the night arrived. Only at that movement, the black fog receded and to their surprise, it became lesser than the morning time.
The next morning the fog returned to the normal state.
The trio examined Sam's body inch by inch to see any form of difference and they indeed noticed on.
At the tip of his left pinky finger, there is a small space where the dark patch was reduced a bit.
It is very minute and not more than a millimeter or two. Even the cultivators would ignore it due to the insignificant size.
But the trio was overjoyed. They are extremely afraid and anxious about Sam's condition.
All this while, Sam was in the lead and they don't have to face many problems, most of the times all they had to do is train and fight when the situation arises, this is the first time they are facing a serious issue like this and to their dismay the one who always there for them was now laying on the bed with no consciousness whatsoever.
They suddenly felt like they are bearing a huge burden.
Particularly Watt. He is the only one who got a glimpse of the Dark soul Raven. He also felt the huge pressure at that time and he knew first hand how terrifying it was.
He has no confidence in living past a roar of that beast.
But Sam is still alive, he might not be safe and sound and be in his prime, but he is still breathing and his heart is still beating.
On one hand, he is feeling extremely proud of the fact that Sam has escaped such a strong existence, one might argue it is due to the things he had on himself, but everything he had was a reward for the hard work he has done, even the cultivation technique he obtained from Ling Tian which was the main reason for his escape.
There is always a price to pay for everything and as for the price he has to pay for the things he got from Ling Tian…
Anyway, Watt really wanted to fly up in the air and scream to the top of his lungs and announce Sam's achievement to the whole world to know. He wanted to see Sam's very name commanding the respect of everyone for his acts.
But at the current state Sam was in, he couldn't express any of his emotions.
That day, Philip stayed with Sam, while Watt and Jack moved as they scouted two different areas.
They only came back after the day is complete. Watt covered more distance as he had the silver wing in his possession.
"I couldn't find any traces of humans, but there are some traces of beast tribes. There is a possibility that we can find any traces after crossing the territory of the beast tribe.
Our current location is almost like a dead place, there are no powerful beasts or barely any beasts that are considered strong for that matter."
Watt explained his situation.
"There is actually a dead-end to the side I explored. There is a sea and there are no traces near the sea for me to explore. I wanted to scout another way."
Jack explained his discoveries.
Philip thought for a moment and asked.
"Should we explore a bit more or shall we move towards the beast tribe?"
"I think we better move. Even if we don't find any human traces, from what I saw the beasts are not that strong and even their boss would be a Level-4 at maximum. We can still gather some information from them with the help of Falck." Watt replied.
"I agree too," Jack said.
"Okay, then tomorrow we will move in that direction first thing in the morning."
The next day, the trio moved towards that direction as they carried Sam over on the bed with two of them holding on both sides. Although they could carry him over their shoulders, they are afraid of hurting his wounds. Since they don't know his condition, they decided to take the utmost care they could take.
After traveling for a day and a half they finally arrived at the said place. It is a tribe of boars and Watt entered the tribe alone.
After an hour, he came back with a large boar on his shoulders and said.
"There is a village nearby, but from what they said, it is an extremely remote place and doesn't have any powerful entities there. We should be able to go there in three hours at this pace."
"We will rest here for the day and will move there tomorrow." They decided and made a small camp there as they waited for the night to pass.