Chapter 836: Provoke
After Sam caused the chaos, he retreated without wasting any time. He doesn't want a crazy feathered coming at him to commit kamikaze.
As soon as he retreated, a feathered came to this place.
It is none other than the priestess from the temple. She looked at the current situation and felt her heart grow heavy. She looked at the temple far away and then at the feathered that are killing and dying.
They stooped to a point where they have to fight themselves.
More than half of the transcendent stage cultivators of the city were killed just like that. But there is nothing they can do at the moment. She looked into the forest with anger bubbling in her heart. She has half a mind to go there and kill Sam.
But she cannot do that. The goddess ordered as such and they should follow it. Even if it is not for devotion, in fear. They don't have any other way.
They have to follow her words for the propagation of their race.
She is their only point for growth and prosperity.
"Retreat to the temple. Don't fight with the Undead."
Her voice reverberated throughout the city and the soldiers who are waiting for a call like that couldn't feel more relieved.
She started attacking the undead creatures to help them buy some time.
The feathered started retreating while the undead creatures followed them.
The undead creatures wouldn't stay undead for a long while, they might be like that for around an hour.
As long as they can escape to the temple and then defend for a while, then they would have some breathing space and just let them go back to being dead.
They went along with that plan and rested there. The priestess arranged for healing them and took care of the citizens' unrest.
After making the arrangements, she angrily walked into the inner side of the temple and reached the underground golden pool where Silva is still sitting there looking at his daughter.
"Silva, you need to do something about it. We lost half of our forces. We either have to kill Sam or give him what he wanted."
"Hundreds of soldiers and you can't even handle two kids? What are we even living for?" Silva replied with frustration.
The priestess didn't take it seriously and explained.
"We picked the fight, we are the ones who provoked him. It doesn't matter if it was goddess' orders are not. We have to take the responsibility for this. Have you told her what our situation is?"
"No, I didn't?"
"Why didn't you explain?"
"I don't have time to explain. She is looking for a way to save Grace."
"Looking for a way?" As she spoke the statue on the side once again got enveloped with golden light.
Both of them stood straight and bowed to her.
"Greetings Goddess."
"Hmm. I thought of a way to save your daughter, but it would require a small ritual, I can take possession of your body temporarily and save your daughter. But you would lose some lifespan and the longer I stayed, the more lifespan you would lose.
The worst part is that I cannot estimate how much time it would take for me to finish the process. You have to think about it."
"There is nothing to think about goddess. Please tell me what kind of ritual it is and I will do it."
Nike went on with the process of the ritual and Silva noted all the details down.
He didn't want to make any mistake. It is his daughter's life after all.
The priestess stayed silent the whole time and after they are done, she was about to say something.
But Silva held her by her hand and stopped her from doing so.
The goddess disappeared and Priestess asked.
"Why did you stop me?"
"I want my daughter to be saved before that."
"Why is that?"
"I don't want any complications. I want my daughter to stay alive first and then only we will tell her the situation."
"I cannot understand."
"You don't understand a lot of things. Not just you. Everyone in the city doesn't understand a lot of things. What is the situation now?"
"We retreated to the temple grounds."
"Tell them to stay put. Do not provoke Sam and Arkiv now. Stay silent and let the days pass, I will tell you after the ritual is over."
Silva went away and started preparing for the ritual. While he was getting the ingredients required to make the inscription for the ritual, he saw the state of the city and the soldiers. Sam clearly did a number on them.
There was never a war of this scale or any scale within this planet. Silva couldn't help but shake his head.
They utterly failed in the task given to them by the goddess.
If it is known to her then the situation might turn even more unpleasant.
While Silva is preparing for a ritual, Sam and Arkiv are also resting. Arkiv also had a busy night as he attacked the wall and the people on it from afar.
Such a long shot clearly wouldn't come without a price.
While they are resting they just observed the city to see if they would do something next.
But there is nothing.
The next day, Sam had a new plan. He let out the Zoi termites and made them enter the city.
The large forest is still a good coverup for them and the temple ground has a strong wall that blocks most of the vision.
As per the orders, the feathered are trying to stay down low and even the guards couldn't be seen from outside.
So, Sam wanted to think down the forests a little bit while he destroyed the city wall with the corrosive poison.
The progress is not much as the trees have extremely high vitality, so he let the wights help them. A couple of Wights are also on verge of breaking through into the transcendent stage. This is the best phase for them to eat up the trees that have an abundance of life force.
As for why he is doing this. Since he already had an upper hand now and pushed them back, it would be great to keep them there.
He decided to make an open patch in the middle which would make them open targets for a while. The way Sam took advantage of the vegetation shouldn't be an advantage for them.
While they are weaker, he would take this chance to make them even weaker.
Even then no feathered did anything. By night the patch was created.
Since there was no motion once again, Sam did something else, he started installing new equipment into that patch in a large scale with the help of Dia and the rest of the beasts.
Now the feathered will be trapped inside.
Sam collected the souls of every dead body he could find and is suitable for soul extraction and placed it into a lot of soul formations.
Since there are hundreds of deaths it is not exactly a big task.
The soul formations are also installed along with the new equipment.
While he is doing this, Sam is getting new Ideas, he wanted to see if this setup could be used in pair with the necromancer's circle and if it works, then this would be the perfect patch that could stop the feathered from ever coming out.
Unless the consummate makes a move of course.
Sam is also prepared for that scenario in case that happened. He still has the hair strand of Monkey King.
In fact, he doesn't even have to use that. He can use the thunder prison in conjunction with the shadow sword.
Due to his growth his tolerance for that also increased and he would be able to land one clean shot that could kill the Consummate stage cultivator that is if he prepared well.
If push comes to shove, he can just use the thunder prison to just save himself and use that strand of hair.
A week passed like this and the feathered still didn't show. Sam is a bit curious about the peaceful stand taken by the feathered.
But what he doesn't know is that the feathered citizens and the feathered soldiers are in severe unrest.
They couldn't bear to see Sam doing whatever he liked in their territory as if he owned it.
He just destroyed the houses and made this stupid circle and he is not even stopping, he went on with installing the large necromancer circle in conjunction with the new setup.
But Silva and the Priestess didn't give the orders, they just stayed quiet.
Finally, after the week, the ritual arrangements are complete.
It was already night by then and Silva started committing the ritual.
It takes around an hour to finish it and summon Nike onto his own body.
While he is performing the ritual, Sam and Arkiv got ready with something else. They want to provoke the temple a bit and see what happens. They are not really enjoying the peace. After all, after they took this city down, they have to travel for days before going to the next city and start a plan to take the equipment from them.