Chapter 856: First Death
Ling Tian took Sam back to his body and the Palace of inheritance finally came to an end.
All six candidates came out of the Palace of inheritance and all of them are completely exhausted and feeling down.
Even Arman broke through to the Transcendent stage, but he is completely exhausted and he definitely gave up. Only Noah managed to persist but she was on the verge of collapse when she cleared the final stage.
When the remaining six candidates saw them, they are all a bit surprised by the bad state they are in.
Sam took a look at them and noticed that Agun and Donner already broke through and the rest of the candidates are also on their way.
Sam, Arman, and Arkiv moved to a residence to take some rest.
Grace arrived to meet them.
Arkiv talked with her and then came to Sam to inform about the meeting with the Kings and Queens.
They arranged the meeting for that night.
"Did you guys get access to the dimensional crosser? Is there a way for you guys to leave?"
Sam asked Arkiv and Arman.
"Not yet. It is not even activated yet. It might take some time."
"Okay then, be careful until the rest of the players left. Agun and Donner seemed to be doing something fishy."
"Okay sure."
After that, Sam went to take a shower. He just made a small set up in one of the empty residences to take one.
His body is reeking of blood and sweat of many beasts and his own. He doesn't want to look like that when he went to meet the Kings and Queens of this place.
After he was done with the shower and a proper meal, he meditated for a while and went to meet with the Kings and Queens.
There are four kings and two queens in this planet.
When they saw Sam, they are all showing off their aura and tried to be as intimidating as possible. Except for Silva of course.
Sam gave them a smile and took a seat and started the meeting.
And slowly their auras started fading with every step of the meeting and the atmosphere in the room shifted completely to Sam's side.
By the end of the three-hour-long meeting, Sam had a satisfied smile on his face, while the monarchs felt like they are ashamed of themselves, but they are still grateful for the advantages they got in this deal.
"Since we came to an agreement, we can work on this immediately. Make arrangements for your younger generation and prepare them to leave this place.
I will take them to my place and bring back a few teams of my people who will be in charge of development in this place.
Since Nike is going to lose ownership of the place and you are responsible for making sure that the seal is lifted slowly. You don't have any connections with the rest of the world for now.
But you would soon get in contact with the rest of the universe.
I already have some influence in various realms, I will connect your planet to the rest of those realms. Even you are located in an isolated corner at the moment, I will make you a connection hub between various realms.
I will be back in a few days with my teams, so show me the area for my city construction first."
Grace was in charge of showing everything around to them. The Players still didn't have the dimensional crossers activated so they are staying for a few days.
In the next three days, Sam was led to all the places nearby the central temple, that has resources, he would be given a temporary base here.
The long routes between the Capitals and the Central temples are all undeveloped with all the resources left alone, because of Nike's rules. But since he is going to take over, the first order of business will be to develop these places.
He learned that the residents under the six cities are not exactly living off well. Their areas are not exactly resourceful. In fact, they are living in the outer circle of the whole planet with barely any resources, all because of Nike's vanity.
Now, Sam is going to work with the six cities and develop this whole.
After marking everything on the map and the immediate development zones which are near the central temple, Sam was ready to leave this area.
He didn't want to do it that night though. The six monarchs arranged a banquet as the symbol of their cooperation and he decided to attend and it is also a farewell to their younger generations. Even though it is called an exchange, it is more like handing over a hostage to Sam in their opinion, but Sam thought otherwise.
These youngsters will be another team of elites under him and would help him in taking over some other place.
After the banquet is over, Sam is walking alone in the Central temple back to his residence, and all of a sudden, he felt a sense of threat and dodged.
A hammer strike missed his head by an inch.
Sam rolled on the ground and escaped a bit as he looked at Donner who is standing there looking at him with cold eyes.
"Hello, Donner."
Sam wished him with a smile.
Donner didn't reply and made a move on Sam. He already broke through the Transcendent stage and Sam is still only a Peak Pre-transcendent stage cultivator. If it is a normal human, he would have easily handled him, but Donner is also happened to be a player.
While Sam tried his best to dodge with light elemental fusion, he felt some other presence.
Agun threw a fireball at him.
"Whoa? Isn't it a bit of overkill? Two people fighting me at the same time and that too you guys are Transcendent stage cultivators. Have some dignity."
Sam said as he threw a large beam of light into the sky.
Everyone residing in the temple campus saw it and came to look for him.
"Everyone will be here soon. Are you sure you guys want to continue?"
"Today, we have to take you down, Sam. You are hindering our growth constantly. You are too much of a big deal to be with us and at the end of this whole game, we wouldn't have a chance to survive with you present. So, please die."
Agun spoke bitterly.
Sam chuckled and continuously dodged with the golden light glowing brighter and brighter.
"How long are you going to dodge like that? You are going to die today. The feathered are not going to come here. Some priests didn't like the fact that you insulted their Goddess Nike by change of the ownership of the Planet and decided to help us.
As for the rest of the players, I highly doubt they will be involved. Arman is still recovering and Arkiv didn't breakthrough yet. Just surrender and we will end this quickly."
"After all these years and all the things you heard of me, is that all you know?"
"Of course, we wouldn't have even attacked you if this is our home planet. But we are far from home and you don't have all your forces with you. This is the best opportunity we can get. Donner also told me that Wights and Ghouls are sent on a mission today. That is why we waited this long."
"There is one thing you forgot. I always butt heads with people who are stronger than me. Why do you think that is?"
Sam asked as he stood on a stone pillar.
The Duo didn't reply.
But Sam answered.
"Because, when fighting with others that are stronger than you. You don't have to fight fair."
As he spoke a sudden series of explosions occurred all over.
Sam jumped off of the pillar. The grenades wouldn't do much to them now. These are part of the traps he set up.
The grenades are not damaging king, rather they are made of a special chemicals that numbs their senses. It is more like a smoke grenade of the cultivators.
Sam took advantage of this and he took an energy cell out of the divine dimension.
He reached Agun who is running aimlessly and placed the energy cell on his body right before it exploded and entered the divine dimension.
*BOOM*
A large explosion occurred which made Agun lose his right shoulder and Arm. The divine dimension crystal fell far away because of the explosion and Sam who is checking the surroundings came out mid-air after he is completely out of the explosion zone and took off on harbinger as he went after Agun and Donner.
By now the smoke cleared and they are trying to escape. When they saw Sam's speed, Donner dropped Agun there and then and escaped.
Sam halted near Agun and said.
"Seems like you chose the wrong teammate."
"No, this is the prior agreement. We are not obligated to save each other and in this kind of situation, I would have dropped him to escape if we swapped our positions."
"Then great. Any last words?"
"Make it fast. Please."
Sam nodded and finished him off directly and there was no resistance. By now, the rest of the players arrived at the scene and saw Donner who is running away after he dropped Agun.
They could make sense of what is happening.
"I thought one of us would die because of the Gods' requirements. But the first one died of his own foolishness. At least, he found peace." Arkiv said calmly.
The rest of the players nodded.
"Let's give him a proper burial shall we?" Sam asked Arkiv and Arman and both of them nodded.