Chapter 976: Escape
After Sam's outburst, Sark started begging Sam like his life depended on it. He didn't have any cards up his sleeves and he knelt down on the floor while crying. Sam finally heaved a sigh.
Sam made a deal with Sark. Even though he didn't exactly like the man, he still had some battle prowess and even though he wanted to stay with his wife for a long time, Sam doesn't have too much problem as he had a position in mind for a long time.
But the current problem is the demons that are going to come to look for them here. If they couldn't confirm and second guess even after two elders are dead, then these demons really are going to be in trouble soon.
While thinking of a plan for them, Sam decided to take the blood and heart away from the pit.
He decided to store everything inside a pool in the divine dimension, but before that, he has to check the item that kept Sark thinking that he has something under control.
And when Sark did take out an item, Sam was half expecting it, but was still surprised, because it is exactly not what he thought it would be.
There is a solid blue-colored rock-like substance in his hand and it is the shape of the pointy nail.
"So, what did she say this would do?"
"She said that to activate the weapon, I have to dig through the soil and stab it inside the core and in this case the heart.
My plan was that if I use it now, the Azure blood demons will lose it forever."
Sark explained what his wife told him.
"Well, it is good that I came here and met you. Otherwise, you guy would have died along with a bunch of Azure blood demon elders."
"What do you mean?"
"The only reason the beasts didn't harm you, is because of this thing. This is either made by the blood essence of some second branch Azure blood demons or their bone marrows, I cannot identify it at the moment. But this is something the beasts wouldn't attack.
But there is also a reason why they all come towards the stone house and only stay within the range of the forest, not going too far away.
They are all attracted towards the Blood and heart underground.
If there is a chance they will come and devour and for some reason, they have a weird connection with this heart, if you stab this in the heart, the blood pumping would be affected and the beasts would storm through this area.
They might be afraid of the small barrier that was made of bones under the earth, but the formation will destroy the barrier once it was destroyed and it would make the beasts completely crazy-making them go through everyone that stayed within the vicinity."
Everyone was stunned.
"but does that mean, if you take these away, the same thing might happen?"
"The same thing will happen."
"So, why are you taking them away? Wouldn't it put us in danger?"
"Not really. I would take them away as soon as the demons come here and we will use the dimensional drifter to go away. I will tell the next plan we go depending on how many demons will come here."
While Sam is thinking about how to proceed in different cases and scenarios, something else is happening in the estate of the Azure blood demons.
Sark's wife is currently huddled up in her room as she cried.
Her father entered the room and said.
"It is confirmed that Sark is actually staying in the forbidden zone. I want to ask you. Did you give the nail to him?"
"Yes."
The father had a disappointed expression on his face. There was no trace of anger or frustration. Just pure disappointment.
Looking at his disappointment, the daughter was the one who got angry.
"This wouldn't have happened if you have just let me go. All because of your ego that this happened. You can only blame yourself."
"Yes, I can only blame myself for being a responsible father. You grew up as a princess of the Azure blood demon family. Even if you didn't ask for it, you never tried to reject it. You enjoyed all the attention, you took pride in that position, you savored the envy of others, you looked down on the whole world from your privileged position.
But for a position like that you need to make some sacrifices. I cannot let you sully the position and just run away. The very pride and fame you took advantage of from childhood will be gone. If you wanted that much free will and love, you could have lost in any one of the challenges for your position.
But you didn't. Your peers who didn't have that position didn't have any restrictions, they can marry whoever they want.
Now, you are envying that and rebelling calling the very same position you enjoyed as a cage.
And in that rebellious nature, you even gave the life-saving measure of the family to someone who you thought loves you more than your father.
I am just disappointed in myself for not being a good enough father to teach you when I had the chance."
The father left and there was an elder waiting outside who asked as soon as he came out.
"Do you think this would work?"
"Who knows? I just gave try. This guilt-tripping worked with her mother. I don't see why it wouldn't work with her. There is bound to be some seeds of thoughts planted."
With that, both of them left.
And just like the father thought, she indeed started thinking. There is hesitation and second-guessing all her decisions, but that is only temporary because as she felt the small bump on her stomach, she understood that she went too far to back down. If only her father knew, he wouldn't have wasted time with words.
After a few minutes, another Elder came and asked her.
"Your father wants you to come to the forbidden zone with us to ask the nail back. He promised that he would let him go alive."
The Elder was expecting her to agree, but to his surprise, even though there was hesitation, she gritted her teeth and said.
"I am not coming. Please say that to my father."
Her father didn't expect the stubbornness which according to his calculations should have been gone after the guilt-tripping.
But it didn't.
So, all the elders started their journey to the forbidden zone.
When they finally arrived near the circle around the stone house, even before they could make their demand, Sam waved his hand and the heart and blood shifted into the divine dimension.
As they moved, the beasts that are already walking towards the ring after identifying the presence of the demons, flew into a rage.
The elders who saw the beasts coming became anxious and the head said.
"That bastard seemed to have activated the attack, we need to go into the stone house to stay safe. Let us go."
And they ran inside. But when they entered, they didn't see anything except a large pit. They didn't know anything about this. The family head blindly trusted the guy who set the formation up because he was far stronger than these people and didn't have any need to set a trap like this to kill them.
If only they understood that guy's perverseness.
The formation was deactivated and the beasts ran straight to the stone house and immediately the whole scenario turned into chaos. The elders started fighting the beasts and tried to escape, but they couldn't.
Their only way is to slaughter a path through the horde of beasts or dying there.
Meanwhile, Sam entered the city with the rest of the group and ran towards the estate.
Within no time, the beasts would completely go out of control and there is a possibility that they would run towards the city. And even if they didn't the news of them going crazy would definitely travel to the estate and even if that fails, the elders would definitely send an emergency message.
The forces of the demons would definitely make a move and that would be the perfect time for Sam to make him move.
An hour later, everything went on as Sam expected and the forces are moving out of the city.
Sam took this to his advantage and took Sark with him in the dimensional drifter and entered the estate.
Even though it is a bit expensive, Sam decided to cover the loss from the demons. After entering the estate, it was the task of shadow mice to find the location of the princess and within an hour, they are already inside the room where the princess laid down.
Sam cut the reunion drama short and took both of them away.
The group traveled to the foot of the mountain and waited for the chaos to be over.
After a few hours, Sam once again arrived at the forbidden zone and made a sweep there. He collected the corpses of both beasts and demons. Luckily the battle was not completely over and only the battlefield was moved to a different location which gave him plenty of time to gain some corpses.