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Chapter 115: Indigo sea city

Five days later.

Sam entered the Indigo sea city along with Jack and Jasmine.

Just like before he didn't keep a high profile. It has been only one month and fifteen days since they started targeting the count cities.

There is still four and half months to deal with the remaining two cities.

Sam is sitting in his room at the inn as he examined the new meteorite sand. This time there are 12 cubes of it, but the sand is not silver meteorite sand.

This is Grey meteorite sand, and it is not suitable for making sharp weapons, it is mostly used to make some blunt weapon like a hammer. It has high impact strength.

For Sam's future plans where he wanted to get himself a highly functional production unit, this sand can be used to make the base of a machine or other rigid components.

But he is kind of confused, he didn't understand why the Black water is distributing different types of meteorite sands to different places, even though, giving them as rewards is a generous thing, he still doesn't understand on what credentials they are giving off the reward and the judging criterion to select the type of sand.

But he didn't care for long. Whatever the other party's intentions are they are benefitting him, but this grey meteorite sand isn't enough at all, he still needs a lot of it.

Indigo sea city is also a coastal region and this city is very famous for venomous fish. The name of the city came from an indigo patch in the sea.

That zone is called Indigo zone, where the sea water is in indigo colour. The water there is extremely dangerous and the creatures are all venomous in nature.

Nobody, who ventured deep into the zone were able to come outside alive.

The water itself makes people dizzy and unconscious easily. They had to create a barrier of spiritual energy around them and that too won't last long as the air inside the barrier will not be breathable after sometime.

Sam is very interested about the indigo patch.

So, he actually left the most of the investigation to Jack and Shadow mice. All he has to do is give the weekly reports of the investigation to Jack and he can deal with the rest.

After all, they can still use the Count and his forces. After the shadow mice is sure that there are no officials involved with the Black water branch or find out the involved officials, he can give a greenlight to the operation.

There is still a lot of poison that he created with the drugs from the Red coral city. Even if there is none of that poison, he can still make use of the venomous creatures in the indigo patch and create a variant poison.

Even though, there might be antidotes for the poisons of the sea side creatures, he can still make use of them and create a brand-new complex poison and use them against the gangs.

So, he immediately left these things to Jack. Since, the world is full of mysterious things, he wants to see if there is any opportunity in this place that will be of use to him

Every morning, Sam went to woods just like before and practised. But this time, he is not practising any combat instead, he is practising the wind element. He wants to see if he can identify the gases and separate them.

So, every morning, he is in the woods practising his Divine spirit soul cultivation and after noon tried to identify the gases and he mostly tried to practice identifying the oxygen.

Because, the trees emit the oxygen and he is surrounded by the tress.

If he divided the whole cultivation of Divine spirit soul cultivation into levels, he is now at Level 3 and he doesn't have access to further levels and didn't know how many are there.

Each and every level until now are unlocked with the improvement of the soul and spirit.

At every evening, Sam started venturing into sea with some fishermen. Even though they don't venture deep into the indigo patch, they move at the outskirts of the indigo patch.

Sam started observing the beasts at the outskirts of the indigo patch and he observed one thing. These creatures aren't normal.

They are mutated creatures. More accurately they are basically not venomous but they became like that because they were forced to adapt to the venomous environment created by the indigo patch. They evolved to defend themselves against the venom.

Sam collected some water and took it back with him to check it out.

That night after he returned to inn he went inside the dimension and kept the water in front of Yanwu.

Yanwu is from higher realms and might have seen many things, that is the reason Sam asked him if there is anything he can observe from the water.

"I cannot sense anything from the sample, but there is a minute familiarity from its smell. But I can't seem to identify it."

When he heard these words from Yanwu, he became even more interested in the indigo patch.

He cleared an area in the neutral zone of the dimension and planted some basic herbs there and some seeds of the herbs all of neutral type. He watered them with the indigo water and went out of the dimension.

Days passed, without Sam's complete help in tactics, Jack is having a bit of hard time to plot against the big gangs, even though he is getting the info required from Sam, he wasn't able to use the info efficiently to its maximum use.

If he asked Sam would help, but he himself wanted to test himself this one time. They still have a lot of time, so he is in no hurry.

Sam continued on observing the effects on the seeds and herbs he planted. After some repeated usage of the indigo water the herbs withered with a faint indigo shade on them.

But Sam observed something different from the seeds. They germinated and the sprouts all have that faint indigo shade too, but they didn't seem to be withered, rather they are quite healthy.

He didn't take them and let them grow.

Everyday, he made some experiments in the second-floor simulative environment. Even though, the replica of the indigo water was created and he performed the simulation on many animals.

The results aren't that accurate as they kept on changing and that is probably due to the insufficient analysis of the indigo water he had on his hand and wasn't able to create a simulated replica of the indigo water.

He didn't give up though. He started examining the creatures from the indigo patch, to compare them with their normal unmutated counter-parts.

Everything is going on.

One month passed, Jack is starting to make preparations to make some big moves against the gangs because, Sam confirmed that there are no officials that are linked and the situation of the gangs is similar to that of Falcon Cliff city.

So, Jack is going to stir some shit up in between the gangs, at the same time he informed the Count to take the actions immediately.

On the day of action, Jack still didn't ask help from Sam and the latter didn't volunteer.

Since, the former wanted to test himself, he will let him do it all the way.

Sam went to the woods as usual. He felt like he is close to identify the oxygen and differentiate it.

As long as he can identify the oxygen separately in a mixture of gases, his spiritual core ability manipulate can come into handy and he can do as he pleases.

Sam stood under a tree as he closed his eyes, he started concentrating as he simultaneously cultivated his mental energy.

Hours passed; Sam could feel the air around him started to view itself in a different spectrum. He could see various gases with different densities. But he was still a bit away from exactly pinpointing the oxygen or any other gas.

After a long time, finally he got an inkling. He could finally differentiate the gas coming from the leaf pores.

But Sam didn't stop, he just went on with his cultivation.

He stood there for more one and half day and finally opened his eyes. With his spiritual sense, he can finally differentiate the gases, but he couldn't identify all of them except oxygen.

Sam opened his palm as he collected the condensed wind. Soon, the wind became so condensed that it became visible.

But he is not done yet, he concentrated even more and another small sphere of condensed wind was formed with in the big sphere.

Sam took out a small space jade and he forcefully pushed through the large wind sphere and started pushing the smaller wind sphere into the space jade.

He is trying to store the pure oxygen inside the space jade.

Because, his next research is going to be done on the indigo sea patch and he need to make a device that can make him breathe freely underwater.

Because, from what Sam could guess, the main reason even the water type elemental mages weren't able to explore the indigo sea fully is because, even if they can stay underwater for a few hours and take the water pressure, the indigo water isn't normal water and it is fully contaminated.

And it seemed there are no proper antidotes to get over the effects of the water fully.

So, Sam is going to make a breathing equipment along with some diving equipment to venture deep into the indigo patch.

Now, his immediate research direction will be making a diving equipment which will save his energy expenditure to avoid water touching his skin and for that he has to find a resin or any alternative product to make the suit.

He even has some ideas on how to move inside the water with less effort.

So, Sam went back to the inn and holed up inside the library of the tower to findout, if any tree or another resource is available to get him the required material.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 116: Preparations

Sam holed himself up in the library as he browsed through the information on various trees that produce resins.

The first thing he wanted to do is find a tree that is similar to rubber tree to make some form of material which will not allow the water to go through it.

But he wasn't able to do so, because, there are no records of those type of trees. To put it more bluntly, nobody ever bothered to make a record of these trees which they didn't know how to use.

Then, Sam started thinking in another way. Beast organs. He went through the bestiary again and started recalling all the characteristics of the beasts that were mentioned and after more than ten days inside the library, he found a possibility.

That is to use the stomach sack of a Bladed white shark, this is one of the beasts with strong stomachs that is both physically and against the corrosive and poisonous effects and one more advantage is, there are mutated ones in the indigo patch and he can just buy them off.

Next day, Sam went to the Golden- Horse trading company of this city, there is he requested he needed twenty Bladed white sharks and the only condition is that their stomach shouldn't be injured.

Within two days, Sam's order was ready, by this time, Jack is already done with his task and gave the loot to Sam and they mainly consisted of the millions of spirit stones and the fourteen cubes of Grey meteorite sand.

Even though, Jack is bit happy that he was able to complete, there are many hiccups and he wasn't able to coordinate properly with the Count mansion.

When he asked Sam when they would move to the next city, he got a reply that Sam needs more time for research, so he easily complied, they are way ahead of their schedule and he can use this time to catch up on his cultivation.

Sam went to the second floor of the tower and he stood at a table which has bladed white shark on it.

This Bladed white shark is one of the beasts which is thrice the size of a white shark in his previous life.

Sam used a knife, to cut open the shark and started taking the guts out and after some cleaning, he finally had a big sack in his hands.

This is the stomach of the shark.

But this Bladed white shark is mutated and most of its organs including the stomach is a bit indigo in colour.

Sam didn't make anything out of this stomach immediately, instead he placed the stomach in a big glass container filled with the indigo water and he also started increasing the water pressure with his wind ability.

He just started compressing the water with his wind element.

And just like that he is performing all kinds of tests on it and the final one is a test on fire resistance and Sam couldn't help but feel disappointed but that didn't last long, because he has many different alternatives to make it work.

Sam started working on a body suit. Since, the stomach is elastic in nature, Sam had to use a small knife made of Black meteorite sand to cut open it. This is the last product of the Black meteorite sand he made and he has nothing left of it now.

At least he made the first stage of his claw weapon, so he isn't that worried. After all, he is getting his hands on the meteorite sand sooner or later.

After working for more than two days, Sam finally made his suit. It even has a mask covering all his face except his nose, mouth and eyes. But he doesn't like the colour of it for which he couldn't do anything about.

Now, he has to prepare the devices for his motion and breathing.

He started taking all the ores he had and started thinking on which is more suitable for him.

And the experiments began.

Outside world, more than one week has passed and Jack didn't see Sam coming out of his room. Before going in Sam said only thing and that is not to disturb him no matted how many days he stays inside.

But he couldn't help but worried, even then he didn't dare to open the door on his own accord and one more thing that is bothering him is that Jasmine started to become restless.

Since, she is just like a child, Jack didn't take any problem with her, but she is getting more and more anxious about Sam.

He just hoped that Sam would come out as soon as possible.

As if his prayers have been answered, Sam came out the very next day and when he saw Jasmine, he didn't know what to do at all.

She is just like a kid, she seemed to become extremely anxious and afraid as she didn't see Sam at all. If he left her and went on this sea expedition, he could imagine what could happen to her, so he has to make her feel less anxious.

So, the next day Sam took her to woods and let Ape and the panthers out, he introduced them and kept her company for the whole day.

Just like a kid, Jasmine isn't afraid of dangers or beasts, she is only afraid of loneliness.

By evening, she is even running around with panthers and hugging the ape, the ape even gave her a piggy back which she seemed to enjoy a lot.

"I am going to go out, I will be back soon, you stay with them." Jasmine nodded happily and informed the situation to Jack.

Jack made a camp in the woods, so they can stay for few more days. Sam went back to the inn to make some preparations; he needs to move just before dawn to avoid other cultivators who goes to the indigo patch.

Sam made some final adjustments to the suit he made.

Next day, Dawn.

Sam entered the sea on his hover board and as he moved towards the centre of the patch, the more he felt that concentration of the contamination is high.

When he almost reached the centre, Sam took off his dress completely except for the underwear and took out his suit.

The suit is still in indigo colour, it is so tight that he has to struggle a lot to get into the suit.

The suit is completely tight and it is a bit translucent.

One can even see the outline of his muscles over his suit, if not for the fact that he felt completely warm due to the suit, he almost felt naked.

But there is something special about the suit and there is a solid bump on the suit at certain places and they are on his upper back, back of the fore arms, calves.

The bump is made of metal and is covered with the shark stomach.

There are numerous holes of one-inch diameter on the metallic bumps, all the bumps are made in such a way that they are in same shape as the muscle structure on the place they were set.

They are specially made energy cells Sam made and they are of wind element. The cylindrical holes are metallic tubes, he attached to the metallic frame that is attached to the energy cell. But they can't be seen clearly through the suit.

After wearing the suit, Sam took out the mask he specially prepared.

It is also the breathing equipment, he specially made.

The mask is a helmet type, where he has to wear it over his head. There is a glass section over his eyes and a groove which let it sit on the nose bridge. The borders of the glasses are embedded with small light energy cells.

Below the nose bridge there are two pipes which will go into his nostrils although not too deep, just enough to act like plugs and these two pipes are connected to a space jade filled with oxygen.

Below these two pipes, there is a single pipe which entered his mouth and this is also not long at all it just barely touched the tip of his tongue.

This pipe is also connected to a space jade, but this one is empty and it is to exhale the air out.

Sam wore the mask and stored his hoverboard away, which made him fall into the indigo coloured sea.

After he dived in, Sam started using the light energy cells and the light shot into the depths of sea, even though he cannot see to far distance, he can still see his surroundings.

Then dived a bit deeper and started activating his wind energy cells.

He placed his hands backwards and the wind with high pressure was being discharged from his pipes, giving him the thrust to move around in the water.

Sam kept his head downwards and his feet up as he dived deeper and deeper.

Around thirty minutes later, he is already hundreds of meters deep. Due to usage of energy cells, Sam didn't feel that tired, except he has to concentrate more and as he moved deeper, there are less and less creatures he can see.

The reason is the concentration of the toxicity is getting higher as he moved downwards. If Sam just used normal beast skin instead of the stomach sack of the shark, he would be in a big trouble, because, the corrosion resistance of the shark stomach is not something to be scoffed at.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 117: The imprisoned Beast

After getting down for more than one hour, he estimated that he is more than 1500 meters deep and Sam found a rocky terrain on the sea bed.

He moved towards it and the place filled with rotten carcasses, some of them are of water bound creatures and some of them are of humans, there are a lot of carcasses.

Even the bones are corroded so much due to the toxins.

Sam went deeper and deeper into the rocky terrain and he only stopped when he found something weird.

There was a large area with some concentrated energy and when he used his observation, he wasn't able to understand what it realty is.

But when he moved towards it, he was able to sense that energy is distributed in that particular area and it is making all the water repel from it.

The pressure on him increased when he moved towards it and he has to increase the thrust so much to go against it.

If not for the fact that his body is physically as strong as a beast at the same level, he would have had his bones crushed under his pressure.

He not only found that formation is quite high grade, but it is very much eroded completely, as if the energy source is completely depleted.

Sam drifted towards the formation, but he wasn't able to enter easily.

The formation is completely sealed and even though there are some loop holes, Sam wasn't able to pin point them.

The loop holes are small and sparse and didn't appear all the time, so he waited as he swam around the formation to find out if there is any way to go through it.

After a long struggle, he finally found a loop hole in the formation and slipped into it.

*splash*

The water level inside the formation is strangely not full. Sam fell into the knee-deep water as soon as he entered. At this moment, even his suit started having corrosive problems and he immediately took out his hoverboard and started floating.

Inside the formation it seemed like a room with hemispherical dome. It completely deterred the water from entering inside and even the knee-deep water also came inside due to small loop holes appearing for split seconds.

But Sam's concentration isn't on the dome or the water, but on the skeleton right before him. The skeleton so massive that is not even as long as its claw.

Sam felt so in significant in front of the skeleton, but the massive size isn't the reason. The reason is the powerful aura that is coming out of the skeletal remains. Even though, it is not giving him enough pressure to buckle him.

He is still feeling insignificant. His bloodlines of Sky sovereign roc and Golden sun crow activated subconsciously to repel the pressure and then only he felt relief.

There are nine snake like heads to the massive figure, hind legs like dog and talons for front limbs, a d body like a hound, and tail like a dragon.

The bones have slight hint of purple on it. The skeleton is so majestic even in this state.

"Hydra." Sam could only mutter this word subconsciously.

Yes, the skeleton in front of him belongs to the mythical beast Hydra, but the hydra isn't completely same as that of Greek mythology of earth.

The on in the Greek mythology is Lernaean Hydra and that is only one in the world which is killed by Hercules.

The hydra in front of him are descendants of that immortal beast.

Sam let out Yanwu and Sky from the divine dimension. The formation provided him enough space to fly.

"Imprisoned Variant Hydra." Yanwu immediately muttered after seeing the skeleton.

Obviously, Sky didn't know about it at all.

Sam looked at Yanwu with a questioning gaze and the latter explained.

"Back at home, the story of this hydra is part of history. The basic hydra having nine heads will have same abilities to all his heads but the variant hydra is not same. Each head has different type of poison and each has different ability.

The hydra tribe ostracised these variant hydras from them due to their powerful abilities and eliminated them, but the story is that a normal male hydra from royal family and a female variant hydra escaped together.

But the whole tribe sent the power houses and even sought help from other tribes and chased them. Even though, the male is a prince and one of the strongest from the tribe, he was completely surrounded.

Since, he was from the royal family he was subdued and taken back to the tribe, while the female variant hydra was chased.

Then only they knew one thing, that the female is stronger than the male and even when surrounded by them, they were only able to subdue her and the instant kill was completely out of question.

So, they subdued her and imprisoned her in a very powerful formation, and the energy source is the beast itself.

In this way they left her to die after continuous depletion of energy. I never thought that I would encounter the imprisoned hydra here."

When Yanwu finished the story, Sam looked at the skeleton again and saw that there are some long chains attached to spikes.

Each long chain had one spike on end which was inside the skeleton, meaning it was stabbed to the beast core and the other end of the chain is connected to another spike which is stood like a pillar.

In the same way, there are lot of chains and spikes which are acting like the energy nodes and the source of energy.

The chains and spikes are full of runes. Sam closed moved towards the skeleton. The water is almost purple in colour, the concentration of the toxins is quite high.

He though of something and started immediately entered the divine dimension. He made a clearing in the water zone and created a formation.

He came out and started observing all the water to the divine dimension, this would not only help him to explore this place, he can also use this water to make some potent poison.

A pool was formed inside the dimension within the formation.

Soon, the formation became empty, but there is some water seeping slowly from outside, but it is not enough to fill the formation completely.

But when the water is completely empty, Sam took a step back in astonishment.

There is a huge egg in front of him which was placed horizontally, he wasn't able to find out earlier because the water level near the skeleton is high and the egg was completely submerged.

The egg is full of runes. Which seemed to be written with purple blood.

Sam didn't move forward and just probed it with his spiritual sense. A voice rung in his head.

[Whoever you are, I don't know you. But you are the only person I can ask you help now. I was chased by my kin and was separated from my love. The only thing I was left with was my own offspring.

If you are hearing this, my offspring is still sealed from birth and still alive.

But I don't know how many days the remnants of my energy will be able to save it for.

So, I hope you will unseal it and let it come to this world.]

Then the process of unsealing was transmitted to Sam's mind.

[I know that I don't have any right to ask for help. But I am not asking you as a beast, but as a mother.

My only sin is to be born as a variant and my child has nothing to do with it. I hope you can give my child a chance to live and you can have my remains as compensation.

My remains no matter how old they might be, are one of the valuable treasures in the world. Even the single claw or the fang can be made into a powerful weapon. So, I hope it is enough for you.]

This is the last message that came to Sam's mind before a glow disappeared from egg. But the runic seals which seemed to be from the blood of the hydra itself still remained. Apparently, they are runes that maintained the seal.

Sam looked at the formation which is still working, there are no restrictions on the egg though. So, he first stored inside the divine dimension.

So, after that he thought of the way to remove the restrictions of the formation to take away the skeleton.

Because, he wasn't able to move the skeleton and it seems that the chains are restricting the spatial transfer as he failed to move it into the divine dimension.

This only makes sense, as a top-level beast from the higher realms, the hydra might even be able to tear open the space, if there were no restrictions placed on it. He started his brain storming as he observed the formation and the spikes responsible for maintaining it.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 118: Blood Ghoul

Sam went to the edge of the formation. Due to long term depletion of energy from the hydra, the formation has eroded.

But even after it was eroded, it is not easy for him to break.

His level of attainment in the formations and the inscriptions is not high enough for him to break the formation open

Even a stone wall which is tens of meters thick was tested with time and became as weak as a mud wall, digging a mud wall of that size isn't a normal person could do and Sam is in same situation.

But he didn't give up.

Sam thought about the energy flow in the formation and checked each and every spike. There are more than twenty chains which are acting as energy channels. There are a total of forty spikes out of which twenty of them are buried inside the earth acting as nodes.

He started observing all the nodes individually to where the formation is damaged causing these energy loop holes.

Even if he wants to deal with this, he has to take care so that there wouldn't be any damage on him due to energy back lash.

After a long time, he found the spot where the energy is depleted and the node with which he can work to destroy the formation without much backlash.

He placed his hands on the ground near the spike, and slowly started eroding the earth around it. If the node is removed the formation will be destroyed, then he can surely make use of it to store away, but he needs to be prepared to face the rush of the water as well as the energy back lash.

Sam immediately wore his helmet back and kept the hoverboard back inside the storage.

Sam worked more than ten days, to completely take away the earth and rocks. The spike is buried vertically. It is more than ten feet long and more than eight feet is buried.

His mental energy was used up a lot after making some rocks into powder and the fact that spiritual energy is concentrated on the rocks near it is not helping. He will face minor back lash every time he unearthed some part of spike and he needs to recover.

In this way, he is dividing the backlash into minor parts and taking it on, if he were to pull it all at once, with the depleted formation, even though it might be possible, he will definitely have to face major backlash and under this sea, he might even die.

He has to take care that the energy spike wouldn't be destroyed or the runes will be damaged, that is why he worked around slowly and now he is at the final step.

Sam finally placed his hand on the last piece of the rock and another hand on the spike, and after destroying the rock, the spike was finally free, but he could visibly see the formation being destroyed slowly.

The huge force of water came inside, but Sam was also fast, he immediately started storing the chain inside his divine dimension and while the water is flooding in just before drowned the skeleton, Sam reached the skeleton and stored it in.

If he it wasn't for the fact that the formation was damaged a lot and the energy source which is hydra itself is completely depleted, he would have never had a chance to make it with his current level.

He also has to thank all the people who left this place alone. Maybe a person beyond Grand level cultivation might have been able to make it if he is water type mage and has elemental fusion.

If he could take some precautions against the poison, maybe they might have a chance to encounter the formation even if they weren't able to identify it immediately.

In this way, other powerhouse wouldn't leave it alone.

Sam was sure that if there are any resource used for cultivation had appeared instead of mutated water creatures, they would have definitely ventured in even with the risk of poison.

But since there was nothing else and all the people who entered the zone ended up dead, they left it alone.

Sam really did feel grateful for them for leaving

He let the water drown him first instead of struggling and went along with the flow, but he wasn't throw far away and still stayed in the vast rocky terrain.

After stabilizing for a bit, he went upwards with full thrust

He is faster when coming up than when he went down.

But he didn't come up to the surface directly, because the indigo patch was destroyed due to Sam taking away the formation. This indigo water was diluted and the whole sea region became indigo but the colour was a lot lighter and the water was close to normal.

In a few days, the water might even turn back to normal again.

But if he goes out now, he might have to face the people who are on the top and witnessed the scene.

He stayed underwater and travelled near the coast line as he went away from the city. After he reached the coast near woods, Sam came out of the water and removed his suit.

After wearing his usual clothes, he didn't take out the Harbinger, but called out Sky and soared higher to get the direction of city. And soon he is on the way back to the Indigo sea city.

This trip was way beyond profitable and it is more or less time to move to next city.

Sam came back to the vicinity of the city and went to the place where Jack and Jasmine camped.

When he was there, Jasmine is playing with ape. She sat on ape's shoulder and was eating a fruit.

When Sam came, she came down and ran over to greet him.

He just smiled in reply. At this moment Jack wasn't in the camp, jasmine said he went to hunt.

After a while, Sam brought a Green horned deer with him, he greeted Sam.

"Is your work complete?"

"Yeah. We can leave today."

After that short exchange, all of them sat to eat.

Later, they packed everything up, Sam took Yanwu and Sky out along with Harbinger.

Soon, three of them are soaring towards their last Count city and that is the Cougar city.

This city is a bit different because, the city wasn't named after its surroundings or resources, rather it was named after the noble family who holds the count title. The Cougar city is under the jurisdiction of the Cougar family.

They are also first-generation nobles who earned their title during the establishment of the empire just like how the Blue flame city was named.

Within three days the three of them are near the city. It has been only a little more than three months since they started the journey to clear three count cities' underground forces.

Now, all they have to do is deal with the Cougar city and wait for the remaining people to come. Then their mission can be considered complete and they can return to the Blue flame city.

When they are near the vicinity, they landed and started walking, but in the middle of their short journey in which, ape is working on finding some trees and herbs, they smelled something very ominous.

There seemed to be a thick blood smell, nearing them and the ape became more sensitive, because blood smell doesn't feel delicious at all.

Then suddenly a blood red figure stopped them in their tracks. It is like a lump of blood red matter with two arms. It is five feet tall and there are two hollows on its 'face' which seemed to be the eyes.

Sam never saw this before, but Jack seemed to know about this.

"Blood spirit ghoul." When Sam heard this, he furrowed his brows.

But there is no more time to get answers as the ghoul started attacking them.

Sam deliberately blocked the punch, the body of the ghoul seemed to be in semi solid state, but the punch felt like he was hit by a lump of solid iron.

He took a step back, Jack started fighting it with sword and soon he finished the fight with a stab. The ghoul doesn't seem to be the strong.

Sam walked towards the ghoul and he saw Jack taking out his sword and at the tip of the sword a round shaped red coloured gem like thing was present.

Seeing Sam walking towards him, Jack said.

"My mom said to me about the Blood ghoul and apparently, the person who killed my father was one who uses the blood spirit ghouls.

They are actually one of the creatures created by most vicious of methods.

These ghouls are formed from the blood of the deceased people, people filled with the resentment.

The people who were tortured to extreme and slaughtered at a same place will have a collective resentment towards a single person, their blood essence will gather together and all their negative emotions along with the spiritual energy will form this blood core made of those blood essences.

But the maker will mark the blood core with his spiritual brand and control it, but this seemed to be a stray one."

When Sam heard Jack's explanation, he was surprised. He never expected that he would encounter something like this here.

He crouched down and placed his hands in the puddle of semisolid blood. It can be called as condensed blood. But that is not what surprised him most.

The most surprising thing is there is a metal that is on par with the meteorite sand completely dissolved in the blood and that is none other than the Blood iron.

Yes, the iron that is present in human's blood. Since, the blood along with a person upgrades with a cultivator, the iron in the body also generates that quality, but the only difference is the Blood iron is upgraded with the Blood essence only.

So, if a person forges a blood with this iron, he or she has to walk the path of slaughter to improve the grade of the weapon, they feed on their enemies' blood essence to improve the grade.

The acquisition of the blood is also quite inhumane, that is why even though the blood iron is not scarce, it is not seen anywhere at all.

He is surprised that the Blood ghouls will use this Blood iron to attack.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 119: Surprise meeting

Sam and Jack checked the surroundings and found a place filled with corpses, but all their faces are messed up and can not be identified at all. The corpses are also is pieces. They are also close to rotting.

Then they came to conclusion. The Blood spirit ghoul is not created intentionally, but rather an accident due to these corpses.

But they question is who is the person who carried out this massacre and why did he do it?

They didn't linger on it for much longer and walked towards the city.

Just like the previous times, they entered the city discreetly and went to a most rundown inn.

But there a surprise awaited him, actually not only to him, even Jack was surprised because, there was another group of people checking in and they knew these people.

They are none other than their teammates.

Philip is the first one to notice them, and he didn't seem surprised at all. He waved his hands as if meeting here was natural.

Philip said as he saw their surprised expressions.

"Do you think you are the only one who can complete the tasks faster? If not for the fact that it took time to travel, we might have come back a long time ago. Almost all the cities only took two days to clear them out.

I don't know what you gave to Watt, but the intel gathering took less than a day. And we taking them down didn't prove to be a challenge at all."

When Sam heard this, he didn't even know what to say. But at least he was glad. Because, he didn't find the time to work on ape. He needs to upgrade latter's bloodline, he first thought that he should do that after dealing with the Black water.

But since, all of them are here, he can use this chance to upgrade the latter's bloodline while they simultaneously carried out the task. All he has to do was, get involved when the situation turned sideways.

Sam greeted them and all of the checked into their rooms. Jasmine excitedly talked to Kelly, about how she flew on a Golden bird and how she played with Ape and panthers.

After going into his room, Sam immediately entered the second floor of the tower.

The trouble with unleashing Golden fist ape's bloodline is a bit troublesome.

Because, unlike shadow mice with impurities and Sky with partial bloodline, the Golden fist ape is a but different. The Golden ape bloodline is completely inside the ape.

But the problem is that 50 percent of the bloodline was under the suppression of the natural seal which is due to the conditions of environment it was born.

Since, the Golden fist ape of his has around 50 percent bloodline activated, its birth environment must have been above average.

But unseal this national suppression, he has to work on it. The process itself is not complicated at all, but it is extremely taxing, not only to his body but also his mentality.

He will mentally exhausted and the recovery time would be quite high.

He can even recover his body within a day if he cultivated, but the mental exhaustion will take more than that and he needs to cultivate his soul and spirit continuously otherwise, he wouldn't be able to stay peaceful and he will become extremely sensitive.

He informed Jack to not to disturb him for the next two to three days and gave away all the other mice he had.

With ten shadow mice taking action, the investigation will take an exponential leap in speed and might even be finished.

But before going in Sam listened to City's situation from Watt.

The City has recently changed its counts. The son of the previous count who is in Great warrior level 2 just took the position a week ago.

The rumours are that the old count has gone out to search for further cultivation opportunities as his own son caught up to him.

Sam didn't find anything strange, he only warned him to not involve with the count until all the info was obtained and ready to take action.

He also told him to cooperate with Jack as he managed to clear the previous count city and with the help of ten shadow mice the time will greatly reduce and they can even finish the job in ten days.

He didn't bother mentioning the loot as he knew that the loot will be his no matter what. If these guys really the type to play any tricks, he might have gone with Watt alone and left them to fend for themselves.

Sam sat in the second floor and started grinding the herbs along with some types of beast blood.

He started painting the runic inscriptions on the floor.

He took more than ten thousand spirit stones and placed them inside the inscription runes.

After that, the ape sat inside its designated spot and Sam stood in his designated spot.

He started channelling the spiritual energy. The energy was forcefully directed towards the beast core of the ape.

The process has to be done with extreme precision, if it was even a little bit off, the beast would die.

After the energy entered the beast core, it started channelling itself into all the meridians and all the vital organs.

A completely impure looking blood which is almost black in colour started seeping out of the ape's body until the fur was completely covered with it.

This is the first step.

The next step is activating the latent bloodline and let it resonate with the active blood line.

This is the most taxing as Sam has to concentrate to fullest and the process is not a short one, he will be taking more than ten days for this finish.

Meanwhile, outside world at night after the dinner time of the inn is over, Watt and the remaining teams are sitting inside the dining hall. Because, even the first day of the information is something made them stunned.

The underworld of the city is completely controlled by only one gang. Of all the count cities, this might as well be the only count city which has only one big gang.

They still didn't know how to feel about this, that is why they gathered here. Only Watt and Jack are a little bit normal. Of course, there is Philip who is always same no matter the situation.

"We are still going to proceed the same. We will enquire for a small-time member who likes to flaunt his authority. He would be our lead to rest of our gang." Jack said to the group.

Their general procedure is to enquire about the smallest gang member and get the required info out of him.

After all, they will be more informed about the info on territories, contact points and all other stuff. But now that there are no small gangs, they don't have any choice other than to find a lowest level member.

But even then, it is not that simple, they just can't get info out of him by interrogation. Because, once that guy was abducted the remaining gang members will find out sooner or later and they will be more cautious and an unrest this early is not what they desire.

So, they proceeded to find that loud mouth of a person.

The next day, when they met for lunch someone has good news and that someone is one of the two siblings assigned to the team.

From his lead, Watt followed the guy and when they went to a certain area in the slums where the street vendors are common, they could hear a person's shouts.

"Do you know, who I am? How dare you ask me money? I am the member of Alligator gang. I will fucking thrash your shop if you ask me again? Do you understand?"

Watt couldn't help but shake his head. This guy is definitely a new recruit and he definitely not so strong. Otherwise, why would he harass a few vendors in a slum if he all that powerful.

Watt left after just taking a look. The guy who brought him here, one of the siblings was confused. He never knew how Watt gathered information and he wanted to witness it today.

He thought that Watt might have some stealth skills or tailing skills in order to get info to that level. But it seemed that he isn't in luck to see them.

But he didn't know that Watt already did his job. He left five shadow mice to follow the guy and they will slowly penetrate into the gang.

The remaining five will be directed into the Count mansion to keep a track on the officials as well as Count.

So, that day Watt made a trip to the street opposite to the count mansion and left the remaining mice.

Now all they have to do is wait and think on how to use the situation in the gang to their favour.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 120: Suspicion

While Watt and the remaining members are thinking of how to make their moves on the gangs, Sam is struggling inside the tower.

At this moment he stood there at the spot with his eyes closed. He is sweating profusely that his hair was soaked. He is feeling an intense head-ache as if someone was splitting his head apart.

The ape is also going through extreme pain. But the pain is all over the body as its blood underwent a transformation.

Sam is doing his best to hold up. He is at the final step. Only one percent of blood in the ape has to be activated and he would be done with it.

After more than five hours of struggle, Sam relaxed a bit. The stress on his brain and body reduced, he opened his eyes as he watched the ape undergo its final physical transformation.

The ape's muscles became smaller but the density increased and its form became closer to humanoid form.

The posture also became straighter and one can even see the strong muscular outline even when it was covered with the light golden fur.

When the process was finished, the aura of the ape completely changed. It became more imposing and also more superior.

Its presence reeked of brutality but that only lasted for a second.

Sam shifted both of them to the location of garden. The ape immediately went on an eating spree over all the fruits.

It needs a lot on energy to recover and so do Sam.

Sam looked at a patch of land in water region. The surroundings of the land became completely withered and the earth was even corroded.

That is the place where the toxic water he collected from the indigo patch was kept.

Even though, it was surrounded by a formation, it only to prevent it from flowing.

Inside the formation, the majestic skeleton was left within the pool along with the egg.

Last time on the sea bed, Sam was unable to examine the skeleton closely to study its features.

All he did is to identify key parts of the skeletons to identify the species. He planned to look into it after the mission was over completely and then he will have a lot of time to observe and he can unseal the egg and let it hatch.

Right now, he is in a pathetic state. He is both physically and mentally exhausted.

At this moment, he didn't even have energy to eat.

Sam came outside and sat in his room cross-legged.

He took out a formation disc which he made himself and placed it on floor before filling the room with spiritual stones.

He needs to cultivate for some time to regain his physical strength and mental strength.

He started devouring the energy from the spirit stones.

At this moment both Yanwu and Sky also came out of the divine dimension in their smaller forms. When they saw the absorption rate of Sam, they felt that it might be a good time to breakthrough to the late stages of Novice

After finishing the blood line activation, Sam is like a dried-up sponge, if Yanwu and Sky formed an energy link with him and started sharing his energy, he will take forever to recover.

So, the best choice is to wait until he is stabilised and then form a link. With the momentum of his absorption, they can achieve a breakthrough.

But they have to wait for more than a day for Sam to get back in shape.

Meanwhile, all the remaining teammates are busy. They don't know what they have to do, when they learned of the city's situation.

The crime rate of the city is extremely high, in fact more or less all the illegal businesses are being done quite openly.

The city guards are lazy and they don't seem to care less about the situation. They are like lap dogs of the officials, continuously doing their bidding.

The officials are even worse. They are even more lazy and their only active time is when they collect taxes and embezzle their money.

The Count himself seemed like a bandit. Because, he is the person who takes the major portion and this news didn't even come from the shadow mice, all this news came from some commoners they enquired.

The lives of people here are terrible.

They even learnt that the previous count, the current Count's father is also same and they lived same.

Some people after getting stronger will leave the place, but the commoners don't have that chance and the cultivators who are strong enough will not be messed with.

The only people who have better lives are some cultivators who act as mercenaries and hunters who sell their hunt. The external traders will also go through some terrible plight if they want to do business here.

Only big dogs like Golden horse trading and some other trading companies can survive peacefully, even they didn't have much profit in this god-forsaken city.

After two days, they still kept on roaming around the city while investigation.

Sam is still inside the inn, after he recovered his physical state, he became better, but his mental state was still in a mess.

Yanwu and Sky formed an energy link as well as consciousness link in order to make a breakthrough as well as sooth his mental frustration.

He didn't know what is happening with his teammates and didn't know the situation of the city.

Because, when the city was in this state, the reason will not be simply the laziness of the officials, but also their involvement in the crimes.

But the teammates failed to think about it. They felt that the shadow mice will bring them the news if and they can confirm it.

At this moment inside the count mansion, Meeting hall.

"Father, I am pretty sure that they are candidates from the Special branch."

A young man said who sat on the seat beside the head seat.

"Then why do you think they are here?"

"I heard that they are given a mission, but we don't know what that mission is." The young man replied.

If Sam and his teammates saw this young man, they might recognise him. Because, he is also a candidate who participated in the first phase of the competition and he is also part of the group who surrounded Sam.

He gave up in the middle and didn't manage to stay till the first phase is completed.

"I stayed back in the marquis city only to learn of their mission, but the details are tightly sealed and no one from my friends made it to the next phase. But I think there is one more person who is missing and he is the leader of this group.

He is also a rank 5 scholar artisan, he has quite a big business in Blue flame city. The most famous weapon shop and the most famous restaurant shop are his. He would have a lot of possessions on him." The young man said with a greedy light.

"Oh, do you have some problem with him?" The middle-aged man who is also count of the city asked. He knew his son too well.

"You could say that. But I am not lying to you about him, he is really rich" Obviously, he is not willing to swallow the warning Sam gave him. Count cougar thought for a second and looked at another middle-aged man who is standing beside him.

"Keep an eye on them and find out if that guy is here with them."

The middle-aged nodded his head and left the place.

After the man left, the young man asked.

"Father, did you find the candidate for your ritual. Time is running out. If you don't do this early, your cultivation will drop."

"I didn't. I am also getting anxious over it. Too bad, even after killing half of the clan for that girl, that girl turned out to be not suitable. Damn it, I even risked my life by killing your grandfather just to take over the authority and killed half of the family just to finish the last step. Just thinking about it is making me angry."

If someone heard this, they might even feel the viciousness of father-son duo as madness and the sharp crazy light inside their eyes didn't help to give a good impression.

The middle-aged man who left them already knew what they might be talking about and he didn't mind that at all.

He just left the place like nothing happened.

At this moment, Watt and the remaining people didn't know that they were targeted by the Count even before they found a problem with him.

They are still actively investigating, completely focussed on their jobs.

Sam, is still completely oblivious to what is happening and is still cultivating. He is trying to break through the late stage of Novice and he is on verge of success.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 121: Abduction

The next day the whole team are sitting inside a single room of the inn as they are listening to the report Watt is reading after the shadow mice came back.

At the same time, the similar thing is happening inside the Count meeting hall.

"They seemed to be investigating about some gangs and illegal businesses. I heard them when they are talking about a person named Sam who seemed to be busy with something inside the inn."

The middle-aged man who looked was tasked to keep an eye on them was giving his report to the Count and his son.

"Didn't you find him at the inn then?"

"I tried, but the other party placed some kind of formation, it will not only alarm the party, it seemed to have some offensive functions as well, so I didn't probe him further. It completely concealed him from my vision and spiritual sense."

"What, a Peak stage Novice like you, can't even see through a formation from a person with a cultivation less than you.?"

"Yes, Master."

The Count was deep in thought on how to proceed about this, killing all the members crossed his mind, more than once. Because, only he, his son and the servant standing in front of him knew that he is the big-boss of all the crimes.

If they are really investigating the underground business and it is part of their mission, he can't let them go at all.

But the middle-aged man interrupted his thoughts.

"Master, I have something else to report."

"Do tell."

"A young lady among their team seemed to posses the qualities you are searching for."

When he said these words, the room was silent for a second before the count became frenzied.

"What did you say? Are you sure?"

"Yes, master. She has exact same qualities you mentioned. Her spirit and aura are something different and she seemed to possess the mercury marrow constitution you mentioned."

When the count heard him, he immediately stood up and said.

"Immediately bring her here. Try to con her, if not possible use force. But don't kill anyone openly. We will secretly deal with in dark and nobody of them will be going out of this city alive."

Count immediately ordered and after the middle-aged man left, he said to his son.

"Gather every member of the clan and gang and be on high alert. We don't know of they had any power house escorting them. Gather all our members in our family estate and guard the door. I will make the ritual arrangements.

Even if the girl is not someone who we are looking for, the conflict will already be started. So, we need to prepare to take them down, but if she is really the one and even if the powerhouse did show up. I need an uninterrupted 3 hours with the girl to perform the ritual, you are in charge of it."

After that both father and son went on their ways.

At this moment the team members are already done with the report and when they got the news from on of the mice that the Count is suspicious of them, they realised their mistake of being overly active.

They decided that they will put on an act of being on a vacation. So, they separated and went on to various places.

Watt is the only one inside the room with Falck, thinking on how to deal with the situation. He and Jack went overboard with the investigation and somehow their group has been recognised by Count's son.

But at this moment a shadow mouse streaked in and when he heard the news on what it is, he was completely shocked.

The news is about the peak stage Novice making a move to catch a girl from their group. But Watt didn't know who that girl is, but he was glad that the mouse came as soon as it got the news.

That person might not have made a move yet.

But Watt didn't know where the girls are and he didn't know whether their target is Kelly or Jasmine.

He wanted to ask Sam on what to do, but when he opened the door and saw, the ape didn't let him in at all. He tried to say something and Falck translated. Ape also gave an answer.

In short, "Boss is in a critical stage and we cannot disturb."

Watt didn't have any choice and came out of the inn, and immediately boarded on Falck.

Both of them flew in the sky as they made loud noise attracting all the attention. Many people only looked at them with curiosity, but they didn't care much.

But the teammates recognised them and followed the duo. Watt was searching for the girls as fast as he can. He finally spotted them at the beach.

When Watt landed, he was already late, the Peak stage novice already reached the place and is talking to the two ladies.

He ran towards them as he looked at the frown of their faces, when Kelly made eye contact with him, he signalled to get out of that place, but before they could react, the middle-aged man reacted and abducted Jasmine.

When Kelly tried to resist, she was knocked out.

The middle-aged man was fast as he immediately moved.

At this moment, their remaining teammates came running.

"The count sent someone to abduct Jasmine, I got info that he is using her for a ritual. We only have three hours; Boss is in a critical stage of cultivation, inform as soon as possible. Jack let's go.

Philip, they are also planning on eliminating them, you lead the rest and stay with Boss, until he comes out you have to hold on. If it is possible, we will try to get her back."

Watt said, he immediately flew on his beast as Jack followed him by land.

The rest of them immediately went back to the inn to inform Sam at any moment.

Watt is really anxious on what is going to happen. He didn't know, if they can find a loop hole and get Jasmine back, at this moment all he wished was for Sam to come out.

He didn't know if Sam can turn the situation around. But he felt that there might be a chance, if he was really here.

Even though, Watt flew, he mainly did so, to not lose the sight on the abductor and also give Jack a direction.

They finally stopped outside, the Cougar estate. They saw as the middle-aged man entered the estate and run towards a building deep inside.

But they didn't dare go inside, because, there are a lot of people gathering inside the estate and all of them are Novice stage.

There are a lot of people from the Novice early stage to Novice peak stage.

When the flow of the people stopped, there seemed to be more than three hundred people. They didn't know what to do. Sneaking is almost impossible.

At this exact moment, Sam finally opened his eyes. He is at Level 7 Novice, finally at the late stage.

If not for his exhausted mental state, the breakthrough would have been easy.

He stood up and looked at Sky and Yanwu who just opened their eyes, at this moment, the ape came forward and said something, Sam's expression changed, the happiness on his breakthrough just a moment ago was gone.

He came out of the room and saw Philip and the rest are running towards him. From their expressions, one could say that they are really glad that Sam came out.

"Thank goodness, you are out." Philip explained the whole situation on how Watt and Jack went after the abductor to get Jasmine and also about the whole ritual.

His expression grew colder.

Apart from the anger, there is only one thought in his mind.

'Why?'

This is the only question in his mind.

In his previous life, Stella was also in same situation, even when he was in top of the world, they still dared to do this.

Now, when he was still a Rank 5 Artisan, the status, all of it seemed nothing now.

Even though, Jasmine is not as close as Stella, he is still frustrated.

The scenario was extremely similar to what happened in his previous life.

The family heads of those clans in didn't dare to do anything to him, but their sons, who don't how dangerous he is dared to do this.

Now, the situation is almost same. The marquis, who is a lot stronger than him, didn't even refute him when he blatantly went to him mansion and threatened him.

But here, a count, who isn't half as strong as the marquis is blatantly making his move on a person under his wing.

Why?

Why is this happening?

Even though, he was plagued by this, he didn't stop one second. He took out his hoverboard and moved towards the estate. Yanwu, Sky and ape who are outside, also moved out and started following him.

His teammates are the last ones to follow him as they were still in daze by Sam's speed.

Sam didn't stop for his teammates, today he is determined to know the answer that is plaguing his mind. He doesn't want to let the history repeat again and the same scenario shouldn't happen in the future as well.

Re-Birth of a Genius. Creator/Destroyer

Chapter 122: Enlightened

Sam reached the estate in blink of an eye, but he didn't move inside. Not because, he was afraid of the large crowd, because, he was thinking on how to solve this once and for all. He doesn't want to face this situation again and again.

If he wants to do that though, he needs to find the answer to that question.

That answer will let him know what he is lacking, and if knows what he is lacking, he is confident enough that he can get that.

He looked at the large entrance of the estate. He is thinking on how to proceed.

Watt and Jack came to him and stood behind. They didn't know what he was thinking and soon even the beasts and the rest if the teammates caught up.

"Sam."

Jack called his name.

"What should I do to avoid this situation again and again? Do I really look like a pushover? This is not even the first time. What should I do to make them think thrice before making a move on people under me?"

When his teammates heard him, they didn't know what to say for a second. After a brief silence, Philip is the one who answered.

"You are not a pushover man, there are many reasons to not to mess with you. You are an expert in more than one profession, you can have an overbearing status in a society, you have great potential, your battle prowess is off the charts, you are so ruthless that you will kill a person just because he cursed you.

But there is one reason which is offsetting everything and making them move against you and that is their lack of knowledge.

A normal person and a person with minimum social knowledge will definitely know better than to mess with you, if they know what you are capable of.

But what if that person doesn't know? What is that person doesn't know what you are capable of? What if that person doesn't know, you are ruthless enough to slaughter him for a single curse word?

Hell, you might even be able to slaughter the whole clan, but what if they don't know about it?

The saying 'Ignorance are fearless' is not for nothing.

If you really want to prevent these types of situations, make it known that it is a bad idea.

Make them know, that you are not one to be messed with. Make it known to the whole world and no one would dare to have these ideas."

When Philip finished his speech. Sam felt as if he was enlightened.

He understood now.

Why did those second-generation young masters make a move on Stella, because even if they knew Sam's status, they didn't know the significance of it, because only a select few knew about this as these young masters aren't qualified to come across that information.

But that only made them more fearless, if they really knew what he was fully capable of, they might have peed their pants at just the thought of him.

Now, he understood what he has to do? But he is regretting it now, if he understood this before Stella might have lived.

He looked at the sky and sighed.

He is determined now, he will make sure that the past doesn't repeat itself. Even if a person doesn't understand why they shouldn't mess with him, he will still make them known that, it doesn't matter whether they understand or not. They still shouldn't mess with him.

How to do it? Sam didn't take long to think about it. He stepped forward and stored away his board. Actually, if he used his board and all its functions he installed, he is more than confident on taking on all these guys without much effort at all.

But that would ruin the whole point. They will think that Sam relied on his gadgets and if they can make him separate from the gadgets, they can think of a way to deal with him. They will keep on finding these kinds of excuses.

They will still bother him like house flies.

He took away his feather coat and gave it to Watt, then he took out the claws he made. These are actually incomplete ones according to Sam's design, but they are pretty much full as all ten nails are present and he can fight with them all the same.

The only things that are lacking are the additional features which he wasn't able to make due to his lack of materials.

When they came face to face with all the people gathered, Sam stopped and said to his teammates.

"Don't get involved in this, if anyone of these guys tries to escape, just kill them immediately."

When he said those words, everyone including his teammates were dumbfounded.

"Jack, I need a favour."

"What do you want?"

"Take out your sword and be ready to attack." Jack nodded as soon as heard those words, but Sam's next words he was dumbfounded.

"If I try to escape or runaway. Kill me immediately." His words are cold and emotionless as if he was talking about something insignificant. Looking at Jack's expression, he said. "If you don't do so and I get to live, I will kill you."

His words only mean one thing. He is planning to take on all the members himself and if he can't do so, he would rather die. Even the him who is one verge on losing tries to escape, he doesn't want to accept that person to be himself. He can't accept himself to be that person who flees. Sam is determined.

At this moment, the people from the group also heard Sam's words.

Some of them are laughing and jeering at him, some of them are looking at him as if he was retarded.

Someone came forward from the back of the crowd, he is none other that the young master cougar, the son of the Count. He had an arrogant smile as he looked at Sam.

"If it isn't the arrogant and powerful Artisan Sam. Aren't you all powerful, right now your teammate is going to be a tool for my father's cultivation, try and stop him if you can."

Sam didn't reply and was waiting for Jack's answer. When he finally got a nod of acknowledgement from Jack, he turned towards the young master.

"Why aren't you speaking? Aren't you so cool when you are attacking me in that god forsaken place? Try and make a move now and I promise you I will gouge your heart out."

Young master Cougar stepped forward from the crowd and another guy who seemed to be in his late stages of Novice also followed him. Otherwise, the young master might not even dare to come forward anyway.

Sam didn't look at the young master. But he looked at the other guy who is walking with a sabre his hands. He immediately hacked his sabre in his hands. But before he could cut through Sam, latter moved and threw a Brazilian kick.

But the difference is this one didn't hit the temple, rather his foot was directed the kick towards the opponent's throat.

The sabre cut the vest Sam is wearing and his upper body became bare.

The opponent was nailed to the ground, motionless, when everyone saw him, they were dumbfounded. Sam's toes were pierced deep inside the throat and his who foot was covered in blood, the opponent was dead just like that.

Sam turned his head towards his teammates and said, "Don't get involved this fight is mine." Then he turned towards Yanwu, Sky and ape. "Kill anyone who tries to get near my teammates." The three beasts roared in acknowledgment.

The clan members were still in daze, but Sam didn't care and moved forward. He appeared before the young master and before the latter knew it.

He caught his neck with his left hand and punched with his right hand on the latter's heart.

*Crack* *Crack*

One could hear the cracks from the bones shattering.

But he isn't done, the next moment after he punched, he opened his hands and formed a claw. All the sharp edges pierced into the chest of the young master and before he could even cry in pain, the whole palm came outside from the back of him.

The whole place became eerily silent.

*Lub* *Dub* *Lub* *Dub*

The bloody hand of Sam which went through the opponent's chest was now holding a beating heart.

The young master of the Cougar family was dead just like that and the crowd only came to senses now as they thought about the consequences.

They are in daze since Sam made the first move by killing a late stage novice in a single kick. But in a blink of an eye, before they could come out of that shock, the young master of the Cougar family is dead right before their eyes and the death was just like what young master described.

"Gouged the heart out."