Arc moved to the imperial capital of the Adrian empire to control the situation. He has to handle it and must gain the recognition of the people.
The first thing he did after entering the imperial capital is to send back the Flatfish puppet troops and one-third of the Mercenary troops back to the Western continent.
They will be having new mission soon.
As for the invasion of the next empire, he would deal with at the start of the next year. It has been nine months in the first year and his plan has finally kicked into full motion. He should take a cooldown period.
After sending the troops back, Arc went on to do some more things Sam asked. The first one is to send the death row inmates to the western continent, they will be forcefully fed the pills of servitude and added to troops.
Sam didn't want to do this at first, but he decided he would force them mentally not physically. Since they are going to die anyway, they might as well be of some use and get a new lease on their lives.
But the exception being, the sexual assaulters, rapists, child traffickers, and such. More than three thousand death row inmates are taken out from the prison. This is something they didn't expect. But Arc is not extremely surprised. He knew that Adrian has a weird hobby of performing executions on his birthday. So, the local authorities also followed the same.
They were also sent in the warships, after all, wasting too much of the spirit stones is not a good thing. Anyway, there is still a lot of time.
Apart from that, even the prisoners of the dungeons in Adrian are also given some chance. The prisoners are accounted for more than ten thousand. And almost all of them accepted. Who cares about what they have to do? It would still be better than staying in the prison.
These thirteen thousand people are almost enough to form three regiments. This is why Sam decided to accumulate the empires first. Not only would he have a chance to get the resources of these empires, the scarcer of the resources, but the trusted manpower also is not adequate.
No matter, how many times he posted recruitment notices, he wouldn't be able to recruit so many people from normal citizens.
But he is not going to use all of them as troops. Most of them would be appointed in odd jobs. After all, new territory means, more market, more demand, more work which would need more workers.
Out of these guys, half of them would definitely be factory workers and those will be of the lower cultivation levels with no potential.
If they do have potential, he would send them to mercenary groups and train there before throwing them in school.
Anyway, after deciding on these two things, there are some other things he had to do and that is to send the orphans and also some other poor people who are interested in going to the school.
There is no way Sam would lose such an opportunity.
By the time, he could go to the upper realms, he might leave these major powers intact without completely eradicating them, but he is definitely going to make some major changes to the whole planet.
The first thing is his organization which would span all over the world, would be the only organization without a specific region. Just like the four associations. Then his organization would be the strongest of all.
The last thing is that his organization is the most populated of all.
He has to recruit new people with talents.
The orphans and the people will easily come to the school, but the professionals are different. He has to establish the park and reduce the influence of the associations before recruiting them just like the Western continent.
For that, he just left the duty to Arc. Because he is busy. Arc thought of a crude but effective way to spread this.
He decided to take screens from Sam and display the school, the parks, the professional working environment, the benefits, the knowledge, and the opportunities. All of them would be played continuously for the next three months in every city.
He decided to not even leave a small city. Not even a city like Starwood city would be spared. He doesn't know if he would be able to reach the corners of the nation, but he has to get this thing going.
While the situation is completely stable but active in Adrian, the situation on the Usaine sect's side is extremely interesting.
The major powerheads seemed to have gone crazy. They are pushing the Usaine sect head with full force.
Usaine sect head is actually feeling like dying. He doesn't know why these things happened, but he is feeling extremely frustrated.
Even after the war ended in Adrian, this guy doesn't have any peace at all.
Arkiv at this time has holed up inside the sect and didn't dare to go out. He knew that when he goes out, he would definitely die. The disciples of the other major powers are like hungry dogs, he even got the news that there are bounties on the heads of the core disciples of the Usaine sect.
He remembered Sam's words that day. The Usaine sect seemed to be in big trouble and no one seemed to be going to cut any slack for the sect.
He wanted to see how long it will take for the sect head to control this. After all, the sect has more than a thousand years of heritage, it is not easy for it crumbles for some stupid reason. He was wondering if Sam is behind this chaos and if yes, why?
And that answer is to achieve one of Sam's purposes and it is happening right at this moment.
Sam wanted to divert the sect's attention towards the major powers and the Arsin should be the last thing they should worry about. Even if they did worry about that, they have to do so only about the parks, the rest of the matters should be completely ignored and their goal was achieved.
At this moment, no one noticed that half of the empire's officials are missing. That is mostly because, from the past month they are not in their duties, they went to have that wine in the imperial capital and didn't return.
But they are not having wine at this moment, Because, their hands are not in a movable condition as they are locked by some metallic clamps locking them to their chairs.
Their faces looked pale and their eyes are completely surrounded by dark circles and looked lifeless.
Their bodies are not looking like a cultivator body, they are like some old men, who are half dead.
Sirona and Philip are looking at them as all of them sat in the darkroom and every official is asking for the wine.
This is the effect of one of the nasty pills Old One made.
This is like some cocaine or heroin. They shouldn't touch it, because once they took it in, they wouldn't get enough of it.
Sam made sure that his wine is strong enough to eliminate any signs of that pill's properties when mixed with it.
Simply put, he turned them all into junkies. Now, they couldn't control their spiritual energy at all, they are almost like some normal citizens with the only difference being their bodies leaking the spiritual energy continuously.
Sirona looked at them coldly and gestured to Philip. He walked towards them and started asking some questions.
This is what their plan is, they have to interrogate for some days, to get as much information as they can get. The government of the Arsin is completely infested by these Usaine sect members, they will directly report to the Usaine sect.
They would definitely have some serious secrets in their minds. But more importantly, Sam also wanted to know what their positions are within the sect and what places they can access to.
He would decide to keep the people who have more access and their privileges which are suitable for him. As for the rest, they wouldn't die, but they would wallow in this addiction and would act as reserves for him.
After getting all the information they needed and recording them into the recording crystals, Philip went back to Sam's city to hand this over to Sam.
While Sirona will keep them in this state until Philip returned with the results.
The next day Philip came back and gave the list to Sirona.
She looked at it and started taking out pills from the ring Sam gave her.
She took three types of pills from her storage. One of them is the Pill of servitude.
The other one is the pill that would cure the addiction permanently and the last one is the one that would cure the addiction temporarily. The first type of pill is common for everyone and the second type and third type distinguish the people from the needed ones and the reserves.
