Raunak finished the procedures on the same day. He is especially fast and he is clearly seemed disturbed.
He brought the documents to Sam by evening.
Sam already paid for this.
It really is expensive for such a small piece of land. Even though the area is considered huge for even a mansion, it is still too much to pay thirty million for such a land.
"Do you have any backlash to add this to your target amount?"
"No, they agreed immediately. There is no problem with normal officials. Only the officials that are completely involved with factions are giving me trouble.
For some reason, my situation seemed to have spread through the upper administration of the city. Faction 1 is trying to suppress me with that infamous disdain and faction 2 is distancing themselves from me so that they wouldn't end up helping me in case I join faction 1 in the future."
Raunak explained.
Sam gave out a beer and asked him to take a seat before speaking.
"But this doesn't seem to be the problem that is bugging you. Do you want to talk about it?"
"It's just…." Raunak wanted to say something, but it is as if he couldn't find any words.
"The world is so fucking unfair?"
Raunak nodded.
"I thought you were an orphan."
"I am."
"Then why didn't learn this earlier?"
"Learn what?"
"That the world is unfair. You should be one of the people that should know that the world is not supposed to be fair."
"But why?" Raunak asked him in a weak voice.
Sam just smiled and let him continue.
"Why is it so unfair? Is it really too much to ask that I get what I work hard for? Is it too much to ask that?"
"Of course, it is too much. Why should you get what you want just because you worked hard? Everyone works hard. Every single creature works hard. It is the easiest thing one can do.
If you want something, you have to prove that you want it, you have to show that you need it, you have to need it as much as you need air to breathe as if you would die if you don't have it. But there would be people trying to steal that too.
Because, because of your desire, they are losing something they desire, you have to fight for it. But they are strong, the world has only one goal, to bring you to your knees, but you have to resist, refuse, deny and grit your teeth to stand up.
Not whine and cry.
You seemed to have gotten help at a very young age.
But you were just lucky.
And luck runs out soon and you would come to a point where you have to make your own luck and this is one of those points.
You just have to face it."
Raunak really wanted to say something, but he couldn't. His throat is feeling heavy and he is feeling extremely conflicted. He is really feeling that everything is unfair. He wants to scream to the sky and question everything and anything about why it is happening to him.
Sam couldn't help but chuckle. He was like that. But when he was in that state, he is a lot younger. Way too young to contemplate the fairness and unfairness. He doesn't even know what that actually meant.
Maybe that helped him adjust easier. Since he knew little he was able to satisfy himself with that.
But Raunak is different, he seemed to have been rescued from the honest reality with some help and now he is facing real pressure.
Maybe this incident is the breaking point, but Sam is sure that there are a lot of accumulated incidents that must have lead to this point.
He could have already experienced most of it in the school he went for his bureaucracy. But the love of his life made him reach this point.
Sam looked at him and said.
"If you want to cry, then cry. But make sure no one sees it. A person's tears are extremely valuable. You cannot let the world see you shedding them for its cruelty. It would take that weak point and tear you apart.
You can only cry in the embrace of the person you love the most or you in the company of the person you trust the most.
So, hold those tears until you meet your lover. Trust me on one thing. If I see a man crying in front of me, the first thing that comes to my mind is not to help him wipe them off. It is to think of a way to use it against him so that he would be useful to me.
So, you better not cry in front of me."
"What should I do to escape this madness? What should I do? I feel so lost and powerless."
"Then find a way to get that power."
"How?"
"How did they get it?"
Sam asked in return.
Raunak looked a bit confused.
"How did the people in power get their power? They have to gain it themselves. It is not going to fall in your hands, if it does you will have to struggle to keep it there.
You have to struggle for the power you need. Struggle every day to be more powerful than yesterday. Your every step and every breath should be focused on that one goal to gain what you want.
If you are not that desperate, then the world will eat you alive."
Raunak took a deep breath and he asked Sam.
"Tell me what to do. I will do anything to get out of my plight."
"Don't make promises you can't keep. For now, let us get out of this situation. The more these people try to stop you, the faster you have to finish your task. You are right under their eyes, completely giving away your every step.
The first step you have to take is to blind them to their knowledge.
Stop playing by the rules they set in the game. If you want to change the game don't be so passive. There are many other active ways, beating them in their own game, changing the rules to your own advantage, or destroying the whole fucking game.
Now go home and think of a way to change the way you play. I can give you instructions, but if I did, you would be needing them for your whole life.
So, you better think of it on your own and get out of their grip then you can think of making your own power."
With that he sent Raunak back.
Looking at that leaving elf, Sam couldn't help but shake his head.
"What is wrong with me? Giving these therapy sessions. It almost felt like I am life coach or something."
He muttered to himself and went back to work.
The first thing he did is to remove the tent and cleared the area. He uprooted the trees, grass, bushes, plants, everything that is not land was taken away and the earth element really did help him do that easily within the night.
Soon there is a large expanse of normal land ready for construction.
But there are not many suitable materials nearby that could support the structural integrity he needed. But Raunak is sure that he wouldn't be able to buy any of these things as they are monopolized by the construction companies themselves.
So, Sam has to take everything out of his divine dimension, which would lead to another problem. The administration would grill him about the origin of the material.
Sam is thinking of a proper alternative and soon he got one. He cannot use the resources that are not from here, but he can manipulate and modify the available resources a bit and think of a way out.
So, the first thing he did it, take out the ingredients for the cement that was created by one of the students.
After the cement was invented with the residues and extracts of plants and animals, Sam kept those plants and animals in divine dimension, breeding them.
This cement might come in handy someday and that someday is right here.
He went looking through the expanse and gathered all the rocks irrespective of size and gathered the sand from the bed of the lake.
He laid down a formation to dry it so that he can eliminate all the foreign materials like the stone fragments, carcasses, and all the other waste that was deposited under that lake.
After separating them with the earth elemental energy and mixing the cement in various proportions he started making concrete with the stones and rocks he gathered to create a decently solid structure without any elemental usage or modification is done on it.
If the structure is solid enough without any of Sam's extra modifications, he decided to fuse the whole structure to a granular level to provide extra strength.
For the next two days, he went on with the experiments and finally got what he wanted. Now, it is about time he started the construction.
