At this moment, Sam is currently sitting on the ground of the second floor in the divine dimension with a bunch of models surrounding him.
He observed and tinkered with each model as he tried to find a way to break the formation.
The largest model of them all is the model of the whole mountain and the second one is the model of the formation, but only the nodes which are essentially the cylindrical objects all arranged in the exact positions they were placed on the mountain. But in this model, the mountains and the rocks are eliminated.
The remaining models are of cylindrical objects of various sizes and then models of some objects that are attached to these cylindrical objects.
By now, Sam is more interested in the cylindrical object than the whole formation itself.
The cylindrical object, let's call it the formation cylinder is the most high-level technical product that was used in this whole formation.
The one in the middle, the largest cylinder which was placed in the center of the mine can be called as the Parent Cylinder and the rest of the cylinders that are spread all over the mountain are the child cylinders.
There are four components in the parent cylinder. One of them is the inscriptions which are the easiest to understand and analyze of all four. The second component is on the bottom end of the cylinder which was inside the land. It is a large spike that is focused on taking the spiritual energy in from the mine.
The third component is the pole itself. Even though it looks like a normal pole, the insides of the pole are constructed in a certain way that there are several formations activated inside as soon as the energy sucked from the mine directly enters it. After the energy passed through all of that, it finally reaches the final component on the top.
The top component has two functions or to put it more precisely it has two sub-components. One of them is responsible for distributing the pure energy sent across the pole to the rest of the nodes and the second subcomponent, is responsible for condensing the pure energy into the liquid form and drop it inside the pole.
There is a layer inside the pole where this liquid deposits and some of the liquid energy once again goes back into the circulation system of the pole along with the energy being sucked from the mine.
This time, the liquid energy will be converted into the normal purest energy and sent to other nodes while the energy sucked from the mine will replace that liquid energy.
Now going to the other nodes, they are of different sizes. All of them have the same components, but those components differ from the components of the parent cylinder.
In the child cylinders, the pole is almost the same and it similarly has layers. The top and bottom components along with the inscriptions are different.
While the inscriptions on the parent cylinder support the circulation of energy through the pole structure and help to purify the raw energy obtained from the mine, the inscriptions in the child cylinder only try to assist to liquefy and make the energy active.
The top component receives the energy from the parent cylinder and also makes a contact with the rest of the child cylinders in the formation.
The bottom component is responsible for liquefying and storing liquefied energy.
The cylinder which is fully charged with liquid energy acts as a formation node.
This is the best formation node, Sam has come across in his whole life. It is even better than an energy cell actually. After all, at the end of the day, the energy cell is nothing but a structured spirit stone.
As Sam felt fascinated with all the whole cylinder thing, he found out one thing that fascinated him more than anything. The transparent poles are made of very familiar material. The empty spirit stones.
Even though he doesn't know how they managed to use that and change shape. He knew that it is not the same method as his.
Because all Sam did is turn the whole stone into powder and reconstruct the powder in the way he wants using the same construction principle that a spirit stone follows.
But the structure of this material is different. Sam felt excited. So much excitement that he looked like a kid in a toy shop.
These things would be reverse-engineered by him in a few days. After taking care of the formation, he is going to study them and find out every single thing there is to know about these things. In the process, he would be able to save a decade's worth of time in research.
He has had a large project in mind, for a long time. Now, with these things, that project would be finished at least a decade or two early.
Now, all he has to do is find a way to cut the formation down.
The person who made the formation is actually quite cautious, from the looks of if the parent cylinder or any child cylinder were moved, then the whole formation would collapse and explode.
As for the core of the formation, it is a divided core. It has two parts in different areas. One of them is the Parent cylinder and the other part is the thing that was placed in the body of Vidyut.
Both of them act as a joint core and if one of them is removed from its place or messed with somehow then it would explode and not just the formation, the whole mine would explode and it wouldn't be any different from an elemental energy blast that happens when an energy cell explodes.
But there, is another way to take care of this situation. As long as he managed to empty the whole Parent cylinder and take away the liquid energy directly, then the formation will go cold as it wouldn't be able to function. Then Sam can pull that thing out without any problem and Vidyut will also lose connection with the mountain and he can pull that thing out.
And the formation will not activate again.
But channeling the liquid form of energy is a dangerous task that is on a borderline impossible level.
The liquid energy is extremely pure.
If one tried to absorb it, they must be prepared to absorb it completely, as pure as it is, it is also volatile.
And this amount of energy is something that even an Astral Plane Consummate stage cultivator couldn't absorb in a single attempt.
That too assuming that person would be able to successfully channel the energy out in the first place with delicate control.
But Sam happens to have a way.
His innate ability of observation and manipulation is really great and he used both of them to get out of many tricky situations. Now the manipulation ability would be put to an ultimate test.
Sam took out all the empty spirit stones he has in his hands and when he understood that he didn't have enough, he directly went to Vidyut and asked.
"How big is your influence over the city?"
"What do you mean?"
"I want to know if the people in the city will do something nonsensical without expressing any doubts and questions if you ask them to do so."
"Depends on the task actually. If it is something that might compromise their interests they would hesitate."
"Good, ask them to gather all the empty spirit stones that are being used in the city. I don't need other elemental stones. Only light elemental stones and normal spirit stones. That is it. Can you do that?"
"Empty stones? You mean the transparent stone that was left after the energy is sucked dry?"
"Yes."
"Why do you need that?"
"Do you want answers or do you want to get out?"
"I want to get out."
"Then do it as fast as you can. For the next three days, every stone that was depleted of energy should be delivered to you, and then it should be delivered to me in that room.
You are not going to come in no matter what and only throw the rings through that door gap."
With that, Sam walked in and started turning the empty spirit stones into powder.
Vidyut immediately passed down the orders and although people are confused they sent all the stones as he asked and every stone was sent to Sam's room where he constantly turned them to powder.
After three days, he finally felt like he had enough powder and took all of it to the core of the mountain. Because of its previous state as a mine, there is a lot of space.
He dropped the powder which covered almost half of the room.
After placing that large heap of the powder, he made sure not a single grain strayed away.
He sat on one end of that heap which is close to the parent cylinder in the center.
Then he activated his lightning elemental fusion and took a deep breath before gripping the parent cylinder directly.
