Sam and the team moved to the city where Leader 3 is currently located.
Both leaders are in the same realm at the moment but in extremely different situations. Leader 1 lost almost all of his troops except for some close confidants.
The rest of them all died. Now all that is left is a direct clash between him and Leader 3 which could subvert the situation.
While Leader 3's group is tracking, Leader 1 is escaping and hiding while killing Leader 3's troops here and there. He threw all the rules of war out of the window. Since all his territory is occupied by Leader 2 and Leader 1, there is nothing much they could do to him in return.
But he is sure that once he was spotted, the game would reach the final stage and he wanted to deal as much damage as possible.
The team got this information and decided to help Leader 3 a bit by tracking the other party. So, first, they placed surveillance at Leader 3's place and then waited for his move.
And the very next day, Leader 3 got the news and he moved along with his group. Sam sent some surveillance equipment closely with them so that he could capture a hint of audio on where they would be going. As long as he got a city name, he is sure that he could help leader 3.
After much effort, he managed to get the city's name as Leader 3 briefed his soldiers while they are moving.
Sam didn't even bother to call for all the surveillance equipment directly by himself. He left Agar and Argan there to collect the equipment as well as keep an eye on the troops of Leader 3 to see if they could find anything.
He also gave them some transference scrolls so that they could move faster towards the city Sam is currently going if something happens.
Sam then used the Dimensional drifter to move to that city destination faster.
He arrived only around twenty meters outside the city and already let out of the surveillance equipment without even bothering to examine the surroundings. He and the team ran towards the city while dropping the surveillance equipment.
When they reached the city, there is still commotion and they followed the group to see where the commotion leads.
Soon, they found themselves in the Black Curtain inn's location, where the inn is completely destroyed.
Leader 1 and his group are not low profile at all, there is only a pillar left intact in the whole inn and there are a bunch of dead bodies tied to it.
They heard the whispers around and found out that Leader 1 is still in the city.
Sam understood why that guy is so leisure. He just wants to piss off Leader 3.
He could wantonly do what he wanted and since it would take a few hours for Leader 3 to come and do anything, he would leisurely relax for a while before leaving the place. Sam even heard someone saying that Leader 1 throwing out to a challenge Leader 3. He said that he would stay for an hour and a half in the city and he wants to let Leader 3 come and get him if he can.
It is just a fake provocation. He is neither going to be there when Leader 3 comes and nor does he stand on fighting directly if Leader 3 really comes.
But Sam decided to take this chance to his own advantage.
He immediately took residence in an inn with the team and let Five elemental King take control of the surveillance.
Meanwhile, he and Night Ghost sat in seclusion.
Sam sat cross-legged as he let Dark elemental energy envelop him completely and soon half of it is converted into shadow elemental energy.
Their energies merged together and soon an energy ball slowly started forming in front of Sam floating in mid-air.
Night ghost looked at the ball and could feel some sinister aura from it along with a lot of shadow elemental energy.
As the ball grew bigger and bigger, it took a few minutes to stop at a certain size.
Sam opened his eyes and looked at Night Ghost who understood instantly and brought curse ghost out.
The cursed ghost looked at the ball of energy intently and Night Ghost could feel its greed-filled emotions, with just a mere thought of approval, the ghost completely devoured the curse.
Sam didn't stop there though.
He immediately started conjuring another curse and this time, the dark elemental energy ball that appeared in the air, and soon Sam's fire elemental energy started riling up.
He activated fire elemental fusion and breathing a lot of air the surrounding spiritual energy was completely absorbed. He is using the bloodline art of Golden Sun crow. The large streak of golden flames was shot at the dark energy ball and one could see that both energies are merging perfectly.
Sam became exhausted. If it is a normal scenario, maybe he wouldn't have a need to use so much of his energy and would have been possible to use two to three bloodline arts.
But storing a bloodline art in a curse is something unfathomable. In fact, even Hel who created the technique wouldn't have thought of using something like this.
Using a bloodline art of such high caliber to mix with a curse? No one with a sane mind would think of that. For many people, the curse is a disgusting art while bloodline art is something noble. How could they ever think of mixing them up?
But Sam did. The only classification he had regarding the arts are, useful, useless, forbidden. And that is it.
When the cursed ghost saw this curse, it became excited beyond belief. Night Ghost didn't feel such a strong reaction from any of his ghosts much less Cursed Ghost which has the least activity of them all.
He let the cursed ghost swallow it and this time, the ghost took some time before it completely digested it.
After they are done, Sam then sent Night Ghost and the team to attack Leader 1 and his team while he rested inside the divine dimension. He is completely powerless at the moment because of his two curses.
Night Ghost directly went to the restaurant that was occupied by Leader 1 and his team.
They created an explosion on the road with a small energy crystal right outside the restaurant, which made the leader 1 alert.
He immediately came out with his team and observed. When he noticed that Night Ghost is just a late-stage cultivator, he became confident and wanted to deal with him right away.
But another explosion happened as Vidyut used an arrow to shoot a small liquid energy cell to shoot at the restaurant.
Within the commotion, Night Ghost immediately let the cursed ghost out and let it attack Leader 1 with the two new curses it got.
The first curse fell on the Leader making him feel stupefied. Before he could think of what is happening, suddenly a shadow silhouette similar to his rose from the shadow and started fighting with the Leader 1.
This is one of the curses that cause the shadow counterpart from the shadow world to emerge and make a fight with the owner.
It is not exactly something that could kill the other party, but it would inflict some decent damage and it would also be extremely time-consuming.
There is no need for him to worry about the scenario.
At the same time, the cursed ghost launched another attack and this time it is the Curse mixed with the bloodline art of golden sun crow.
When Night Ghost felt the energy consumption for this attack he was stunned.
He is a Late-stage transcendent cultivator. One realm of cultivation was their difference in strengths.
But even he felt a pinch from the attack, much less Sam. He now understood why Sam was so tired.
As soon as the curse landed…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…."
Leader 1 screamed on top of his lungs. After all, the second curse is not exactly a small thing. Even if he is a Peak stage transcendent cultivator, currently he is defenseless too. The burning sensation that would happen when his flesh was burned with the bloodline art.
Taking this to his advantage the shadow silhouette started attacking.
The fight between them will go on for a while and in the meantime, the rest of the team started attacking Leader 1's team.
The battle on that side didn't last long, but leader 1's battle with his own shadow is going longer than anyone expected. It is almost like a circus freak show.
Even when leader 1 wanted to get out of the situation, there was nothing he could do. The shadow is moving along with him.
He couldn't sever his own shadow after all.
So, he could only fight.
Sam came out after the plan was perfectly established and he asked Night Ghost to take of the cursed ghost once again.
There is one more plan he wanted to use and he quickly recovered with the Heavenly wine to make another curse. This time it is not a bloodline technique, Sam wanted to use a different approach.
