Grivon looked at Sam silently for a moment and asked.
"What if I don't want to sign the contract? You do know that I am the only way out for you from here right?"
"Maybe you are or maybe you are not. But you are not going to get anything out of me unless you give me the contract. I can assure you that. I am sure of it than you being my only way out."
"Alright." Grivon agreed with a smile and they both made a simple contract.
Grivon wouldn't be able to coerce, kill or blackmail Sam forcefully whatever he has to offer, and only when the price right would Sam offer his skills. Sam is not responsible for following orders all the time and for every service he provides, he would be given a fair price that would be discussed at that moment.
After the contract was signed, Sam was finally relieved. He knew that if Grivon was not here, he would be in a pickle. Butler Si should have already been pissed off at Sam for killing two of his disciples and making a good chunk of them unable to even walk.
If he started chasing Sam, he is not sure that he would be able to escape from him for long.
But even in that condition, he didn't like the fact that his life would be completely sold away to a stranger from some other clan. Now that he has the contract, he felt a bit relieved.
After the contract was signed, Grivon, his guards, and Sam all moved immediately, they didn't waste any more time.
They traveled for two days as they crossed between the realms and finally when they reached a specific place they took an interdimensional space gate and finally reached their destination.
When Sam entered that place, he was really surprised. It is an island that is of the size of a large city, apart from that there is nothing else around it except the seawater.
"This is a stray realm. I don't know if you have heard of it. But this is one of the realms that don't have any threatening life forms or massive resources. They are not really that valuable, but they make good hideouts.
This is the only planet in the realm orbiting the largest star this realm can handle and this island is the largest landmass on this planet.
This place has a moon and that acts as our waste disposal. Any trash that comes out of here goes to it. It took a lot of time and strength to make a formation there.
Now, let me show you around."
Grivon started explaining as he took him out of the main mansion.
"This place is for my especially talented people. Some of them are the best killers in the making, some of them are great artisans, some of them are great healers and pill makers, and some of them are inscription masters and formation masters.
There are some people talented in one more than the other. They are good at what they do.
They all gather here to do research while I don't have any assignments for them, but when I do have assignments they gather together to solve my problem.
Let me show you a few things."
With that, Sam was taken to a few rooms, there are some innovative things created, one of them is a healing room that makes it possible for a dozen healers to work on a single patient at the same time on different ailments.
There are some puppets with unique designs, special training rooms for killers, different kinds of illusion formations, defensive formations, special weapons. Models of special structures and so on.
Sam was really impressed by the work these people did. He also understood how different Sivan and Grivon are.
Sivan is a person who is keen on monetizing any result he got. His research bases are all over the realms and their only goal is to either gain his money or get his limbs back.
And even the first one which focused on money is done by monetizing destruction and all of his research activities are focused on that area. Not that Sam has any right when criticizing arms dealing, after all, he created the weapons that could level cities down. But even he felt that the methods the other party used were a bit below the belt.
But Grivon is different. He gave them the freedom to the researchers and inventors here, even though he monetized the products, they are not just for supplying some mindless killers or two fuel wars between organizations, there is a diversity in the range of products they used and the researchers here looked happy to be a part of this organization.
Their creative freedom is way too precious for great inventions.
So, Sivan might have earned more money and might have the lethal weapons like poisons and viruses but he is sure as hell didn't have the best team when he needs to solve the real problems.
After looking through everything, he was taken to a large warehouse-like building with a lot of empty space.
"This is your place, this is where you are going to work from."
"What should I work for?"
"You can work on whatever you want," Grivon said and took out a list of names.
"These people are experts in various fields, from now on can be considered your subordinates and you can call them whenever they are needed. Make whatever you want. I will give you whatever resources you want.
We can discuss the price of the product after you are done with it and give me a proper demonstration."
"No, this is not going work that way."
Sam said calmly as he looked at the list of people. Their field of expertise is written right beside them.
Grivon frowned in confusion as he looked at Sam.
"What do you mean?"
"Trust me, you don't want to give me the creative freedom that you give others. Particularly without any budget and resource limit.
You wouldn't be able to bear that burden both financially and time-wise. So, just give me the assignments you want and I would give the results to you as fast as I can.
"Where do you want me to get assignments all of a sudden? It would take some time, let me see what new problems I will caught up in, then I would come back."
"Okay then, meanwhile, I will work on something for my own use, if you don't mind."
"You can do whatever you want."
"Thanks."
With that, he was sent away. Sam looked through the list of people and started marking the people that he needs.
After that, he made a list of resources he needs for the first project he is going to take upon and gave it to the attendant.
The attendant brought back the resources by evening and Sam then gave out the list of the people that he needed.
They were also brought to the building.
He started briefing them on the project he has in mind.
This is a project he has been thinking about since the day his body was changed. He really missed this one feature a lot after he lost his body.
That is the simulation of the divine dimension.
He could model three-dimensional drawings of the projects he wanted to make, he could simulate how they work, he could do many things with that. He had ideas on creating a simulation device like that for a long time, but he didn't act on it as he never needed it until now.
Most of the products he made are either for his own personal needs or byproducts when he was focusing on the products for his personal needs.
Only a few projects were done out of pure curiosity without the final results in mind.
And since there is not much left to explore in the simulation system of the tower, he couldn't bring himself to take up his time and create a new one from the scratch, but now that he is in a situation where he couldn't use the system, he has to make this one.
A lot of things would become easier after it was done.
For that, he got the light elemental users and the inscription masters that are present on the island. They are not the best at what they do, but with Sam's guidance, they are good enough for now.
This would take some time, and he needs to do some experiments, but since the person who provides for the resources doesn't have any objections, he is free to do what he wants to do.
While Sam is working on some of his ideas, he is not the only one who is exploring the fruits of his creative brain.
At this moment, far away, some more people are feeling fascinated by the work he presented and those people included the friends and the foes alike.
