Sivan looked at the crazy undead that are exploding themselves while latching on to his soldiers.
He frowned and started commanding his subordinates to watch out.
But then he saw the high-level undead latching on his late-stage cultivators.
That battle is the closest to the camp. The strongest of undead latching on to the strongest of the late-stage consummate cultivators before using some kind of different explosion, the camp was shaken.
*BOOOOOM*
The massive explosion created an aftershock that send the weaker people to their knees and the spiritual energy around the area was chaotic.
The explosion occurred very close to the entrance of the campground and it is completely filled with fog that came out of the explosion.
Sam looked at it from the city and sighed.
With this, the plan is going well until now. He didn’t mess up any steps. Even though there are some difficult times where he almost screwed it up, he pulled through.
He felt a bit relieved now.
But Sivan who is on the other side of this whole situation felt like shit.
He was actually blown away and crashed into the ground because of the explosion. But the real shock came in when he had to get back up and see what exactly happened.
Looking at the fog that was in the place of the explosion, he didn’t even know what kind of explosion it was. He knew for sure that it is not the ordinary energy cell explosion or the liquid energy explosion as he has seen it many times before in Sam’s memories and his own experiments.
This is definitely a new one. But he cannot think or make sense of it.
He walked a bit closer to take a look. He looked through the soil and the rocks on the side and felt shocked.
The aftereffects of the whole explosion are very similar to the explosion of the spirit poison. He felt terrified and looked at the horizon towards the city.
The spirit poison is way too much of a destructive weapon, that is why he didn’t use it from the start. It is one of his final trump cards. Unless he ran out of all of the other means he could think of, he didn’t want to use it.
But Sam just sent some back and attacked him with it a few hours after stealing it.
He is frightened by such a bold move.
And from the way the explosion happened, he doesn’t know how Sam modified the poison and did this. But this is clearly more effective and efficient.
As he was trying to make sense of the situation, he started getting reports through his communication token.
Many people are dead. But the undead is completely finished and there are still a lot of elite soldiers and mercenaries left in Sivan’s camp.
Along with that, the soldiers that were given to him by the clan, the grand elders, some of the soldiers that came from the Divine league, and the Divine league members, of them are enough for him to make a move.
“Pull back everyone and gather near the camp. Don’t come in though. The fog is dangerous, we don’t know what kind of effects it has on us. So, assemble there. I will be sending people with medicine to help you heal and recover your strength.”
After giving that order, he went into a newly placed ten and sat down to think this through.
He wanted some peace and quiet to make a proper decision regarding this.
But it is impossible to be at peace in a war.
As soon as he sat down a subordinate came running in with some bad news.
Sivan ran out of the ten and five minutes later, he is standing in another tent with two grand elders lying on two beds.
They are in excruciating pain and half of their bodies are covered with white crystal which is spreading at a very slow but visibly noticeable pace.
“When did this happen?”
“We don’t know sir. They were fine after that large attack from golems and the worms, but all of a sudden they fell into this situation.
We cannot figure out what this crystal is and in the general case it is absorbing people too quickly, but since these grand elders managed to resist it for a bit, we can finally see how the changes are going.
It is absorbing the bones first then blood and finally the flesh. We don’t know how to stop it though. Even the vitality is doing little and death elemental energy is only fuelling it.”
“Keep on trying. Are they going to be okay? How is their resistance holding up?”
“Frankly speaking, they are better off dead. They are just using too much effort and willpower to resist it. As the things are currently, it is basically useless for them to suffer through this.
This is a completely torturous way for them to die. Nothing else.”
“Just try your best. As long as they are not giving up, you shouldn’t either.”
Sivan looked at the old men and sighed. He really wished he didn’t lose such important people at such a time. The grand elders are way too valuable for him to lose them for such an unknown cause.
He sighed and left the tent as he thought of what to do.
The undead creatures are gone. Their equipment of his is also gone. Now the Gaja city is wide open with nothing but a formation. Even people on the city walls are also invisible through the telescope.
If his instinct is right, all he has to do is go and fight it out with them. But he is a bit afraid.
Sam already started using the spirit poison. He definitely has more than what Sam has, but he is very afraid to use it.
He couldn’t help but think of the consequences of this thing when it was misused. This is the first time he had a weapon so deadly that he is too scared to even use it.
But the loss of two grand elders is really tempting.
While he is thinking, the reports on the troops came in. He lost a lot of them and even the surviving members are suffering from a lot of curses and poison, some of them even showed signs of white crystal consumption.
He suffered more losses than he estimated which made him feel the pinch.
He wanted to know what the Gaja clan’s move or more precisely what Sam’s next move is going to be. But he cannot figure that out. It is almost impossible for him to guess what Sam’s next move is.
In the battles that he went through except for the overly detailed preparation and execution, there is nothing that is similar to Sam’s usual style. It is almost like Sam went out of his way to create things that Sivan cannot understand just from possessing Sam’s memory.
He felt his face burning in humiliation. This is the worst thing that could have happened to him. When he got all of Sam’s memories, he felt like he can rule the world. The vast knowledge, the inventions that he could use in the future. The techniques, the forces that are hidden. He has way too many things that he can enjoy, develop and conquer with those memories.
But now he understood what Sam is trying to say with these battles. He might be able to acquire all the benefits that these memories could offer, but there is one thing he wouldn’t be able to get. The mind that originally possessed those memories.
He might have gotten the creations, but he cannot possess the mind that created them. He is just a thief that got lucky.
That is how he felt now.
He brought more soldiers, and more resources, but still he was the one who suffered a major loss.
He felt frustrated.
And the reports that kept on coming didn’t help him either.
The frustration resulted in anger and he got sick of this whole situation. He stood up and took deep breaths as he ordered his troops.
“All troops march forward. We are surrounding the city.”
As soon as he said that, there is a large commotion within the campgrounds, all of the soldiers found a different way around the fog that is still covering the camp entrance as they went forward to stand in the battle formation.
Sivan also wore the black feather coat and stood on the Harbinger while carrying the executioner blade in his hands as he blatantly led the troops slowly.
The large horde of soldiers is moving towards the city at a very normal walking pace Sam watched all of this through the telescope and soon he can see them clearly with naked eye.
After they are within the visible range, he just smiled and ordered the ranged attacks from the sphere cannons as well as the special treats he prepared for them.
Along with the energy curtain of the sphere cannon, there are long green trails that are moving in the air.
