The first thing Sam did after finishing the Phase three organizations is to try and find where the rest of the players are.
It took a whole week to do that and he went to meet Arkiv.
"You came to me on your own initiative? Is something wrong?" This Arkiv's greeting as soon as they met.
"I am done with the Third Phase organizations of my share. How much longer would it take for you to do it?"
Arkiv was stunned and hurriedly opened the list on the wrist screen.
He went through the list rapidly and cursed loudly.
"Fuck. Just when I thought, you slowed down. What is wrong with you, man?"
Sam didn't mind this outburst and just smiled.
"Don't overreact alright. I need to talk to you about this."
"Okay, tell me."
"I asked, how long would it take for you and the rest of the players to finish all this?"
Arkiv roughly calculated a bit and said.
"Maybe a year and a half or it might even take two years."
Sam thought for a moment and nodded.
"It is okay then. I have a deal for, Noah and Akhil. In the next year and a half you will be meeting them once or twice, so discuss it with them. If you agree to meet me, come to the capital city of the first realm of the three puppet realms."
"What is the deal?"
"As you know, the fourth phase organizations are tough to deal with. There are also divided into four groups based on the cultivation of the heads of these organizations.
They are going to be difficult to deal with.
Even the Puppet which is the lowest of the organizations in Phase four is something difficult to deal with.
So, I want to know if you guys want to cooperate.
It is not that I cannot deal with them, but it would be easier and less dangerous for you guys to not tackle them directly.
In fact, even if we don't make an alliance like this, we would still be hard-pressed to deal with them and since we have limited choices, we wouldn't be able to avoid colliding with each other.
And the organizations from now are free for all. All the fourth-phase organizations are worshiping multiple gods, so there are no restrictions placed on them for the players. They could deal with any one of them.
It is inevitable to cross one another while dealing with the organizations.
We would clash and we would also clash with the organization. There is a good chance that there would be casualties this time.
We would be safer if we have an alliance."
Arkiv thought for a moment and said.
"I will try and see. But if we make an alliance with you, your contribution will be higher and your share will also be higher. And I highly doubt that you would be satisfied with taking an equal share with us as you have such a large organization to feed."
Sam didn't know what to say. It is indeed the case. He needs a lot of resources. Way too many, in fact. And he is sure that he would be the one making the highest contributions of them all. So there is a need to draw the line.
But it would be hard to decide who gets what at the moment.
"We can discuss it at that time. Just think about it for now and keep it on the down-low, don't let the other players know. And if I am not wrong, they would probably ask you guys for an alliance as well. After all, it has always been me versus everybody else. And if they have the same plans as before, tell them this time, I wouldn't be holding back."
With that Sam left the place and went back to desolate.
In the past eight months, the organization managed to bring the ten students he requested. They are currently waiting for him on the desolate planet.
First, he checked the reports on the progress of the construction of the Primary schools.
More than half of the schools are finished with the basic structural construction while the rest of them are done with the foundation.
After going through the report, Sam went to meet with the ten students he got.
Out of ten, four of them are girls and the rest are boys.
He went through their profiles and was surprised to see the constitutions. With how large their range of search it is a little surprise for them to gather ten people with different constitutions and spiritual cores.
The first candidate's name is Ratri. A girl. She looked haggard, to say the least. She just awakened a year ago, but she is still in the Initiation stage without any progress. The basic cultivation is not working for her and she has a different core. Even though the team couldn't identify what her core is, they believed that she is especially based on the events that came across surrounding her.
During her awakening when the initial surge of spiritual energy touched the surroundings, all the grass and vegetation started corroding. It is not even simple withering and dying it, they became grey while still retaining their original shape and after touching, they simply disintegrated into powder and disappeared completely after touching.
Many people and even her parents believed that she was cursed. Whenever she tried to feel a bit of spiritual energy, whatever she touched cracked and turned grey making it disintegrated into powder.
What surprised Sam, even more, is that she belonged to the Desolate Planet. She belonged to a village and they abandoned her when they saw her destroying everything.
When the people from the Dusk organization found her, she was actually sitting in the middle of a grey patch of soil within the forest with nothing in the surroundings, from what they saw even the patch of soil turned a bit different and didn't have the same consistency of the soil in the surroundings.
They even brought some soil with them.
When Sam looked at her with scrutinizing gaze, she became nervous. Since the time of awakening, she was having a hard time. It is really surprising for her to even live in the wilderness for such a long time without dying with her current strength.
Sam extended his hand to place it on her head, she flinched and almost tripped backward. But all of a sudden she felt like something held her from falling and pushing her forwards. But when she turned back nothing was there. It was Sam who used the wind to stop her fall. He placed his hand on her head and used observation ability.
Even though there is a method to identify the core, it is limited. People cannot directly see the core even with their spiritual sense. Generally, cores are identified with the nature of the energy it is emitting, the description of the cultivator who can see the core and all the other factors and reactions of the energy.
But Sam can see it with his observation ability.
When he observed the spiritual core, he could see dark elemental energy with a grey hue.
He then took out the grey soil and tested it for a minute, before he picked up some items like rocks, branches, and leaves all of the lowest quality before placing them in front of her.
"Channel your energy into them."
She hesitated a bit, but she did it anyway.
Sam saw as all the items turned into grey dust and almost blew away with the wind, but he controlled the wind and collected them all to examine separately.
He was surprised again. All the different things are turning into the same grey dust. There is nothing special in any of them.
He thought of something and looked at her, he felt like there is some change in her.
Sam took out some low-quality spiritual herbs of different elements and asked her to do the same with them.
When she used her energy on different elemental herbs, it took a long time for her to destroy them. Initially, she became exhausted, but as the herbs started disintegrating into grey dust, the energy in her increased. Sam could clearly sense it.
He immediately understood what her spiritual core is.
It is a variant spiritual core of dark elemental energy. Just like how shadow mice have variant cores with shadow energy, this core is of devouring energy.
The energy of this core has one simple property, it would devour any other energy and try to absorb it for its own leaving only some grey particle dust. When devouring the dark elemental energy herb, even that grey dust was very small, it is like only the roots of the herb were turned into the grey dust and the rest of it disappeared into thin air.
Sam couldn't help but smile and took out some dark elemental fruit juice and gave it to her.
"Drink this first. Someone will come here and will take you to your new home. You can take a bath and they will send some food. You can relax. You are my student now. We will start your classes tomorrow."
