The branch leader was shocked as he looked through various scrolls and books. He skimmed through them and felt like a brand new world opened for him.
This is a treasure trove. All of a sudden, he felt like losing the furnace body is worth it. After all, no matter how valuable or rare it was, it was just a furnace after all and its only function is to heat and melt the metals. It makes their job easier.
But these documents gave them knowledge and development that was leaps and bounds away from their current state.
These are some of the research documents Sam. He gave some of the research on mechanisms, inscriptions, and formations that are suitable for puppet making to the branch leader.
Since the other party didn't take it too far and made the situation into a life and death battle, Sam decided to give him some reward in return.
Anyway, this saved him a lot of time so he didn't mind being a bit more generous.
At this moment, Sam is assembling the furnace.
While assembling it, he instructed his teammates.
"Rest here for two days. I will be going back to the desolate and meeting my students a bit. I need to see if they are doing okay with their training.
We will leave after these two days."
The team didn't object and took some well-deserved rest.
He then turned to Arkiv and said.
"I want to propose a change to the alliance."
Arkiv was a bit confused, but he waited for Sam to continue.
"How about we share resources instead of heirlooms. As soon as we obtain an heirloom, I will exchange it. Two-thirds will be mine, one third will be yours."
Arkiv shrugged and said.
"That is good enough for me. But are you sure you want to give one-third away for me? You are working more than I do and your team is doing most of the work. If you want, I can just take one-fourth and you can keep three-fourths. It doesn't take too many resources for me alone anyway."
Sam looked at Arkiv calmly and said.
"Just take it. My team is getting most of the resources in the form of loot from the opponents and my organization is stable enough to be self-sufficient and grow. I am not planning any expansion in the near future. And the extra loot from the organizations which are not useful to my teammates are going to the organization anyway."
He paused for a second and asked.
"So, I told you to think about establishing an organization how did it go?"
Arkiv was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand why Sam would ask such a question suddenly, but he still answered.
"Since you told me to, I did open an organization. But it is not large like yours. It is an explorer team. After I dealt with the organizations, I would let the team explore the secret lairs and territories of the organization and also the forests and other ruins that were under the organization's control.
They would arrive at the puppet realm in a month or so. That would be the most chaotic time as various forces would compete for puppet organizations. They would fish in this muddy water to get some precious treasures."
Sam nodded and said.
"Try to expand it. It would be useful in the future. I don't know how, but I think there is a possibility that the organization would come in handy after this round of dealing with the organizations is over."
Arkiv looked at Sam's serious expression and just nodded.
After he was done, Sam went back to the desolate using a dimensional drifter to meet his students. He wanted to wait for a few more days to come back. But after observing the battle and the status of his teammates and the increasing difficulty of the conquests, Sam wanted to do something and give some instructions to the subordinates here.
So, he arrived earlier than he wanted and met with his students. He gave some instructions and cleared some doubts and then met with the administrators giving them instructions, before exchanging the furnace for the resources.
He distributed some to the trusted administrators to use them properly for the development of the organization. He also gave the books he got from the puppet organization so that they could copy them and send them to different branches of his educational institutions.
He also emptied the chessboard and made every captured person sign a contract with him before sending it to different branches of the organization to increase safety.
After doing all that in two days, he returned to the puppet realm and gave one-third of the resources to Arkiv as promised.
Before they started their journey.
Their next target is far away from the puppet realm.
Sam doesn't know why the gods have selected the next two targets far away from the remaining ten.
The remaining ten organizations, including the puppet organization, are all within a certain zone as they are connected one way or the other.
But these two organizations are too far away from this zone and they are almost unrelated.
That is also the reason that Sam didn't concern himself with revealing Markan's identity with the Black Ghosts.
As long as Sam and Markan didn't come into contact anytime soon, the Black Ghosts will be pulling their hair trying to find them and it might take a month or two or even more for them to return after being prepared enough.
And then there would be no need for Sam to even worry too much about this.
Sam said his farewells to all the prisoners except Markan and used the ice divine dimension to move all the teammates to the next realm.
Their next target is a tribe of a race that Sam has never seen before.
The Fiend race and the gods they worship Norse Gods. Among them, Hel and Thor are involved in the game.
There is one thing Sam and probably the rest of the players are happy about and that is the Tribe of the Fiend race and their third target, the Myriad Beast sect are both in the same realm being their headquarters.
In fact, these two are not the only organizations present in that realm. There are three more organizations present there and each organization has a planet in their complete control.
As for why all the organizations are cramped in this one realm, Sam doesn't know the answer and Markan also doesn't know because the Black Ghosts don't have their claws spread to this realm yet.
Even the information about various organizations staying in this realm was obtained by Arkiv who got that because he destroyed a subordinate organization of a larger organization in that realm.
So, taking Arkiv's advice, Sam didn't directly go to the headquarters of the fiend tribe and instead arrived at one of the planets which has a lot of foreign traffic and also happened to be a planet under the joint control of various races.
After arriving there, Sam and the team went to the nearest city and spread around to gather some information.
After two days, they had a basic understanding of the situation. The reason for the realm to be occupied by so many people is because it is too large and too precious.
It was said that once this realm is occupied by some extremely high-level Gandharvas, the artisan race. They were just like the Merene family, due to some terrible sin, the gods forsook them and they were targeted and plundered by many other high-level races.
All the treasures, knowledge, and resources were gone. At least the ones that are deemed valuable by a high-level race.
Those high-level organizations all had one tacit understand and that is to not occupy this realm. Anyway, it is too large for any one of them to take care of it and their egos wouldn't allow them to share.
So, this gave an opportunity for the low-level races to get here and occupy it. The leftovers of the high-level organizations were valuable treasures to these people and wars were fought over for those leftovers and they established their headquarters in this realm.
The rumors are that the whole realm was still not explored and there are many stray planets that have a lot of resources left that were unexplored.
Along with that, there is another interesting thing here. Most of the transportation between different planets does not just happen through wormholes. But also through the interplanetary and inter-dimensional space gates.
Sam's curiosity was finally satiated when he learned that. With all the realms that he traveled the most anyone had is interplanetary space gates. The inter-dimensional space gates are something that he got from Ling Tian. He didn't expect that even though the design is not completed, not even a single realm has it.
Maybe most of it was because the planets and the realms were connected through the wormholes and there was no need. But that also made him curious on why this realm uses them they also have the wormholes.
