Four days passed.
Sam is currently standing on a tree as he looked at the city with a telescope. He disappeared from that spot and appeared on another tree at a different place and looked at the city from a different angle.
He did that a few times and blinked from one tree to another until he covered the whole city from various angles. After that, he disappeared from the trees and arrived at a small patch where they camped.
Noah and Kumar and currently looking for a blueprint as they examined some tokens as well as some metallic puppets that Sam tinkered in the past four days. They are what they prepared for the kidnapping plan.
In the last four days, they got a lot of information from many places in the city. The three merchant groups actually helped with the security in a way that Sam never expected.
They didn't send their own people or make strategies. They just used the one resource that they have the most. Money.
They managed to hire more mercenaries than the Fiend tribe in one day and now almost half of the residents of the city are mercenaries. Granted that the normal residents of the city are mostly merchants anyway, it was not hard to make them move when they noticed the changes in the city.
The more Sam and the team delayed their advance to the act, the more chaotic the preparations became. They don't know whether they are going to come and get the third target or not.
After the first two days, Sam thought they would slow down with the precautions, and in fact, it happened for a few hours, but all of a sudden as if they got a new lead, they increased their speed of preparations.
The formations were tampered with and strengthened all over the house of the fake target. And in the middle of it, they saw the original target who is secretly being protected by only one guy, which became extremely annoying for even Sam and the others who are watching her secretly.
She wanted to be the one protected. She is almost like a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum.
But the three merchant groups didn't let anyone in. They just made her stay there in her house. The Myriad Beast sect also didn't hear her pleas, no matter how she tried. All that was left was that one guy who is protecting her and even he almost blew his fuse sometimes.
Seeing her struck like that, Sam was really relieved. This should make things a lot easier.
"So, are you guys done? Are you familiar with the whole situation and what we should do?"
"Yes, we are. But are you sure, you would be able to handle all of this? We are using a large of energy here and you are going to suffer the mental pressure that would be put on you for transferring it. You wouldn't be able to do it easily." Kumar asked in a concerned tone.
"Don't worry. I wanted to try this for a long time. Believe it or not, I haven't done anything flashy in a long while. This would be a perfect way to do something that could be used as good teaching material for my students too.
This is can be a lesson on how to use their combined powers properly and efficiently."
"Speaking of your students, you are talking a lot about them recently. Why did you take in students all of a sudden? You are feeling generous?"
"Not really. I just thought that there should be someone you trust in this world to take care of your affairs when you are gone. Even if not dead, there is a possibility that we might not be able to properly access what we left behind when we reach a new place." Sam said with a smile.
Noah and Kumar frowned.
"It seems like you are talking something related to our competition."
"Of course, I am. But I cannot give you the details. If I am wrong and you prepared in how I told you to do so, you would be blaming me if they cannot come into handy.
Apart from that, I enjoy teaching them actually. They are really good kids."
"The students are directly taught by Sam. Seems like a pretty heavy title to me. They should be subjected to a lot of expectations and a lot more tests."
"Of course, they are going to. They cannot get the benefits without the drawbacks. Anyway, enough about my students, you can talk to them later if you want. I will be going back to desolate after these two organizations are dealt with, to spend some time with them. You can come.
For now, we need to deal with the situation at hand. It seems like, all the preparations are done."
"Yes."
With that, two shadow mice collected the puppets that are arranged around them and move towards the city.
They reached the Snake Fang estate soon enough.
The surrounding area of the Snake Fang is completely evacuated.
For the next two blocks, there is not a single person other than the guards and the personnel of the Myriad beast sect and the Merchant group mercenaries.
The mice sneaked into the estate and reached the blind spots that Sam discovered.
They placed the puppets on the spot.
The puppets are small cylindrical metallic objects and after the shadow mice placed them, the limbs came out of them and made them drill those limbs into the ground.
A large amount of earth elemental energy suddenly came out of them and within a few seconds, Stone pillars started coming out of the ground. The stone pillars have a hexagonal area of the cross-section with six faces.
Each pillar is six feet tall and the puppet rested on top of the pillar. A large metallic protrusion came from the bottom surface of the puppet as it drilled into the pillar's center joining together.
Then inscription marks started spreading from the puppet bodies to the stone pillars.
Everything happened fast, but the guards already noticed them and immediately ran to inform the superiors.
Before they could even reach their superiors though, the pillars themselves revealed their presence.
The six sides of every pillar started glowing with different colors.
One side has a red glow with fire elemental energy, the second one has a blue-colored glow with water elemental energy.
The third side has black colored glow with dark elemental energy, the fourth side has a white-colored glow with wind elemental energy.
One side has a yellow-colored glow with earth elemental energy. The final one is glowing with lightning elemental energy.
The puppet is glowing with the space elemental energy.
A large formation is activated. Even though it is not exactly a barrier-type formation, it is clearly visible to every single person in the estate and the fake target, as well as the real target, are terrified with such a flashy display.
The person in charge of the whole operation looked at his assistant and yelled.
"See what is happening. Call everyone that is patrolling the city. I want every single person to report back to the estate."
"Yes sir."
The assistant ran and gave orders to the other subordinates.
A person came back and reported.
"Sir, weird stone pillars appeared around the estate and they are displaying different types of elemental energies. A formation seemed to have been activated."
"Who dares to come here and directly install a formation in the estate? How is that even possible to happen? Are you guys so fucking lax in your guard?"
The assistant didn't dare to speak up and just stayed silent.
The person in charge calmed down and said.
"Let's go and see who is daring enough. If it is those three mercenaries from the Fiend tribe, I would like to see what gives them the guts to be this bold and fearless. I would rip them limb to limb."
He started walking out and the scene in front of him made his eyes widen in disbelief.
From the view of the balcony, he felt like he is in a completely different world.
It is raining while sharp winds started blowing everywhere.
The sky above the estate is covered with black clouds as lightning crackled all over.
The earth seemed to have been on a fire.
The people looked at the rain and lightning with a dumbfounded expression. Some of them just came out of the estate. The contrast between the sunny weather and cloudy area is too much.
Sam looked at it in his crystal tablet and looked at the other two.
"You guys ready to go."
They just nodded and crushed a token as they disappeared from the spot.
Sam also took a deep breath and used the token to disappear from there. They appeared in the middle of the formation with a bunch of guards standing there looking around.
Some formation masters are standing at different pillars as they tried to examine the situation and the trio's interruption made them turn their attention to him.
