Everyone looked at Sam weirdly.
"What happened? Why are you like this all of a sudden?" Noah asked as she took a seat and stretched her body a bit.
"Nothing, I have been working like a mule in the past few days and you wouldn't believe the stress I have been enduring mentally. So, I want you guys to succeed no matter what.
I will only be with you at the start of this final operation and the rest would have to be taken care of by you."
"Yeah, yeah. Don't worry about that. Give me a beer first and I will make sure this whole thing succeeds." Akhil also sat leisurely and even asked for a drink.
Sam didn't bother with them anymore and said.
"Find the Fiend tribe members that come out of the city and capture them if possible. Every battle should be clean, there should not be any traces left. Nobody should know of your presence there. Collect every dead body you create and even Raiju shouldn't be able to sniff any blood after it was cleaned up.
By the way, make sure that the captive doesn't see your faces while you are capturing him. We don't need some extra eyes on us. I don't want to move from spot to spot."
They didn't reply and just continued relaxing. Sam just went back and started preparing an array for the contagious curse, so that he doesn't have to hurry when their first target comes.
The players lazed around for an hour and finally made their move. After a few hours, they returned with three Fiends and around a dozen bodies.
"These three are the only ones that are roaming around alone. They don't have any teammates, so we figured they would be better. As for the rest, they are just some small teams patrolling the surroundings." Noah explained after handing over the three unconscious targets to him.
Sam nodded and brought one of the guys to sit down with his back against the nearby tree.
He then went on to start the array and condensed the curse into his hand, before throwing it at the target.
He went to him and injected another anesthetic that would make him unconscious for another two hours and handed him over to other players.
One of them took that guy away and left him in the forest close to the city.
After that was done, Sam went on to create another array and did the same with another target, but this time, the dose of Anesthetic is higher and he was left on a completely different side of the city. The same thing happened to the third one.
"Okay, that is enough for today. We will make our next move tomorrow. Do not cause any ruckus."
They rested there for the night and the next day, the players moved once again to capture new targets.
While they are proceeding with their plan, back in the city the results are slowly showing. The first target, Sam placed the curse on was left in the forest nearest to the city gate.
He was soon rescued by someone that came from the city and was soon sent to the healer of the tribe.
The first thing they did is to try and wake him up. But they couldn't identify the anesthetic and they don't want to use some random antidotes that might cause more harm than good to him.
So, they waited for him to wake up. But by the time he woke up, what the leaders didn't notice is that his energy is being sucked dry slowly.
After the time limit for the anesthetic was over, he finally woke up.
He jumped off the bed immediately and looked around.
"Where am I? Where am I?" He muttered to himself as he became vigilant, but the healer already came in to make him calm down, before explaining the situation to him.
Even though he doesn't have a full understanding of the whole scenario he gave a gist of it and finally asked.
"Do you know what happened to you? You were in a deep sleep when they brought you back. You seemed to have been under the effect of a strong anesthetic."
"I don't know what happened. I was going for a hunt, but all of a sudden, I lost my vision and collapsed on the ground. I don't know what happened at all. The only thing I could feel at the moment is the strong pain on the back of my head."
"Have you seen or heard anything from the people who did this to you?"
"No."
"Do you know any plausible reason that someone might do this to you? After all, nothing was stolen off of you. Even your spatial ring is there, you were not attacked at all. Apart from the possible blow on the back of your head which made you unconscious and the anesthetic, there is no other harm to your body.
It is almost like the other party doesn't even want to hurt you."
"Are you saying that this is a lesson being taught to me by someone?"
"There is a possibility. It could even be a simple prank. But currently, the situation of the tribe is not good and we need to be careful regarding everything. That is why I am asking these questions."
"I couldn't think of anyone. I don't have any enemies. At least not the petty ones like these."
"Okay then. You can go back to your residence and rest for a while. The Anesthetic is powerful, it might leave some residual effects in your body, it is better to rest and let them dissipate."
"Thank you."
With that, he left the healer and went to one of the barracks of the city guard and laid down on a small bed.
He is a regular city guard and that is his day off after a long time. He wanted to go out for a hunt and relax a bit. But this happened to fuck his plans up.
He closed his eyes and went to rest.
An hour later, another young man was brought into the healer room just like this and he also gave the same account. He went back to the residence in the Fiend tribe Estate to rest.
And the final one is the son of an elder. He went directly to the Elder's mansion as soon as he was discovered by someone. He was treated there and everything was arranged to him properly. His father even placed his most trusted maid to serve him properly.
But soon, the three people in three different places with three different social statuses are showing the same symptoms one after another.
The city guard is the first one to exhibit them.
His energy was slowly sucked dry and no matter how much he tried to absorb energy through the medicine and other efforts, he was unable to do so.
His comrades are not in the camp at the time, and he couldn't even stand up and walk out. He could barely crawl and even his voice was not heard by anyone.
He crawled out of the room and by that time, his body thinned down to bare bones.
He couldn't breathe and his throat is parched along with his tongue.
He felt like his vitality is being sucked dry by someone.
When he finally managed to come out of the barracks, he didn't have any strength and he collapsed at the door.
One of the guards saw this and ran over.
"Help. Help." He yelled as he carried the almost dead guard and ran towards the healer's camp within the barracks, but he died before he could reach the area, and without him even knowing some kind of energy entered his body.
In the residence within the estate, the second target also exhibited the same principle, but unlike the first target, he didn't have anyone nearby and even though he managed to crawl out of the house, he wasn't able to catch anyone.
So, he fell to the ground and died.
The energy in his body touched the grass and vines on the ground and they started withering.
The vine has fruit at that time which was being plucked by a rabbit and while eating it, the small rabbit touched the vine while the vine withered.
The rabbit then ran into another residence but felt extremely weak.
One of the servants of the house saw the rabbit and ran towards it.
"Oh my god. Young miss' rabbit seemed to have eaten something weird again. She would be furious if she finds out."
As he anxious ran to another fellow maid who is capable of handling the rabbit, the rabbit died.
Meanwhile, the third target. The young master who is the Elder's son exhibited the symptoms. The healer and the maid are the two people who were in contact with him at the last moment of his birth.
The Elder who lost his son looked at the maid furiously as he took his anger out on her.
