Sam felt frustrated when the attack happened and he decided to retaliate directly. From the attacks, he could guess that the opponent is not even that powerful.
Neither the wind blade nor the meteorite might have caused him any critical damage, he would have been injured at most. But this passive stance is not something he could endure.
He activated wind elemental fusion and wings appeared on his back spun around, the wind riled up around him and destroyed every tree that is around him. Arkiv finally got the view he needed, while Sam his way upwards.
As he appeared in the air, a wind blade from the front and a large fireball from the rear came at him at the same time.
Sam dodged making the two attacks collide.
He then got a clear look at the two attackers and he was shocked.
He immediately folded his wings back in as he took Harbinger out and stood it. He looked at the two opponents who are floating just like him and made his move. He took a hard round in the air creating a large wind blade that went directly at the opponent using the wind elemental energy and used the momentum to move towards the person who is using the fire element.
A large meteorite was shot at him by the opponent.
Sam moved along with the harbinger as he made a somersault in the air making a large sharp blade ray cut the meteorite in the half before moving forward with a bunch of his own.
The metallic fist collided with a solid fire fist making the opponent move backward.
But the opponent is smart enough to move in that direction by himself to not lose balance as well as control and even managed to reduce the damage. But Sam is faster as he made his move and his hand which is under partial metal fusion underwent another change as a metal spike appeared on his fist with golden flames surrounding it.
The fists collided once and this time, at the last moment, Sam changed the direction of the impact a bit making the other party's attempt to move in the direction of the recoil to reduce the damage a waste and that served only to make him lose the balance faster.
Meanwhile, the wind elemental opponent in the rear didn't wait and came forward with his own attack.
Sam took a hard turn and a wind blade appeared in between both of them and Sam used this chance to throw a large golden fireball to attack the opponent while reducing the altitude as he moved towards the other opponent who is trying to regain the balance.
The battle continued.
Arkiv looked at the three people in the sky and couldn't help but smile as they kicked and punched each other while throwing eye-catching attacks at each other.
"Oy, are you guys going to kill yourselves?"
He couldn't help but yell and only then did the three of them stop fighting.
Sam had a wide grin on his face as he looked at two of his friends hovering on the very boards he made himself.
Watt and Philip are standing on either side. All three of them landed and they hugged each other.
"I didn't expect you guys here."
Sam said as he couldn't control his excitement.
"It is called a surprise for a reason, dude." Philip said as he looked at Sam's harbinger. Sam is the one who made the boards for all of them and they knew very well how Harbinger was designed, he could easily recognize the changes on the harbinger.
"Don't look at it like that. I will modify yours too. I got some new gains in research all this while and by the way…"
Sam paused and the spirit of the harbinger appeared out of nowhere.
While Watt and Philip are surprised, Sam didn't stop and showed off the spirit of the Feathered coat.
"Damn, you really did gain a lot. Spirits for both of them? I didn't expect that. It seems like I would need a lot more time to get a spirit for my coat." Philip said as he caressed Sam's coat.
Arkiv looked at all three of them as they showed off what they have on them eagerly.
He is also surprised by the cultivation levels of the two. They reached the Initial stage of transcendence of the Astral Plane. It is surprising because even he, as a player is barely at the peak of Pre-transcendence, granted that he is extremely close to the breakthrough and he might even break through before the trip is over, this is still something that is hard to digest.
After all, Sam's friends don't have the same resources as Sam and they are not the most talented of the desolate, unlike the players who are literally the most talented of the desolate as they are picked by the gods.
But it seems like all of this is bullshit in front of these guys.
"So, how did you guys know I am going to be here?" Sam asked and meanwhile, the rest of the team are making their way there.
Arkiv decided to explain the situation to them so that they wouldn't attack while Sam chatted with his friends.
"You will know a bit later. Come on let's go first. We arranged a place already."
With that Sam and his team followed his friends to a mountain nearby where they prepared a cave residence.
But as soon as Sam entered the cave, Philip and Watt jumped out and Sam sensed a sword ray coming at him.
Instead of becoming alert, he became excited instead and took out the reaper as he blocked the ray head-on.
At this moment, Jack jumped out of nowhere as he used the Black Meteorite sword to directly attack Sam.
The two swords clashed as they stayed in close contact trying to push on each other.
"I was kind of expecting you." Sam said with a smile.
"Me too," Jack replied and changed the direction of the sword to attack Sam, but Sam dodged and blocked it again before moving forward.
The metal against metal sound reverberated in the cave as both of them fought crazily.
"You really improved a lot." Sam said as he blocked Jack's attacks and both of them stopped.
Jack smiled and shook his head before saying.
"Apparently not enough."
They both hugged and Sam noticed the left of Jack.
"What's with the scar? Who gave it to you?"
"It is my teacher, you will meet him soon anyway. Don't worry too much."
And with that, the four men once again reunited all together after so many years.
"So, how do you guys know that I am coming here."
At this moment, Philip dramatically stood up and said.
"Meet, the direct disciple of the Guardian of the Five Great sects. Jack."
Jack just pushed him away and said.
"I knew about the Night Demon incident. I was there actually. I was accompanying some of the disciples, including the young master of the Night Demon family at that time. I warned the rest of the disciples not to interfere in the incident and piss them off, but they did anyway.
Soon, they heeded my advice after you spewed mayhem on the estate.
The outer deacon tried to use the sect to get me to spill the name, but I didn't budge. Later I saw Dayus meeting the Outer Deacon.
Dayus tried to use the Outer Deacon and told him that he will be going after the Five Great sects as well, but he didn't care about that much. In his opinion, you would die as soon as you came here. So, he wanted to wait, but Dayus tried to instigate him and they managed to contact the Golem Sect who is actively searching for him because of the case of the stone temple and the Tundra Sect.
I understood that you would be coming here so I started searching for these two idiots.
Watt was easy to find, but this guy Philip made me go around a single realm three times before I was able to make a contact with him."
Philip grinned proudly as if he did something great.
Sam took in the information and said.
"This might become awkward then. I want the heirloom of the Five Great sects and one of my teammates has to take revenge. I don't think I would be going in a peaceful route with this."
Sam said as he looked at Jack.
Jack smiled and said.
"Don't worry, you don't have to. My teacher might be the Guardian of the Five Great sects, even though he took a vow, there are a few things that allow him to break this vow. I am already on the way with my plans.
Just wait for a few days and you are free to do whatever you want to do."
"Seems like you have prepared enough."
"Of course, for the next few days, let's relax. We have a lot of catching up to do anyway."
