Sam grabbed the sword, but to her surprise, the energy she put on the sword and the rays it was emitting didn't dissipate since Sam didn't hold it for long, in fact, he didn't even hold it at all. He just diverted the sword to the elder coming from the side, stabbing that guy in the heart precisely.
Blood squirted as the elder stopped in the tracks and Sam gave a spinning kick to the sword hilt making it go through the elder's body to the other side.
He then ducked and dodged a saber strike before landing his fist on the balls of the second elder, another bloody mist appeared and Sam stood up while the elder is falling down only to take a blow on the neck in the process.
Then Sam grabbed the punch of the deputy and gave him a lever blow. The deputy's defense is much stronger, but the combination of the ripple and void style is not for show. The flesh burst open and the liver shook, making even the cultivator of that level to groan in pain.
Sam kicked him away, and moved to the next one who is coming with the sword strike, Sam landed a kick on that guy's right leg, it burst open and fell forward. Sam used the momentum to divert the sword at the last remaining elder who is about to strike with his saber and diverted that saber attacking to the head of the elder who got his leg busted.
All of this happened in two seconds. But for the young lady, this felt like the fight has been going on for the whole hour.
Sam used the body of the guy as a meat shield for the ranged attacks from the two elders and used the mechanical arm to grab them with invisible condensed energy and exploded it one after the other.
Their flesh was ripped open and they are unable to fight again.
Now, he and the deputy are the only ones standing.
And when the deputy looked at the surroundings, he turned to Sam with an exhausted expression.
"Fuck you. Young man."
*BOOM*
He committed suicide.
Sam didn't expect that, but he was not too shocked either. He then walked to the lady who is still faintly breathing.
He looked at her calmly for a moment and said.
"Do you guys really think that you could take me down? I even told you to escape right then and there you would have been safe, you didn't expect that just one attack would make this much damage do you?"
"N..o."
She was barely able to speak.
"I really did like you a bit. I never expected someone like you still exist in this world. All it took was one dirty trick and you in this state."
Sam took her spatial ring and was surprised. This is quite a haul.
"You are definitely someone important. It seems like I would be chased down by someone especially strong. This should be interesting."
He paused and thought for a moment before taking out a recovery potion.
"Maybe I shouldn't just let you die like this…"
With that, he made her drink a few potions and even that made her barely recover. The potions are of extremely high quality, Sam really felt the pinch for using them on her, but he has no choice.
He used one of the collars he got from the previous branch and placed it on her, before making some arrangements.
First, he went to the research areas one by one. Then he tied the researchers up and sent any test subjects that were left in the labs back to the barracks. Since this place was only for secondary testing, there are very few test subjects so it didn't take long.
After that, he took out some formation flags and started placing them around the labs. He didn't just create new formations, he used them in conjunction with the already existing highly defensive formations which are being powered by a lot of energy.
The layout of the labs also gave him an intriguing idea.
He started inscribing some formations on a pillar and placed it exactly in the middle of three labs.
He then walked towards the unconscious and weak young lady.
"Do your thing specter."
After that, Sam left the estate and hid in the mountains for the leader and the others to come.
He waited for three days and finally, the people from the Parent organization returned, but the leader of this organization was nowhere to be seen.
When they arrived, all they could see were the traces of the gory presentation Sam left for them. The dead bodies and the blood marks are everywhere. They became extremely anxious as they ran deep inside.
Their anxiety was reduced only after they saw the young lady sitting beside the pole unconscious.
They almost felt their lives leaving their bodies at the thought of her dying. Just like Sam guessed, she is an extremely important person and they are supposed to be guarding her. That is the reason when the leader of the subsidiary said that the information that Sam deliberately left is genuine and it can be trusted, they left her here.
But too bad, they didn't expect that Sam would play them life fools. But at least, they got what they wanted from the trip.
They took some more high-quality medicine and made the lady drink, when she opened her eyes, one of them spoke.
"Young Mistress, as you might have understood, we got the wrong information, but we decided to proceed with the secondary plan. We destroyed the second side branch and took over all the research. Even the test subjects are not spared. No one would know what has happened there.
But we really apologize for this inconvenience. As soon as we realized that there would be no attack there, we decisively came back.
Thank god you are still alive."
She nodded at him and didn't say anything. She just sat there leaning against the pole.
"Madam, let us go back inside. We will go and deal with the third branch before this person catches up and if he is there, we would be able to deal with him there. You can rest here, junior brother will take care of you."
The person who looked like the person in charge spoke.
"No need." The young lady spoke but they didn't understand what she meant like that.
But before they could ask what it was, she spoke again.
"There is no need for you to go anywhere. You are all dead men anyway."
"What? Madam, what happened?"
All of a sudden the energy inside the young lady's body started becoming chaotic…
*BOOM*
And her body exploded, making the group blown away from that spot. Everyone looked at the place with the bloody mess in horror. They are not horrified of the way she died, they are horrified of the consequences of her death. They didn't expect this at all. This is not supposed to be happening.
But what they didn't know is that this is just the beginning.
After the explosion, the pillar started glowing. For some reason, it wasn't damaged even with the explosion of the cultivator that close to it.
And it is because Sam made it in such a way that it absorbs the explosive spiritual energy and distributes it to the formations inscribed. The formations activated and it created a chain reaction, one formation after another all of a sudden, all the formations in the vicinity including the three major defensive formations of the three labs were also activated.
The energy became chaotic and the group realized that they are in a trap. It was too late though.
*BOOM*
One large explosion happened. All the explosions went on in sync creating this one large explosion. But is not an explosion that just made everything disappear within its range. Rather it created a storm of chaotic energy that started tearing everyone and everything inside apart. Unlike the controlled destabilized explosions, which only leave the chaotic space with energy, this one only lets the energy take over for a few minutes and disappear.
When he heard the explosion, Sam finally came back and collected the souls from what remained of those bodies.
With specters level, they managed to extract half of the souls at least.
Sam looked at the destruction he created and suddenly felt a little peaceful. He vented enough to calm down and assess his own mistakes.
This time the plan is flawed. The message sent to the main branch is a very long shot. It is just he wanted to play these guys a bit and gave it a try, but even that farfetched unappetizing bait was hooked, so he took the chance.
As for what happened here, the person that commited suicide is not actually the young lady. It is the specter's doing.
The specter has spent a large part of its life deceiving others by pretending to be three cultivators, for him it is easy to pretend to be the lady.
After Sam made her recover, he killed her much more swiftly without any physical damage and left a small part of the specter to take over her body before placing her there.
The rest happened by itself.
He went to the barracks and gave the keys of the locks to the test subjects before leaving this place.
