The next day.
Sam and his friends are sitting together in their camp. There is a separate tent that is guarded by some formations.
The energy is all gathering towards one point and that point, the center of the tent is where Sivan’s body is laid down.
He is still alive. He didn’t recover completely. Even though his soul is put together, he still needs some time to recover and Sam put this formation up to accelerate that.
While Sivan is recuperating, Sam is doing some major calculations on the side. He is calculating about the new weapon that just killed the Mountain Master. He obviously made some tweaks to the regular carrier to achieve that destruction.
Only recently did the carriers have an attack power that could barely injure people of that level. Now just two shots managed to kill him.
Of course, there is a lot of influence on the bad experience that Mountain Master went through on the chess board behind achieving this success. But that doesn’t mean the cannon’s prowess is any less important.
Sam altered the usage of vital energy the cannon absorbs to fire this and this worked wonders. The beam obviously became a bit more targeted than before, but it also became more powerful.
The energy became denser and more chaotic. He just noted down all of his observations to make some necessary tweaks.
“I still can’t believe that you made it that destructive without even changing much from the original design. Why did you even give us the original one if this is that good?”
“This is just an improvement on the original one and as I said before, it is something I came up with right before we came here.”
“I don’t buy it.” Philip is adamant.
The other two don’t know what Philip wants to gain from this pointless argument, but they didn’t interfere and just watched the show. Sam is also a bit tongue-tied. Philip is just straight out rejecting whatever Sam said, without even a proper reason.
“Just tell me what you want to do and we will do it. You don’t need to deliberately make it that I did something wrong.”
“You said it. You better not take it back.”
Sam sighed and just shook his head. Philip is getting more and more childish by the day.
While they are talking casually, Sam sensed something and put away his tools.
Meanwhile inside the tent.
Sivan felt like he was struggling in the deep sea.
He was deep. In fact, he was way too deep and he couldn’t even see a single strand of light anywhere.
It felt like he is almost drowning. But he desperately tried to swing out of it.
When he finally saw some light and reached the surface, just when he thought he is done with suffering like that under the immense pressure of the sea, he suddenly felt restrained.
As soon as he reached the surface, he felt like he is a fish trying to escape the net of a fisherman. When he came to his senses, the first thing he saw made him feel like the deep sea is a much better situation.
‘What the hell?’
Sivan felt like he is still stuck in a nightmare. He couldn’t remember anything prior to this moment. But that state only lasted for a few moments. Slowly one memory after another came to his mind.
First, it started with him taking over Sam’s body. Then the war with the Gaja clan. Escaping wth the three young masters.
When the mind finally cleared what stood in front of him Sam and his friends.
They are standing at the entrance of the tent as if they are watching some show in amusement.
Of course, when they saw his reactions as soon as he came back to his senses it was indeed amusing.
“Long time, no see. Sivan.”
“What do you want? Do you really think you will be able to leave this place safe and sound if you managed to kidnap me from the young masters? They will kill you.
I might not be their friend. But for now, I am their property and you would be delusional if you think you can survive after stealing something that belonged to the young master.”
“You caught up pretty quickly, didn’t you? You are indeed clever. But too bad, you don’t use that on the things that matter.
If you were smart enough not to listen to what that stupid Dayus has told you and kept your hands to yourself, you might have lived for a few more months if not years.”
Sam spoke calmly.
Sivan didn’t play along though.
He took a deep breath and yelled.
“Sam, do you really think a guy who likes you, particularly in your current situation should be wasting like this? I can’t understand how you can be so leisurely and how you managed to contact me. You need to save your ass now.
Leave me alone now and leave this place. Then you will have some chance to live for a few more days.”
Sam just smiled and didn’t say anything. After some rambling, Sivan finally came back to his senses. He observed Sam and his friends and noticed that they are not a bit worried. Not even a single bit or the slightest trace of anxiety was shown on their faces.
“You are really amusing subject Sivan. At first, you came to me and stole my body. You were so cocky but when you are in anxious danger, you are way too compliant as you directly went and begged for help.
But too bad, the delusions of me dying are not going to be fulfilled. Because the three young masters that you are so counting on are dead. My friends here killed them.
I also took a step forward and went to kill the Mountain Master.
I succeeded. But the whole thing is so unsatisfying. That was the worst battle I have ever fought. I just hope that since you came to yourself, You will be able to make it so that I can finally feel satisfied with killing someone.
