Sam doesn't know that there are some big heads thinking about him day and night. He knew some trouble will be coming towards him, but he doesn't know to what extent.
Right now, he is inside the second floor of the tower, making some machines. One of them is an old classic. The steam-engine.
There are not one but multiple of them in varying sizes.
Sam gave the auxiliary components of these engines for manufacturing and for some other machines which will help him in production progress.
There are some machines which he assembled after the steam engine and they are milling machine, lathe machine, air compressor, etc.
At first, he wanted to design a methane fuel-based engine but gave up on the idea later as there is no need to waste time on that. All he needs is something that gives him required shaft power and as the time is running tight, he can deal with the whole methane engine thing later.
Sam assembled the machines one by one and after finishing the task, went to a nearby place, where the commoner area of the capital used to be.
Now there was a large building with a lot of space inside resembling a factory.
He started assembling one machine after another. There are some stone structures on one half of the large room and Sam started assembling air compressors and in turn, assembled a steam engine to it.
These are furnaces. They will be helpful for the workers to either create alloys or just create molds of some objects.
The furnaces use the methane as fuel and the air compressors act as blowers to increase the intensity of the flames.
With this, even a low-level cultivator can deal with highly ranked metals.
As for steam engines themselves, instead of a furnace where coal or firewood burns to form steam, there would be a fire-element energy cell and there is a permanent inscription injected to the water chamber.
There is nearby water well, which would be connected to this chamber and the steam outlet was guided to the vicinities of the well, where it is again cooled by some wind inscriptions and water inscriptions.
A person who just became an Acolyte can operate this.
In the same way, the milling machine, drilling machine, Lathe machine, Grinding machine. The same made almost every machine in multiple quantities, which can help them machine the components. After all, some components are really not suitable to make through just molding.
Apart from that, there is another building near this building. This building is for manufacturing a completely different thing and it is even many times bigger than the first building expanding from the commoner zone to the Inner zone. It is almost as big as a small town.
Now it is time for Sam to teach the new trainees or soon to be workers to make the different components and on how to work on these machines.
He proceeded to do so and the supervisors who will deal with this work are from Sam's battalion, who he could trust more.
Among them, the presence of the Dragon-Hawk tribe members is a bonus for him.
Sam started training his new Production workers who are mostly attendants of the artisan towers who are talentless and have no room to grow.
Meanwhile, in the village of Arian.
Jack is walking in the streets which are bustling with people. This village is unlike others, this one has a very high population and visitor's rate and that is because of one reason. There is a waterfall in the nearby forest, which attracts the attention of quite a number of warriors who use blades.
They might be users of swords, sabers, knives, daggers, etc, all of them will visit this waterfall to get enlightened.
This waterfall has a very unique structure as the water streams down in very sharp streams that they behave like blades.
Many people just observe and some even try to copy the movements of the stream with their blades, some who are daring will even stay under the waterfall to feel the water blades on their bodies to understand it well.
Jack also visited this place for that enlightenment. But that is not the only reason. The inheritance he got on the island is not exactly a complete well-rounded inheritance and it is certainly not as great as Murali's with all kinds of memories and experiences.
It belongs to a sword cultivator who used to be Murali's enemy. The inheritance was preserved by Murali in form of some training in basic movements and the display of the sword style of that person and finally, a sword technique.
In fact, it would be more appropriate to call that sword-style rather than sword technique. But there is only a basic introduction to the sword style which follows the nature of water.
Jack has never learned the exclusive style of swordsmanship since he cultivated. All he learned are basic sword moves and tried to perfect them himself.
His life-goal was to create his own sword style.
But he understood that to create his own sword style, he has to first understand the sword deeply and has to learn the potential and the limits of the sword.
At least, the potential and limits on the sword in his hands.
He always wanted to know why is Sam stronger than him even when their cultivation levels are the same. There is still a huge disparity in the fighting prowess. Sam's moves no matter what type of weapon he used are always efficient, precise, and on point. He can use his body to extreme limits and to his full potential.
He uses all his senses no matter the situation.
He questioned himself, why his moves are not as precise and efficient? Because he doesn't know which move to be performed to be really efficient.
So, to know that, he has to explore. He has to try the unknown, he has to get out of his comfort zone and since he already came across some skills to the water natured swordsmanship, he wanted to start his exploration with the water.
And to his luck, there is a waterfall, like this, which is a natural blade stream. That is why he came here.
Jack stood at the edge of the waterfall, watching the water streaming down. He can feel the sharp aura from afar. It felt as if a sharp blade is coming at him.
There are many swordsmen watching it, Jack observed it for a bit and took off his upper-robes. He only wore his pants and held the Black Meteorite sand and walked towards the waterfall.
While everyone was watching his action, he leaped and landed on a flat rock on which the waterfall is hitting.
He crossed his legs and sat down as the water hit directly on his head. Right now, his body is completely covered with the spiritual energy shielding from the damage at least partially.
He closed his eyes as he started slowly retracted all the spiritual energy that is shielding him. He held the sword in his lap tightly.
Everyone was shocked at the scene. Even the people who are standing under the waterfall were stunned.
They are also experiencing the sharpness of the waterfall. But they didn't dare to withdraw the shield of the spiritual energy.
"Is that guy nuts?"
"Yeah, it must be. He would die if he stays there long. The blade waterfall is not something to be underestimated."
The people nearby burst into endless whispers.
Jack, felt the sharp currents of water striking his body and slowly lacerations formed on him, but he didn't even flinch. His spiritual energy slowly covered the wounds so that they would heal slowly. Since it is only a fleshly wound, it would heal in a day even if he didn't do anything to it.
But there is still some blood loss after every small laceration.
Jack started observing the sharp currents of the water that are striking and slicing his body. He could feel the water being rigid, strong, and sharp when it slashed his body and immediately turning into a formless flow of water.
He could also feel the versatile flow of water before hitting him, but turning into a strong and rigid strike at the exact instant it touched his skin.
He let the sharp water ravage his body. It is as if countless swords are slashing him in various spots.
He could feel the precise incision on his shoulders at the same time a cold and hard slash on his chest. A precise but shallow strike which only pricked his skin on his back.
Every current of water that hit him is like a sword. Slicing, piercing, slashing. Every injury suffered, he could feel as if a sword had struck him.
It didn't feel like water hitting him at all. It is more like a swordsman is attacking. Jack visualized the attacks one by one.
In short, he is not experiencing a waterfall, rather he is using himself as a test dummy to take the attacks of a swordsman so that he can observe that person's moves and learn them. Steal them to make it his.
