After that night's talk, Sam is sorting out his thoughts on how he should proceed and every scenario will be based on the attitude of the Thunder-god temple towards his proposal.
While he was thinking, three out of six major powers are currently in a heated discussion about Sam.
The first one is the Thunder-god temple.
He was in a private meeting with the Temple's head. As a direct descendant, he does have some privileges.
Arthur has brought back some recording crystals and showed them to the temple-head and lastly gave him the spatial ring, which Sam asked to pass.
The temple head is already stunned when he saw the things Sam has done. Of course, many of them are not that useful for the temple, but the main factor to consider is the change that Sam could bring.
With his unique formations and versatile thinking, when he saw the recording about the city, he could see that there are many unique things and there are some training methods that are employed in the tasks Sam placed in the park which can be accessed by cultivators.
Even, he didn't think of that.
Particularly, there is one promise that Sam made, he would create them a chance to conquer their surrounding seas.
This is the main problem for the six major powers, although, they have conquered their islands, the seas are the major threats for them. Sometimes, some amphibious beasts would come in and wreak havoc and there are wars between the major powers and the beasts occasionally.
The beasts on the land and beasts in the seas have friendlier relationsh.i.p.s and this makes things difficult to the cultivators as many wars take place at the seashore.
The six major powers have only one goal and that is to conquer as much land on the central continent as possible.
But they don't dare to move in as the threat posed was too great. Even the warfare happens at the shores which shows that humans really don't have much power in the central continent.
If as Sam said, they can find a way to gain access to the waters around them, at least they can be rest assured that they wouldn't lose lives there and there are many unexplored things on the seabed which they couldn't get.
If they want to explore them, a transcendent has to step in as there is no way anyone below can hold back their breath for that long, but if the transcendent really comes, the beasts in the sea will come as well and the bitter battle would be their only choice.
Temple-head was thinking of all these factors, but he was still unconvinced as this doesn't seem like something that could outshine the shadow sword.
There is only one more thing that he has to see and that is the spatial ring.
When he took out the item inside, he was stunned. It is just some Blue colored Sand which has rather coarse grains, but as he examined it more and more, he was shocked to his core.
This is the thunder meteorite sand. He knew of its characteristics but never had he seen. For all he knew, only the Usaine are in possession of some meteorite sands and that too a small amount, which could only make two weapons at most.
They are trying to test their characteristics in order to find the places and the conditions of the environments they might be able to find them. They treated the meteorite sands like sacred items. And it is a rumor that the head of Usaine was the only one who has a meteorite sand weapon in possession.
They don't know why they didn't make any more weapons.
But now, the thunder-god temple head has some meteorite sand in his hands and Arthur said that there is about ten times the amount in Sam's possession which Sam is willing to offer up.
"I will make my decision in a few days, you may leave." The temple head sent Arthur away as he continued examining the sand.
Meanwhile, in the Usaine sect. All the elders and the researchers who work with the Sirona are having an extremely hard time.
Something seemed to have changed, since her last escape.
Yes, Escape.
The Sect leader completely rejected her idea of going to the western continent, but since she wanted the formation simulator badly, she escaped, by threatening the space gate operator.
After she came back, the formation simulator is with her, and the sect leader who was angry at her escape was completely shocked and summoned her to the meeting.
"Sirona, is it true that you have the formation simulator?"
"Yes."
"Did you get the shadow sword then?" He couldn't hide his excitement when he asked this question. Even the remaining elders are also thinking the same.
But the answer disappointed them.
"Nope." She said it with utmost honesty.
The sect-leader frowned and asked again.
"Why did you not bring the shadow sword with the formation simulator?"
"I didn't ask the sword, since I don't want it."
The frown on the sect leader's face got deeper and he asked.
"Didn't I tell you before that if you kill a person, you should take all their possessions, and even if you don't want them, you should still get them back for the sect? Why didn't you do so?"
Sirona looked at him as there was a flicker in her eyes. "I didn't kill him."
"If you didn't kill him, how did you get the simulator?" The sect head is losing his patience, but he couldn't do anything, this is Sirona's nature. She wouldn't say anything more than necessary. In fact, they trained her like that and he has a huge role in that training, but now their actions are biting their backs.
Sirona recounted everything that has happened except for the conversation she had about Sam after the battle and looked at them.
Their faces showed myriad expressions, from speechlessness to suspicion and disbelief.
The Sect-leader looked at her deeply and said.
"You can go now. We will talk later."
Sirona left the place and when she entered her room, there are many metallic pieces, scrolls, formation discs are all over the place. There are some forged weapons, half-drawn inscriptions etc on the floor.
At this moment, in the meeting hall.
"Sect-leader, I think she is lying. How is it possible for Sam to handover his simulator even after defeating her? There is no way that could happen. She must have taken him down and stole the sword and let him live to make up that story." One of the elders said so with extreme confidence.
"Yes, as she is an expert artisan, she could have noticed the value of the shadow sword and stole it away from him."
Like this, there are myriad speculations that accused Sirona as a thief of the shadow sword.
"I will look into the matter and see if what she said is true." The sect-leader said as he ended the meeting. Even he doesn't have any confidence in his own brainwashing of Sirona.
He felt that the value of the shadow sword might have changed her straightforward character.
Meanwhile, Sirona who is sitting in her room is holding a communication token in her hand as she listened to their conversation.
There is an inexplicable complex mixture of emotions in her heart, but she could comprehend what she is feeling right now.
She didn't care about worldly possessions, strength, fame, or power. Since childhood, there is only one thing she had in mind and that is she has to pursue and gain as much knowledge as she can and her knowledge has to be useful for the Usaine sect.
And when she got some results, she has to show them to the sect and gain acknowledgment.
Her desire for this too strong and she even felt that her life only has a meaning if she lives it like this.
Once, there was an assassination attempt from an enemy spy and she was afraid that if she died, that would be meaningless and since that day, she decided to spare her time to improve her strength and make some 'toys' so that she wouldn't die when she is still in the sect.
Apart from that she only makes a move on the sect members when they call her names.
But now, she is feeling that her life doesn't have any meaning at all and at least not for these people.
She wouldn't have noticed if not for the conversation she has with Sam after the battle.
He clearly said what would happen and she would be better off if she finds her way out of the sect. But she refused to believe him at that time.
Even though she didn't believe Sam, she wanted to confirm to erase the small seed Sam has planted, but it seems like she has to believe Sam on this one.
Although there is not much that happened in the meeting hall and so many people directly accused her, there is only one person she cared about and that is the main brainwasher for hers the sect-leader.
Sirona is a simple-minded person and she might be easy to manipulate, but it is also easy to lose the trust of that simple-minded person. If the sect-leader has argued back that she wouldn't that, then everything would have been over.
But now, due to conflicting replies, there is a dangerous seed sprouting in her heart.
