Sirona learned that Sam went to the thunder god temple. Although she doesn't know the reason, she is rational enough to know her current predicament and didn't go there.
She stayed within Sam's city as she explored one place after another without a bother about the disaster, she caused within the Usaine sect.
Just like that, days passed while Sam, Philip, and Jack are training in the Thunder god temple, Sirona taking a refugee in the western continent, Watt training in the Beast faction, in the mouth of the enemy.
Another Six months passed like this without much change.
There are only a few days for the Family meeting of the beast faction when Sam, Watt, and Jack finally came out of their training. They went to the Space gate island and Sam paid a huge number of spirit stones for them to use the one-way space gate.
All this while, Arc specifically sent the earnings to Sam, so he is not lacking at all. More than a quarter of the annual production of the spirit stones within the western continent is currently in his pocket.
After entering the space-gate, Sam looked at the horizons as he extended his hand and caught something from the air.
A butterfly appeared out of nowhere in his hand as it flapped its wings to get away from his hand.
A Golden flame appeared and burned the butterfly to the ashes, Sam took out the token which was sent by Sanjay in his hands and the trio disappeared in a flash.
At this exact moment, somewhere in the thunder god temple's territory, deep within a cave of the cliff, there are numerous butterflies flying around and some of them are revolving around a middle-aged man who is meditating with his eyes closed.
He abruptly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of space gates. He thought for a moment and called for an attendant.
"Call Arman here." The attendant nodded his head and went to call Arman.
Five minutes later.
"Grand Elder, you wanted to see me?" Arman came inside with a smile.
"Sam killed the butterfly." Arman was stunned for a second before taking out a token from his spatial ring.
It is a small rectangular token with a butterfly mark on it. Generally, it would emit a faint blue glow, but now it was cracked and there is no blue glow, rather it looked like normal rock with a symbol engraved on it.
"How does he know? Since when?" He asked in bewilderment. He has pulled many strings to ask for this Grand elder to place this specially mutated Soul-chasing butterfly on Sam. All this while, he has kept tabs on Sam.
But now, he is afraid that Sam might have known this all along.
He is the one who sold out Sam's locations and whereabouts to the Beast faction, but since Sam did fall into the trap, he was sure that he didn't know earlier.
Only after this thought, did he calm down a bit.
"I don't know the exact time he found out, but he killed it just now and as you know, he moved towards the Space-gate island.
Since I am responsible for telling you this, I told you. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't know if Sam will make a ruckus of this situation and I don't know, how much he knows, but if you dare to put my name out, when it was found out, you better not dream of staying alive. I don't want the temple heads attention at this moment.
That's all I wanted to say, you can leave now."
Arman is a bit confused and anxious. He needs to get the thunder prison, but Sam is adamant about not giving it to him. He didn't dare to fight it out with him openly as he is not exactly confident, that he is going to win.
He wanted to borrow the hand of the Beast faction and use their feud to kill him. He always followed Sam's movements and only after he confirmed that he can get the thunder prison after his death, he sent the position.
Even in these nine months, he tried many times, but Sam was completely unscathed. There is no situation that Sam was affected and he escaped every single time.
He was extremely agitated and wanted to give up for some time. But he couldn't as the spirit of the saber is continuously reminding him of the importance of the thunder prison.
But now that Sam has known about the existence of the butterfly, he was a bit anxious and nervous.
After all, anyone who did enough homework on Sam would know, they shouldn't give him a chance to prepare if they decided to deal with him.
If Sam only knew about this, then there is still some chance, but if he knew it for a long time ago, then it is extremely dangerous.
He went to the Space gate island to see if he can get information on where Sam went, but there is no feasible way for him to find out where Sam exactly went.
Meanwhile, Sam and his friends arrived in the middle of the woods. There is no one in vicinities except for the lush forests.
Right now, Sam has grown a bit taller and he is around six feet tall. This might be the last stage of his growth, even if there is any feasibility there is no way his body would have other changes like this after he stepped into Nascent.
Even Philip and Jack had some changes in their appearance. They looked a bit robust and rougher than before.
The three of them didn't wear their usual clothes as they started exploring the woods.
All three of them broke through the late stage of the Grand realm. While Philip and Jack are in Level-7, Sam is at level-8 and is on verge of breaking through the Level-9. This year, there is a high chance that he would break through the Nascent stage.
They didn't encounter anything in the vicinities, not even beasts.
After more than half a day of exploring they finally found some traces of people.
They didn't let them notice and followed them out sneakily until they reached the nearest human settlement.
This is because Sam is afraid that the coordinates of the Space gate might have been leading them to the mouth of the Beast faction and there would not be many chances for him to escape.
He had many plans and he doesn't want the people to suspect them, this early in the journey.
That is why they reached the first human settlement and wanted to investigate the situation.
And when they reached the village, they understood that they are not exactly in a village, rather they are in a temporary camp of the Normal disciples of the Beast faction within the hunting grounds.
Technically this is still considered as the deeper regions of the beast faction, but the hunting grounds happened to be the least monitored of all the deeper regions.
They sneaked in with the help of a shadow mouse so that they wouldn't get caught as they tried to find a way to get into the core region.
Because Sam should be there in two days for his plan to succeed.
But in process of their search, they found out some interesting things.
One of them is the fact that Sam is extremely popular here. Although it has been nine months, for some reason, there are still talks going on particularly regarding him attending the family meeting this time.
He was genuinely surprised, but he was relieved by the fact no one is badmouthing him. The one who is most relieved is still Philip and Jack. If they really didn't control their mouths, there is no guarantee that Sam wouldn't go out of control again.
As for the second thing is, they don't have to worry about getting into the core region of the faction. Because, they learned that the family meeting, by the name sounded like a gathering between the four families of the faction. It is in fact a gathering of sorts of all the people in the faction. And there would be some duels as performance and rewards for the merits and so on.
The most pleasant thing is that all the people will be gathered as an audience and that meeting is also in two days.
Sam was extremely pleased by this.
His plan would definitely work if this thing happens.
That night, Sam and the group abducted a disciple and interrogated him in the woods.
After some threats and bluffs, they got the way to go to the Inner court of the beast faction which is connected to the core region.
He has to communicate with Watt before the plan is executed and for that, he has to be within a certain distance from Watt.
He gave some sedative to that guy and stole all the uniforms he had before leaving him in the woods.
At this moment, Sanjay already sent a person to investigate if Sam has arrived at the hunting grounds.
But the person returned with no results.
