Sam is relaxing for the time being as he thought of what to do next. He has a bunch of ideas which he wants to do.
With this grenade deal, Sam is going to get out of this place for sure. The tax target will be met and their next phase of activities will shift to Planet 1 where the current campaign for elections is going on.
This will be another way long influx of spirit stones for him.
But he also wants to stay here for a while and look into the problem with the sea on this planet.
Hiding a sea is a laughable matter to someone. In fact, even Sam felt that the whole population is dumb along with the elves who are trying to hide this from the rest of the population.
But because of the size of the planet and also the water to the land ratio which seemed to be quite small made it possible.
If the water content of the Planet is really as large as three times of land just like on the earth, then it would be really hard and impossible to even think of doing that.
But if the ratios are reversed and the water content is only one-fourth of the total planet, then there is a possibility particularly when the planet itself is small and if the ways to the sea are completely closed off from the rest of the land region before the current population even appeared.
These are some pretty common conclusions as there are only a handful of cases that could be applied to make the current situations possible.
While he is thinking, Raunak entered the room and he looked extremely gloomy.
Sam looked at him and asked.
"I wanted to meet you earlier, but they told me you went to the city? Are you okay? Is there is a problem with the officials? You spent a lot of time there?"
"Nothing. It is just I met some people that I didn't want to meet."
"Okay, then go and take your time. We can talk later."
Sam went back to having the food.
Then he went back to just think of what to do while cooking a meal.
The trio went to the city as they wanted to challenge some people and get some battle experience. He doesn't know why, for some reason, they are extremely excited to fight the elves, the centaurs, and even the half-elves without the help of traps and the biofuel that is making it easy with them.
They are just want to get some direct action. He just let them. Anyway, they are just going to get out of this planet soon. As long as they don't come to do something stupid and get too much attention, then it is okay.
As he was about to start his meal, a shadow mouse came out of nowhere and jumped on his shoulder.
He looked at the mouse curiously and he listened to everything it has to say.
This is the mouse that follows Raunak around. It is not actually to spy around them. Even though that is also an important advantage, it is mostly regarding something that could happen to him when someone targeted him so that Sam could get the news and the location as soon as he can.
And it can also get him the news regarding the possible threats.
It now came in handy.
The current situation is not exactly a dangerous situation. It is not that easy to get something from Sam and stealing the designs is almost impossible, they can try to copy and all that would be left is that some scrap metal and broken parts which are not even useful to recycle.
But Sam didn't do anything immediately, he just wanted to test Raunak. This would be a good one.
Raunak could have achieved everything he currently had with his own work, but that wouldn't have happened in half a year.
He wants to see just how much resolve and loyalty Raunak has. Would he just give up all that Sam gave and betray him over the fear of losing his lover? Or would he betray Sam and try to cover it up while still taking advantage of what Sam is giving him? Or would he just trust Sam and confess and ask him for help? Or would he just forget about the whole thing and leave it to fate?
Sam wanted to see what he would choose and he would have a reaction to each possible scenario.
He just waited without taking any action and let the shadow mouse do its job.
Raunak is sitting in the office looking at a ring with a weird red stone on it. He is like a lost person with a lot of hesitation and confusion in his eyes and started remembering everything that has happened to his life since the day he met Ramya.
It has so many twists are turns, he doesn't know who Ramya is when they fell in love, but he didn't want to leave her when he did find out. It mattered little to him.
In fact, he only knew of that after her brother befriended him lured him into the streets, then dragged him to the ground and attacked with a clear intent to kill.
Raunak is not the best fighter among his peers, but he grew up as an orphan, taking a beating was a common thing to him.
He endured the beating continuously and managed to gather enough attention in the streets of the capital and that guy was unable to kill him off.
But it is not a one-sided fight, he did take the most damage, but he is sure that he would be the one that would fall in the end.
In fact, at that time Raunak doesn't know what to make of it, he just thought the story that guy used was true which is actually that Raunak befriending him to get to his sister and try to climb the social ladder.
At least that is what the story that guy made up after that and Raunak felt lost. After all, what can he do? Fight that brother for having too much love for his sister and can't see anyone taking advantage of her?
Then he was even more lost when Ramya broke the truth to him and he got played twice by the same guy and was fed bullshit the whole time.
For someone who is an orphan and saw the shit that goes on the streets, he became extremely naïve and stupid after he fell in love.
He thought about the whole mess that was created by that guy and then the rest of the attempts to ruin his career and making it hard for him to survive.
The final meeting with that arrogant and condescending elf who is so narcissistic just because he was born in that position and then all the burden he has to endure and the torture he has to go through to just get a proper meeting with him and making sure that the message was sent that he is not leaving his daughter no matter what happens.
Then finally getting a deal that could help him to be together with the love of his life and finally coming to his home planet.
Once again trying to climb one step at a time and soon his thoughts ran to meeting Sam.
The only guy whose arrogance and narcissism that was beyond Rajan's. But the condescension of Sam is a bit different. It is as if he didn't even want to notice everything. It is not even thinking that everyone is beneath him. It is as if they didn't exist. The existence of the rest of the world, the species that are all surrounding him and making the world around him what it is, is nothing to him.
That is what he felt.
Sam looked at everything like tools unless he is directly involved with them, he wouldn't think of that person as a real living object.
But he also felt like he shouldn't compare Sam with Rajan, both of them are completely different and then he went down the small yet large rabbit hole that he was thrown into after Sam came into his life.
Everything sped up. He is sure that he would achieve his dream by hook or crook, but he is now so sure that he couldn't help but having thoughts of what he should do after he achieved this dream and when he thought of this he made a decision.
He walked out of the office and ran to Sam's camp who just finished his meal and was about to clean up and said.
"I have something to say. I met Ramana. Ramya's brother today. He offered me something."
Sam couldn't help but smile at him and sat back down.
"Go on."
Raunak confessed everything without leaving a single detail.
"So what do you want to do?" Sam asked with a smile. He guessed what the answer would be, he just wanted to hear it from here.
"Is there a way for us to get him off my back and still spoil the plan of Rajan?" Raunak asked a little hesitantly.
"There is actually a way."
"What is it?"
"Simple, all we have to do is make you promoted in the next week."
"What? How is that possible?"
"It is possible, just get your paperwork ready and stall the time for a few days with this brother-in-law of yours and play around. Make sure everything stays under wraps under the last second. And finally, enjoy the look on that guy's face."
