Sam is currently swimming or almost crawling on the sea bed with his water elemental transformation. He was extremely fast until he left the zone where he excreted all the poison, but after he left the zone, he merged with the sea bed and started moving slowly.
While he is moving, two Sea folks came near the poison zone in a hurry to look at the commotion. The beasts are not exactly powerful. All of them are initial stage Pre-transcendent stage beasts and even some Nascent stage beasts.
They are extremely weak. Their main aim is to halt the enemies that might have infiltrated in and keep them busy while sending the message to the Sea folk so that they can come and deal with the enemy.
And in many years, there was never a single elf or human that came into the water, so they became a bit lax. But still, they followed the orders to the point and came to check.
When they saw that the color of the whole area changed and was filled with the diluted blood along with the purple poison in the water, they frowned and swam faster, but they didn't enter the zone immediately.
The whole poison is slowly diluting into the water and with given time it would dilute to the point it is ineffective.
The effects would be downed to negligible state, but the sea folk doesn't know that. One of them tried to check it and extended his hand into the poison zone.
He felt a prickling sensation as he took the hand back and his forearm turned completely purple and it is spreading into his skin and flesh slowly.
The two sea folks swam back in alarm and decided to meet with their team and report the situation. They couldn't see a single trace of the beasts around, so they are rather concerned about what happened anyway.
All this while, the two sea folks didn't even talk. There is no voice or any motion of mouth. They only looked at each other and there seemed to be telepathy between them.
The group went back to their team and came back with a bunch of sea folk. The team leader looked at the situation and examined it. He looked into the horizon and a fish swam towards him from that direction and it swam into the poison zone.
As soon as the fish entered the zone, the poison seeped in and the skin started corroding. The fish is extremely weak since the start and now it is in the presence of hydra poison, it is not supposed to survive and it didn't.
The team leader gestured for the rest of them after he saw effects and all of them surrounded the poison zone and started injecting their energy.
They are in a formation and the water elemental energy started pushing the poison back into the center.
From the looks of it, the poison and the water seemed to have been separated from each other and soon it was concentrated into a small sphere of poison and blood surrounded by the water. Not a single drop was diluted in the water.
The team leader gave some more instructions through gestures and a small bubble was created around the poison ball and with a wave of everyone's hand, it flew towards the team leader.
The team leader held the water bubble with his hand and once again instructed the team as they started swimming away.
Meanwhile, Sam soon encountered another barricade. There are a bunch of stingray fishes that are ten times the size of normal stingray fish.
One sting would be like a large spear impaling straight into the body.
There are no other creatures around and it seems like the fish are the only watchers here.
Sam decided to collect a few of these and store them in the divine dimension. But for that, he has also had to create another large lake and fill it with saline water. Only Mia who is of a superior bloodline can survive in both normal water and the seawater.
Not every beast can do that. But before he did that, Sam has to find a way to cut the contract between the fish and the folks.
Luckily Sam is not currently in their perception range and he is interested in these beasts, unlike the crabs. So, he maintained his secrecy and let Specter out.
The specter can really be useful in these cases.
The specter is in his ghost form and started attacking each Sting ray and to Sam's surprised there are no contracts made. There are no spiritual imprints in their seas of consciousness.
This is a great deal for Sam. He doesn't want them as pets anyway, so he didn't even bother making contracts, he let Mia out and both of them subdued them with the anesthetic poison and threw them into the divine dimension.
With a mere thought of Sam and a solid fifteen minutes of concentration, there is already a decent pool area formed in the divine dimension and Sam collected the seawater while he swam as he slowly turned the pool into a large lake.
If he sucked large amounts of water from the same place in a single shot, there would be some disturbance in the water that would gather unnecessary attention.
Sam proceeded with the same activities all over the night.
He moved to one spot from another within the outskirts of the deep waters and encountered one group after another of the sea creatures.
If he didn't like the beasts he killed them and if he liked them, he stored them.
Everything went smoothly for him.
But not so for the Sea Folk.
They started noticing the anomalies in different places.
They are already pissed and worried about the sudden explosion in the water. They thought that the elves might have thrown some long-range weapons that act like traps within the water and they retreated just to check them out and be cautious.
But as soon as they disappeared, the shallow waters became a mess. All their watchers the sea creatures are disappearing.
They are disappearing only leaving a large area full of diluted poison. Several teams of people came there and checked the situation and collected the poison just like the first team and went back to report their superiors.
When the superiors learned about the situation and the way all the watchers they had are disappearing, they felt like humans are planning something and became vigilant. They started preparing for an imminent attack.
But the whole night passed and the morning came, but still, that attack never came.
Sam swam in the area between the shallow and deep waters where most of these watchers are placed and collected quite a haul. He can have some really good seafood meal which he didn't have in a while.
But that was not the time to think of a meal. He is currently searching for a proper spot. He knew that the vigilance of the sea folk would be tighter and by morning the search parties would definitely turn the shallow region upside down. It would be hard for him to hide.
Even though he is not completely dead set on hiding, it is still better than getting caught so soon.
His current goal is to find a proper place to break into the deeper waters where the sea folk would definitely stay.
He also wants to test some of his weapons on them. So, before a search party was sent, he decided to leave some traps in the current region he was swimming in.
But until dawn, he didn't find any good spot.
By dawn, he is already on the other side of this ring, the place where the seashore with the town ends and large cliffs started blocking the land from the sea.
There is a large reef that Sam could easily make use of and there is another smaller reef nearby which can actually act as a great diversion.
Sam took out his poison grenades and swam to the small reef and started setting the traps up. He didn't use extremely technical traps or some formations, he used extremely old-school tricks.
He kept the grenades in such a way that they can be triggered as soon as there was an impact nearby.
Meanwhile, he also created traces of himself on the seabed.
Even though it is hard to leave things like footprints and such under the seabed, there is another way.
He took out some of the corpses of crabs and other shellfish-type creatures and threw some small pieces of shell around the reef while placing some parts nearby.
Apart from that, he just cracked open a couple of vials of poison within the reef as it spread all over along with that he broke open a vial of a beast's blood and went into the larger reef to hide.
Even though the two reeves are within visible distance from each other and considered nearby, the large reef created a blind spot because of its shape and it covered a large area from the cliff wall.
But the small reef only covered a small area and that too close to the cliff wall.
All he needs is this diversion to work and soon enough the time came.
