When they reached the Sea Urchin Area, everyone became careful.
The transcendent stage cultivators are afraid of it the most because to kill them, there was not even a need for the transcendent stage beast to come. They would die if they are surrounded by sea urchins all of a sudden.
Sam quickly changed his outfit. He changed into armor which looked extremely weird.
It has so many small holes in the front and the rear. In the rear of the armor, it was attached with two big canisters of compressed air on each side and it is connected to the armor on the shoulder through tubes.
Apart from that, Sam has another weapon in his hands.
It is a gun and it is extremely similar to that of a harpoon gun.
But the front barrel was completely changed and there was no spear and even the cable mechanism was removed completely.
There is a small knob on the body of the harpoon gun to the rear side.
Sam checked the equipment once again and started swimming deeper into the area without his energy vision.
There is no reason for him to use the energy vision which the sirens don't have in such a demonstration.
It wouldn't really reflect well and also the demonstration wouldn't be effective if Sam didn't fight against that element of surprise which these Sea urchins have when they attack.
But he is extremely alert and in fact, he has another plan to detect the spikes that would come. After a few feet of swimming, the armor was activated and there was a spherical formation that was activated. It is using water elemental energy and formation is not actually dense.
It is extremely thin and there is barely any energy in it.
Looking at this the Sirens are sneering.
"Varien, is he really the guy who made weapons for the elves to defeat the sea folks? I highly doubt this. Look at his stupidity. We all know the water elemental formation don't work against him and look at how thin it is and why would he spread it so far, is he that much of a coward?"
Varien frowned and looked at the person who is talking.
"Arav, since when did you have guts to talk before me? You better keep that old attitude of yours whenever I am around. Otherwise, I will chop your tail into pieces and use it to feed the beasts."
"Yeah, yeah. All you know is brute force. Why don't you brute force through these sea urchins? If you are so badass why did you go and ask a puny human for help."
"Last time I checked, I am the person who killed the most sea urchins in the entire city. You should understand that the only reason I am looking for someone to help, is because you pieces of shit have no strength to beat these stupid animals directly.
As for that very puny human, he almost killed your brother and his goons yesterday. The street to the Volcano is the biggest evidence for that, and the worst part is that your brother is the one that set the ambush."
Arav couldn't speak anymore. The rest of the transcendent stage cultivators and even the only Consummate level cultivator is looking at it with amusement.
Everybody knows between their bad blood and it is not their direct feud, it was a feud from the previous generation and Varien's side was always on the lead.
This is one of the most fun things in the city.
While they also have some opinions about Sam, they didn't want to get in bad books of Varien, he was sent to the surface as a part of the envoy group and it is not just for a show.
Meanwhile, Sam doesn't know what is happening in the rear. He is too busy with searching and soon the results came.
One Sea urchin that is hiding in the reef shot a spike towards him and the transcendent stage cultivators that are far away could see it clearly.
But Sam couldn't see it in time, at least that is what they though. When the spike touched the formation, the formation disappeared, and Sam turned towards the direction the spike is coming from and pulled the trigger.
A decent-sized air cannon was unleashed towards the spike that was coming and because of the impact of the air and the disturbance in the water, the spike couldn't maintain the direction and the momentum. It changed the direction upwards and it halted after moving a few inches.
And the thing formation was activated once again.
The Sea urchin didn't stop. Even though the water is not exactly clear and filled with air bubbles because of it, Sam moved towards the sea urchin while shooting at the spikes and when he finally reached the rocks that it attached itself into, he pressed the knob on the rear of the gun and aimed it at the rock.
He pulled the trigger and an extremely concentrated air cannon was shot which made the whole rock collapse and luckily even the sea urchin itself was stuck in the air explosion which caused it to be torn into pieces.
Sam smiled at the effectiveness and started moving deeper into the area after he changed the canister in the gun.
At this moment, the sirens are looking at him with a dumb founded expression.
They didn't expect Sam would use the formation like that.
They didn't even expect the gun to work like that. It is not even using any other equipment but the compressed air. It looked so easy.
If Sam knew their thoughts, he would say that it is definitely not easy at all.
The number of tricks he had to use to make the air as lethal as it is just with a pull of the trigger is enormous. But the only good thing out of it is that this gun can also be used outside on a normal surface, instead of just the water.
Sam proceeded forward and started taking down one sea urchin after another. There are still available individually, but the deeper he went the more the quantity increased, and soon, he was surrounded by the sea urchins.
When the transcendent stage cultivators are about to take a closer look, Varien reminded.
"Don't go any further, have you forgotten what would happen if you go deeper than this? If you go any further, you would be in the detection range and transcendent sea urchin will come.
There is a possibility that he would die."
The sirens suddenly came out of their daze. That really is true. They are so involved in the demonstration that they forgot.
When Sam is surrounded by the sea urchins that are even unwilling to hide their presence, he didn't feel worried at all. Instead he smiled a bit.
All the sea urchins shot at more or less the same time and when the spikes penetrated this detecting formation, Sam placed his hand on the chest, precisely the armor covering his chest, and injected energy into it.
All the holes in the armor, both front and the rear reacted and an array of constant explosions happened. The air cannons were shot from both front and rear at the same level of impact that Sam stayed in the same place, but the spikes coming from different sides are all cleared.
He didn't even have to worry about the ones that are coming from the side, due to the distance and the range of the air cannons which grows with the distance, every single spike was dead in its tracks.
Now Sam took the chance in this small interval to take down some sea urchins and when another wave of spikes came, he once again activated the air cannons on the armor.
After three to four attempts, he managed to clear the sea urchins.
Now the demonstration is complete and Sam wanted to leave. But just as he was leaving the area. He heard a voice.
"Very well done, very well done. Varien I really have to apologize for my statements this time."
Sam looked at them and noticed Arav is entering the area. As soon as he did that, the rest of the transcendent stage cultivators felt weird.
"Arav come back."
"What's wrong Varien? I am just appreciating that guy for his efforts."
Everyone could hear the sarcasm from his words.
And soon Sam who is swimming outside, felt a sense of danger, he activated the armor once again, but this time, he didn't activate the front one, only the rear one.
It pushed him forward, but a spike brushed past his arm and took of a chunk of flesh off of it.
Sam looked at the sea urchin that came. It looked similar to that of the other one and there is barely any difference in size, but its skin is slowly turning red and even the spikes that came out of it are turning red. Even though the rock it is absorbing it somewhere between black and brown it is still producing red spikes.
Sam used energy vision to check the difference and it turned out to be a transcendent level sea urchin and that too of a high level, it would be a consummate level soon.
This sea urchin is too strong for Sam to not take out some of his cards, if he were to really fight it, he swam faster and faster. He threw the equipment back into the divine dimension and activated water elemental fusion as he swam out of the range.
This surprised the group even more. They are sure that once the spike brushed past him, Sam's arm would be swollen out of proportion and his body wouldn't be reacting. Much less activate elemental fusion and swim that fast.
When he finally came out, the sea urchin also stopped attacking him.
Sam looked at Arav coldly. This piece of shit did it on purpose.
