Sam is currently sitting in his camp, looking at the recording crystal he has in his hands.
It is the video of Arkiv being bashed and hit for two days straight.
It has been two weeks since they came here for today and in the past two days, Sam crucified another two feathered.
And this day, in the place of the crucifixion, the recording crystal was found. Even though there is a bunch of feathered lying in ambush, they are all early-stage transcendent stage cultivators and specter has no problem escaping them with a recording crystal.
Now, this is the video, he got from that crystal.
Sam clenched his fists as he looked at the constant bashing Arkiv received, without being able to put up a fight.
The gravity is the direct obstacle that is not allowing him to stand up.
Sometimes, he didn't even bother to stand up anymore and just laid down trying to defend himself, but for some reason, the more contact he has with the stone, the more resistant his spiritual energy become.
He is fully frustrated and clearly not feeling well.
After the bashing, he was taken away by a bunch of people.
Sam saw the priestess who is hovering over the air as she looked at the whole fiasco coldly.
He decided to send the return gifts in kind.
He started preparing for the next crucifixion, but along with that, there is another gift he planned.
He took out a dead body of the feathered and started cutting it open.
He removed some internal organs and filled them will energy cells. He sewed up the skin and cut the wings off of the dead body.
He turned the body into undead and ordered him to close his eyes and try to act alive.
He killed two more feathered and put them on the wooden cross again. But this time, inside their dead bodies, there are some gifts hidden.
He crucified the dead bodies in a different spot and sent a signal with a golden flame. The ambush team lying in wait looked at the golden flame and went there.
Sam took a detour on harbinger and arrived nearer to the city on a different side and let go of one of the feathered.
He gave him the healing pills, that could barely allow him to fly.
"Take this guy with you. If you can go fast enough, you can save yourselves both. Both of you are given same poison, if you don't act fast, you would also turn out like him."
Sam said as he stabbed his hand into the chest of another feathered who is still lying on the ground barely breathing.
The feathered looked at his comrade who is still barely breathing and immediately became anxious. He carried the comrade and started flying towards the city screaming.
"HELP."
"HELP."
He couldn't fly longer and landed on the city wall. By now the guards saw him and came rapidly towards him to check their situation.
"What happened?"
"One of the leaders of the guards asked."
But as soon as he did that…
*BOOM*
A loud energy explosion happened and more than ten guards along with a large chunk of the city wall disappeared. The explosion could be heard throughout the whole city. The rest of the city guards are all alerted.
In fact, not to mention the city guards, the priestess inside the temple heard the explosion and came out running.
While their focus was all on that side, in the place of crucifixion.
The group saw the crucifixion and this time, they felt their blood boiling even more. The amount of torture inflicted on them is beyond belief.
They hurried to free them from the crosses and provide a proper burial, but as soon as they stepped forward…
*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
A series of explosions happened.
Purple smoke covered the whole area and even the trees are feeling the corrosion and started wilting rapidly.
The feathered that are there had their legs injured and a lot of pins are stabbing into their skin, the purple poison is seeping in as it made them feel their blood burn with every breath.
These rapid explosions once again caught the attention of the city guards and they started flying towards them.
But as they are on air, they saw something surprising.
Sam who is practically invisible to them for the past few days, appeared in a distance on harbinger as he floated on top of the trees looking at them.
This halt caused the feathered group to up and looked at him coldly.
As they were about to move towards him, Sam smirked and made a spin with the harbinger as his body and the board covered with golden flames.
As he spun with a mere thought a large metallic ball appeared and he kicked it with golden flames into the group.
He didn't stop there and kicked another one with a slight change in direction.
The two balls shot in mid-air as they reached the groups soon. The feathered just ignored the balls and decided to dodge them, but when they reached the middle of the group, the spikes came out of the ball, impaling into their bodies and injecting the poison, before they could even feel the full extent of pain, the gas was already released and it was caught on fire.
*BOOM* *BOOM*
]The feathered group has all their wings caught on fire and their bodies became weak as they fell down.
Sam took out his bow and arrows and started shooting the falling feathered.
His arrows impaled many of them to the trees and made them hang on the trees like scarecrows on a cross.
After impaling them, he shot another poison vial arrow that could intensify the effects of the poison.
He left the place as fast as he came.
The metal balls were left there and just went away as fast as came.
The incident shook the city.
There is no way this would go unnoticed. Everything Sam did until now is not too overboard or over the top. The only thing he did too flashy is the initial blast.
But now he decided to do something that would make it known to everyone in the city.
He would like to see if they would let the whole city go into a panic. He would make one of the six capitals of the city shake in fear and see if they would dare to keep him inside. And with all the torture they are putting Arkiv through, he would make sure that they hand over the weapon fragment or whatever that is that he has to take from here by themselves.
Even if they didn't want to hand it over, by the time, he was finished, he would be able to do anything he wants to do with this city and take whatever he wants.
He is giving them one last chance them and that expires this very night.
If they didn't do what he wants, they would regret it for the rest of their lives. That is if they have any remaining life after he was done.
He went to go through the preparations.
At this moment, Arkiv is currently soaking in the pool as he healed the injuries.
Grace is standing beside the pool as she looked at him.
"Why are you provoking them so much? You are already in this state."
"Provoking them? You might not notice this, but what is happening is, you guys are provoking me and another monster that is outside.
The time I get used to that gravity and that guy outside had enough, you would beg me to leave this place."
"Why are you so cocky?"
"Well, you haven't talked to Sam yet. He will make you feel like I am the most humble guy in the universe."
She stayed silent for a second and said.
"What is it like to talk with gods?"
"Gods?"
"Why do you ask?"
She sat down at the edge of the pool and said.
"Our Planet is isolated from the rest of the world, our only hope to get out of here, to break through to consummate level and join the training camp of the Zeus army. We do all this to meet our Goddess and serve under her command.
I want to know how those gods are, as I couldn't go there anytime soon."
"Well, they are nothing special. Some of them are very petty. Pettier than a little girl. Some of them are easy to get along with. Like you could have a drink with him over some snacks and laughs. Some are dignified and powerful, but noble and fair. Some of them are vicious cunts that have no manners whatsoever or no conscience.
And from the looks of it, the next god might even be an arrogant piece of shit that has no respect for a fair competition."
Grace looked at him in shock.
"You are talking about gods."
"So? Gods are living beings as well."
"But they are still gods. They are not normal. They are supposed to be different."
"In my journey, I have seen young men make gods bleed when they are on the same level, if they can bleed, they can die and I am going to kill one myself. There is nothing to adore, nothing unreachable about them."
"You are crazy."
