Sam felt his whole body go numb. For some reason, this paralytic poison is acting against his body.
Every time a poison entered the body, his Hydra bloodline always took over and assimilated the poison, he would escape without any harm done to his body.
But this time, for some reason, before the hydra bloodline could even do anything, his human bloodline, the human flesh of his body started absorbing it crazily and it is even opposing the hydra bloodline.
Generally, all the beast bloodlines Sam has in his body are completely superior to his human part and the combination of this many bloodlines should have already killed Sam by now. Every bloodline of that caliber will be trying their best to show that they are the superior ones.
Which would lead to his body tearing itself apart. But because of this cultivation method, the body became proper junction that holds every bloodline separately and makes it coexist. The beast bloodlines wouldn't be opposing the human part because, once that junction is destroyed, he would die.
Now taking this as an advantage, the human part of his body is greedily absorbing the paralytic poison, while the hydra part is trying to take over and absorb it.
At least Sam is not completely paralyzed at the moment.
Sam looked at Grace coldly, even though he is suffering a soul searing pain. He looked at the handcuff and realized that at least the key and the lock were real.
Arkiv released himself and held Sam who is struggling to stand up.
Sam took Arkiv's support and looked at the feathered and said.
"This will mark the beginning of the real war between you and us. Whatever happens after this, remember that you have only yourself to blame. One last reminder, if you can send this back to your city, I won't stop you.
You better evacuate citizens from this place or what awaits them is a fate worse than death.
With that he whistled louds and gestured Arkiv to lay down on the ground.
At this moment, the earth shook and the feathered who are standing on it felt like it is about to collapse as a flying species their first instinct is to jump upwards.
But only then did they realize that they made a mistake. The earth is merely a distraction. A bunch of spikes flew from the top of the large trees. The spikes are a bit different though, they have grey flames all over it.
The spikes impaled themselves into the bodies of the feathered and they were surprised that they didn't feel much pain.
The spikes are not exactly damaging. They hovered over the sky for a second and one of them spotted a tree which also has grey flame on it. It was also hit by a stray spike and they realized just how much shit they are going to face now.
Their bodies slowly caught on the grey flame and started burning.
The feathered slowly collapsed to the ground and started rolling around.
By now, Sam sat down in a cross-legged position and started meditating. He has to get rid of the poison and all he has to do is make the human part of his dormant for a few seconds.
He closed his eyes and struggled for a few minutes before getting an idea. He used the Vampire bloodline to suppress his human one.
But in these few minutes, he will get that monstrous feel where he would want to eat everything.
If only there was other way. Sam activated the vampire bloodline and his whole body screamed of extreme hunger. After that first dose of elven blood he took from Ramya, his cravings didn't stop.
He has to keep the vampire bloodline dormant and suppressed to save himself from turning into a literal monster.
The hydra bloodline finally started working, Sam even let Mia out to help him with physical extraction of the poison.
It is too potent and the bloodline will take some time to absorb it alone.
Mia bit into his arm and started sucking the blood and poison out as she consumed it directly.
Even though it was just one shot, it took a few minutes to clean the poison.
When Sam opened his eyes, he is feeling a bit weaker and stood up while stretching.
Arkiv is standing nearby as he looked at the feathered that are struggling to fight back the effects of the grey flame.
The grey flame is created by the undying volcanic rocks. The very stone, the vampire, wights and ghouls used to deal with the dwarven towns and cities.
Sam has caught every volcanic rock in the possession of his chess pieces, but he didn't find a proper use for them. In the Charbhum realm, he didn't get into enough trouble to use these things.
Now he is using them.
"What is going to happen to them?"
Arkiv asked after Sam walked towards him.
"They will turn into undead creatures. I will capture them and throw them into the city."
When they heard it, the feathered are shocked. Grace in particular is shocked beyond belief.
"Can you save her?" Arkiv asked.
"Why?"
"She is the daughter of the boss of the city. He is pretty stubborn about not attacking you. If you kill her, then he would come to us swinging in full. Even if we are not exactly afraid of them, it is not such a good idea to provoke him right?"
"But she cannot leave. Hold her hostage. And she is your responsibility."
Sam said and Arkiv shrugged.
Sam crouched down beside Grace and started healing her. But when the process is half way through, Grace got some strength, she looked at the remaining four feathered who are slowly losing consciousness.
At this moment, the ghouls and Wights came out of the hiding.
"Capture them as soon as they lose their lives and throw them into the city."
They nodded and got to work.
Grace became anxious. Four transcendent stage undead creatures will be a nightmare to the whole city.
In fact, it is more dangerous than anything Sam did to the city before.
She closed her eyes and took a golden feather and used it.
A golden light enveloped her and she turned into a golden light streak before leaving the place.
Sam was a bit surprised. He tried to hold the golden light streak but he couldn't.
What surprised him is the fact that she could have used this chance to heal herself fully and escape later, but she didn't.
Then he looked at the four undead creatures that are captured by the Wights and Ghouls and understood what she was thinking.
She was afraid that she would be too late, she wants to inform her father or others in the city.
"Would we be okay?" Arkiv asked with concern. He knew that if Grace went back with the presence of grey flame on her, if she dies and Silva finally losses it, the situation would be hard for them to deal with.
"Let's wait and see. For all we know, that father might even catch that grey flame and turn into an undead creature and this whole thing would be over before we knew it."
"I wish it could be over like that."
"It wouldn't be too different. Don't worry. Let's go. We have a lot to do."
"What is our next plan?"
"What else? Take that weapon fragment or whatever that is inside that temple. But that stupid temple is hard to infiltrate."
"Then how are we going to deal with it."
"My first thought is to find a way to destroy it, the second thought is to make the feathered go into despair and make them give it to us. Which one is better?"
Arkiv shrugged.
Meanwhile, back in the temple.
Silva flew in a rapid pace as he came to the entrance. Grace is currently sprawling on the ground with the grey flame eating her away.
"Father, … Un… Undead attack. They are sending four.. transcendent stage undead to the city."
The grey winged elder who also came heard this and after getting a nod from silva he disappeared.
By now, the wights and ghouls already threw the undead towards the city.
The undead has instincts and it is to go for the living beings, since wights and ghouls are not exactly living beings, the city is their obvious choice.
Luckily for the feathered as soon as the undead came in, the grey winged elder came with his guards and started a fight with them.
Silva is currently holding his daughter who is suffering in grey flame and took her into the temple.
He opened a secret room and there is a pool with golden water inside.
He placed her into the pool while he also placed his own hands that caught the grey flame inside.
He doesn't know what these grey flames are, but when they caught his hand, he could feel his vitality seeping out of it, he couldn't even walk properly. But his daughter was his priority which made him walk anyway and enter this area.
The pool of golden water. The ultimate healing pool of their city and even in the planet.
But to his dismay, the grey flames are not going anywhere, but they are not spreading to her body either. Even for him it is the same situation. He hardened his heart and used his wings to cut his arms off and placed the stumps into the pool as he concentrated. The arms started regrowing rapidly.
He even took some pills with the help of his wings and his arms will be back in few minutes, but he is still uneasy. He can cut his arms off, but for his daughter this treatment is not going to work.
