Sam walked to the Silva temple and wanted to crack the code of the temple too.
But while he was doing so, several thoughts are eating his mind.
It is easy to crack the code, once they identify the similarities between the two temples. And Sam is not narcissistic enough to think that he is the only guy who managed to guess the purpose of the similarities in tens of centuries.
But that raises the question, why it was not opened until now?
Sam doesn't know, but he wants to know that. As for how to know that, the only way he could think of for now is to try and open other temples and see if he could find any plaques similar to the one that was in the Rata temple.
It also stated that the path wouldn't open for feathered. Sam would like to know the reason and find the whole story so that he could think of ways to utilize it to his own benefit.
So, he started working. For the Rata temple, he already had the required info and knowledge from the city. But for the rest he didn't.
The closest he had is the Silva temple which he is trying to open next.
He managed to finish half of the process within an hour and that is as far as his information could lead him.
And the rest of the process is going to be a night mare.
Sam started decoding the unlocking procedure with only the clues left here and for that just observing with eyes is not enough.
He started looking at the mechanisms, walls, pillars, statues and every inch of them with the observation ability.
He couldn't even afford to leave a single millimeter of the stone brick of a temple unexamined, if he really wants to open it.
The process is long and testing his patience.
He really wanted to just give it up in the middle. But he didn't because, before he took any decision, he wanted to see if it was all worth it. So, he took the book to the second floor of the divine dimension.
He started simulating the whole process of the art is a body that was described in the book to a very minute detail.
When he was done with the whole process, he was stunned. Until now, he really underestimated the feathered and their potential. So much, that he didn't even bother to collect them in his chess board. But now that he saw this, he felt like he should do that.
The art is actually suitable for the feathered with the shadow elemental affinity, which is the Rata family branch. But the family bloodline is so thin that barely three to four people are carrying the bloodline for the next generation and this time, it is still two and they are the twins and the previous generation is obviously the queen.
Sam doesn't know what kind of elemental affinity that Silva family has. But from the looks of it there is a great possibility that they are of wind element.
He really wants to see what could feathered do if they got their hands on this method. He might even reconsider collecting a few. In fact the heirs of each city and make them practice technique. He would have another powerful force with him that he could deploy in a different business branch of his.
So, he went back to work.
For the next ten days he worked his ass off to unlock the second temple.
For some reason the normal spiritual sense is not actually going through the walls and the stones of temple.
He couldn't even see the stone structure, much less the contents beyond the stone structure.
After Sam got the book from Silva temple, he moved to the next one.
Now that he has the experience with these mechanisms Sam started getting the hang of it a bit and sped up a bit, but he is sure that that it would take at least twenty days for the third one.
But what he is not sure about or he didn't know about is that as soon as he took the book in the temple, something happened in Rata city.
The temple's central hall started glowing and the statues of Nike shook wildly before shattering into pieces.
In the place of the statues, a pillar came out with the name of RATA written on it along with an engraved sculptor of a feathered in shadow form.
The same thing happened in Silva city with the only differences being the statues already being mostly destroyed and the names and engraved sculptors are different.
The Queen and the King on both places was astonished and they ordered their subordinates.
"We are going to the Central temple, be prepared."
But they couldn't go immediately, because they had to take care of the damage caused by Sam's visit on the two places.
In actual fact, their orders were to not care about the central temple or the players after the players get the weapon fragment.
But now that is not going to happen. They want to go back to the central temple.
Queen Rata is visiting the top floor of the temple every day after this phenomenon.
There is a large silver plate with a single pillar of black light floating over it. That is the only thing she could see every night.
After the Silva temple is open though, she saw another pillar of light.
She immediately ran towards the plate and cut her palm to drop some blood on it.
The silver plate glowed brightly and the pillars of light disappeared.
"King Silva? King Silva?"
She started called as she looked at the Silver plate.
Soon the glow disappeared and an image appeared on it.
The image of King Silva.
"King Silva, your temple opened as well?"
"Yes, just now. I am guessing your temple opened earlier."
"Yes."
"It seems like the feathered are finally going to be freed from the shackles."
"I think so too. We are planning to go to the Central temple. Maybe these players coming here is for our boon instead of a curse."
"It is a boon for us. We are also planning to go there. But not this early. We are planning to be there in three and a half months.
By then, all the players would have gathered there and we wouldn't have trouble at all. If every temple opens, we all have to be there to activate the central temple. Even if they didn't make it by then, we can wait until their event is completed and ask whoever opened this to open the rest.
This is the closest we have come to freedom.
For some reason Nike is not reacting now. So this is the only chance we would get."
"We will be there then."
With that the communication was cut off.
Meanwhile, back in the central temple after Sam finished off the second temple and moved to third, the next batch of players came.
This time it was Noah who happened to land solo in a city and came here with the weapon fragment.
After a few days, Agun came along with Kumar and both of them were fighting like crazy.
Sam sped up the process of unlocking and in the next month he unlocked two temples.
Every player became curious over this. They knew that Sam wouldn't do anything unnecessary. For him to take so much time out of all this, they felt like there is something precious here.
By the end of ten and a half months, every temple was unlocked. But when Sam was on the final stage of unlocking the last temple, he heard a commotion outside. He finished the process quickly and went outside to take a look and he was surprised by what he saw.
It is arrival of the last two players. The only path that was left unchecked.
Akhil and Dayus are coming from there. But not in a normal way.
A bunch of feathered are following them while holding Akhil like a prisoner.
Every other player was alerted.
Sam felt amused and walked forward with the rest of them.
As soon as Dayus arrived in the temple with the rest of them, Akhil who acted weak moved all of a sudden and kicked in the groin of the feathered that is holding him and escaped with his shackles.
He ran towards Sam and asked.
"Help me with these please."
Sam placed his hands on the shackles and turned them into powder in a few seconds.
The feathered wanted to follow, but Dayus waved his hand to stop them from moving forward.
"No need. There is no use holding him down here anyway."
Arkiv who has contacts with everyone spoke.
"You have some pretty good following here Dayus."
Dayus looked at him with a side eye and spoke.
"Agun, Donner. Do you have your fragments?"
Donner nodded and went away and Agun shook his head. Kumar held the fragment there.
The three players were united and they are all looking at the rest of the players with a hint of pride. They really felt they already won because they are sure they would get another fragment.
Dayus swept them with a look and said.
"Let us show our hands. Who has the fragments and who doesn't?"
Everyone didn't mind. Agun didn't have the fragment. Sam and Arkiv also raised their hands. He looked at the rest of the people who didn't have any fragments.
"Well, I need one more fragment for my teammate Agun here. If one of you hands it over, then we will not fight it out with you. I think it is better if Arman hands it over. After all, you guys are a team of three and you don't have two, so it will be even."
