Sam proceeded with the funeral of Agun. The rest of the players are all present. Except for Donner. He knew he wouldn't be able to talk with the rest of the players normally again. Everyone will look at him with scorn and wouldn't want to team up again.
Even Dayus is despising him now.
But he hid far away and looked at the whole funeral silently.
All of them are feeling a bit heavy in the heart. But nobody blamed Sam for this, maybe some of them did, but they didn't say it out loud. After all, it is hard to ask someone to hold back, particularly when the other party is the one who struck first and that too with an intention to kill.
After the funeral is over, everyone went on their own ways to stay alone for the night.
The next day, Sam went to meet the Monarchs of the six cities and said.
"I don't know what is happening between you and the priests. But if this causes disturbances in my development plans, then I might have to reconsider working here. So, before I come back next time, get your people in order."
With those words, he took the youngsters and left the place. He returned to his residence and activated the dimensional drifter.
Arman and Arkiv followed him. The dimensional crossers for the players are still not activated.
After returning to the city, the first thing Sam did is take the six youngsters to the trio so that they would help him manage them.
When the feathered youngsters entered the city, every person is looking at them with fascination. It is not every day that they could see people with wings.
But no one was too concerned. It is already a given that different races are coming from somewhere in the name of the exchange programs and most of them are already a part of the society. Some dwarves even have jobs in the city.
Sam immediately went to the school after he dealt with the youngsters.
He asked for the school records of all the graduates.
There are many people who felt like they reached their normal learning limit and decided to work. But the problem is there are just too many graduates in many fields.
The school is producing so many of them and everyone is an elite on some level.
He has an excess of workers, artisans, fighters and any other person who can work in any other field.
But he never cared nor did he stop admissions for any of them.
He made sure that every one of them had a job even if he has to lose some money to pay their salary. It is because so that he could use them in times like this.
After this Palace of inheritance trip or the soul trip back to earth or the death of Agun. Something changed in Sam.
He started working on something grand.
After getting the list of all the graduates and all the employees under him. He marked several names and called them back to the city.
He gave that responsibility to someone and went to deal with his own thing.
He holed up in his room as he started drawing and writing on a large scroll.
A scroll that is large enough to cover the whole wall.
While he is doing that, the representative from the Space gate association came knocking on his door.
"Coming."
"Mr. Sam. You asked me to meet you?"
"Are the inter-dimensional Space gates ready?"
"Yes, we managed to work them out. But their working costs are a bit on the expensive side. So, we are trying to find alternative formations."
"Don't worry. We are not short of money. Start training your people on this formation. I want at least five teams of people who can lay down this formation.
I want one formation laid down within the city first though. A formation connecting to a Planet I want. Can you do that?"
"Yes, but we would need the coordinates."
"Do you need them right now?"
"No, at the final phase."
"I will give them by then. I need a formation that could transfer Consummate level cultivators too. Do it as fast as you can."
After giving out orders, Sam went on with his work. While working the dimensional drifter is completely activated. He is looking at the long list of realms that he could access with his current power.
He noted everything down on the scroll and made sure to take note of the realms that are connected to each other and even the topmost realm that could be accessible with these connecting realms.
After he was done with that list, Sam went on with a breakthrough.
The forest bear's bloodline was refined and Sam made a breakthrough. After reaching the transcendent stage, he once again worked with the dimensional drifter. To take a look at the new list.
After working for more than three days, the whole scroll is completed.
He took the scroll to the school and opened a new room which was not opened until today. It was created with the sole purpose of this.
The room for checking the progress of expansion plans.
The major expansion would dwarf even constructing his own city and the railway project that connected the whole continent.
This is the expansion plan that would cross realms and open new gates for the humans on this planet connecting them with various races.
He then contacted a team of people along with the trio.
This is a certain group of people Sam wanted to be in charge of the expansion plans and oversee the progress.
After calling them, he started explaining everything to them.
He has information on some of the planets that they are going for. But that is not enough. He has to go to the Tempest valley to get the info on the remaining places.
But before he goes back, he gave the information to them so that they could start working.
"Not you three." When Sam saw the trio getting involved, he immediately stopped.
"What do you mean?" Philip asked.
"Don't think I forgot about the plan. You only have a week or two, so enjoy the last remaining days here. You wouldn't be back for many years to come."
With that, he left to the tempest valley to meet with the Old Beast. After explaining his plan, the old beast looked at him and asked.
"Why do you want to expand all of a sudden?"
"I want to become a god."
"But that doesn't need this much effort, does it? You only need to cultivate."
"No, I want to be a different type of god."
The old beast looked at him and grinned.
"Seems like you have a plan to do something. But don't do anything stupid. Information is not a problem, but there is one thing you should be worrying about. If you connect different realms with Space gates, they can be accessible to your enemies too. So, make the Space gates connecting to that place in the tempest valley.
I am not leaving this place anytime soon. So, I will be the first line of defense. I am pretty sure ninety-nine percent of the beings in the universe wouldn't be able to cross past me."
"Thank you."
Sam went back with the info and informed the Space gate association about the change of location. They felt a bit disappointed and frustrated, but nothing a few bonuses couldn't cure.
After they went with the Space gate construction, Sam got busy with the rest of the people in the city.
Slowly, all the candidates he called for are coming to the city.
And in the next one week, they are busy assigning everyone to different places.
They are sending all kinds of people. Artisans who are good at construction, chefs who are good with new and old recipes, weapon artisans and healers along combat divisions are all common to every place.
The rest of them are sent there based on the terrain of the planet.
For example, a marine combat team with Flatfish puppets and people trained in shipbuilding and marine weaponry are sent to a Planet that is inhabited by fishmen, and more than ninety percent of the planet is covered with water.
There is a planet full of active volcanos and many creatures and have too small of a human population and is mostly occupied by beasts, there went the fire elemental users.
A planet with a lot of metals and materials was going to be visited by experts in metallurgy and artisans of forging.
They are given the conditions of the planets and the tasks they should be doing first.
But before they do any of that, Sam first has to create a hub. A hub for his transportation and also a base of production of all the resources and materials he would gather from all these various planets.
And that is where the Nike Planet comes in.
Or the Feathered Planet, as it is called now.
Sam briefed all the teams with the tasks they must take and decided to visit the Feathered Planet. The formation at the tempest valley is complete and he is going to take the Space gate association members there to construct the second formation.
