Sam expected a pursuit from the Barbarians, but to his surprise, nobody was after him.
Because back at the city gate, the young head didn't let anyone chase him. Everyone complained and he had to explain the situation about Druv.
Everyone felt ashamed when they heard that. It could be said that the Barbarians have a very fragile ego. Just one of them has supposedly made a 'mistake' of saving his brother from dying in a duel and they are all ashamed and embarrassed.
If Sam was in their place, not only would he catch the other person, he would have done so in the middle of the fight.
Particularly, when that person is someone who is passionately provoking them. Day in and day out.
That day passed with their moods getting gloomier.
For some reason, the young head went to meet Watt and started talking to him.
"I met your friend."
"Oh, I have heard."
"What did you hear?"
"Enough to know that your brother's sweet little ass is saved by you in the middle of the fight."
The young head smiled bitterly.
"What is wrong with us? Why does a captive know about the incident that happened at the city gate? Is it really normal?"
"Why are you asking me? Have you never had a captive before?"
"Not for this long. We would kill instantly most of the time and if we need any info, we torture you and kill you in two to three days, whether you give us the info or not. That was our norm."
"Well, I would give you some tips then. Tell your guards to shut the fuck up when they are near the captive, they are constantly talking about random things, you wouldn't even believe how much information they are giving away."
"I will make sure that doesn't happen next time. For you. It doesn't matter anymore."
"There will be no next time."
"We will see. Anyway, your friend said something about a surprise. We want to stay prepared."
"It is useless. Because even I don't know what kind of surprise he would be giving."
"He said that this is a sample for what he can do and we have to multiply it by hundred times to see the full extent of his attacking power. I have a really bad feeling about it. So, I need your help."
"Just because I am giving you occasional tips, doesn't mean I would be helping you every time.
I am sure that there is nothing you could do about it. Good luck."
"Just what do you guys want?"
"Well, you should be asking that to your goddess. She is the one that started this. You kidnapped me on her words that too to provoke Sam, even letting me send a message to him.
You guys listened to her and wanted to kill my friend, so this is the payback. You live by the sword, then you die by the sword."
The young head left the place with a gloomy expression. There are many thoughts going through his head. Why does a goddess up in the highest of the realms want to do something to a young human who is barely an Astral Plane cultivator?
Why are they the ones doing the bidding?
Why are they dying on her behalf?
All these questions are killing him. If one has too much faith in something and all that faith did is lead them towards destruction, they are bound to question the faith.
He couldn't rest that night, he didn't even bother to treat his wound properly and left in the middle of the treatment.
As dawn neared, he had a gripping feeling in his chest, making him think of all kinds of scenarios.
Scenarios that he never thought he would imagine are all going through his head.
And a few minutes before dawn, Sam is currently high above in the sky.
Above the clouds, from the ground, he and Sky are just a mere black dot. He is standing on Sky as he looked down with the telescope. From that height, it is hard for even him to see the city with a naked eye even when he used the eye technique.
He used the telescope and eye-technique to even see a faint outline of the city.
After making sure that he could see that, he opened the dimensional drifter.
He already marked the city's coordinates, so he is checking whether he is exactly collinear to the city with his current coordinates and he adjusted according to those coordinates until he became really collinear.
After he reached that spot, he put the dimensional drifter away and took a cylindrical object.
The cylindrical object has many sections within it.
The topmost section is layered energy cells, with different elements.
The bottom-most section is the thrusting mechanism which works on bio-fuel and methane and the last thing is the middle section.
It is also layered with several discs with runes on them.
Sam started moving these several discs with runes and after some alignment, he pointed the cylindrical object vertically downwards and started destabilizing the energy cells and also injected the energy into the runes and dropped it.
The object dropped downwards for a few meters before disappearing from the spot.
He is using the same method as the transference scroll. Traveling in a linear direction for many kilometers in an instant.
The object doesn't have a very long-range, but he is sure that it can reach a point just a few meters away from the city.
Even when the barbarians find out about this, they wouldn't be able to do anything, It would be too late to do anything.
As for why Sam used a vertical drop from that height, it is just a test. He wanted to create some chaos while testing his research.
When the object reappeared above the city, the thrusters activated and their speed increased.
When the first barbarian saw that, he immediately threw a spear at that, but there is no use. Just before the spear even touched the object, the force itself was enough to change the direction of the object and it still landed in the city, particularly on the outer circle where the city wall is used to be.
Currently, most of the city is evacuated as they moved closer to the estate so that the Kala tribe members would have an easy time saving them, but this also gave Sam a perfect stage for a demonstration.
The object exploded in mid-air right before it could touch any solid substance. And that explosion included different elemental energy including spatial energy.
And the largest part is also spatial energy, it created a small spatial rift in the atmosphere but the rest of the elemental explosions started causing changes in the rift making it expand a bit and the spatial turbulence that should have been too small normally increased to the extreme.
If any person below Astral Plane comes nowhere near this, they would be sucked in and even if they don't fit, their parts would be torn apart from the turbulence.
When the group of soldiers saw this, they are shocked. The spatial tear and the chaotic turbulence are mending themselves slowly, but the turbulence is not going to let it happen easily.
It would take at least half a day.
And that is just the start. Many objects started falling from the sky one by one.
As if they are raining.
The Astral Plane cultivators started throwing ranged attacks to divert them and make them fall far away from the city.
But it is not possible.
They are falling within the range of the city no matter how much they tried, but the only silver lining is that they don't have to worry too much about the citizens as they managed to divert them to an outer region.
This went on for over an hour and finally stopped.
The whole city is feeling a bit anxious.
The aftermath is devastating.
There is a circle around the city with a bunch of spatial tears causing chaos.
They are tearing each other apart and the constant turbulence of chaotic mixture of different elemental energies is causing the near tears to appear while the old tears are mended.
If one tear is alone, it would mend back in the day, but there are a bunch of these like these, it would take months to fully get rid of them.
While the barbarians are feeling lost, a scroll fell into the city.
A scroll with Sam's words.
"These things are just samples.
Imagine an object that is a few hundred times larger than this and falls on you from the sky. I highly doubt your city will escape from this.
So, I have a proposition and if you want to listen to it, send your young head and a bunch of others outside the city gate.
I am pretty sure that you would be able to cross that circle of spatial rifts.
Goodbye."
The young head felt a bit frustrated. Sam might even be the only person that made the barbarians so passive.
But the tribe head doesn't seem to care about this proposition.
He seemed to have lost it and gave an order that surprised him so much.
