Sam is going after the second elder after confirming this speculation and the latter kept on dodging and dodging.
He took a lot of hits from Sam felt extremely frustrated.
The three remaining men are trying their best to impede Sam and they are succeeding for the most part.
Sam is losing energy every second and he cannot take extend it for too long.
He decided to do something big and finish this off in a single strike.
He used the thunder prison to cage himself and started concentrating his energy. He changed the full partial fusion of the shadow element to the partial fusion and the remaining part of the body is actually going through Space elemental fusion.
He closed his eyes and controlled the energy carefully as he tried his best to make both of completely different energies merge together to form a very critical balance between them.
This merged energy channeled through the sword and Sam suddenly took the cage off and slashed towards one of the three guys.
The sword ray reached right in front of the target and opened a spatial rift and that rift is leading to the Shadow world.
The suction force pulled the guy in and the shadow energy started corrupting him like crazy and at the same time Sam's shadows extended their hands and tried to pull him in.
The shadow energy corruption started and the barbarian slowly began to move into the shadow realm.
But the spatial is slowly closing at the same time. So, the barbarian finally found some hope and tried to pull himself out of the spatial tear. And he did have some improvement, but he couldn't do that in time and the spatial tear closed which cut his body in half while the rest was completely corrupted.
He is dead just like that.
Everything happened in three seconds. And the whole area turned silent, while the remaining two and the second elder are looking at Sam in a bit of horror.
Sam proceeded with his strikes and the second target was hooked while the third and fourth barely managed to dodge.
Sam kept on trying to get a hold of them and the surrounding barbarians who didn't want to involve in the fight are getting involved as the spatial tears landed near them and they are being sucked in.
The barbarian tribe will really lose their core power at this rate and without that, the rest of the tribes would swallow the Kala tribe in.
After a series of constant missed attempts, Sam finally got the last guy, and now only the second elder and a few completely injured and badly exhausted barbarians left in the field.
And the second elder actually stopped running.
Sam walked towards him as he prepared for the next strike.
"I really admire you, Sam. I really do.
A young man who is in his forties. By your age, I was still moping around as a Consummate stage cultivator. I have stayed at that stage for so long that it felt like most of my life.
I was never the strongest one out of all, but I had the greatest ambitions of all.
But you are here almost destroying my tribe single-handedly. I know what's the enmity between you and Hel, but I am really glad that she made an enemy out of you and used our tribe to do something to you."
All of a sudden the energy around the second elder started changing and he became instantly stronger. Sam frowned at this.
This is completely different from what he speculated and this confusion made him stop in his tracks.
The second elder continued though.
"Because of you, I managed to get to the Warton tribe and used as an excuse to slaughter them and got what I wanted.
Because of you, the attention of the whole tribe including my brother, the tribe head all changed their attention towards you and because of that, I managed to do things that should be done to be what I currently am."
Sam swung his sword and created the largest rift he could right in front of that man.
But the second elder jumped back and escaped before saying.
"You should have done that a few minutes ago. If not for all the members sacrificing themselves, it would have been indeed difficult, you might have even done it and I would have really died easily. But it is a bit too late."
As soon as he spoke, his body started emitting the fumes just like it did with Dhar.
Sam frowned in confusion and so did the remaining barbarians. The second elder was the second elder for a reason. He shouldn't be having this ability. If he had that, he would have been the tribe head easily.
But he didn't inherit the berserker bloodline and Dhar's father did and took the spot away.
While Sam is confused, the second elder spoke once again.
"The Berserker bloodline is something I dreamed of for years, in fact, decades, but now it is mine, along with many other things."
And his body changed once again, the skin tone turned red and his muscle buffed up.
Sam doesn't know what it was, but the second elder seemed to be quite talkative and wanted to get it all out.
"This is why I killed the Warton tribe, some of the elders came to know about a secret of mine and on top of that they didn't give me what I wanted, so it was two birds with one stone."
Then his body kept on changing.
He got fangs and claws and then, his skin became scaly.
There are many changes happening to his body. Sam knew this smells trouble, but no matter how many times he attacked, they are not doing any good and all he is doing is opening up the spatial rifts to the shadow world and creating unstable spatial turbulences.
But that guy blocked, dodged, and simply escaped.
The battle is in a stalemate and with every transformation that is happening, the performance is increasing and Sam is already running out of energy.
The battle is currently at a stalemate, but both of them couldn't back out now.
Meanwhile, Dhar and his father along with Dhruv came out of the city by now and they are the tribe head recovered a bit.
When they saw the whole scene, they were stunned.
"He was holding back."
Dhar muttered when he saw the battle.
Dhar's father recovered a bit and said to Dhar.
"I need to recover as fast as possible. We need to take the Second elder down."
"What exactly happened father?"
"The second elder got greedy. He found a specific demonic cultivation technique. It was created by one of the demon races that are above our realm.
The technique is pure evil. It devours the bloodline of others who are different races or even of same race with different bloodlines. I don't know where he exactly got it, but he is working behind our backs and devoured many barbarian bloodlines until now.
And earlier he got me with a sneak attack along with the rest of the elders who were bought into his plan of extending his technique to their children.
He is now a whole new different kind of barbarian with many bloodlines mixed within and his offspring would be born that way.
He would be powerful but his mind would be lost in that power.
He doesn't care about the lives of the tribe anymore. He doesn't care if the elders and all the other Astral Plane cultivators die, as long as he nurtures that power, he would be able to hold the strongest in the barbarian realm's position and he would be able to create his own tribe with a completely new bloodline.
And from the looks of it, he wants to devour Sam.
He got the details of Sam from Hel and learned about the different elements and the beasts with him. You might not know this, but from what Hel said, Sam uses a similar technique but he doesn't devour, he shares a bloodline with the beasts."
"What does that mean?"
"That means, he is not a normal human. He has bloodlines of some more beasts coexisting within him which is the result of him having too many elements.
If the second elder devours his bloodline now, he would be holding all those elements and no one would be able to stop him."
"But then how can we stop him. From the looks of it, he is too strong."
"He would be stronger than now if we don't stop him and that will be the doom of the barbarian realm not just our tribe.
The gods don't look kindly on this and even the superior realms above us wouldn't just leave this be. They would just come and wipe the whole realm and the race and be done with it.
This second elder doesn't know that and he is just so drunk on power that he believes he can take on the whole world.
He couldn't be any more wrong.
So, I want you to do something so that I could recover faster and we have to help Sam. He is our only hope now."
