For the rest of the ceremony and the toasts, Sam was extremely vigilant. His assistant said that something happened at the mines in the central continent.
It could be said the whole central continent is his at the moment and only a few places around were occupied by other major powers.
Someone attacked the people at the mine and escaped.
This is completely new to Sam. Because currently there should be no one who has balls to attack the dusk organization. Even the major powers with centuries of history couldn't do anything.to him now. One swing of his sword could kill the whole major power.
Someone attacking the mines out of blue is impossible which made Sam extra vigilant.
Watt and Wembley carried on with celebrations while Sam gave orders to his subordinates to get to the bottom of the incident.
The celebrations went on until night and when the couple went to Watt's floor in the tower the celebrations finally ended.
Sam is waiting in his office for the reports.
The attack is a fire elemental and they didn't kill any miners. It was a single attack and all the defensive measures at the mine were activated because of that.
And these measures managed to defend against this one attack.
This person is definitely a consummate level cultivator at the least. If it was an Astral Plane cultivator Sam would be having a bit of trouble.
If an Astral Plane cultivator decides to damage Sam, then it is almost impossible for him to defend. He can find and kill them, but it is hard to completely avoid damage as there are too many ventures and they are too split.
Particularly, the Desolate is currently his main base and core of the dusk organization he would be having more than just a bit of trouble if someone attacked him. But he couldn't think of the possibility of someone attacking him all of a sudden.
That night he went to the central continent and inspected the mine while he is doing the inspections someone came to him once again and informed of another attack, and this time there are casualties.
Twenty miners died with the mine collapse.
"Order every miner to return to the base. Stop all the other operations in the Central continent. Inform the administrators in the city to find the families of the deceased, give them the bodies and tell them someone attacked the mine and we would avenge them.
Compensate them however they see fit. If they have any kids of an employable youngster offer them a job in some administrative circle and join the kids in the school as permanent students. They would become employees in the school after they graduate.
Also don't forget about the spirit stone compensation.
Do it fast and do it properly. Show them the respect and take any scolding they throw at you.
I would be taking over this case completely."
Sam gave out the orders as he moved on harbinger to the next mine. The attack was fresh, so he could get more clues here and when he went there he could see the traces of the flames almost melting the rocks of the mine.
But that is not what surprised him, it is the fact the way the flame reacted with the rock and the metal. It is extremely familiar to Sam. The heat waves that were coming off due to the aftermath were also familiar to Sam.
Because it is extremely similar to the golden sun flames of his Golden sun crow bloodline. His golden flames and Yanwu's golden flames have similar effects, but their flames have more intensity.
From the inquiry of the witnesses, they are also sure that the flames are golden in color.
This is another surprise. Golden flames, similar to Golden sun flames. He is pretty sure that no creature in the entire desolate is capable of that and Yanwu has never left his sight.
This is completely mysterious.
Luckily Sam is a bit prepared for this kind of scenario and gave out orders.
Immediately a bunch of puppets is deployed in all the mines by the miners who are evacuating the mines.
These puppets are one of the special cases. They don't do any work, they just roam around the space randomly.
They are made by cheap metals and they don't use any expensive parts. But they are extremely useful at the moment.
As soon as these puppets are activated they are connected with the nearest communication node or tower.
And they would use a special technique similar to that bats to send some spiritual energy waves to the surroundings.
Any living creatures within this range or any strong energy signature will be registered and the puppets will immediately catch the picture of it and recording the source that caused it within the range.
It would be stored in the nearest communication hub which uses one of the new innovations from the school.
It is like moving surveillance. Just like how the recorded data of the cctv footage is stored somewhere else, these images are also sent to the information hub with the help of the enchanted spirits.
And it did work.
At midnight, Sam got a message that another mine was attacked and a recorded message was sent back to the nearest hub.
Sam immediately went there to take a look.
He saw five people coming to the mine and throwing golden fireballs.
They have golden-colored hair and there is a weird glow around their skin with a faint golden hue.
Sam took the recorded images to the tempest valley.
Old Beast looked at them and was surprised.
"They are Solar Fragments. They are a weird race. They are all fire elemental warrior mages. And they use golden flames similar to the golden sun crow.
They are Hou Yi's subordinates."
"How did they get in here?"
"I don't know, they either have to use space gates that you made or find a way to use an already existing space gate. Because all other kinds of Space travel are completely banned from the Desolate realm to the other realms.
And they live too far away from here."
"So, do you think that Hou Yi sent them here somehow?"
"I believe so."
"That fucker. "
"I will have to take care of this as fast as I can. I don't know how many people or what level cultivators could come in. Currently, we only spotted these five, and I have to catch them.
How far can your spiritual sense spread?"
"My range is suppressed by a large margin, so only half the continent."
"Check if they are in this half."
The old beast did as he was asked and gave an answer.
"They are not here. They must be in the other half."
"Okay keep the surveillance. I will leave a subordinate here, if you find them, tell him. He will inform me of the space gate communication system.
If by any chance, you find any anomalies I might have to know inform him."
Sam left as soon as he asked for that and went to the other half. He has a decent space gate network within the central continent, so traveling is easy.
He reached each space gate and let out some more puppets.
Puppets that are as small as little birds. These are some of his new research projects and they are used for surveillance and tracking.
He still didn't place them up for normal production as he didn't finish the meridian network to have maximum energy efficiency.
These bird puppets flew around in the area and covered a large range.
They are similar to the mine robots that are left for surveillance but these things are a bit more advanced and they only do the search operations.
They have a different set of abilities regarding their eyes.
They can zoom and act like some telescope which he stole from that telescope from the charbhum realm.
Then they can have a modified version of energy vision which might not be as detailed as Sam's own, but they have a decent energy vision. Then comes the X-ray vision. It is not completely see-through, but it can find living organisms hidden in between rocks and other stuff.
He has to create some new inscription networks to get this. In fact, this is more expensive than the combat puppets he made.
And when an image is given to the enchanted spirits of this bird they would search for the things on that image.
Person, object, beast, anything.
And there is a portable communication hub which they would send the signal as soon as they find out the location.
They can estimate the exact distance from the spot and if Sam is present he could even find approximate spatial coordinates.
Between midnight and dawn, the team attacked another mine and Sam immediately went there and released another set of birds and soon he managed to get an approximate location.
He took off on the harbinger in that direction swiftly.
