While Sam was having a discussion with Ling Tian, there was another meeting that was being held between the gods that are involved in the game.
Even though some players are eliminated, all twelve of them are gathered.
The Gambler is currently sitting leisurely in his chair as he looked at Hel and Hou Yi calmly.
"You guys better give me a proper explanation. Otherwise, don't blame me for being nasty."
"I don't have anything to explain. I have nothing to do with this issue."
Hel replied stubbornly.
"Hel, the special scroll that links to the Space gate in the desolate planet. Only two people still have them and one of them is your father. If you are telling me that Hou Yi has enough brain to steal a scroll from God of Mischief Loki himself, then you are being delusional.
There are very few people in the world that could steal from him and I personally know every one of them. And it just so happens you are one of them along with a motive."
"Motive? I don't have any motive."
"Kala tribe. One of the tribes that sent you some great soldier candidates. In your army, there are many Kala barbarians that survived your training for years. Now it was gone. You used the Kala tribe to attack Sam by kidnapping his friend and failed miserably to lose the tribe in the process.
They destroyed your statues, they destroyed the wormhole you used to transport their soldier candidates. If anyone has a motive that is you. Don't even bother denying it like that. You and I both know it is useless."
"I already told you. I don't have anything to do with it. Did you see any of my subordinates attacking your precious little toy? Is there anyone from my subordinates helping the solar fragments? They started this on their own. And even if someone prompted them to do it, it is not me."
Gambler turned his gaze back to Hou Yi. He is more shocked and surprised than anyone else as she strongly denied any involvement in this matter.
He felt like he was being played. Because, no matter how they looked at it, his involvement couldn't be denied. There is no way a lesser race like Solar fragments can get their hands on the space tunnel access scroll to the Desolate.
It is a high-level and highly secretive thing.
And there is no way they would go there and attack the desolate a sealed and abandoned realm that was in that state for who knows how long.
That is why he didn't want to get involved in this from the start. But Hel convinced him by saying this could be taken as a family issue and revenge and him just helping his subordinates with the revenge.
She also said that she would support him in that statement. But she is not mentioning anything about the marriage or relationship between Hellian and the solar fragments much less support him.
He felt like he was cheated and rightfully so.
Because Hel is currently feeling intense contempt towards him at his shocked expression. That is also the reason she picked him instead of Indra. Indra might hate Sam, but he is not as stupid as Hou Yi to fall for such a trap just because of the hatred.
Now the whole meeting is calling his argument bullshit. Nobody bought that story and only Hel's support could give him some credibility.
But all she said was this.
"He wanted to know if Sam is targeting any of my tribes and I said he was targeting Hellian tribe. I agree that I captured one of his friends but I didn't kill him, in fact, I made sure that they didn't kill him. I just wanted to attract his attention to the Kala tribe and make him die there.
If you want compensation for that, I would do so. But deliberately initiating an attack on his organization is none of my business.
Sam was angry because of Watt and targeted the Hellian and that was that. Hou Yi is the one who took advantage of the situation and used the marriage as an excuse to attack Sam and his organization. If you have anything take it up with him."
This was the reply that she gave and Gambler and her started arguing which led to the current scenario.
At last, Gambler dropped the argument, he knew it would be useless to drag her into this, but it is going to be easy to mess with Hou Yi.
"From now on, Hou Yi's subordinate heirlooms will increase in value by a hundred percent. If anyone disagrees you can object."
Gambler said coldly. No one objected. Hou Yi is feeling humiliated. In this game what the players don't know is the one who pays the resources in exchange of an heirloom is the original owner of the heirlooms. That means Hela has to be the one who pays a price for the blood iron spear of the Kala tribe. Anything exchanged with that spear in the shop comes out of her own pocket.
Now that Hou Yi has to pay double the amount of the actual value.
Even though it is not enough to make him feel a pinch, it is still his loss amongst all the gods that are in the game with him.
This is not exactly a great feeling to have.
But that is not all.
"You will have to pay 150 percent more for Sam."
"I don't agree." Hou Yi reacted immediately.
But Gambler didn't give in. He calmly looked at him and said.
"You sent a tribe full of Astral Plane cultivators to kill my player with a deliberate plot. I am letting you off easy without breaking your body like I said last time. If you don't want to compensate like that, let us go to war. Only one of us should remain at the end. Are you down?"
Hou Yi gritted his teeth in frustration and could only agree to the condition.
"Hel, your plan to lure Sam to the Kala tribe will not go away without compensation. You have to pay 100 percent more for Sam and 50 percent for the rest of the players."
"Why would I be paying for the rest of the players?"
"Of course, because of your previous offense. Don't tell me you thought we would forget."
"No, I was the one who forgot it. I agree with your conditions. Now can I go?"
The meeting ended like this.
Sam doesn't know what exactly is happening there and what kind of decisions they took. But currently, he is looking at the list as he marked the subordinate organizations of Hel and Hou Yi. There is no way he could let them go without taking any revenge.
If only he knew the conditions Gambler got for him, he would be even happier.
Currently, he is waiting for the first batch of the main forces to arrive while drawing up a proper plan to proceed in taking down their subordinate organizations.
He is not in a hurry though, he has a day for the force to come and he has another week before the later batch comes, so he can take his time.
So, he just waited there for the space tunnel to open.
And time passed faster with work.
When he saw the first signs of spatial energy, he whistled loudly and the plan started.
He sent the undead he made with the corpse of the previous batch's leader a few meters from the center of the valley where he would be noticed.
The undead ran there and knelt on the ground. It opened its mouth and some blood fell over.
His body is full of injuries.
The space tunnel opened and the solar fragments started coming over. The Consummate stage cultivators used the transference scrolls just like before and disappeared.
But this time, there are more Astral Plane cultivators. By the end of it Sam was surprised to see around sixty Astral Plane Initiation cultivators out of which fifty of them are at the Initial stage and nine of them are of the middle stage with one being a late-stage cultivator.
They are going big on this one.
The spatial tunnel closed in an instant. By now, they saw the undead, but they couldn't recognize him as one and they ran over towards him to see what happened.
They didn't touch him hurriedly though. They are cautious enough and looked around for some sort of trials and when they saw the bloody footsteps of the undead and the dripping blood that was already placed Sam, they lost some caution and the leader walked to the body.
He wanted to check on him. But as soon as he turned the body around. The undead opened his mouth and bit the leader in the neck.
The teeth are not normal. They are replaced by some metallic injecting teeth Sam created to use in puppets that are based off of animals with biting specialties.
The teeth are filled with blood of golems, vampires and hydra poison all combined together.
The leader used his golden flames to burn the body to ashes. But he could feel his vitality seeping low and hydra poison corroding him faster and faster. There is an immediate drop in his combat strength.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
As the corpse burned, there are some explosions that threw some needles from the body. They are all tainted with poison and they managed to penetrate into the skin of the Astral Plane cultivator. They are made of high-grade metals. As Sam saw those needles, he is already feeling a pinch from the side.
But this is the only way. At least ten people are shot by those needles and the leader was about to give some orders when they heard a loud whistle from Sam.
