Chapter 1594: First Target
Chapter 1594: First Target
Sam went back to the desolate.
His friends are waiting for him. By the time he met them, they are ready to move and already assigned all of the tasks to the respected personnel. In fact, at this point, they don't have much to do.
Over the years, they have been training people very meticulously and at this point, the organization could just run by itself.
Even the innovation side of things is not that bad. Of course, it is not as good as it was when Sam lead the whole invention and innovation side, but the students are improving and they churned out some really good researchers and creators in the past few years.
They didn't have as much trouble as they assigned people.
Sam was really content with this.
"So, are you guys ready to go now? I found the place that we need to go first."
"Before we go, we would like to do something."
"What is it?"
"Take us to the Gaja clan."
Sam frowned when he heard that.
"Why do you want to go to the Gaja clan?"
"Why? We are establishing a trade relationship with them."
"Since when was this decision made?" Sam asked in surprise.
"When you were in the Gaja clan. All three of us unanimously made a decision. So, you have to agree."
"When did this whole thing become a vote?"
"Since now. We are going to establish a proper trading agreement with them"
"Why though? Give me a reason. Even though I didn't have any restrictions on trade relations, I do have a right to know, don't I?"
"Actually, we should be asking, why you didn't approve a trade already. It is so unlike you. You got a massive organization that is regrowing as we speak. This is their most desperate time. This is one of the best business deals you could make and by the time we expand dusk enough to reach the realms, we would already have enough influence there to support ourselves."
"I wanted to leave the Gaja clan out of it for now. I wanted to see how those siblings will grow. That is it. But I still helped them a lot. If they really utilize what I have left behind for them properly, they will have some marvelous growth ahead of them."
"So, that is the reason. But I still think we need to make an agreement with them."
Philip insisted even after Sam's words.
Sam is confused. Why are you so insistent? That is so unlike you."
"I don't know. I kinda feel like we could enjoy the company of the Gaja clan."
Sam thought for a moment and suddenly smiled.
"Don't tell you liked someone? Who is it? It has to be Giyon. But do you know she is like fifty years older than us? I mean, age doesn't matter much with our cultivation level…"
"Shut up. What the fuck are you talking about?" Philip stopped Sam before he could go on. Sam smirked and looked at Philip's reaction.
Philip was sweating bullets. He is not panicked, it is pure fear.
"What are you so afraid of?"
"What else? Don't tell me you talked this nonsense with Giyon?"
"Why would I do that?"
"Good. I am afraid she will kill me. She is a way too strong dude. Anyway, all of the nonsense is just that, pure nonsense. I feel it is better to continuously foster a good relationship with the Gaja clan.
Since you already took in students and we are rapidly growing our cultivation and spread way too far, it would be not long before operational duties of the organization falls into your students' hands.
The Gaja clan takes a few decades to go back to its former glory of having a large number of powerhouses. So, if we foster a relationship now and aid them in their growth process for a while, by the time your students take over, they will have some backing and network.
Just think of the Gaja clan as our intermediary to get connections with the higher-level organizations."
"Do we really need to think that far into the future? I mean, it is not that we are going to die any time soon and they are my students, I am pretty sure they want to be independent."
"Well, being independent doesn't mean they can't inherit your organization. They are officially your successors whether they want it or not. It is kind of their responsibility and I am sure they won't want to let the organization their teacher establish go without a leader."
"Whatever. If you really think that it's a good thing, just go ahead with it. I am not going to stop you. But just make sure that you are not helping those siblings too much. A helping hand is fine, but don't make them lazy.
Let them struggle a bit."
"You are literally the only person that wants your friends to struggle."
"It is for their own sake. Let them struggle a bit. It is bad enough that everyone gets affected by the enemies I make, so the least I could do is to help them make some progress."
"Alright, we will proceed with the plans our way. Take me and a space gate team there. We will establish the route and we can leave after that."
Sam shrugged and did as he was told. He took Philip and the space gate team.
The Gaja clan obviously felt excited about this. They didn't dare reject cooperation with the Dusk organization.
That is way too valuable for them to miss.
Sam didn't participate in the dealings. He didn't even go to meet the siblings. He just accompanied Philip to the clan's leader and stayed outside the room.
After the agreement was reached which was already pretty fast, the space gate team stayed there to build a space gate, while Sam took Philip away and went back to Dusk.
After giving some more orders, they are finally ready to go on their endeavor. Dealing the Divine Formation Mountain.
And their initial small goal is to destroy one of the six subordinates.
Their first target.
A very interesting one and he ranks third in terms of strength among all six people. He is neither the strongest nor definitely nowhere near the weakest.
A late-stage Consummate cultivator of Astral Plane.
The reason Sam is so interested in this person is that he is a person with both wood elements and light elements and on top of that, he is also a warrior mage.
His constitution is not exactly a special one. He is just a dual elemental warrior mage, but the combination of these elements makes him a special target.
He is the default healer of the whole Mountain. All of the other subordinates, and the disciples come for him to get healed.
He is also the lead on their poison research and people even say that he is on the same level as the Vardar in many medical-related fields.
Sam wants to deal with him first because of that. But that is not the only reason. He is also kind of an easy target because of his character.
From what Gail said, he is a very prideful person and he is so full of himself because of his ability to heal others his battle tactics are also very powerful and reckless. His special elemental combination offers him a regeneration ability which makes him fearless. He is also an expert in formations which he often combines with healing abilities and poison abilities making him a well-rounded person in this cultivation world.
He has a reputation of his own to improve his faith and has some really good connections because of the healing assignments he occasionally accepts from some powerful people.
On top of all of these qualities, he is a bit of a gambler. He likes to put wagers on the challenges he makes with people and he is always known to honor them. At least in public.
But every time he loses a challenge, he uses any means to find out why he lost and not only does it make him go crazy to correct it, but he also goes after the person who won over him secretly to kill them.
As long as he doesn't kill them or he wasn't convinced completely he cannot kill them, he will lose his mind.
He becomes a psychopath on edge and literally goes crazy. He becomes sensitive about everything that goes around him and feels like everything is targeted at him.
The character is actually very similar to what the Demon Soul swordsman described the Mountain Master.
Sam wants to make use of this guy. They are not really going to kill him immediately, but they are definitely going to deal with him in such a way that he will create the necessary chaos to disturb the rest of the Divine formation mountain and people affiliated with them.
Sam and the trio got into a dimensional drifter and disappeared from the desolate once again. This time, it is time for another adventure and now they are doing it like how they did in old times.
Only four of them.