The city lord is looking at the blasted city gate and a bunch of broken corpses along with the few Black Curtain mbers who are struggling with severe injuries as they are being healed by the healers the city lord brought.
The whole scene left people stunned and even nauseated.
At first the City lord really didn’t want to bother with the whole fight. Even though initially he helped the Black curtain mbers a bit and gave them freedom to deal with the matter and let them use so of the city guards if they needed, when the first team was hung on the city gate and the second team arrived, he realized that he is currently in the middle of two powers that he couldn’t ss with.
So, he decided to take a step back and let them duke it out all they want so that he could at peace.
But this ti, he has to get involved, because the two explosions one at the inn and the other at the city gate are too eye catching and too powerful for him to ignore. Now the whole city is living in fear and he has to make a move and show them that he cared and he is capable enough to handle the ss for them to be at peace.
That is why, he started investigating the things himself. Luckily he managed to get so of the information from the spatial rings of a few dead bodies of the group 2 sent by the Black Curtain. They seed to be recording everything step by step to create a detailed report.
The information he got was that there are a few people who arrived at the inn and one of them placed a mission on a fellow mber of their group and the Black curtain failed again and again to deal with them and finally when they tried to use the cursed inn, things backfired and everyone died.
As for the information regarding the investigation of the second group, very little was left. He couldn’t find out anything relating to that.
He could only think of investigating from here, but he didn’t have many hopes of it. All he could do is make the elders and all the powerful people under him to start looking around the city and the forests surrounding it to avoid another mishap. Any suspected individual is being arrested instantly.
But the rest of the Black curtain mbers particularly the three that went out to follow the investigation route of the group 1 managed to find so clues.
It turned out there is a way for the Black Curtain mbers particularly those that are under the Leader 3 have their own thod of leading their mbers for the clues. Sam failed to observe this or might have never even bothered with this even if he has seen as it as he was so focused on the tracker, but the group 1 left so marks on the trees, rocks and on the ground as they followed the route completely.
Only when the three mbers of the group three managed to reach the first location did Sam understand about this.
After not finding anything at the collapsed inn, those three also decided to join this group. So, now six late stage transcendent cultivators in red cloaks are trying to track Sam and his group down. They are obviously not as fast as the tracker, in fact nowhere near. So, Sam has enough ti to make a plan and this ti after he saw how they are handling things, he wanted two of them be captured and the remaining four can be killed.
So, they started setting up traps for one after another in the path to the second hideout.
First trap is within a small rocky path they would co across.
Sam went there and for the first ti in a while he made a golem. But the golem is not that sophisticated neither does it have so impeccable work put on it, it is the most basic and crude. He then placed a dium liquid energy cell inside and left it there.
When the group of six reached there, the golem which is lying in the middle of the rocks opened its large mouth and bit on the leg of one of them.
As he was struggling the group stopped by the sudden streak, before he could break the hold, Sam blasted the energy cell.
But the group is not as easy as Sam thought, even though they stopped for a mont, they imdiately thought of the trouble that Sam caused them by now with the inn and the city gate, so they instantly jumped to the side and even the guy that was stuck ca out of the shock faster than Sam expected.
That guy instantly tried to kick himself out of the golem and destroyed its mouth.
By the ti the explosion occurred his leg is already out and he is in mid-air jumping away from the spot.
But he didn’t escape scot free.
When the dust settled, his leg was completely gone. He is rolling on the ground with pain and since the liquid energy cell Sam used turned out to be earth elent one, the earth elental energy seeped into the injured area and the flesh felt like it is turning into stone.
One of his companions imdiately ran to him and checked the leg, he is not a healer, he could only see so much, he could only give him so high level potions and pills that could promote the growth of the leg back.
They made a temporary camp nearby and scouted the surroundings to make sure that there are no more traps.
As for going back, they didn’t even think about that, they need to see through this, even if they had to die. Otherwise, the leader wouldn’t let them off.
Sam looked at their actions in the surveillance and from the looks of it, it seems like they are not going to move for the rest of the day, so he decided to set up a new trap while they are resting.
He went through the rest of the terrain and looked for a suitable spot.
After a while, he found a patch of trees which felt like a great spot for so next level trap.
He took out a few wood elental and dark elental liquid energy crystals and placed a formation.
Then he took out so tal poles that are similar to the one he used in fighting the Ice golem sect, but this ti they are of wood and dark elental energies and started injecting the energies.
The trees, grass and vines rapidly grew with the wood elental energy with the support of the formation and Sam who is watching it from a far, let a tiny liquid energy cell with only a few drops of liquid energy inside in a special spot and went back to hiding.
The next day, the group started moving again. The one who got his leg injured has his leg grown back, but the muscles are not there yet and he has a bit of limp.
Sam didn’t know how it would be to heal from the elental energy attack directly as every ti he used these energy cells and explosions people never survived, but from the looks of it there is so kind of problem with the leg as it didn’t heal completely.
But he didn’t care too much, the more baggage they have the easier it would be for him.
As they slowly entered the patch Sam set up, they were stunned, they felt that sothing is wrong, the forest is too overgrown and the wood elental energy is too high.
They couldn’t put a finger on it, but they knew that sothing wasn’t right. They are also vigilant of the traps.
But they don’t have any other way, the clues left by the previous group all lead to this place and if they tried to moved around it, they will lose the trial.
They could only harden themselves and get in there. They moved slowly and cautiously making sure that nothing rash happens to them.
After they moved to the middle of the forest, they relaxed a bit, but not too much, they just found a possibility that there is no trap at all in this place.
That thought only lasted a minute though.
Sam who is leisurely looking at the surveillance with the wine gourd in his one hand crushed a token with the other.
A small explosion happened within the forest and the group imdiately got spooked. They beca alert and took out their weapons.
As they are looking around for anything that could pose a threat to them, what they couldn’t or didn’t notice is that the roots of the trees are suddenly turning black and soon enough the trunks are also turning black with death energy.
When they saw this, they imdiately started running away, they don’t know what is going to happen, but they sure as hell knew that nothing good is going to happen.
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