They explained the situation to Sam.
"Who is that person’s boss? Do you know him by any chance?" Sam asked Markan.
"I don’t know him personally. But I know that he has so status under the current leader. So, we wanted to wait and capture him."
"Then, why don’t we use Kiran like always. We will capture this guy and replace him with Kiran and we would be able to capture him too. We could save so ti in the process."
Everyone looked at Kiran who has a sulky expression. It is clear that he doesn’t want to be used as this infiltration piece. He knew that he is good at it and if Sam is not wrong, the other teammates must have already asked him once or twice, but he must have refused both tis and they didn’t bother to pursue more.
Sam looked at him with a aningful gaze and he said.
"Boss, don’t look at like that. I will go" He relented imdiately.
"Why did it take so long for us to convince you, but you still refused, but Sam can imdiately make you agree?" Sia asked as she looked at Kiran weirdly.
"It is because Boss is not a numbskull like you guys. You cannot plan as well as the boss. If it is him, I can be sure that I would be safe, even if I have to et the enemy boss. But with you guys, I wouldn’t be able to feel safe even if I have to infiltrate into a little kid’s bedroom."
Everyone looked at him with a sharp gaze, but Kiran is looking at Sam with a flattering smile.
Sam sneered a bit and threw a jar of wine to him which Kiran caught and stored away in glee.
After that, the team made a move.
By evening they already captured their target and brought him back.
He was tied up to a chair and Sam placed his hand on that guy’s head to use the observation ability and this ti, it only covered the head of this person.
Sam then looked at Night Ghost who is suppressing this guy and nodded for which he slit the captive’s throat.
Sam then used the mory extraction on the captive before sitting on the ground cross-legged while going through the mories.
Sam looked through each mory and each image carefully and his frown only got deeper and deeper.
He opened his eyes and he transferred the mories to Markan to get his opinion and when Markan looked through them he also frowned.
"Did you notice anything weird in this?" Markan asked as soon as he opened his eyes. Sam nodded and said.
"These mories are not... I don’t know how to put it, but I think they are not concrete. They are not solid enough. It is like the mories are faint and are re illusions for these guys. Did you notice anything?"
"Yes. There are no personal mories for this person."
"Personal mories?"
"Yes. The training of the Black Ghosts is actually pretty tough, but the thing is, the training regint and process didn’t change for hundreds of years. If they are assigned to one division within the organization in their childhood, they would go through the sa training process.
This person has the mories of all the training and all the possible interactions with the trainers and examiners and even so elders. But other than that, there are no personal mories.
Every trainee will get to go outside once in a while, to get used to the vanity. That is also a part of the training. They would be given access to all kinds of vain things, alcohol, status, won, and all kinds of addictive things.
They would be attached to sothing and the trainer will kill that attachnt while it was still a bud. It is impossible to know what that attachnt is because that trainer reports directly to the Grand Elders.
This is what we call personal ti and every mory we make in that ti period is called Personal mory. Most of the ti, the personal mories are kept completely secret from the normal trainers and even the examiners. It is almost impossible to get that information from anywhere else other than the person themselves."
Sam fell into deep thought before he explained what he observed.
"First thing’s first. I don’t think this guy is the sa person."
Everyone was surprised.
"What do you an?"
"He is not the original person, he is a duplicate. I noticed the sa type of muscle structural changes in your face. The captive’s face has definitely changed. Which ans that the original is dead and this duplicate was created with that face."
Everyone was stunned and dumbfounded. But Sam continued.
"Did you notice anything else missing?"
Markan thought for a mont and said.
"The final ceremonial days. After the candidate completes the training, they would be given access to the estate of the Grand Elders in which they would ditate in front of the stone tablets that contain the wills of the ancestors to get their blessing.
I don’t see that in him."
Sam nodded and stayed silent for a while.
He then turned to Kiran and transferred the mories to him and said.
"Get ready to infiltrate. This ti, it would be easy. You don’t have to portray any emotions, you just have to be robotic with your actions and responses."
Kiran nodded and started his preparations.
Sam turned to Markan and said.
"I don’t know what the significance of the lost mories within him, but from the looks of it, they managed to erase that cult-like respect towards the organization and changed it to the obedience towards your rival, the current leader.
So, they are more inclined to work for and lie for the current leader. That is why they are operating these separate rackets.
But we have to know the answers to so other questions. How many people like this are there in the organization and how do they manage to do this? Do they have any external help or if this entire ploy is sothing that ca from external sources? We need to find answers to these questions.
Before we can explore in that direction, let Kiran have a try and see if we can capture the boss that might arrive in a few days and see if there are any clues that we can get.
If he is a normal person and not a duplicate like these guys we might know what happened.
anwhile, I will look at these bodies and see if we can find anything else."
With that, Kiran was sent into the place of the captive by that evening, while spent his ti on the research for the next few days.
A few days passed just like that and in these few days, Sam checked each and every inch of the dead bodies. He even went as far as dissecting the body and checking different organs without the extra protection of the bones and skin, even though he has the observation ability.
After so much effort, he finally managed to find so traces. A trace of the curse was placed on both of them.
Sam doesn’t know which curse it is and they don’t have a soul to see the potency of the curse and what kind of purpose it serves.
But at least, this is a start.
anwhile, on Kiran’s side, the infiltration succeeded and the boss they are waiting for finally arrived.
Even though he is called the boss, he does not actually have that high of status, he had the sa cultivation level as Kiran and he just kicked that guy’s ass and brought him here.
This ti, Sam didn’t kill him imdiately and searched for the curse, but he couldn’t find any, he also used the observation skill on his face which didn’t show any signs of that weird facial surgery.
"It seems like we caught an original this ti."
Sam said as he looked at Markan.
Markan was surprised and he looked at this guy carefully.
"You were a shortlisted candidate for successor position in childhood right?"
The captive was stunned when he heard that question.
"How did you know? Who are you guys? If you know who I am, then you should also know what I am capable of."
"Boring threats. Just shut up already."
Kiran said from the side as he enjoyed his hard-earned wine.
Markan channeled his energy into his palm and a hexagram made of six elental energies ford there.
"You... You... How is that possible? You shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t be alive. No... No... This cannot be possible."
As he stuttered and spoke, he suddenly started chanting sothing.
Sam had a bad feeling and tried to stop him, but he was still too late.
The body exploded and died right there.
Sam hurriedly perford the mory extraction, but he wasn’t able to find anything.
"His soul dissipated. This self-destruction is quite powerful."
He muttered in disappointnt.
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