Chapter 81 - Final Showdown Against Black Pond

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nAfter passing his orders, Sam went into second floor of divine dimension and took out a cauldron. A distance away from him, the shadow mice are practicing.

nInside the cauldron, he poured the blood he collected from the ten Novices. After that he laid a formation around him and placed some fire element spirit stones in the formation. This is the spirit condensing formation.

nAs the cauldron is in the centre of the formation, the fire elemental spiritual energy will be used to nourish the blood. Sam needs the blood to be having high fire elemental essence to improve the blood line quality of the panthers, but there is a small drawback for them, that is the wind element in their bodies will have a smaller effect on them as the fire element will be stronger. But that problem was for later day.

nSam just started a small fire and let the blood boil in the cauldron like that. He didn't even increase the fire at all, he just let the small flame boil the blood.

nThe cauldron started to emit red colour vapours; the fire elemental energy is being seeped into the blood inside.

nSoon, the blood started thickening and level of the blood inside the cauldron decreased slightly. Time passed on slowly.

nHours had passed and the initial level of blood in the cauldron reduced to half. The blood thickened and place around him became, full of complete iron smell.

nHe spent a full twenty hours in the second floor of the tower until the blood almost solidified. After the process is completed, he called for the panthers who are playing in outside the tower.

nWhen they smelled the rich fire elemental blood essence, they became restless. If not for the fact that Sam is standing near the cauldron and looking at them, they would have already jumped into the cauldron to eat it.

nSam is looking at the huge panthers who aren't even one year old and thought to himself, whether he should feed them this human blood essence or not. He doesn't want to get them addicted to human blood, otherwise if wasn't not beside them all the time, they might even turn completely hungry for human meat and blood.

nBut once he thought about the fire poison slowly spreading across its body and beast core, he wasn't able to stop himself. He hardened his heart and let them eat. The two huge panthers who are in size of a normal bull, putting their mouths inside the cauldron as they ate the semi-solid, blood essence. When they were done, they immediately laid contently on the floor and closed their eyes.

nSam placed his hands on their heads and checked their situation. He could see the blood essence and fire essence spreading and strengthening the body and beast core. The slow but raging fire poison is getting more stable. It is slowly integrating itself as a part of the beast core.

nHe heaved a sigh and exited the dimension and went back to his room. He just laid on the bed with tired expression.

nHe simply tossed all the thoughts to the back of his mind and closed his eyes to take a nap.

nThe shadow mice went back to the watch duty. For a week, he kept completely low and didn't even make any move against the Black pond.

nBut the black pond people are in completely different situation and mindset.

nThey didn't dare to believe that the moves made by Sam are completed. Every person, who is part of Black pond are completely on their toes. They didn't dare to relax at all. No matter how they tried to investigate, they aren't getting any clues.

nThe other party seemed to know everything about the whole Black pond, but they don't even know how the party is getting their information.

nIf they knew that ten mice which are less than five percent of their size are making them pull their hire like this, one should have to wonder how their expressions would be like.

nRight now, the manager of the Black pond is in another steamy session with the peak stage Novice woman.

nAfter a few pleasurable minutes, both of them laid naked on the bed as their faces were filled with relief. After some rest the lady spoke.

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"Are there any clues about the opponent?

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"No, and it seems that their methods are changed. Today morning I got a report that ten Novices are missing. If we just let this go in this way, the organisation will be slowly eroded. So, before they do this, I need to make some preparations. We already stopped taking tasks from clients.

nThe income completely stagnated due to the destruction of all the stores. Only the businesses in the Northern region are working. The slave trade, prostitution, everything stopped in a same place. At this pace, even if they can't attack, we won't be any better than disbanding the organisation.

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"Then what do you plan to do?

" The lady asked.

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"First, tomorrow noon, I am going to host a meeting inside the Black pond with all the upper echelons present. I need to make sure that the remaining candidates stay safe. If we have to, we will send all of them into Falcon Cliff to take refugee. We will decide that after the meeting.

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"Okay, then we will do as you say.

" Meanwhile, at a corner two shadow mice are looking at the scene with disgust in their eyes. They have obvious disdain in their eyes.

nBut they can only see and bear with it. After all, Boss' mission took priority.

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"Seems like Boss' mission will be completed soon.

" Both of the shadow mice immediately left the place.

nAfter the two mice left, both of the man and woman are started exchanging a book. They are using the book as a communication to write messages to each other.

nThe conversation is as follows.

nWoman: Do you think that they would fall for this?

nManager: After hearing this type of big news, nobody would stay here to monitor further. They would definitely go back to give the news.

nWoman: But are you going to host the meeting tomorrow?

nManager: Of course, I would, but the mission would not be in the Black Pond. We will change it to the rundown restaurant. That too, we are going to host it early in the morning.

nWoman: But how is that useful for us?

nManager: If my guess is right and the informers are really in the room just now, they would probably start preparations to attack all the upper echelons tomorrow. Because, from what I can deduce, they probably are eroding the small fries to gather us together and attack in full force. So, what we will do is, hire all the man power we can and lay a huge trap for them at noon, in the Black pond.

nWe will get the support from the other Great mage from the neighbouring city who is going to come tomorrow. He will reach this city, a few hours before noon.

nSo, by misleading them into preparing for a large- scale attack, they won't take their time to spy us in the morning and we will make use of this to conduct a meeting and also lay a trap with two great mages. We have a high chance of success.

nThat is the end of the conversation.

nWhen Sam reached the news of the meeting he went into deep contemplation. After pondering over this for a while, he came to a decision and said.

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"Don't care about the meeting. You guys just follow them, but tonight one of you come to my room and take this ring with you. You better not lose this. The one who can carry this properly without any problem should be coming. I don't want anything to happen. So, who is coming?

n*squeak* *squeak* One will come

nThe mice said in unison. Sam nodded and said.

"Tell the remaining mice to gather all of them at the manager's house at mid-night. All of you will be following him tomorrow. If they really host a meeting, this going to be our final strike.

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nThen the two mice went away to carry out their mission.

nSam looked at the clear sky through the window and pondered on how to deal with it. Then he called Jack over and said.

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"Tomorrow might be a big day. You stay here. We might be dealing with the Black pond completely.

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nWhen Sam said that, both of them looked at each other and just stayed without saying anything.

nHours passed; sky darkened. When Sam sensed that a shadow mouse is coming, he looked at Jack and said.

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"Don't resist and allow my spiritual sense to scan you.

" Jack nodded and closed his eyes. Sam waved his hand and Jack disappeared. When he reopened his eyes, all he can see is a big tower, surrounded by a world of different elements, he was completely dumbfounded.

nBefore he could come out of his surprise, Sam appeared out of thin air.

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"Just stay here, for a while.

" Sam only said and closed his eyes; he is looking at his room in which the ring is placed on the bed. He was able to cover all the directions within the room if he concentrated enough.

nInside the room, the ring with blue coloured stone which is embedded on a ring was placed on the bed.

nSoon, a shadow mouse came and picked the ring and shoved its fore limb until the ring perfectly fixed itself on the shoulder, even though it was a bit difficult to move, the movement wasn't hindered significantly.

nThe shadow mouse then moved like a real shadow as it moved in the dark city. After a few minutes they reached the Black pond and they directly went to the manager's room. They didn't do anything as the shadow mouse just stayed there without moving.

nHours passed. They just stayed as they saw the manager sat in meditation.

nWhen sun rose, the manager also opened his eyes and started walking out of the room. On the way outside all the shadow mice gathered as they moved in shadows while following the manager who is walking in streets.

nSoon, they arrived at the restaurant where Sam placed the mission to capture the poisonous beasts.

nWhen the manager arrived at the room, there are already people waiting. There are five people waiting.

nOne of them moved towards a painting and moved it. A secret door opened on the floor leading them to the under-ground room.

nWhen Sam saw the room, he was completely astonished. The room was like a small-scale auditorium. A lot of people are sitting in ten rows. In a stage upfront, there is a small round table with five chairs. Everyone stood up as soon as the manager came.

nSam looked at the stone like walls all around. All the materials surrounding the room including the door are highly durable. They are made of a peak level 3 materials. Even a rank 3 Artisan will be in a deep trouble to melt a small amount of this material. Even the Great mage needs some effort to break through them.

nHe immediately got an idea and ordered shadow mouse 1 to go outside the room. When they made sure that there are no people in the room, Sam told to Jack.

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"You stay here and make sure that there is no one who escapes the room. When they come out, they will be almost out of energy, so strike them with all you got.

" After that he even left Yanwu and Sky outside, both the birds are in their small forms.

nShadow mouse immediately went inside the underground room. Even though there is no gap, the small shadow connecting the outside and inside is enough for them to move.

nWhen the meeting was starting, Sam observed the surroundings and gave the shadow mice instructions.

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"Spread out through the room, you guys cover all the corners and possible exits, the rest of you will enter the crowd. Release the grenades, just like you practised. You have to throw all of them as fast as you can and immediately escape. You can either come into the shadow dimension or escape outside and go back to the mansion.

nRemember to release as many grenades as possible on the stage. The most powerful cultivators are there, we need to take them down at any cost. But remember one thing, if you sense that you can't do it at any moment immediately escape without a second thought.

" After Sam's message was passed among the mice, they started moving and spread among all over floor.

nAfter a few minutes, when the discussion was going on and all the people are completely focussed, there was an explosion at the back of the room and green vapours started spreading among the room.

nBefore the people in the room can react, a series of explosions occurred all over the room and the most happened at the stage itself.

nThe manager only saw a small shadow disappearing in middle of the green vapour, before he felt suffocated and took deep breaths, but immediately he realised what kind of mistake he did.

nThe poison soon mixed with his blood stream and spiritual core. He immediately closed his eyes and used all his spiritual energy to suppress the poison.

nThe weakest Novices are already on the floor, with their skin turned green. Some stronger people are suffering on verge of collapsing. The peak stage novices who are on the stage along with the Manager are already kneeling as they fought with all their might to suppress the poison. But the more they tried the more they are suffering.

nThey are unable to use any spells or attacks as they were caught off-guard by the poison. Before they came to their senses they were completely vulnerable now.

nAll their prowess and cultivation were useless because they were caught off-guard and they were even being dealt with poison.

nJust as the green vapour was being dissipated a bit, a black figure emerged in the room out of nowhere.

nSam walked towards them. The green vapour around him was being rotated around him not allowing the poisonous gas to be inhaled by him.

nHe is using his wind element to keep himself safe, but that is also not a long term solution.

nThe manager looked at the black figure, with surprise shock all over the face. Never did he expect that he was being dealt with by a Novice, who is still a kid in his teens.

nHis expression was completely full of unwillingness.

nSam took out another batch of grenades and threw them directly at the group of people who are still on the stage. Even though they wanted to go out through the door, they weren't able to do so, because of the poison.

nAfter all, the poison is concocted by using ten types of most poisonous level 2 beasts. And the quantity isn't any small amount. He used ten beasts of each type and collected the venom without wasting the single drop. He even used the spirit wine to make it more volatile and merge with the spiritual energy properly to increase its effects.

nEven the Great mage is being restrained completely, without much prowess left. Due to it being merged with the spiritual energy, the poison is easily mixing with the spiritual energy and the blood stream, causing the immediate effect.

nSam still stood at the edge of the room and took out some normal swords which have some formations inscribed on their handles.

nHe took them and pierced them around him one by one and soon five formations are activated around him.

nHe placed more than thousand spirit stones in the formations and took out the golden crescent.

nAfter his actions were completed, first thing he did was to throw away all the remaining grenades towards the stage. With a series of small explosions, the top five experts inside the room are being in a complete disadvantageous position.

nThe poison started affecting the skin and it is slowly turning green.

nSam took out three arrows, which are in golden colour. He made these arrows with the remaining fire bronze and the Golden alloy he made. There are more than ten inscriptions on each arrow.

nHe nocked them all on the bow string of the golden crescent as he started gathering all the spiritual energy that has been directed towards him from the five formations.

nHe spread all his spiritual energy leaving only miniscule amount and manipulated all the energy around him to the arrows.

nSoon, the arrows were surrounded by a huge golden flame.

nThe manager looked at the Golden flames and knew he would be no match for the attack in his current state. But he wanted to at least take the opponent down with him.

nHe looked around and saw that all his companions are on the ground frothing from their mouths. He gritted his teeth and concentrated his spiritual energy. He used up all his remaining energy and started concentrating on his attack.

nSam watched the scene and immediately released his arrow. The arrows contacted the manager and he was burning in the golden flames. But before he could die, he released his attack. A huge boulder immediately came out of the ground and flew towards Sam.

nSam clearly have no energy to dodge. He immediately turned around and spread his remaining energy to the feather coat, which immediately turned golden colour.

nSam immediately flew over the with the impact as the boulder smashed into pieces when it hit the wall along with him.

nSam spurted a mouthful of blood as he laid dropped on the floor. Before he lost the consciousness, he felt Yanwu screaming his name and door opening. He felt that Sky dragged him and taking him out of the room before closing it again.

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Chapter end