Chapter 1584: Surprise
The token started glowing, which didn"t surprise Sam much.
But the next thing did. There is a projection that came out of it. It is comprised of many runes that are formed of bright red light.
Sam looked through these patterns and instantly understood what they were signifying. It is an energy circulation pattern through which he could access the stone for its real purpose.
He did exactly as the runes instructed and Sam felt like his mind entered some kind of new s.p.a.ce. He found himself floating in a vast empty red s.p.a.ce. He couldn"t see anything else other than deep red.
As he was thinking about what the h.e.l.l is happening and why he was there, he felt another presence.
He turned around to find a person who he is familiar with.
"You? What are you doing here? This is the surprise, those three told me about?"
Sam indeed felt surprised, because that is the last person he expected to see there. It is the Demon soul swordsman. Jack"s teacher.
"You seem disappointed, kid. What are you expecting? Some really beautiful woman?"
"I wouldn"t be surprised if it was really a woman. Those a.s.sholes are trying to set me up for a long time. But you, what the h.e.l.l are you doing here, and what is this s.p.a.ce?"
"This is a portable soul s.p.a.ce. It is pretty high-level stuff. You will know when you reach the places that you are going to in the future.
As for who I am, I am the current leader of the League of Blood Iron."
Sam didn"t even reply. He just looked at the old man for a moment and took a really deep breath before saying.
"What?"
"I said, I am the leader of the league of Blood Iron. And I apologize for the league"s attempts on your life. The bounty on your head was placed before I took complete control over the league. As soon as I took over, I removed that and put you on the off-limit list.
That is why the attempts stopped."
"I thought they are scared because we dealt with everyone that came at me."
"Scared of what? Like your puny tricks are going to stop all of the league members."
"Not particularly me, I know that my tricks never cause fear unless they directly see it. I think Gail, Gamin, and Yuvana, that presence helped a lot."
"Oh trust me, unlike Divine league, League of Blood Iron mostly attracts a.s.sa.s.sins. They would have tried other ways, even if you had their protection. I stopped them from coming at you."
"Okay, if you are the leader of this league, why did you even bother with Five Great sects? That is such a low-level power compared to this spot."
"Well, it is a long story. Simply put, the League of Blood Iron was established by me and my friends who wanted to reign in the tyranny of the organizations a bit. If an autonomous organization with high-level a.s.sa.s.sins is not exactly a good thing.
Of the three, one of them is a Demon Soul swordsman, the other one is a Demon Shadow Swordsman, the owner of the original shadow sword and the final one is actually a healer.
He is my teacher at the Vardar.
He betrayed us and started working for organizations, so we killed him, but his teachings are pa.s.sed to the Vardar who managed to stay alive because of his connections with the organizations and all the other favors he called in.
My friend died a slow death after Vardar"s teacher used some kind of poison in their last battle. Then I left the league after making sure things are running as they should.
The shadow sword became extremely hard to control, I wasn"t able to make it accept me, the only person who managed to at least control it a bit is actually Murali.
But that guy was also not really capable of fully reigning it in. For some reason, it ended up in your hands and we met here.
After you told me that the Vardar is getting involved in this whole s.h.i.t show of controlling organizations across the realms, I came back to see how bad the things are here.
I took over the reign and beat the league back into order."
"That is a really long story.
Anyway, it is nice to meet you. I think I will stick around in this area for a bit, so we might meet in person."
"I came to tell you that only. We need to meet in person. There is something I found while looking through the old doc.u.ments of the League. They are preserved in a special s.p.a.ce here which I just noticed.
I think they will be helpful. They are some special traps created by my friend. And they use shadow elemental energy.
You will love it."
"That would be great. I will definitely come and visit you. But when should I do that?"
"Three days. I will send someone to pick you up in three days. Be ready by then."
"Alright. I also need your help with something. Since you are a big shot, I am sure you will be able to help with what I am about to do next."
"Sure. We can talk when you get here."
"Thanks. Now, if you are kind enough to tell me how to get out of this place, I will take my leave."
"Just think and you will find the way."
Sam did as he was told and he saw another pattern of runes that showed him how to get out of the s.p.a.ce.
He came back to his body and Sam took a deep breath.
"The experience is good, but it is better to not use these things again for a while. Losing the feeling of my own body is not really a good one. Not after all the days, I spent without it."
Sam muttered to himself as he went out.
Gail is free now and it is a good time to get as much information as he can.
While Sam is on his way to get some information on his new enemies, the enemies are not sitting idle.
They are currently trying their best to retrieve information on Sam as well. The information that couldn"t be obtained from enquiring and speaking to others. The information only lies within Sam"s mind and couldn"t be found anywhere else.
Of course, except Sivan who is currently lying comatose in the middle of a formation.
All three young men started placing some nodes and drawing inscriptions at different spots.
"Do you think this formation method will work? I still think we need to find an expert in souls. We can make them mend this faster."
"So, you want to go to a necromancer? Do you know how dangerous that is? We cannot let them get any of this info. This should stick with our mountain itself."
"But still, it will take forever to master these techniques. We cannot do a lot with our neutral energy techniques. To channel them to work for necromancy and any soul-related techniques is almost impossible at our current level.
We would need to create a ma.s.sive formation that could act as an aid and catalyst for it." Brother Gold said with a sigh.
"I have a certain level of affinity with the soul. We will first do this test run and then make a larger formation even if it takes the whole mountain"s area. I am not letting you guys let someone else be involved in this thing.
We can make things that are obviously not of our elemental affinities. We can fix things that shouldn"t be fixed at all. So, I am making sure that we are doing this by ourselves, without any external involvement."
The other two fellow disciples are completely out of options. They didn"t know what to do about their stubborn brother. They could just go with his plans for now.
They finished the formation quickly and activated it.
Sivan"s body started glowing with spiritual energy and in the middle of that glow, someone strands of spiritual energy moved from various sections of the formation. They looked like small strings that are flowing.
The energy strings all moved towards Sivan, they crawled over and entered the glabella as if they are accessing his sea of consciousness.
And in fact, they are doing it. They accessed his soul s.p.a.ce.
Brother Silver closed his eyes and started making some hand signs.
He connected with Sivan"s damaged soul s.p.a.ce and inside he saw the strings moving around different soul fragments.
The strings looked like they are so many when they are outside in physical s.p.a.ce, but here, they looked very small. They looked insignificant as they could barely cover one small fragment of the damaged soul.
These strings moved on their own and also moved the soul fragment to the main part of the soul. When they neared it, the strings acted as if they are sewing the small fragment to the bigger fragment.