While Sam is wondering how he can get his hands on these trees to make the scrolls, someone who sent the scroll back to Sam is also wondering about Sam.
In the College of Bureaucracy. Inside an office of the main building, someone is sitting on his chair and looked out of the window as he thought deeply.
He is none other than the professor. He is a tall Elf with extremely lean but fit stature. Even among a bunch of elves, it would be hard to not notice his presence.
There are a bunch of scrolls in front of him and one of them is open. There are details of Raunak written in it, if Raunak himself saw this, he would be stunned because there is everything about his life in them. Something which he knew and something which doesn"t even know, like the ident.i.ty of the parents.
But the scroll was currently crossed out with red ink.
*knock* *knock*
While he is thinking, someone knocked on the door which brought him back to his senses.
Another Elf came in, but this time it is a woman.
"Ratna why are you here? I said I want some alone time."
"I don"t have a choice professor, you have been delaying your administrative duties in the past week and the Dean is currently grilling me. I don"t want to be around that pervert anymore. The Old b.a.s.t.a.r.d gives me creeps."
"I am sorry. I was just too busy with "those" affairs."
She took a seat opposite to him and saw the scroll that was open on the table.
"You really gave up Raunak? I think he is a great addition to your team. He can make connections, he thinks out of the box and he is modest enough to recognize his faults and grow. Why would you leave such a candidate?"
"I already gave him up."
"Why?"
"To make a deal with that new resource of ours. He just has too many tricks up his sleeve. Because of him the faction 2 indirectly lost power in the Planet 2. And they didn"t do anything to him because of the Planet 1 faction.
And the faction 1 that is trying to get him back for that, lost two Transcendent stage cultivators, severely injured one transcendent stage cultivator, an extra officer, killed two teams of the cloaked forces and one of them is black and the other is blood red.
Apart from that, some mercenaries who got greedy about his ma.s.sive wealth tried their luck, but they are also dead.
He killed so many people and there is no evidence to directly convict him. They didn"t want to make a move because of the election drama.
He is the right person in the right place, but his presence is going to mess with the elections a lot. With his new ventures one after another the two factions had to spend a lot of money to acquire them and this will impact their partic.i.p.ation in the elections.
So, they are now in a tacit understanding to not buy anything from him for now and get them by force after the elections are over.
This is the only time we will get a chance to buy something and pull him to our direction, otherwise he might either disappear or he would be in the middle of a giant storm that we cannot meddle.
This is the only time where we can take advantage of him as much as we can."
"Then why don"t you use force to get the required information out of him."
"We can"t. Because I am not clear of his origins. He mysteriously appeared in Cane"s town and started making these waves, it is as if he came out of nowhere.
Even though I said that he killed them all, it is not sure whether he did so himself or if he made some other people kill them. We don"t even know if he is the one really incharge of all this or if he is just a puppet.
Raunak"s only special quality for us is his relationship with Rajan. We can use him as our double agent if he is inside the faction 1"s core member"s circle, but that is still not sure. From what I know, Rajan is breaking the agreement.
He is in constant contact with the elders and doing something, if I am not wrong, he might have already planned to send her daughter to that place. The only way to stop that is for Raunak to finish his target as soon as possible and even with that it would be hard for him to get past Rajan"s influence and make him follow the agreement.
There are just too many variables.
But I want everything he has on him and everything he can make. This will progress my plans for at least a decade. I would be able to gather both wealth, the influence and on top of both of them, I can create the chaos between the two factions and force them into fighting.
I want his inventions and this is the only time I can gain them with minimum price. Once the two factions became free, the things wouldn"t be as easy. One Raunak is just a small price to pay."
"You know it better anyway, I will not interfere. But Braman is furious and you know how sensitive he is. He might make some stupid mistakes."
"Of course, he would do it. Let him do it, but make sure that he didn"t do it openly and leave any clues that are going to implicate him and make sure that he would send a person that is extremely trustworthy and smart enough to escape when things go south."
"Sure, I will tell him that. But are you not afraid, that something might happen to that guy. You do have some hopes."
"Do you really think someone would meddle in such a s.h.i.tty political situation without having a life saving measure against some transcendent attackers? I bet that he can even escape from a Consummate realm cultivator.
It is just that he killed a few transcendent stage cultivators and all of them have been planned properly except for the first one in which case the person was weak, I want to see how they will deal with a surprise attack from a proper person. That"s it."
"I will inform him then. Is there anything else? Otherwise, please do finish that administrative work, I cannot take it from that dean."
"Sure. I will finish it right now. You don"t have to worry about him. Anyway, the college elections will start as soon as the King/Queen elections are over, you wouldn"t have to deal with him by then."
"I really do hope that old b.a.s.t.a.r.d gets out of this college."
"He will."
While these people are discussing here, Sam is busy in some experiments and he saw some interesting development.
He is currently working on with the cement and wants to see if he can improve it and also try and experiment with the reinforced concrete methods.
The main drawback of the cement is actually it strength due to the natural mixture.
The animal extract and the plant extract are both limited by their natural growth limit which capped the strength of the cement obtained.
So, Sam wanted to create some other methods to overcome it.
One of them is the simple reinforced concrete structure with metal rods being placed inside concrete, this is making the concrete stronger. Sam even tried to forcefully fuse both of them using his metal and earth elements, even though the results are not exactly suitable for him he did find some properties that could help.
The second method is using energy cell rods to replace the regular metal rods and use inscriptions to use the energy to constantly strengthen the structure.
But the energy cells are bound to lose the energy.
There is no way he can sustain it for a long time.
Sam is trying to fuse the metal and cement in a different way, by mixing the cement with the molten metal. This could even be considered stupid on modern earth, but he doesn"t even care. He just tried to find all kinds of methods and finally, there is a special way he can do with a special metal and this metal is available even in this realm.
This metal has an extremely high affinity with earth element to the point that it can be considered as both rock and the metal at the same time. It has high heat resistant and the conductivity of the lightning or electricity is almost negligible along with its reaction to magnetic force.
This is extremely useful for making battle hammers, bunkers and other defensive structures.
He decided to powder this metal and mix it with the cement in various proportions and in various phases.
And one phase showed the desired results.
He has to make the powder extremely fine to the point that it felt like powdered silk and mix it with cement and he has to forcefully harden it through the heating like it was done with bricks and clay pots.
This made the structure more reliable, durable and also it has high conduction rate of spiritual energy. So if he made inscriptions on it regarding the earth element, it can easily absorb the energy from the surround earth and make the inscriptions work.
Now he started the construction with a new found excitement.