Noah and k.u.mar are slowly getting exhausted. Even though the energy for the barrier and the attacks is coming from the forest, they are stilling stressing themselves physically and mentally to channel all that energy to a proper use.
Sam just stood there and waited for them to be done.
Inside the barrier there are around eight trees by now and all of them have those green fruits the rest of the guards are not really feeling extremely confident in taking down the barrier and are fighting in desperation.
And one of them just attacked a tree for the sake of it and a fruit fell down.
As soon as it touched the ground, it exploded into a puff of green smoke. The green smoke spread all over the barrier area and the guards started choking as the boils on their skin became bigger and if there was any place that had no boils, they got some.
The only person who was still relatively safer until this moment was the inner disciple. The number of artifacts he had on him in unfathomable. Even Sam didn"t have that many defensive artifacts in his hands and not to mention antidotes. The inner disciple swallowed at least a thirty antidotes in this short time frame and in fact he is suffering from a slight overdoes of medicine, but he doesn"t care.
The medicine managed to stop the poison spread for a minute or two and that was reason enough for him to swallow as many as he can.
But after this green smoke appeared, he couldn"t possibly deal with it as he needs to breath. And that is not the worst part. After the first fruit exploded and turned into a green smoke the rest of the fruits on different trees are trying to absorb the green smoke in their surroundings and soon the second one which is the closest to the first fruit exploded.
That was followed by the third one on the same tree and then the fourth one which led to all the fruits exploding on the tree and that was followed by the simultaneous explosion of the fruits on the nearest tree to that and that was followed by another tree.
One by one all the fruits started exploding and when the tree is devoid of any fruits, it started withering.
The people started dying quickly and soon the dead guards once again turned into trees with green fruits that exploded once again.
The cycle went on until only the Inner disciple was left and finally Noah and k.u.mar relaxed as they released the barrier down.
But before they did that, Noah controlled the trees to absorb all the green smoke.
Sam is immune to the poison and she is immune to this poison, but k.u.mar is neither, so she didn"t want to risk it and completely let the vines absorb the gases and finally released the barrier.
Both of them sat on the ground panting as they looked at the area that was covered by the barrier.
All the gra.s.s has withered and even the debris is not visible. Even the soil looked devoid of vitality.
The inner disciple is standing in one corner of this area as he shivered uncontrollably. There is still a barrier on him. There are a bunch of stones and jewelry on the ground around him making him.
All of them are the artifacts and they are currently broken signifying their usage was over.
He looked at the three people that surrounded them like this and the cause of all these deaths.
Sam is not covering his face and he still held the staff in his hands, he walked towards the inner disciple, who wanted to escape as soon as he came out of that daze.
But Sam just spun his staff with wind elemental energy which created a large wave of air and stumbled the guy to the ground.
He leisurely walked forward and started increasing the gravity in the surroundings making the Inner disciple unable to move.
After getting near to him, the Inner disciple who had his face plastered to the ground suddenly turned around with all his might and there is a large red colored crystal in his hands glowing. He threw it at Sam who used his staff to destroy it mid-air causing an explosion.
The inner disciple too his chance and let his beast out.
It is a large Hawk typed beast, called the Golden sky hawk.
He boarded on it and hurriedly flew away.
Sam just looked at him with disdain as he got rid of the flames around him and left Sky out before boarding on him and chasing the target.
The capture process didn"t last long.
In fact, the Inner disciple released a bunch of flying pets to challenge Sam, but Sky tore them all apart. In the aerial battles, no beast at the same level is a match for him and it was proven quickly.
Sky swooped past the Hawk rapidly and stopped in the front and in process it tore the belly of the beast apart making it and its owner fall down rapidly.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH…"
The inner disciple screamed at the top of his lungs as he descended at a rapid pace. Sam looked at him for a few seconds and tapped on Sky"s back making him descend. Sky first caught carca.s.s of the Hawk and then Sam caught the Inner disciple as both of them flew towards Noah and k.u.mar.
He threw him on the ground and then started setting up a large skewer on the ground with earth element. He used the wind element to remove the feathers and the skin of the hawk in few seconds and started roasting it while pouring different herbal oils and spices on it.
By now Noah and k.u.mar recovered a bit and Sam said.
"I was wondering why this guy didn"t use his beast. It seems like it has not much of a use and from the looks of it, both the beast and the man doesn"t have any combat experience whatsoever. He really climbed this far by holding the hem of a skirt. Quite a talent."
Sam said as he continued the roasting.
Noah and k.u.mar took in the delicious smell but still controlled themselves before proceeding to the young man.
His skin is pale green and there are some boils.
Noah healed him a bit and said.
"I need you to answer some questions. Are your guards also the members of Myriad Beast sect?"
The young man looked at her in daze and fear, but tried to his best to voice out some words.
"I am the fiancé of the core disciple of the Myriad Beast sect. You cannot do this to…"
*BAM*
Before he could say anything more, k.u.mar gave a kick straight to his face and Noah once again healed him.
"Now, answer my question."
"You… How dare you do…"
*BAM*
"YOU WILL ALL BE…"
*BAM*
The interrogation continued and after a long while, the young man finally came to his senses and Sam is also finished with his cooling. He brought a wing and a leg to Noah and k.u.mar whole he took a leg himself and started munching on it with some wine.
The young man looked at the hawk that accompanied him since childhood with a wry smile as he spoke.
"They are also members of the sect, but they are from the Guard extension."
"Guard Extension?"
"A branch of the sect that solely trains people to be guards of the main members of the sect."
"So, they wouldn"t go through beast cultivation?"
"No. Beast cultivation is only reserved for main members. And few members of the guard extension are promoted to be main members. They would be brainwashed to be guards since childhood. So, once they are in, there is no way out.
They would have some beasts with them, but most of them are useful for only travelling."
Sam looked at them and asked.
"Just how long do you guys take for interrogation and you also need to verify the truth of the matter after this, just from the words he said to you." Sam said from the side.
"What else can we do?"
Sam just smiled and said.
"Leave the information to me, just tell me what the next part of the plan is and we would be done."
"We need to kill this guy and leave some evidence which would make his backer the core disciple extremely made beyond reason."
"Is that it?"
"Yes."
Sam then finished the leg in his hands and took out a recording crystal. He threw it to the Noah and she started recording him.
Sam walked behind the young man and made him stand on his knees.
"No, No. What are you doing? Let me go. Let me.. mmph."
"Don"t let my face show up in it." Sam closed the mouth of the young man while holding his chin with one hand and the back of the head to the other.
*CRACK*
With a single twist, the neck cracked and then the flesh connecting the head and the rest of the body was torn apart as Sam removed it directly.
k.u.mar closed his eyes and Noah did the same.
Sam just used his water elemental energy to clean himself up and let the specter deal with the memory extraction while he got back to eating the hawk.