One week pa.s.sed.
In this one week, Sam has done a lot.
He destroyed five branches and all of them were targeted at random. The disciples weren"t able to find where he is no matter how hard they tried. The best they got was that the information came to them while Sam was in the middle of destruction. By the time, they got there, he was long disappeared after collecting his loot.
The disciples could only go back to their master once again, to get the plausible location. Butler Si is already getting angry at these disciples for being this useless. He couldn"t help but be a bit disappointed. After all, he trained them for decades by himself and every one of them has gone through the h.e.l.l that he put them through.
The closest they got to Sam is when he tricked them with some duplicates running around the city they were in.
If this thing was revealed around his peers, he could guess how happy they would be. He just felt that they should have done better, considering all the training and resources they have consumed.
But this time when they came, he gritted his teeth and once again contacted the Star Eye sect. He asked for the plausible location once again and he got the news. But the time is a bit tight this time as the time frame is only two days.
So, the disciples went there immediately and set up traps.
What they don"t know is that Sam arrived right after them and he also started setting traps. While the disciples set traps in the branch organization, Sam set traps outside the city in the path leading to the forest. This time he had to spend a lot more money than usual as he needed an artisan for making these things.
Once the traps were set, Sam launched a bit of sneak attack on the organization and he escaped immediately after throwing it into chaos. The disciples were a little reluctant to go after Sam, but he actually almost fell for a couple of traps they set up and barely managed to escape.
So, they dared it and followed him.
But they also became vigilant for any traps Sam might have set up.
At this moment, Sam is running in the front with his lead and the disciples are following him cautiously.
They are taking the exact same route as Sam and didn"t dare spread out open.
After getting a bit far away from the city and not even touching a single trap, they finally became a bit daring and decided to move faster.
The disciples suddenly disappeared on the spot.
Sam immediately understood what they are doing and halted in his tracks instead of moving forward, he kicked his mechanical leg on the ground with energy gathered underneath it, the explosion made him hop high into the air and he started running in a different direction.
The disciples appeared a few feet away in his original direction. Everything happened in a fraction of a second.
The disciples were a bit surprised, but they also became more confident. They blinked once again, but this time they spread out a little. One of them wanted to reappear in the ongoing path, while another one wanted to reappear at the rear of Sam"s ongoing path, one to the left and another to the right.
The last two covered the diagonal from top left to bottom right.
Sam constantly kept an eye on the group and as soon as they disappeared, he once again kicked the ground as he hopped up.
He kicked the air and changed the direction before he shot himself down.
When the disciples reappeared, Sam landed right after the Disciple in his front. He threw an energy bullet at him and kept on running.
*BOOM*
The disciple blocked the energy bullet with his spatial energy, and since he already experienced the consequences of blocking Sam"s attacks with the spatial barriers, he immediately blinked away from that spot and followed Sam, while he was still in the middle of casting that barrier.
The chase continued and every time, the disciples are managing to go near Sam than before. They finally thought, that Sam is being cornered and as if to prove them right, Sam acted desperately as he chose random direction every time, to the point that he appeared at the same spot twice.
And at this moment, Disciple One managed to appear right next to Sam and he swung his foot at Sam"s head.
Sam lifted both of his hands and created an energy barrier. When the leg landed on the barrier, it was instantly broken, but within that instant, Sam who activated repel style managed to take the impact and convert it into the force that threw him away from that spot.
He didn"t put any resistance which made it even easier for him to fly away. He landed almost fifty meters away and he regained his balance immediately. Of course, this came at a price. His right hand felt numb.
Disciples were dumbfounded by this.
All this while, they just thought that Sam was quick on his feet and it would be over once one of them caught up to him, but the reality is indeed different and it hit them pretty hard.
But they still felt that this is the best shot they have. This time, the disciples all tried to block Sam"s escape route from the hits and they are getting closer and closer.
Just when they are getting a hand of this, Sam slowed down which made them a bit happier as they thought he was getting tired. They immediately blinked to appear around him.
Sam once again hopped upwards, but this time, he left behind a small liquid energy cell in his previous spot and created a large energy barrier while he was in mid-air as he applied to repel style to it constantly.
*BOOM*
Right when the disciples reappeared, the explosion occurred.
Sam who sheltered himself in layers of thick barriers also felt brunt a bit, but mostly he was thrown away.
Even though the disciples are stronger than him when they appeared near the explosion zone, they had their guards down because they came with an intention to attack.
They were all blown away from the spot as they crashed in different directions, Disciple three is once again injured as he is the closest one. For some reason, he was always the closest one whenever there is an explosion caused by Sam.
The disciples were shaken and they couldn"t control their energy for a small moment and Sam took this chance to get away from them. He created a ma.s.sive lead and started running towards the forest.
While Sam is running away, the disciples slowly managed to get back onto their feet one by one and start chasing him once again.
This time, they decided to not hold back anything and used their full strength as they blinked. Disciple one and Disciple two who are way stronger than the rest directly blinked and cleared half of the lead Sam had and for some reason, Sam didn"t change his direction to this blink.
Instead, to their surprise, he turned around and ran towards them at his full speed.
They halted in their tracks due to the sudden change and frowned, they inspected their surroundings quickly and didn"t find anything there, but still cannot shake off this dangerous sensation.
So, they decided to block Sam off.
When he came within his control range, they froze the s.p.a.ce immediately and Sam who leaped forward at the last second barely stopped in front of them. He is only a few feet away floating in the air, about to crash into the ground.
The disciples didn"t feel happy that they captured Sam, because they knew that something is not right here. They knew that something really fishy is going on. They anxiously looked towards the remaining disciples who barely managed to recover from the shock and started coming towards them.
"What are you planning? Tell me now, or I will rip your limbs off."
Disciple One asked anxiously, but Sam didn"t say anything and just smiled. This smile only made the disciple one more anxious.
"Brother One. I think there is nothing he could do. Let"s just capture him and leave this place."
"No, there is definitely a problem here. There is no way, he would be surrendering like this." Disciple One replied as he manipulated the s.p.a.ce. Sam felt his right arm distorting a bit at the shoulder joint.
He closed his for a moment and just gritted his teeth to endure the pain and spoke slowly.
"Anytime now."
As soon as he spoke, the two disciples looked towards their juniors who are running towards them.
The specter suddenly appeared in the middle of them and exploded a small grenade, before disappearing once again.
*BooM*
The explosion is not exactly loud of extremely damaging, but it did manage to throw the small pins out at the disciples that are just about to blink and that is when the real damage started.