As time pa.s.sed, the battle became intense as the numbers increased on both sides.
Whenever there was a suspicion that his side would be at a disadvantage, Sam directly let another beast out.
He managed to just gradually chip down the barbarian forces until they lost at least fifteen people. There are around fifty of them outside the city in this carpet bombing and now the rest of the ones other than the ones they killed almost gathered up.
Sam also brought out all his subordinates as he went on a full battle mode.
The dragon hawk tribe members are one of the groups that are trained by him since the start. He put them through h.e.l.l many times that it is nothing short of dying multiple times.
That resulted in something good. They never met their match in a fight. All the suffering they went through before they met Sam and after he put them, they are really good at team fighting.
They are the ones that maintained a cultivation speed similar to his, even though they don"t have the same level as talent, they pushed through.
And finally after all these years, they finally had their proper match. They are fighting with the barbarians to their heart"s content.
They are like beasts that sent chills to the savages of the barbarians.
And as the difficulty increased, Sam started letting one beast after another out and then the shadows, It is a complete nasty dog fight between both sides.
He used necromancy, poison, his claws, staff, swords, spears. His whole body is soaked in blood.
As the fight got too much, around fifteen barbarians started retreating.
Sam didn"t pursue them instantly though, because ten of his men are injured severely and five of them are critically injured.
He started treating them immediately.
It took around fifteen minutes to get them back out of the critical state and the rest of the team members started giving them pills to get them back to recovery.
Sam let them return to their new base camp which is also hidden and started the pursuit on his hover board.
The barbarians that escaped are all injured and they escaped in different directions. Out of them only a three of them moved towards the city and even among them one got a late start.
And he happened to be someone Sam has already seen before.
He is Druv, that one c.o.c.ky guy that challenged him and needed some saving from his big brother.
At that time, he didn"t think about kidnapping him, because the rest of the Kala tribe already closed the distance, but this time, he is not going to let him go that easily.
He is an important member of the tribe, so he would be great for hostage exchange.
Sam had a very new understanding of the Kala tribe, they are some crazy a.s.sholes that is what he understood from this carpet bombing incident.
If there was any sane man in the place of that tribe head, they would have already made a deal and Sam would have left the realm after taking some necessary lives and also his friend.
They are just making it worse for themselves.
As for why he immediately didn"t start the pursuit, because saving his men came before taking a hostage. If the fifteen didn"t retreat he would have used some trump card to finish the fight quicker and stop the fight.
As Sam zoomed on full speed, he finally saw the traces of Druv escaping. He could smell the blood with his Raiju and Vampire bloodlines.
And when the city gate came into clear view, he finally saw Druv limping over slowly in exhaustion, the rest of them seems to have already gone to the city.
This guy is the only one that is still in vicinity.
As Sam looked forward with his eye technique he saw that the young head is running from the city gates towards his brother.
A smirk appeared on Sam"s face as he zoomed towards Druv, his aura raging like crazy as he jumped off the board and storing it away before landing right behind the injured barbarian.
Druv started dragging his feet as he ran towards his brother while screaming.
"Dhar, help me. Save me. Please, save me. He is coming."
Sam didn"t attack him or capture him. He just walked casually with a staff in his hand as if he is taking a stroll.
Dhar was extremely worried, the soldiers that arrived are all being healed inside at the moment. He got gist of what happened.
The battle is a total loss to the barbarians.
They lost almost half of their forces, even though the strongest are all there for now, this is a devastating loss.
Now that he saw Sam swaggering around with that bloodsoaked body as if he is taking a walk in his garden behind his brother, he is extremely scared.
He is a middle stage Astral plane Initiation cultivator, his aura raged as he used all his power to reach his brother, but Sam is still closer.
Sam held the staff at one end with a single hand as he swung it towards Dhruv.
He is using repel style this time and as the staff landed on his back, he was thrown forward like a cannon ball and he rolled on the ground before crashing.
Now Dhar and Sam are almost at a same distance from Dhruv and Sam finally increased his speed.
His body started turned Dark Gray as he used Spatial elemental partial fusion. He looked like a graphite statue as he ran forward.
His speed is unbelievably fast but that is not what confused Dhar who is trying to beat that speed to reach his brother.
It is the perception that this spatial element giving him.
It is almost like Sam is not moving at all which is messing with his instincts. But it didn"t stay for long,
Because he noticed that Sam is maintaining the same distance as him with Dhruv, instead of moving fast or slow, he is just making sure that their distance remained same. He is obviously provoking him.
Dhar has a bad feeling about the situation and he threw something into the air. It seems to be the signal for the rest of his companions in the city.
Sam just smiled and still maintained the same distance, but right when they are around ten feet away from each other, Sam lunged forward with his staff as he swung it towards Dhruv with void style.
Dhar also lunged and jumped in between the staff and his brother with one arm blocking him and the other arm supporting him from falling on his brother.
The staff landed on the arm. The spatial element and the void style are such a strange combination and Sam doesn"t use this lightly at all.
Because just the partial elemental fusion requires him to expend as much energy as the light elemental complete fusion.
But this is the special case.
The staff landed on the arm of Dhar and at the point of contact a spatial crack appeared.
The Void style is extremely compatible with the spatial element, the hit creates the spatial crack and the explosion that occurs in the next instant creates a suction turbulence which started sucking the flesh off of Dhar"s arm.
Dhar who was not completely prepared for the hit took the full brunt of it. He has to channel all his energy to shield his flesh and rolled away from the spatial crack to the side while holding his brother"s hands.
He looked at the flesh that was nastily ripped off on his body and groaned in pain.
Sam continued with the attack and the staff was aimed at the head of Dhruv this time. Directly being hit on the head would kill him easily and not a single piece of that head including the brain juice wouldn"t be left to salvage for the funeral. Everything will be lost in turbulent s.p.a.ce.
Dhar took out his spear and held it up against the staff.
Both clashed and the spear was destroyed, but Dhar took the brunt of the force. Sam didn"t pursue the attack anymore.
He stabbed the staff into the ground and looked at Dhar right in the eyes and said.
"You kidnapped my friend, when there was no enmity between us. You kidnapped him when I was not here.
I am standing right in front of you, taking your brother away right from your hands and you or your entire tribe cannot stop me.
Tomorrow you will be coming with a bunch of your peers from the tribe to talk about the deal of course the conditions would change, otherwise, by tomorrow night I will be visiting Zhaka tribe, Bahu tribe and Anki tribe along with your brother.
I would like to see if they are interested in your Kala tribe and your territory."
"Leave my brother alone. I promise we would discuss tomorrow. He has nothing to do with this"
Dhar said painfully groaning.
"The moment you wanted to be soldiers of Hel, you must have been prepared for this. Because in the war between two major parties, the ones that suffer the most are always soldiers."