Chapter 81：Final showdown against Black Pond (1/2)
After passing his orders, Sam went into second floor of divine dimension and took out a cauldron. A distance away from him, the shadow mice are practicing.
Inside the cauldron, he poured the blood he collected from the ten Novices. After that he laid a formation around him and placed some fire element spirit stones in the formation. This is the spirit condensing formation.
As the cauldron is in the centre of the formation, the fire elemental spiritual energy will be used to nourish the blood. Sam needs the blood to be having high fire elemental essence to improve the blood line quality of the panthers, but there is a small drawback for them, that is the wind element in their bodies will have a smaller effect on them as the fire element will be stronger. But that problem was for later day.
Sam just started a small fire and let the blood boil in the cauldron like that. He didn't even increase the fire at all, he just let the small flame boil the blood.
The cauldron started to emit red colour vapours; the fire elemental energy is being seeped into the blood inside.
Soon, the blood started thickening and level of the blood inside the cauldron decreased slightly. Time passed on slowly.
Hours had passed and the initial level of blood in the cauldron reduced to half. The blood thickened and place around him became, full of complete iron smell.
He spent a full twenty hours in the second floor of the tower until the blood almost solidified. After the process is completed, he called for the panthers who are playing in outside the tower.
When they smelled the rich fire elemental blood essence, they became restless. If not for the fact that Sam is standing near the cauldron and looking at them, they would have already jumped into the cauldron to eat it.
Sam is looking at the huge panthers who aren't even one year old and thought to himself, whether he should feed them this human blood essence or not. He doesn't want to get them addicted to human blood, otherwise if wasn't not beside them all the time, they might even turn completely hungry for human meat and blood.
But once he thought about the fire poison slowly spreading across its body and beast core, he wasn't able to stop himself. He hardened his heart and let them eat. The two huge panthers who are in size of a normal bull, putting their mouths inside the cauldron as they ate the semi-solid, blood essence. When they were done, they immediately laid contently on the floor and closed their eyes.
Sam placed his hands on their heads and checked their situation. He could see the blood essence and fire essence spreading and strengthening the body and beast core. The slow but raging fire poison is getting more stable. It is slowly integrating itself as a part of the beast core.
He heaved a sigh and exited the dimension and went back to his room. He just laid on the bed with tired expression.
He simply tossed all the thoughts to the back of his mind and closed his eyes to take a nap.
The shadow mice went back to the watch duty. For a week, he kept completely low and didn't even make any move against the Black pond.
But the black pond people are in completely different situation and mindset.
They didn't dare to believe that the moves made by Sam are completed. Every person, who is part of Black pond are completely on their toes. They didn't dare to relax at all. No matter how they tried to investigate, they aren't getting any clues.
The other party seemed to know everything about the whole Black pond, but they don't even know how the party is getting their information.
If they knew that ten mice which are less than five percent of their size are making them pull their hire like this, one should have to wonder how their expressions would be like.
Right now, the manager of the Black pond is in another steamy session with the peak stage Novice woman.
After a few pleasurable minutes, both of them laid naked on the bed as their faces were filled with relief. After some rest the lady spoke.
”Are there any clues about the opponent?”
”No, and it seems that their methods are changed. Today morning I got a report that ten Novices are missing. If we just let this go in this way, the organisation will be slowly eroded. So, before they do this, I need to make some preparations. We already stopped taking tasks from clients.
The income completely stagnated due to the destruction of all the stores. Only the businesses in the Northern region are working. The slave trade, prostitution, everything stopped in a same place. At this pace, even if they can't attack, we won't be any better than disbanding the organisation.”
”Then what do you plan to do?” The lady asked.
”First, tomorrow noon, I am going to host a meeting inside the Black pond with all the upper echelons present. I need to make sure that the remaining candidates stay safe. If we have to, we will send all of them into Falcon Cliff to take refugee. We will decide that after the meeting.”
”Okay, then we will do as you say.” Meanwhile, at a corner two shadow mice are looking at the scene with disgust in their eyes. They have obvious disdain in their eyes.
But they can only see and bear with it. After all, Boss' mission took priority.
”Seems like Boss' mission will be completed soon.” Both of the shadow mice immediately left the place.
After the two mice left, both of the man and woman are started exchanging a book. They are using the book as a communication to write messages to each other.
The conversation is as follows.
Woman: [Do you think that they would fall for this?]
Manager: [ After hearing this type of big news, nobody would stay here to monitor further. They would definitely go back to give the news.]
Woman: [But are you going to host the meeting tomorrow?]
Manager: [Of course, I would, but the mission would not be in the Black Pond. We will change it to the rundown restaurant. That too, we are going to host it early in the morning.]
Woman: [But how is that useful for us?]
Manager: [If my guess is right and the informers are really in the room just now, they would probably start preparations to attack all the upper echelons tomorrow. Because, from what I can deduce, they probably are eroding the small fries to gather us together and attack in full force. So, what we will do is, hire all the man power we can and lay a huge trap for them at noon, in the Black pond.
We will get the support from the other Great mage from the neighbouring city who is going to come tomorrow. He will reach this city, a few hours before noon.
So, by misleading them into preparing for a large- scale attack, they won't take their time to spy us in the morning and we will make use of this to conduct a meeting and also lay a trap with two great mages. We have a high chance of success.]
That is the end of the conversation.
When Sam reached the news of the meeting he went into deep contemplation. After pondering over this for a while, he came to a decision and said.
”Don't care about the meeting. You guys just follow them, but tonight one of you come to my room and take this ring with you. You better not lose this. The one who can carry this properly without any problem should be coming. I don't want anything to happen. So, who is coming?
*squeak* *squeak* [One will come]
The mice said in unison. Sam nodded and said. ”Tell the remaining mice to gather all of them at the manager's house at mid-night. All of you will be following him tomorrow. If they really host a meeting, this going to be our final strike.”
Then the two mice went away to carry out their mission.
Sam looked at the clear sky through the window and pondered on how to deal with it. Then he called Jack over and said.
”Tomorrow might be a big day. You stay here. We might be dealing with the Black pond completely.”
When Sam said that, both of them looked at each other and just stayed without saying anything.
Hours passed; sky darkened. When Sam sensed that a shadow mouse is coming, he looked at Jack and said.