Chapter 89: Blue flame city (1/2)

The next day before Dawn, Watt and Sam got ready and met up outside the mansion. Falck is with them and when Sam made it disappear with a wave of hand, Watt was stunned but he didn't ask any questions, when he looked at Sam's expression. The latter seemed to be in a hurry.

They went to the Northern City gate where the Trading Carriage is waiting. This is the carriage of Golden- Horse trading company. They trade resources from this type of backward area and sell them to the merchants and other noble families who require them.

Along with this trading, they also provide the transportation for a small number of people.

The carriage will take 17 days to travel to the Marquis city.

The Marquis city is called Blue flame city. The city is under the Maverick family which holds the Marquis title.

The Maverick family is one of the noble families which was there since the establishment of the empire. The General Blue flame from the Maverick family made great contributions with a neighbouring empire which shares half of the western continent with them.

After the empire has been established the first emperor, gave this Marquis title to the general while promoting the Maverick family name which is the last name of the general to the Aristocracy.

These family members have a special blood line which effects the spiritual core and everyone of them have fire type spiritual core, but in every generation, there will be a person who will awaken the power blue flame and that person will become the next marquis.

Sam got all this info from the person in-charge of the trading carriage. After all, this is the common knowledge in the Blue flame city.

When Sam asked about Zeke, the person said something interesting. The Marquis has three wives and even more amusing thing is that three of them are sisters. Marquis married them because, he has promised something to the three women's father, and he has no way to avoid it.

Marquis has a child with each wife and all of them are sons and this Zeke is the son of the first wife.

After awakening their spiritual cores, the third son is the one who activated the Blue flame blood line and was crowned as the Young Marquis. The second son Luther has no problem with that as he isn't interested in that, but the eldest son Zeke is ambitious.

Since, he was destined not to inherit the title, he wanted to grow through business. So, he recruited some Artisans and Inscription masters to start his own business of weapons and Articrafts.

When Sam heard this, he smiled lightly.

The carriage went on with a moderate pace, without any hurry. The horses used are Level 2 beasts, so their endurance is also quite high. They only stopped once a day. Even though, they can go on for days without any food and sleep, they still stopped to not to tire themselves out as they might encounter beasts or bandits on the way.

Sam maintained a complete low profile as they travelled. He didn't want to interact with the rest of the passengers or the people from the trading company. Right now, he is really on the edge as he could feel himself turning back to his previous self. Particularly, in this last days, Sam developed a strong repulsion against the young masters.

Since, the one who initiated the attack on him is also a young master, his murderous intent is kicking in and he is trying to restrict it as much as possible.

After a week of travel, the carriage entered the Insect Canyon. Anyone who is travelling to the Blue flame city, must travel through this Canyon. The carriage increased its speed as they tried to cross the Canyon as soon as possible. Sam looked through the window and found that there is a lack of greenery. The canyon is area is almost like a desert.

Both sides of the canyon are filled with woods and grass, but the canyon is completely bare. There is not even a single blade of grass in the canyon.

After more than half-an-hour, they crossed the canyon and went into the woods and halted for rest.

Sam came out of the carriage and inquired why they halted and came to know that the area around is place where a type of grass which is used in some potions is usually grown and all the passengers and even the trading company members will try to find it here. So, they will stop here and wait for half a day before starting their journey again.

Sam wasn't interested in the grass and walked around and when he came to vicinity of the Insect canyon, he found something and immediately understood why the canyon is like a desert.

There is a peculiar looking grass in front of him and it is a different shade of green almost like emerald. The grass is like a border between the canyon and the surrounding woods.

The grass has no special effects of medicinal effects, but it has one function and it is to deter a certain insect species and that is called Zoi termite.

This insect is a peculiar one, because they live and roam in large groups. Just like ants and they all work on the orders of the queen Zoi termite. The queen will have a special metal connection with them and the communication range is very huge.

These Zoi termites feed on spiritual energy of any organic or living substance, but there is one huge problem. When they bite into something and suck the spiritual energy they will leave their saliva in that body and this saliva is actually quite dangerous. Because, it will start draining the life force of the body.

Their target can be anything, human, beasts, plants. They can get their food from any living thing or from fresh flesh.

The only good side is that they are quite controlled and not greedy. They are easily satisfied. Even though, they can increase faster if they eat more, they won't over do it to avoid being target of a powerful beast or cultivator.

A beast in size of Blazing earth bull will give them enough food for more than a month.

So, they won't seek out to hunt after they had their prey, but why are all the people avoiding the insect canyon? That is because, the Zoi termites are a quite superior insect species and they won't prey on other insects making all types of insect species to take shelter in their territory.

Even though these insects are not strong individually, they have a huge advantage in numbers and particularly in their own territory, they can make the whole trading carriage vanish.

Many people will compare weak ones with insects, but Sam thought otherwise. Even in previous life Sam felt that the insects are one of the most superior species. Why did he think that way?

Well, if we think about it, an ant is strong enough to lift many times its weight and imagine if an ant is in size of an average human.

A grasshopper is so fast that we can hardly touch it with most effort. Imagine if it is just half a size of an average human. It will toy around with a special forces soldier like it was playing with a kid. They have one of most superior genetics.

Even in this life, Sam has same opinion about insects. Insects should never be underestimated.

Sam started plucking some of this emerald coloured grass and squeezed the juices before applying it all over his body. This grass is the only thing that deters the spread of the Zoi termites. It is their natural repellent grown by the earth itself by adapting to the changes caused by the termites.

Sam entered the valley slowly on his hover board. He didn't dare to walk normally in the valley. If any of the insect horde caught his feet by surprise, he will be done for. No matter how good his spiritual sense and awareness he has, he didn't dare to take this risk.

While he is hovering slowly inside, he noticed that there is some movement underneath the ground surface.

He closed his eyes and is looking for the Zoi termites. If he can get these insects, things will be very easy for him in the future. He wants to see if he can get the queen ant herself and if he could get her, he can control the whole swarm.

But just as his spiritual sense entered underground, he felt an immense sense of pressure. He saw a huge white termite in the size of volleyball and could feel that the insect looking at him.

The insect is in far higher level than him.

Sam is sure that even the amount emerald grass in the boundary can't deter the queen if she wanted to move herself. He immediately turned around and the hover-board moved in its top speed. Luckily, the queen didn't put him in its eyes, otherwise he would have been done for.

Sam came out of the valley in less than two minutes. The ant queen gave him goose bumps all over. He immediately went to the nearest water source to wash over his skin to clear of the emerald grass juice. But he didn't stop sweating.

He went back to the carriage and sat beside Watt who is meditating. Sam really felt like running away from this place. The image of the termite queen is making him nervous.

The enormous sense of danger made him feel uneasy all over. He really wished that the carriage will move soon.

Sam heaved a sigh only when the carriage is started moving. But he still couldn't get the termite queen out of his mind.

The remaining days, he didn't try to get out of the carriage and stayed inside meditating continuously. He only came out to have an occasional meal.