Chapter 136: Major Hiccup (1/2)

Sam came out of the dimension with Jack and Watt. The duo is still in disbelief.

They didn't know what to think of what they saw in the dimension. They never expected that Sam could possess a swarm of those insects which could eat a person clean to his bones.

All this while, Sam didn't even look back, he is thinking about the information he got out of the Young master.

The information is nothing short of overwhelming. Even though, Jack and Watt are also overwhelmed but that is due to their visit to the dimension. The information shocked them but not more than the experience.

After taking some time to calm themselves down, the trio took a seat in Sam's study.

They had to process the info they got and think of ways to proceed further.

First thought Sam had when he heard the situation of underground forces is a ”Well-hidden.”

From what the Young master Stone heart said, there are a total of four people in every zone of these cities with same position as himself. That means in the commoner zone, there are three more hidden bosses other than the Young master himself.

All four of them are under the orders of the Lord of their respective zones.

From what young master knew, these four lords are working together and there is a possible chance that they are working for someone.

The most important thing is these four lords are at least at Late stage Great realm cultivation and the hidden bosses working under them have Late stage Novice cultivations at least. There are even early stage Great realm cultivators in noble zone.

The main problem is that, Young master Stone heart only knew the identities of the people in charge of the Commoner zone.

So, if Sam took action, the remaining three zones would be on high alert. That makes things complicated.

First, he has to gather info on the remaining three zones candidates as well.

On that thought, all ten shadow mice are on constant duty and out of them four followed the Elder who is in charge of the Young master Stone heart, the remaining six went to the different zones to find at least one hidden boss.

After all, he has the identities of the hidden bosses of the Commoner zone with him.

The month passed just like that and the shadow mice barely got an identity of a hidden boss.

But they still weren't able to get the identities of the remaining hidden bosses due to their lack of number.

Even though, he could use the zoi termites, their intelligence to clearly identify a person will only be activated when they are at least Level 3, but their size will gather a lot of attention inside a city.

If it was a forest, he would have happily utilised the zoi termites.

Watt and Jack are practically living on the streets for the past months trying to find out the hide outs, but there seemed to be too well hidden. There seemed to be thinking that they are being targeted after they noticed the destruction of the Prostitution den and the missing of Stone heart.

While, Sam is thinking on how to get unearth these people, a message from Marquis came.

When he visited the marquis mansion, the high and righteous Marquis has a face full of worry and anger.

The report Sam asked seemed to be ready.

When both of them sat down, Marquis passed a list of names containing the officials and also the places they protected and one of the places happened to be the Prostitution den.

But the places didn't seem to tally much. Because, from what Young master stone heart said, there are four different businesses in each zone and there are total of sixteen hide outs. But the list absolutely showing twenty hideouts.

To search them all, Sam didn't have enough shadow mice. The four which left to tail the Elder are still on the same duty. The remaining lords are yet to make an appearance.

Sam also shared the info he got with the Marquis and the latter almost coughed blood in exasperation.

There are already more than ten officials who are corrupted, but now that he knew that there are more hidden bosses and when he learnt the few identities Sam traced, he couldn't contain his anger.

Almost half of the nobility was corrupted. Even if the whole family might not have involved, some core members have direct participation.

When Sam learnt of their names, he didn't know what to think of it. This empire has one of the most corrupt systems Sam has ever seen.

He didn't know what the emperor is doing at all.

”What should we do?” Marquis asked.

”I have to know how strong the most powerful person in that organisation is to decide on how to proceed.”

”What do you mean? Aren't there four Lords the bosses? Are you suspecting that there is even more powerful person behind the scenes?”

Sam nodded his head. Because, in all the cities, black water has always matched the power of the ruling authority. Since, the old Marquis is the strongest one, Sam couldn't help but think that Black water must have that strong person acting.

Just as he was thinking, the attendant came and gave Marquis a message and that is the second team also came back.

Marquis led Sam to a larger meeting room where the second team are waiting, this team is full of nobles of the Marquis city and some of the sons of Counts.

They seemed to be tired and exhausted and when they saw Sam, their looks changed. They worked their assess off, by splitting up and doing the investigations.

But still, Sam defeated them.

Marquis took the reports and all they could see is that his brows are furrowed and there is an obvious disappointment in his eyes.

”How did you gather the intel?” Marquis asked and someone answered immediately.

”Lord Marquis, your second son Luther provided the intel, we don't know what method he used, but he seemed to already has certain understanding of various cities and villages under your territory. He will definitely become a great official in future.”