Chapter 136: Major Hiccup (2/2)

The one who answered was a girl who is a daughter of Count. Her eyes are filled with obvious admiration. She seemed to want to highlight Luther in front of his father and get noticed by him.

But Sam noticed something different at this moment.

When the girl said that Luther is the one provided intel, Sam looked at him subconsciously, only to see that latter has a flicker of anger and anxiousness forming.

It felt like Luther doesn't want this credit. Zeke and Blue fire are also looking at their brother with excitement, but they didn't notice that flicker.

Marquis dismissed everyone of them and led Sam back to the private room. Until night, they discussed on how to go against this Black water.

At night, their discussion stopped because some messages came. One of them is from the attendant to the Marquis and another one is from a shadow mouse.

Both messages were equally surprising.

”The next phase of the examination is cancelled. Duke sent a message that the next stage will be beginning earlier, and all the candidates who passed the assessment shall report to the Dukedom capital in the next month.”

Sam was stunned, that means that the initial one year phase has been reduced to six months and the last phase has been completely eliminated.

From what Marquis said before, there are going to be twenty candidates who will be promoted and only two teams came.

”I shall inform the remaining team to come back immediately.” Marquis said.

But Sam stopped paying attention to him. Because, he just listened to the message of the shadow mouse and that message gave him chills.

The four lords and their boss, all gathered their subordinates and are hosting a meeting right now, in an underground facility of the nearby woods. But that news would have made Sam excited because, all shadow mice would have gathered there and the intel would be with him in no time.

The problem the next statement of the shadow mice.

{Watt is captured.}

When he heard this, he immediately stood up. But he didn't react immediately.

”Sam, what happened?” Marquis asked. But got no reply.

At this moment, Sam is thinking hard.

'What happened? How did Watt got captured?'

He kept on asking himself. In one day all the situation changed.

These past few days, the underground forces are under complete lock down. Sam barely got any info even with the shadow mice involved. Even yesterday, he didn't have any info.

But in one day, the situation was changed, what brought this change? What happened exactly? What changed in this one day? This is the biggest hiccup he faced in his plans after he was reborn

Sam closed his eyes and thought of all possibilities, it has been a long, long time since he used his brain to his maximum capacity.

After a strange silence of around five minutes, Sam opened his eyes as a dangerous thought surfaced his mind.

”Where is your second son?” He asked the Marquis and the latter asked his attendants.

”He is in his quarters.”

”Lead the way.” Sam said without hesitation.

”But Why?”

”Will tell you later, it is urgent.” Both of them moved, but when they entered the quarters Luther is not there. When they asked the servants, they only said one thing.

”Young master went inside and didn't come out since morning.”

Sam suddenly had an understanding.

”I will contact you when needed. I have to leave now.”

Sam said and without waiting for Marquis' reply, he disappeared on the harbinger accompanied with his shadow mouse. He arrived at the mansion and immediately called Jack over before going to his study.

At the same moment. In a deserted area of the woods, under the surface there was a huge cave illuminated dimly like a horror setting.

An old man is sitting in a large chair. Many people are standing on either side of the room and all of them are wearing some masks, within the room, there are five people who are completely injured and are on verge of death while a person is already dead.

The cause of these deaths was a person who is in centre of the room.

Watt was tied up, to a stone chair. In actuality, the chair has a lot of inscriptions which are restricting his cultivation.

His face has a lot of bruises and a cut was formed on his right eyebrow from where the blood is leaking and even fell on Watt's coat.

He has minimum combat power, but his eyes are unyielding and ferocious. He doesn't look like a person who was injured at all.

That is the reason the old man didn't let anyone remove the coat and rings on Watt's hands.

They caught him with great difficulty and if they gave away a moment of gap to take those items away and untie him, he will definitely take at least three lives along with him.

”Are you going to tell me or not?” The Old man asked a question which he has probably repeated many times.