Chapter 189: Return (1/2)

Sam really had his dinner at the town hall. Since it is a border town the in charge of the town are from military as well and this made things easier.

As Sam was eating, he looked at the town, it is just a little after sunset and a lot of people are packing their things to move.

Many of them didn't want to stay in this place as they felt a sense of belonging for their country. Generally, the cultivator wars are not so small and the citizens wouldn't have much choice. After all, humans are also an important resource in the eyes of the people at the top of the pyramid.

That is the reason the law is still in place and the people are given some rights.

Otherwise, this world would have already been in chaos.

But that is not the reason Sam let them go, he just felt that it is highly impossible for these people to be loyal for the new rule. From his experience, the emperor is not much of a great ruler and even the southern star Duke is not much.

It is almost impossible to get the loyalty of these people with their rule and they can only force them, Sam just wanted to leave these people a way out.

The person from the nearest military came faster than he thought. Apparently, he rode a level 3 beast and came. He is a battalion commander. After hearing that Sam has cleared the town in a day and he wants to go back to the dukedom, the nearest military post who didn't make the preparations for the new town occupation can only send this person as a representative.

Sam just let him handle the details with the help of the authorities of the Red rock town and he started his journey back to the southern star city along with his soldiers and the remaining war prisoners.

He didn't hand over them to the battalion commander who came to him, but rather brought them back.

He is going to exchange them from the points.

And after another twenty-seven days, he reached the southern star city. He is no the first one to arrive in the southern star.

Many people who cannot take the heat of the war or some candidates who thought their achievements are enough returned on level 4 beasts arranged for their transportation specifically.

But out of all of them his entrance was the most spectacular. As spectacular as his departure. The first thing he did was to enter the camp and settle his soldiers, he gave them a huge amount of bonus and even arranged a feast with Mackey and his staff cooking.

He didn't go out, rather he studied the situation in the camp.

He is estimating on when this phase would end.

Right now, nine months have been completed since this phase began. Sam was deployed to border in the seventh month by the end of eight month he was back. His war only took him one day.

But the candidates assigned to other regiments were deployed earlier for the people stationed in farther borders and some were deployed later for those who are stationed closer.

Sam is the only candidate who came back on his own without the help of Duke's arrangement of level 4 beasts.

The main reason is that he has time and he can also stay with the soldiers as respect to their effort for fighting the battle. As far as he knew being in a commander position, he shouldn't just discard the soldiers after he the battle and return alone.

As he was celebrating his return with his soldiers, he was called for a meeting from the Duke.

He leisurely visited the Duke's palace.

In the meeting room, there was the familiar scene. The Duke, the General and Sam. Only the rest of thunder wolf squad are not there.

Sam didn't wait for the Duke to speak and passed him two scrolls.

One of them is the agreement of the deal about the competition and the second one is the deed of the transfer of the new town and for Sam's surprise that town in called Red Canyon town. He didn't care much though.

As Duke looked at the scrolls, Sam said.

”According to our agreement, if I win this war, I will get 1000 points. Apart from that, I don't have any casualties, which I believe will qualify as a military merit, I killed an enemy commander, around two hundred soldiers and caught around three hundred war prisoners.

I hope the Duke will maintain his 'impartiality' which you have been showing all this while. ”

Sam particularly emphasized the word impartiality clearly implying that he knew of Duke's little tricks which made the Duke gulp in nervousness.

He received the information on the war and he also received the news about the impact cannon. He doesn't know how to react. He berated himself for being stupid enough to save General Spark's ass so as to get that old man's loyalty and favour.

But that bit him in the back.

Now Sam seems to be holding a grudge.

Before he could sort these thoughts out and speak, Sam spoke again.