Chapter 204: FireWorks (1/2)

Duke stood on the stage that was almost destroyed from the battle.

He looked at the ten candidates who stood below the stage in an order and said.

”You ten will be leaving the Southern star in week and be on your way to the Imperial capital. In a month and a half, the princess will be reaching eighteen years old and there would be a ceremony on that day which will be the final day of your competition in the empire.

Before that you would be facing the challenges which you should surpass prove yourself to be worthy to attend that ceremony.

One more thing, there is a clear significance of the rank you have attained and you will know when you arrive at the imperial capital.

In a week, make all the preparations and bid goodbye to all your relatives, you might not be stepping in southern star city for a while.”

After that speech everyone went on their way. In this week there are a lot of things Sam has to do and that is to meet someone, send someone a gift and send someone a message and last but not least, avoid some people who wants to meet him desperately.

For example, the artisan tower head. That guy tried to get in contact with Sam in the past eight months of the business phase, but was unable to do so.

Sam knew why he wanted to meet him and he has no intention to do so. He had tried to give that man an opportunity, but he was too blind with greed so, Sam cut him off, and he has no intention to listen to that man even if he changed his nature.

As for the people who he has to meet, they are the three tower heads.

In their meeting, they talked about the future of the Park and everything and how they should operate in his absence.

He only has few things to state.

”The Dragon Hawk tribe members, under any circumstances cannot be removed of their employment without my permission. You have only authority over shifting their duty over.

Our profit-sharing methods remain same except you will get additional five percent in every agreement, since you will be managing this.

My share of profits, which I can estimate how much shouldn't undergo any embezzlement, as I might send a person with my scholar artisan badge to retrieve my funds at any moment.

The most important thing of all, any formation design or inscription design and even the business model shall not be leaked to anyone other than our four people.

If by any chance they were leaked, I hope you would be willing to bear the consequences as I won't be bothering to investigate the happenings. I will hold everyone accountable all the same.

So, you better hope that there are no traitors among your subordinates and not any other Dukedom wouldn't get hold of all my designs.

As long as you do that, there is little chance for anyone to replicate our business.”

At Sam's words the three tower heads were a bit displeased after all these words showed that Sam has some doubts on their integrity in the business and it is not a good feeling being a Nascent and still get warned by a young man who just broke through the Great realm just now.

Sam also knew they would feel like this, but he didn't bother hiding his intent. He only trusts a few people in this world and these tower heads aren't one of them, and it is even more so when there are billions and potentially trillions of spirit stones involved.

Sam stood up and before saying.

”I understand if you are displeased, but I hope you think about it and make a decision to follow my words or not after you see the fireworks I prepared on the night before my departure.”

After leaving those words, Sam left the place leaving them confused about what the fireworks meant.

For the next few days, the shadow mice were on the duty. He has to send a gift to Van family head who conveniently wanted to kill Sam to gain the general's favour.

As for getting revenge on General, it would be too easy on the General if he was to die just like that. So, Sam has something planned for him.

These six days, Sam stayed in the second floor working on something serious.

Mia, started losing the effect from the hydras blood as it became too small for her to absorb, so she left everything for the executioner sword to absorb and the blade is already a Grade 5 sword.

It wasn't suitable for him to use it for now with his strength.

Now, the effect of the blood lost all the essence and only the venomous effects were left which would be dissipated in a year or two without the effects of the blood essence.

As it is extremely potent, Sam has a great use for it, and now he is using it for not only to make mutated poisonous herbs, he is also using it for another purpose.

Inside the tower, these six days, Sam worked on a large, easy but a time taking project while the shadow mice gathered his required intel. That intel is not regarding the black water. He doesn't want to target the organisation anytime soon as it would be quite hard for him to deal with them on this scale with his power level.

The info is about the Van family and the General Spark.

On the seventh day which is also the last day of his stay in this city, Sam came out early in the morning.

He had a lot of things to do.

He sneaked out of his residence using the divine dimension and the shadow mice and entered the Van family estate.

In that estate, the shadow mice carefully hid in a shadow near the family head's mansion.

The family head is in a gloomy mood for the past week.

His son died, but he was not upset about that, he has many sons from many concubines and youngest of them is the only one who is lost he still has his eldest son who he is mostly proud of, he was upset that his son leaked his plans.

He enquired about Sam and learnt that he is quite vengeful. But he is not entirely worried for now as it is not much of an immediate problem as Sam doesn't have enough battle ability to content against Van family. At least, that is what he knew.