Chapter 245: Attack and Escape (2/2)

Because they knew that Sam is using the woods to travel and since they don't know his destination or location it is hard to locate him as the area of the search will be large.

But now they knew where Sam is due to the latter's dominant declaration. Although it struck fear in people which as Sam desired, it also gave away his location, and judging from the place he is, one can easily imagine his next location.

The metal mines of the south-western star.

There is only one proper route and if they can swarm the forest surrounding this area, they have a possibility of catching Sam.

Yes, of course, there would be some lives that would be lost in the process. But considering the amount of threat Sam could pose towards the empire, it would be the best choice. This choice is something that the Duke of the southern star couldn't make and Sam went away scot-free.

Now, Sam is in the middle of the forest standing below a tree.

He has two options and one of them is travel with shadow mice and be careful that the beasts wouldn't disturb, which almost impossible because shadow mice are great nutrients for snake type beasts.

One of the reasons they wouldn't be able to survive in the wild.

The second option is for him to just enter the divine dimension and wait it out. Slowly move with the Drunkard underground.

But the problem is that there is a chance that these guys might try to search underground and the last thing he wants is getting his divine dimension crystal in the hands of these guys.

They wouldn't be able to store it in their storage rings, but they might just put it in close monitoring. Of course, he can still escape but that would expose his secret.

He chose the third option and that is getting rid of these guys forcefully. He wouldn't change his plan, he has to go and destroy those metal mines, but before that, he has to force these guys to stop following his trail.

From what he estimated, there is a Nascent and more than ten Grand realm cultivators along with many Great realm cultivators.

They are advancing very cautiously and Sam might have another five minutes before they reach him.

Sam took out an energy crystal and destabilized it. But he didn't throw it towards them, he threw it towards the deeper sides of the forest.

And with that, he made his move. After the explosion occurred, the beasts suddenly became restless and Sam moved towards the explosion. The troops who are after him followed him towards the explosion area.

But this didn't stop. Sam took a smaller sized energy crystal which is as big as his fist and threw it deeper and deeper inside the forest.

By now, the chaos in the forest grew too much and suddenly there is a huge aura that came from deep inside the forest. Sam smirked at this, he took out another smaller energy crystal and threw it from the place where the aura is coming from and this time, he suddenly changed directions and moved towards the troops.

A large elephant type beast followed him. And behind that elephant even more, elephant type beasts started coming.

These are the lords of this territory and the forest is their home, since their home was being destroyed of course they would come out.

At this moment, the Nascent who just entered the forest due to the explosions was stunned to feel the aura of the elephants charging towards him.

His mind went blank and his attention was successfully drawn away from Sam.

And this all Sam needed.

After luring the beasts towards them, he took out harbinger and suddenly hovered in the sky.

He disappeared in a flash as if he was never there.

The Nascent who is in charge of the pursuit couldn't even decide what to do.

Because he knew about these elephant beasts. The ones that came out are only Level 4 and Level 5 but the elephants live in communities and their leader is Level 6.

If he doesn't handle the situation properly, there will definitely be a problem awaiting them.

The elephants might damage the city.

So, he started ordering the soldiers to retreat slowly.

Sam escaped the situation smoothly. Even though, it seemed like the situation was easy for him. He is on tenterhooks. The energy cells are a pain in the ass, as it can mutually destruct him along with the enemy.

The shadow mice are not very suitable in the wild. Because their presence is not insignificant but it is not strong enough for the beasts to avoid it.

The drunkard can only fool the vision, not other senses.

He can still escape by using the divine dimension. But this would bring some speculations. Sam might consider himself superior but he would never think that all the people in the empire are stupid.

He knew better than anyone else, that speculations based on logic tend to be right most of the time and Sam disappearing from a place instantly will draw some speculations and if this report went to the higher-ups and someone who knows about the divine dimension might give him a hard time. After all, there is no guarantee that the divine dimension is invincible.

Now, with his actions, he can stop some of the speculations and the people will think that he always used the forest as the only cover.

As for his sneaking into the city, they can employ it to the disguise techniques and his skills.