Chapter 286: Guests (1/2)

The middle-aged man is absolutely correct, there are guests that came in five groups.

Except for the thunder god temple, all the remaining five powers sent a team each. As for the thunder god temple, they have more people in the empire and even have access to space-gate.

But they didn't dare to send the highly powerful people, because all the powers are now seeing Sam as their treasure, and since they only have access to send people up to Grand realm cultivators they wouldn't just sit and wait if the thunder god temple sends some high-level cultivators.

So, they could only sit and wait while sending the same level candidates as the remaining powers, but they didn't send a three-man team instead, they sent four people and one of them is Arthur.

Since he is the only one who has more contact with Sam, he just broke-through the Grand realm, so now he is not the top dog in the Grand realm rankings of the thunder-god temple, he didn't even reach the top thirty.

So, for now, he doesn't hold much sway here.

He entered the Arian empire from the space-gate along with other three members who are within top-fifty. From their source of information, Sam and his group haven't broken through the Grand realm. All of them are at the peak of the Great realm.

They don't know the reason why, but they just sent the initial stage Grand realm cultivators to deal with them.

Unlike some people, the thunder god temple took another direct approach and that is to deal with Sam directly.

Arthur said that four inheritances are with Sam himself and they also knew how possessive Sam is of his friends from their investigations. If by any chance they missed and Sam knew about their involvement, they would take huge collateral damage.

After all, they heard about how Sam is capable of destroying all the natural resources in the former Orion. Even if he was incapable of dealing with the whole thunder god temple, it is not worth it, even if he behaved like a rabid dog and bit everything that came into his sight. They would surely lose two to three islands under their control.

The thunder god temple made sure that Arc wouldn't tip off Sam about the arrival of these four people. But they didn't know that the moment they entered the vicinities of Sam's city,Sam already knew of their arrival.

The thing is there are some restaurants that are still operating in Sam's city and they are run by Mackey's staff.

Different restaurants open in various places with different styles of cuisines and there is always an influx of new citizens who come and go out of the city every day.

Thus, the four of them just sneaked into the city and tried to blend into the crowd.

But what they don't know is that the citizens that move in and out of the city, the people who are temporarily staying in the city, and every other person who is breathing inside the city are all Sam's people at least they are now working under Sam.

They move in and out because of the construction project that is going on near the vicinity of the capital inside the woods.

All of them are wearing their casual clothes and as the people from the thunder god temple don't know Sam's plans, they just gave themselves away.

And how did that happen? Many people wouldn't notice that there is a small mark embroidered on the chests of every person working under Sam. It is just a tick mark and it is done so stealthily that one would only know it is there if they observe closely.

They also have information that if anyone who doesn't have a mark enters the city, then they are intruders and they have to just relay the information to their supervisors and if possible, bring the images without alerting the intruders at all.

After two days, night time the four of them are having dinner in one of the restaurants.

”Arthur, I think we can take action tonight itself. From what we saw from the past two days, he is retiring to his residence and no one is disturbing him, even the Vulture is being kept afar. There is only one precaution, we have to take him down before he reacts and if not possible, we have to retreat without leaving any evidence of our identities.”

The person who seemed to be the team leader of the group said but Arthur didn't reply. They are just asking for his opinion for the sake of it. Since the time they came to the Arian, they didn't bother caring about his opinion or insight.

He is walking on egg-shells since he entered Sam's city. He has a feeling that their sneaking in is not exactly successful and they are about to receive a perfect slap anytime soon. It is his intuition told him.

But these guys didn't bother listening to him. These four people are taking pleasure in defying his every word as it is impossible to do so in the thunder god temple.

”Do whatever you seem fit. I am only here to give you insights about Sam's techniques in battle, the rest of it is your call.” The leader seemed to be quite satisfied as the answer fed his ego.

As the order came, they started munching on the food.

By the time they finished their meal, they unknowingly felt dizzy and by the time they came to sense, they are in a dark room and there are restraints placed on their hands and legs as they were tied up to chairs.

”Who is it? Why am I here? Someone comes out and releases me.”

”Who has guts to restrain us like this?”