Chapter 358: Research (1/2)

After talking to Sirona, who went into a deep thought at Sam's words, he left to handle the captives.

Sam felt like this war is too large scale for him.

Old one, the former Pharmaceutical association head, is battling the whole world and he seemed to have made sufficient preparations. He is not even considering the empire seriously and sending followers through Space gates at his whim.

As for Sam and his friends, they are just some small fries in Western Continent. It is almost impossible for them to make any difference in war with their battle prowess and cultivation.

But there is one thing Sam felt like he must do. That is not changing the course of war or defeating the enemy by himself. He wanted to secure his territory and defend against all these attacks.

The best way to defend himself is not even letting the opponent attack.

So, now Sam's idea is find a way to influence the war in such a way that Old one, wouldn't have time or followers to concentrate on the Western continent.

With that intent, he took some captives to the laboratory he created within his floor of the Sky scraper.

The first thing Sam did is, strap one of the followers to a table and use his observation ability to examine all his body.

When he did that, Sam could see even minute muscle fibres in the body of the follower.

And he noticed many peculiarities. The first one is the high rate of absorption of spiritual energy.

The followers might not be able to use the spiritual energy to fight, but spiritual energy is still the basis of their strength. Sam noticed that their bodies are absorbing the spiritual energy through the pores and the muscle fibres are absorbing that spiritual energy constantly becoming denser and denser.

It is just like the situation when he is tempering his body. His muscles fibres and skin will absorb the spiritual energy to become denser and stronger.

The second peculiarity is the Vitality.

Sam noticed an intense amount of vitality gathered in the body of the follower. At first, he felt like this is not normal and thought that only one follower is peculiar like this, but as he went through the remaining two followers who are captive, he noticed the same phenomenon going on in their bodies.

Their bodies contain a very highly concentrated vitality. Generally, any living organism will have vitality present within their systems, but the vitality of a follower is equal to ten times a normal person.

This is practically impossible, as far as Sam knew this much amount of vitality is only present in either some high-grade pills or some extremely valuable medicinal herbs.

But to see that in one person is something he never would have expected.

Then only he increased his concentration on observation and found out that their bodies are not just absorbing the spiritual energy, but also emitting endless vitality through the pores.

Even with that much Vitality in their bodies, the most peculiar thing is that it kept on increasing with time and there are no signs of stopping.

He noticed that the spiritual energy which was being absorbed by the person is not just being converted into the physical strength, but also into large reservoir of vitality.

The presence of this much vitality explained another, weird phenomenon within their bodies and that is healing.

Their bodies are extremely peculiar such that every strike that landed on them physically will be recovered in an extremely fast pace.

Sam is holding a dagger and making wounds all over the hand of the follower. The follower is not even making a sound of pain and he still has that foolish smile of a cultist.

Even Sam felt a bit weird when he looked at that face.

After making some superficial wounds and some deep cuts, Sam started observing the pace of healing.

When he used his observation skill while the healing is going on, he noticed that the amount of vitality that was being consumed to heal the injuries, is actually a lot more than the vitality it takes to heal the normal people.

But in normal case, a healer has to simulate the vitality and control it. But for these people, there is no need of a healer, the vitality is just overwhelmingly healing the wounds.