Chapter 512: Practice (1/2)

Arkiv finally had some time to breathe after he entered this town for fugitives that too after three months, meanwhile the rest of the candidates are not exactly this lucky.

They are all going through extremely hard situations. Some of them imprisoned, some of them trying to get resources to survives, some of them in a remote place where they wouldn't even find signs of any form of life.

They spanned all over the planet.

Another month passed.

Sam is having the most relaxed time ever, military training, the assignments, and the assessments are too easy for him, the only hardest part being the suppression being difficult, in a few days it would be six months, even Arman went past in his cultivation and already broke through Level-6.

At this moment, Sam is inside the woods used for hunting training for the soldiers and there is a lake in the middle of it.

Sam is playing his flute as the lake water danced and he stood on it as the dancing water is moving him from one spot to another, throwing and twisting, shoot him up, and dragging him down according to the melody of the Black metallic flute he was playing at the moment.

Sometimes, the water is turbulent to the extreme, and other times, the water is calm and too laminar.

He is playing with the water and practicing his elemental control of water at the same time.

All of a sudden, his frown got deeper and the water below him started becoming cooler by the second.

This is what he achieved from the training before coming here and he wants to improve the current water element and get access to more versatile power in terms of offense and defense.

That is to gain control over ice.

Ice might be a hybrid of the water element, but it is still water nonetheless. After all, the water turning to ice is essentially the water molecules getting closer and the distance between them turning to a minimum. That is what happens when the temperature is reduced, the water molecules grow closer.

Sam is achieving the result by doing the opposite, he is controlling the water at a molecular level and turning it into ice.

The water in the lake started cooling down and slowly, a faint mist could be seen on top of it indicating the temperature descent.

As the temperature decreased slowly, he concentrated on playing the music in a particular fashion and if one who can observe the minute motion of energy waves is present they could see that the air is not the only thing coming out of the flute.

The energy is moving in a peculiar fashion as it slowly enveloped the water and seeped into it as it forced the water molecules to get closer and closer.

The most peculiar thing is the energy coming out of the flute doesn't completely belong to his own body, rather he is inhaling the surrounding spiritual energy of the atmosphere into his lungs as he blew it into the flute along with the air.

Even though he is controlling the large water body which he didn't even conjure himself, the energy consumption has been minimized.

As the lake is slowly starting to show the signs of solidification, Sam frowns deeper and this time it is not the sign of concentration, rather it is a sign of disturbance, someone who is not supposed to be here is coming.

He undid all the spiritual energy and the lake water turned still, he kicked on the water gently and he landed on the bank with some soft ripples.

He could hear the screams of hysteria and muffled groans around the corner, he didn't have to be a genius to understand what is happening and his frown got deeper.

He started walking to exit the forest and forget about this nasty work. But luck is not on his side today, one of the guys in the group already saw him and notified the leader of the group.

The leader of the group is Naga and the rest of them are Half-Nagas. The Naga is a newcomer and in fact, he is also from the same company as Sam. As for the rest, they are Half Nagas from the naga's family and are his subordinates, who joined the army earlier than him.

At this moment, the group of five is holding down a human girl and their hands are still in the middle of holding the clothes of the woman ready to tear them up.

They halted their action because of Sam's presence.

The human girl looked at Sam with a pleading gaze, her mouth was still held tight by one of the subordinates and she still didn't stop struggling.

Sam didn't want to interfere, even though he could help her, he would have to deal with the Young Naga man. He seemed to be from a noble family, he would have to go back to scheming and planning all over again.

He is enjoying the time of relaxation in this beautiful realm, he doesn't want to get dragged into this.

He was about to silently turn around and walk away. But at this moment, someone from the group yelled at him.

”Stop right there.”