Chapter 527: Investigation (2/2)

There is a catalog for the inks and Sam went through the book and was surprised by the variety of the inks that are available in this shop.

He started selecting them, but not all of them are available at this moment.

”What happened? When would they be available again?” Sam asked in some disappointment.

”I don't know, there is a shortage of the Beast blood for the past month and some smaller shops that depend on the beast blood to make business are already closed. We don't know what happened exactly, but someone seemed to be buying the beast blood even before us. There is very little supply in the market at this moment.”

Sam frowned at this. From what he saw there is no deficiency of the beasts in the market and the hunters are bringing in a decent intake every day. But the deficiency of beast blood is absurd when everything else is okay.

He came out of the shop and walked aimlessly among the roads, until night. The house they are living in gives the view of the west gate and they can see if there is anyone who is coming.

Sam is on the watch that night along with the spy.

As they waited for a long time, there is some activity at the west gate at midnight. Two people came through the west gate and started walking in the streets.

Even though the cultivators don't need much sleep, they still take rest at night and the forest would be much more bustling and the beasts would be active at night than in normal times. So, they avoid it at all costs.

After they saw the two men coming through the city gate, Sam activated his shadow form and disappeared from the spot. He reappeared on the roof and then started tailing the two of them by shifting from one roof to another.

He followed from afar and kept a great distance between them. They are even out of his superior spiritual sense range, he is only using the eye technique to see them from afar.

Soon, these two people met a group of people at another end of the city and within the group, Sam recognized one of them.

He is the person who is talking to the inscription ink shop owner.

He frowned and went into deep thought. There are still fourteen days left till the war, even though that is not a long time, he didn't dare to be in a hurry. This time, he has to deal with a regiment of soldiers, he would have to be careful.

After the soldiers took something and left, he could see the group of people angrily looking at each other and seemed to be scolding someone.

He decided to go back to the house and the next morning, he went deep into the forest and looked for prey to hunt. After some time, he came across a large herd of elk type beasts and he caught two of them and brought them back to the city.

He went straight to one of the processing people who specialize in separating meat, bones, and leather and gave the two beasts.

The shop keeper processed the corpses within an hour. When Sam made the payment according to the market standards, he only took three-fourths of it and said.

”We accidentally wasted the blood, so we would buy the blood of the beast for the market price. You can take the rest of the materials.”

Sam looked at the man with some suspicion, but he still took the materials and left.

This man is also a part of the group he met yesterday night. Sam didn't wait long and went into the forest again. He looked for another beast and went to another processor this time also he was surprised.

This man directly asked for the beast's blood.

”I have a son who is training to be an inscription master, I would like to buy the beast blood.” Sam didn't show any expression and sold this, before leaving the place. By night, he visited four shops and all of them made an excuse to buy the beast blood.

And all of them are part of the group.

He once again stayed on watch at night, but that night nothing happened. He continued his visits to the remaining processing shops and that included the shop run by the man who he saw at the inscription shop.

After making sure that these people are buying the blood directly, he was sure that this is related to the army at least there is a high chance of them being related. He would need to investigate more and see what is happening.