Chapter 696: Trap (1/2)

One month and fifteen days since the game has started.

Sam is currently inside the Bat cave looking at the numbers that are rapidly changing in the wrist screen. He currently has around three-thousand five hundred points.

It is almost like a pandemic for the undead creatures and their higher-ups only let the select few come out along with their trustworthy human soldiers and investigate ways to defeat these vines.

The people have limited access now as they couldn't go to many of their training zones, just like the forest of dying, the sword valley is also full of vines and so is the region around the undying volcano. There is no space that is free from the threat of vines.

There are even some areas within the main territories of the three races that are infested with vines, they isolated the areas without having no other choice.

No matter what experiment they conducted, they couldn't get much information, all they have is one thing and that is humans are free from the threat of these vines.

As for their own attacks, at first, there was some use when they attacked the vines with other elements. The three races do have access to other elements, but that didn't last long. The problem turned out, that since the secondary elements of these undead races are also influenced and mixed with death energy, the vines that are picky about death energy and usually rejected other elemental energies and harmed themselves, unknowingly evolved in resisting these elements.

So even if these attacks are a temporary measure, they will create more permanent damage in long term.

Sam could guess what is happening outside and their group is also moving past the forest of dying recently.

But there is one problem. Jack is still not out of his dazed state which made it hard for them to leave him alone if he were to be caught alone in this place with no people to look after and someone came in to attack, the situation would be extremely tragic.

In the past fifteen days, Sam and his friends took turns roam around outside and set some traps Sam specifically designed for the undead creatures that are roaming around in the forest of dying to search for their whereabouts.

They encountered some people, but they didn't return and only ended up contributing to Sam's score and his friends' battle experience.

Their hideout is still not exposed but they did notice that the search parties are increasing and the three races are actively searching for them.

Meanwhile, the players that escaped the forest of dying and currently roaming around in other territories understood the situation and they got the news from the captured targets.

They couldn't help but curse Sam a bit. They clearly understood that they took the heat for Sam at the beginning of the game as the vines are blamed on them. They felt relieved that at least now that Sam's name is out they would be relatively safer.

But what they couldn't understand is the reason for the resentment between the Sam and the undead races. But soon they understood that they are messing their priorities up and realized that their stress doesn't only decrease, but in fact increased a lot.

They are still taking the heat for Sam, as they couldn't clear their name and sever ties between them and Sam which apparently exist in the eyes of Undead races.

In this way, not only is Sam scoring an awful lot of points, but he is also hindering the rest of the players from getting many.

While the situation is like this, Sam finally decided to become more active. He and his friends already created all the traps within the forest of dying and this is the final step of creating the playground.

Now it is about time, he started his own play.

The first thing he did is create a formation near the cave and left his friends to defend Jack who is still in that meditative state.

He is living off of spiritual energy.

Sam doesn't know if anything bad is happening to him, but he couldn't do much, the sword aura is still defending him.

At least he is safe for now and he has to be satisfied with the situation for now.

Sam took off on Harbinger and went in a random direction without much thought.

After traveling for a while, he came across a team of vampires. The one leading the team is a Transcendent stage cultivator and there are some humans as well.