Chapter 726: Oath (1/2)
After the town head left, Sam looked at Raunak and said.
”What is your problem? You are pestering me since morning. What do you want exactly?”
”I want to know what happened. Why did the assassin target you and who killed him?”
Sam shook his head in mental exhaustion and said.
”Yes, I killed him. An offspring of an elf and a human walked in here and tried to kill me and my friends and I burned him alive. He is an initial stage transcendent stage cultivator and his elf bloodline is extremely dormant.
He couldn't even access his wood element and he mostly used fists.
What else do you want to know?”
”Are you behind the attack on Envoy?”
Sam stopped his actions and looked at Raunak before asking.
”Are you sure you want an answer to that question? Be careful what you wish for?”
Raunak shuddered and gulped nervously.
”Do you know what the consequences would be?”
”There is something you seemed to have forgotten. Is there any proof that I did it? Is there any way that they can prove me, a pre-transcendent stage cultivator at middle stage capable of burning a Transcendent stage cultivator almost to his death?
Does that sound plausible to you?
And above all, we are living in a society governed by law, unless they can prove to the law that I did it, they cannot do anything.”
”But they can do so in secret.”
”Like yesterday?” Raunak was stumped. He calmed down a bit and asked.
”You are saying everything to me, are you not afraid that I would sell you out?”
”Really? Why don't you try? That envoy managed to stay alive because he is a Transcendent stage cultivator, what do you think would happen if you are caught with the same flame? Would you be able to survive?
I am also kind of curious to find out.
Are you curious too?”
Sam asked with a faint smile which made Raunak take a step back.
”No, need.”
”So, is that all you wanted to talk about?”
Raunak finally remembered what he is really for and said.
”I am here to carry a message from Ragad. They are announcing the new price for the sugar cane and the refinement of sugar with the new method will also start today. The bagasse and molasses will be sent on a daily basis to you.
I am here to ask what kind of delivery method you would like.”
”Delivery method?”
”Yes. We can get it delivered in many ways. A direct method would involve dumping everything in a destined location. Handing over to someone discreetly and so on.”
Sam thought for a moment and said.
”What happens after you complete the tax target?”
Raunak became a bit suspicious and didn't want to answer, but Sam just smiled and said.
”Do you really think I am still plotting against you? Trust me, I need a partner in this world and I am thinking of you as that potential partner. You don't have to worry about me stabbing your back, because I can just finish you off from the front whenever I want to.”
Raunak heaved a sigh and said.
”As soon as my target is complete, I will be promoted and transferred to another place and from what I know, my next transfer would be the city headquarters of the Planet-2.
I will still be transferred to the business administration or finance. But then I would have to manage the taxes of the certain area within the planet. Maybe a couple of towns and all the villages that are under those towns' jurisdiction.
Why do you need to know?”
”How much more do you need to finish the task?”
”Around another twenty million spirit stones.”
”That's it?”
”Yes.”
”Okay then, I think you are going to finish this target soon enough. I would like to make it faster. Announce that I will sell the recipes. All of them in an auction. I am selling each recipe separately. The auction will start in three days.”
Raunak was surprised.
”Are you not going to wait for the election to be over?”