Chapter 860: Puppets (2/2)

As for the Palace of inheritance this time, Sam didn't even bother to worry too much, because it is happening in a familiar realm this time.

The Charbhum realm.

The place Sam is extremely familiar with and in fact has a lot of influence.

Sam was a bit surprised to find out that the next Palace of inheritance was there. Because the king and the Elders are only of Consummate level.

But in between the exploration he went there once to check on the situation and also ask Raunak who is now a high-level officer to keep an eye out for the Palace of inheritance thing and how the situation is proceeding, then only he learned that about the existence of the Grand elders.

They are people whose strength is beyond Consummate level.

The Astral plane of cultivation.

This is something Sam didn't expect, but still, he came to terms with it and returned.

The rest of the players left the Desolate a year early to take a look at the realm and get to the palace of inheritance. But Sam doesn't have to.

He just has to go a month before.

And he did exactly that. Arkiv and Arman just tagged along.

When they entered the Palace of inheritance, it didn't have too many tests. It is a single large survival test that would select the top three participants to fight it out in the finals.

They are all thrown into the forest. They have to survive there for a month.

And most of the enemies this time are vegetation. There are some beasts and the players can attack each other, but the worst enemies are still the flora.

At first, the vines that are present everywhere are after the players along with the beasts of the forest and after a week, one third of the trees also became hostile, then came a new species out of nowhere. The flowers that give out the poisonous pollen.

Sam is immune to that though.

The threats kept on increasing until even breathing in the forest became difficult.

And this doesn't have any safety nets like people getting healed right before they died or something.

Most of the players managed to give up before things got dangerous, but not all of them. One of the players died.

He is from the Usaine sect.

The Usaine sect has the most players at the beginning with three of them being there. But now two of them died.

As for the mysterious twelfth candidate who they never saw, they don't know where they are from or who they are.

Now there are only nine of them left. At least until the twelfth candidate finally decides to show themselves out in the open.

When they reached the final stage. Sam, Noah, and Akhil are the only ones left. Noah looked at Sam and sighed in exasperation.

This is getting on her nerves so much. She walked to him directly and said.

”Just give up this one Palace of inheritance. This is from my god. I need this.”

Sam didn't even know what to say. But after thinking about Agun and the player that died today, he agreed.

”But I need the second place.”

When he said this, both Noah and Sam looked at Akhil who became angry at both of them.

”Come on guys, how is that fair?”

”You are getting the third place and I will give you an ape-type beast with a decent bloodline. How about that?” Sam offered. And just like that all three of them came to a consensus without fighting.

Then came the god or to be precise the goddess of forests. Aranyani.

This is the third Hindu god Sam saw.

When he saw her he couldn't help but ask.

”You are not that famous back on earth. I didn't know you were this powerful.”

”Well, sometimes there is more to the game than the power of the gods. I may not be as strong as Kartikeya and Indra, but I have my own perks. I am even surprised you knew me. Most humans don't pray for me as much as they prey on the forests I created.”

”You can say I am a reader and Rig Veda is a good read in which you were credited a lot.”

”Of course it did. I didn't expect that someone still read Vedas. Not so bad. Anyway, are you going to fight?”

”No, your protégé has a deal for us and we obliged. You can talk to her.”

Aranya directed her attention to Noah who is looking at her and their conversation led to the end of the Palace of inheritance.