Chapter 946: Message (1/2)

For the first week of their stay in the Crimson reed realm, they didn't go near the maze directly and only roamned around the surroundings.

Surprisingly nobody recognized the Five-Elemental King who is quite famous in this realm too. There are gossips about his curing and him leaving the valley for the first time in years. But even when he is right in front of them they didn't recognize him, because of his beard.

After Sam shaved that beard off during the surgery, the Five elemental King cut his hair to a short length to match the beard and now all they can see is a man who is in his mid-thirties by earth's standards.

And this is one of the best scenarios they ever encountered accidentally.

The Five elemental King being recognized is one of the worries they had from the start and now that it was gone, they can move more freely.

After the first week was over and introducing some people with their made-up names and disguises, they moved to a much deeper investigation, at least Sam did.

He needs to find the main nodes that could still be accessible to him so that he can formulate a perfect plan to make this guy escape.

This part was fairly easy because the formation is too big and the nodes are equally bigger. So, he got the location of the three former spirit stone mines which are now being used solely for channeling energy into the formation.

After finding the location, Sam managed to sneak to the center of the node with the mine tunnels that were dug previously.

There is short stone pillar in the middle of the mine connecting the formation to the spirit stone mine's vein. The energy is being sucked by the pillar from the vein like a straw and is being channeled into the formation.

After visiting the three nodes one after another, Sam came to another conclusion, the three nodes are essential to the formation because they act as the energy source, but they don't have any influence over the maze shuffling, the dome healing and the pressure application on the Saber Monarch. They are just like batteries in a toy. They run the toy, but changing them to another set of batteries which are a bit less efficient but could fit wouldn't the change the operation of the toy very much.

And theoretically, if Sam did cut this energy supply off, there is a great chance that the formation might stop working, but he is afraid that something else might happen. Because, if he is the one that made a prison like this, he would have made a self-destructive plan.

As soon as the energy supply was cut off, the formation would absorb the rest of the energy and explode.

Or, he would create a small backup power source and a notification system which would alert all the guards and everyone within the surrounding five to ten miles.

If there was any such mechanism, he would be falling into some trouble if he messed with it right now.

He has to wait for Noah and Akhil to come out. And even then it is better to study the formation more and get more data.

So, he decided on another plan.

”We need to contact the Saber Monarch first. I need the formation structure to estimate its operation. Except for energy source, nothing important is outside the formation itself. The remaining nodes are all inside. Think of a Plan.”

He said as he closed his eyes thought hardly.

The se3curity around the formation is too tight. The only lax he saw was at the energy nodes which are hard to mess with and even then there is no guarantee the other party will safe. The fact that there is a lack of security is bothering him even more.

Except for that, the entry points are severely guarded. Most of the surroundings of the maze are occupied by shops and businesses.

And when the Maze is shifting  the security increases. The only silver lining is that the security is not as vigilant as it should be.

As they thought and discussed, they finally came to a conclusion. They can only use the most obvious way to contact the Saber Monarch inside. The crack he makes during every shift. Infiltration is out of option no matter how lax the security is.

So, they decided on a plan.

Sam gave some formation flags and a plan to them so that they would place the flags on certain areas of the hill while Sam moved to a different vantage point.

And from that point it is job for the Void Hopper. The little guy who never did anything. He is like a toddler who doesn't talk at all and all he does his play with Yanwu and the rest inside the divine dimension and rub on to Sam as soon as he came out.

”Here, little buddy. You have to do one thing for me.

You are the only one who is small and fast enough to not get recognized by the guards and do this. Other than you, no matter who goes, they will be spotted.