Chapter 1026: Breakthrough (1/2)

A year passed since Sam started this vacation in which he fought different people. On the journey, he saw a lot of people apart from the one he fought.

He saw the life of normal people without any form of great responsibilities burdening them living their lives.

He saw people who have too much burden on them to carry it alone smilingly carry it.

In both his lives, Sam is not a 'normal' person. He has very limited emotions and he was exposed to very few of them. In both of his lives, he was in a race to gain more power, more recognition, more safety. He never stopped to think about what it is doing to his mental state.

He knew that in his current condition, he wouldn't lose that easily, but his mind doesn't change and it hinders his growth when he needed to grow the most? This is the question that came to his mind when he found out about his own inferiority complex when he lost to Gran and tamas.

He wanted to find an answer for that and that is why he took a vacation.

He wanted to not only find out all the flaws he has and also tried to eradicate them. He must say that he achieved great progress.

He managed to identify, the inferiority complex, the fear of being suppressed, his fear of being a puppet to someone else, his fear of being the weakest in the game, even his obsession with the research can only be considered as an escape for him to forget about these weaknesses and most dangerous of these mental weaknesses is his sensitivity to his birth status.

Being a bastard an abandoned one at that never sat well with him. Because every person who tortured him in order to train or for other purposes never stopped to mention it.

It was hammered into his very being and he believed that all the suffering he went through is because he was an abandoned bastard.

The rational part of his brain knew that it is not true. He suffered because he fell into the wrong side by accident. The birth might have some reason for it, but it is not the only reason.

Stella tried her best to make him understand that. But that didn't happen. He wasn't able to break out of that shell and that shell followed him even in this life.

In this journey, he wanted to get rid of that too, but it seems like the damage is too severe that it is almost impossible to change.

Sam is currently sitting on the peak of the mountain meditating. He opened his eyes and sighed.

Nali is standing beside him.

”AAAhh.”

He shrieked in fright as soon as Sam moved.

Sam sighed once again and said.

”Don't worry. I won't do anything to you. Just stay calm. Here, this helps.”

Sam threw a bottle of wine to Nali who caught it clumsily and gulped it down.

Sam turned around and looked at the rest of the mountain.

It is currently covered in blood and corpses. There are many signs of his elemental usage.

He walked down in the middle of all the corpses and reached a large plaque in the middle of it.

'Myriad Illusion sect'

The plaque was carved with these words.

Sam took out the reaper sword and swung it a few times.

The same three words.

'SAM WAS HERE.'

He took in the destruction he caused in the past two days once again.

”Let's go. It seems like I am on verge of a breakthrough. You can also calm down.”

Sam led Nali along with him into the forest. They camped beside a stream.

Nali kept on cooking every beast that came there as he tried to calm his mind, while Sam sat inside the stream to calm his mind too as he slowly approached the breakthrough.

As he approached it, the hydra bloodline is getting a bit excited than normal. So, he knew that this time another metamorphosis might happen, so he felt like it is better to absorb water elemental energy for this breakthrough.

After calming his mind down, he let all the beasts out.

The beasts are also recovering from the battle two days ago.

It is very rare for Sam to use the beasts in his battles, particularly all of his beasts in a single battle, but he used it in the battle that lasted two days.

They looked at Sam's state and all of them started cultivating as they consumed the resources arranged to them.

After two days of cultivation and energy sharing, Sam finally started achieving the breakthrough along with the beasts and as he predicted as soon as the beasts broke through, he felt his organs burning again.

And once again, he has two organs burning up.

The salivary glands and the liver.