Chapter 2426: Infernos
Chapter 2426: Infernos
The three cards flew out of Sam's hands.
They aligned in a straight line. Golden flames flew out of Sam's mouth and they hit the first card. The second car reacted immediately, with both the resonance and the amplification inscriptions. The card shot out an attack that is three times the strength of Sam's bloodline attack.
This second attack went to the last card.
The people who were stationed at the entrance of the city were stunned by his sudden appearance and they watched the golden flames come and hit the third card.
Before they could even react, the third card exploded and disappeared along with the golden flames.
They were surprised, anxious and confused all within the span of three seconds. At that moment, within the city.
The guards have all been alerted by the sudden intrusion and exit of the gambler team. They even went to the communication set up to contact the team members. But before they could do that... the nodes of the citywide formation started showing a reaction they didn't expect. The attached tokens all emitted a golden light. All the residents of the city, suddenly felt the energy in the ground, air, the surroundings even the city formation being sucked away and all conjuring within the tokens.
The tokens glowed until the cracked a bit before...
*BOOM*
At the same exact instant, the tokens emitted golden flames, the original Sam's single bloodline attack, which was amplified by three times, is now multiplied to appear each token attached to various formation nodes and at the same time, each of those are amplified by ten times.
A phenomenon very similar to the one caused by Chetan has been created, but this time, it was not a pure energy attack and it didn't consume as much energy.
The Gambler team who looked from far away, noticed that the whole city suddenly glowed with golden light. The translucent formation that was glowing around the city disappeared directly. Golden flames emerged from all corners and with that loud explosion covered the whole damn city, turning it into a large inferno.
At that exact moment...
At Nalvahan.
Four members from the Poseidon's team are working on rebuilding the city along with their construction team and the mercenary team who was left to guard the cores.
As they are repairing the formation nodes, by correcting the inscriptions a black shadow appeared out of the city and from within that shadow, one of the shadow mice came out.
It rubbed the spatial ring around its neck to pull out the things Sam gave. Three cards and small crystal cylinder.
This one is made with the same design as the original grenades Sam made way back when he was in Desolate.
The only difference is that the crystal grenade is filled with Golden colored Divine energy in its liquid form. Conjured by him and Yanwu.
And this one is not as small as the Divine energy liquid capsule that he used before. This one has a very high quantity, almost three hundred ml.
The shadow mouse made the cards stand vertically on the plain ground with a good enough gap. Then it placed the crystal grenade before the first guard, triggered it and disappeared from there with shadow transference.
The crystal grenade with a slight delay got triggered.
*BOOM*
With a thundering explosion, the golden flaming divine energy in its most destabilized mode shot out vertically, the second card amplified it and redirected the explosion to the third one.
The third one as expected swallowed the energy and disappeared along with it.
At that moment, the people who are working on the formation nodes, suddenly discovered a runic pattern appear with bright golden light. Before they can even understand what is happening.
*BOOM*
Everything within the range of the city's defensive formation and the defense mechanisms has been enveloped by the golden flames and the divine energy. Turning everything else into yet another golden flaming inferno.
The remaining four cities apart from the destroyed city had the same result. Turning into golden infernos.
And in process, they took away more than half of the elite mercenary force, whole of the Poseidon's team and every other key member they had.
The circle is completely broken with only three more cities left in its outer line. The remaining cities in the middle of the circle... they are merely being guarded by small force. Now that the outer circle is done for, they will not get any reinforcements from those areas.
The remaining three cities of the outer circle that are still intact... they are only being guarded by the mercenaries and Sam is sure that noticing the sudden loss of power on Poseidon academy's part, the other academy teams that are nearby will stay lying down.
And all the forces left there are only mercenaries, now without a proper employer.
Sam who finished his job up until then went back to meet the Gambler team.
"The opponents are dead. No civilians are harmed. All the Poseidon academy teams are dead. You can go and contact the remaining three cities of the outer circle. There are only mercenaries there. Show them a video I give you and tell them that the same thing will happen to them if they do not comply.
And even if you don't make a move, the other academy teams are still out there and they will not let them be.
At the same time, send the videos to the other academy teams as well and tell them that if they interfere, they will also face the same thing if they don't comply and leave the planet for
us."
Chetan took a peek at the video. It is pretty straightforward and direct. It has seven tabs showing on one screen and all of them are golden explosions of the cities.
"Will they all comply?"
"The Poseidon academy's circular expansion strategy is the strongest they had ever seen in such a setting. They backed down before, not because they are so in love with their fellow
Olympian academies.
They don't know how to break the circle.
But not only did we break them, we did so in such a dominating fashion. I am sure, they will comply. If they don't... we can actually do it in front of them and show it.
Also, I hope I don't have to explain how you can use the video to submit the other forces."
"Of course. We are a little slow on strategic side, but not stupid."
"Could have fooled me. Anyway, why did Ling Tian send you guys to fight against the
Poseidon's elite formation team?"
Chetan ignored his remark and said.
"His reasoning is simple. He is sure that the formation team can easily overcome these kinds
of plots and if they are instead dealing with the attack teams of other forces, while our attack team, which is us, manages to figure out the other party's formation team...."
"He is hoping for higher efficiency in conquest. But... leave it. You guys won't understand. Just
pay me soon alright.
I want to leave this realm by tonight. And by evening, I have some business on a different
planet of this realm.
So, if you can figure this out in the next couple of hours."
"Alright, don't worry about it. It will be done."
Chetan resassured.
.
And just like he did, Chetan managed to accomplish what he promised. He went to different forces and threatened them with the video. By evening, the planet is basically under the control of the Gambler academy.
It is not that the others won't employ any tactics to get back, but the Gambler academy is competent enough to hold them back after establishing here.
The only reason they didn't send massive numbers is not because they don't have access, it is
because they wanted to reduce potential casualties. By sending the small elite teams, they are dealing with the opponents and slowly crippling them and then establish their own
domination here.
Instead of focusing on the conquest, they are focusing on eliminating their opponents.
After the news that everything is sorted, Sam decided to take a look at his own exclusive
planet that he just got.
The planet filled with poison and Miasma.
He used the dimensional drifter to directly arrive there and the moment he did...
His Hydra bloodline showed an unbelievable comfort. Just a single breath made him feel refreshed. Sam looked around a while checking some parameters that he wanted to test and see if this planet actually serves his purpose.
There are some lifeforms here, but from the way they look, they are deformed and mutated heavily due to this environment, that gave him an inkling that this might not be a naturally formed condition. But whatever the cause of this state is, it does Sam's purpose.
The planet's energy levels, the spiritual stone mine veins available on it. The concentration of the poison... all of them align perfectly with his requirements.
In fact, he has been searching for a long time for a planet like this. He did find some that are pretty close, but this one beats the others by a long shot."