THE REBIRTH OF A GENIUS. CREATOR/DESTROYER
Chapter 309. Meet Nicholas Again
Sam doesn't know that someone has branded him a bastard in a faraway place. One must be wondering how he would react if he knew that.
Right now, he was on a remote island that had no living creatures. Even the trees die. Except for some strange kind of grass and some thorns, there was nothing there.
He had dug a large hole and there was a large energy cell of the Dark element inside.
He would create the illusion that the shadow sword was destroyed. He had to agree that he was overconfident when he only kept the shadow sword with him given that all the great powers would chase after him.
If Past Sam is without friends, his attitude should be fine. Now that he has friends, he believes that he should think before making a decision.
Now, he was waiting for the expert that the temple chief would send here to be the bait and to his surprise, that person was Moriya.
"It's nice to see you again. I heard you joined the temple of the Lightning God."
"Yes. I needed a place to start because I decided to expand my horizons and the thunder god temple was the closest option."
Sam was very outspoken with his words. Moriya did not seem to mind and said.
"Everyone has their own reasons, no matter how trivial or important those reasons are, you still join us. Anyway, I heard you needed me for some action. What am I supposed to do?"
"Stay around with full defense. Don't let your guard down. Even for a second."
Moriya nodded and stood by the beach, while Sam was in the middle of the island.
After a few minutes, Moriya felt a huge wave of fluctuations in energy and dark element energy being in a very chaotic place.
He saw that the spiritual energy in the entire island had become chaotic and the waves hit him very hard.
If he didn't take care of himself, he would really get hurt.
After the explosion, the spiritual energy in the entire island fell apart.
He ran to the middle to check on Sam. He had no confidence that he would survive if he was the center of the explosion.
The Dark element energy wreaked havoc everywhere and he saw Sam standing in the middle of the crater without any damage. The only stable spiritual energy zone on the island was around Sam.
He walked slowly and said.
"We're done here. All you have to do is tell the world that you are injured and are in the process of healing. It would be best if even your students didn't know."
Moriya unconsciously nodded. Sam got on the sign and was about to fly, but he remembered something and said to Moriya.
"The soul-chasing butterfly that followed me for two days is dead and you might want to tell that person whoever is controlling the butterfly queen to send a new butterfly."
With those words, he left that place.
Moriya regained his senses when he heard Sam's words. The soul-chasing butterfly was one of the greatest secrets of the Lightning God temple. Only a select few have access to information about it.
Even among the elders, Moriya was the only one who knew about it.
He doesn't know how Sam knows it, but those words aren't just reminders. He once again looked at the ruined island and returned to the temple to report to the temple chief.
Sam created the explosion for two reasons and one of them was clear to tell the world that the shadow sword was destroyed and the other reason was to give a message to the temple chief of the thunder god.
Two days ago, when he met her, Sam noticed that the temple chief was a bit strange. She smiled and her words seemed sincere, but she could not shake the feeling that warned her not to trust the man.
Even if it wasn't for those feelings, he would still have to give them a warning. Human greed is hard to predict and control. Although Sam gave them enough meteorite sand and they could make spirit weapons with enough time, no one knew, what the temple chief would think.
The world may be fooled that the shadow sword is destroyed, but the temple chief knows it is not and he may want it.
So, uh, Sam creates this explosion and reveals the existence of a soul-chasing butterfly to tell them he is clever enough to know about their spy system and also has enough means to deal some damage on them.
He had to go through this all because he did not have enough strength.
Sam returned to the place he was given. Jack and Philip were also given one near them,
Even though they didn't talk about it, Sam knew the limits. Even if he wanted to leave, no one would stop him, but he had to face the consequences because when he wanted to leave this place, the temple could use this as a leverage to block him.
So, the three agreed not to visit the core area of the thunder god temple.
Upon his arrival at his residence, Jack and Philip enter to discuss something.
It's about all the things about the opportunity with the Beast faction. Philip and Jack went to wonder what all this was about. They were even acquainted because the people in the core residence zone were curious about the new core disciples.
This was a place where the Core disciples, Elders lived, so the people here had a certain status. If there was a newly promoted disciple, then they would have already known about it, but there was no such thing.
That is why they are so inquisitive, which reduces their efforts.
They get acquainted and find out that there is an event that happens in three months.
“They say that there is a competition among the six great powers to settle some resource disputes among themselves. We don't know the exact details. There are three categories in this competition.
Candidates under the age of fifty and cultivating under pre-transcendence
Candidates under the age of thirty and cultivating under Nascent
Candidates under the Age of twenty and cultivating under the Great realm.
The faction will send their elite team and even killing is allowed. That would be tournament style and there's no need to hold back and no strings attached."
Philip gave the core of the event.
"So, what are the requirements for admission?"
“Only people in the top ten list can enter. There will be a new ranking list released based on the requirements and the top five people are the only ones who have the option to enter the competition.
The ranking is determined based on the duel between the candidates. Each candidate could challenge another candidate who was within ten ranks higher than him.
Since we just arrived, our names aren't even on the list, so we have to challenge the last candidate and move up the ranks."
"How many candidates?"
"Three hundred twenty-five."
Sam was stunned and Jack explained.
"Most internal disciples are qualified. There were only ten core disciples that were suitable for this category and they already occupied the top ten spots, although the remaining candidates were unable to participate, either, it acts as some status symbol so they are very competitive from this."
"I'll go alone. We don't have to win this thing for the thunder god temple. You guys stay humble. We don't want to get too involved in their affairs."
As they were discussing, someone came and knocked on the door.
"Lake in."
The door opened and Nicholas came in. He looks stronger than before. He was wearing the same clothes as the other core disciples.
"How are you guys? It's been a long time" Nicholas was as bright as ever as he greeted them with a smile.
"Well, it's been a while, but you don't seem to have changed at all. You make a mess wherever you go." Philip commented from the side.
Sam looked at her with a confused expression then Philip explained.
"Nicholas is the star here. He had recently broken through to the great realm and he had already knocked on the doors of everyone who was at the early stages of the great realm.
The fresh news was that last night some people were fed up with his nonsense and decided to beat him up, but he accidentally let go of all the restraints and beat them. You should have seen them. There were five of them and they would need at least a month before they could recover.
They are currently removed from the ranking list."
Sam smiled at it. Nicholas must have been carried away with joy instead of being angry about the ambush.
