
At dusk, the three began to prepare for their journey. The first thing they did was cover Sam up completely. They wrapped his body in clothes so that the black patches were not visible.
After all, they visited a village where people might be less knowledgeable, if they thought Sam's situation to be a disease, it would be difficult for them to live there. They should remain humble at that moment, so they should not use force to stay there.
Two hours later, they arrived at the village. Watt carried Sam on his shoulders as they roamed the streets.
The village is small and there is nothing special about it. Just like the other villages they visited, except there were a lot of cultivators in this village compared to other villages.
But they don't think about it too much.
It was also normal for a village to have more cultivators.
They found lodging and check-in. Watt and Philip went out to inquire about information about a nearby town.
Actually, they have a lot of information to learn. First, they had to find out which kingdom or region they were in and if they were still in the Beast faction's territory, they would have to be careful enough to hide from their quest.
In addition they still have to find a healer and show Sam's condition.
If they were really in the Beast faction's territory, they couldn't even find a healer of a higher level just in case the info would leak to the superiors and they would be chased.
They will be in a difficult place as it will be difficult for them to even escape with Sam in this condition.
The two visited many areas in the village where the people gathered.
They did not go and directly asked this question because they did not want people to be suspicious about them.
As they got as much information as they could, they saw something strange in the village.
When people gathered somewhere, there seemed to be a scarcity of spiritual energy in the surroundings.
A group of people voraciously absorbed spiritual energy and even seemed like an absorption competition.
The second thing is, they haven't met a single thug. It might be a bit strange to think that the absence of thugs is a bad thing, but it is strange that there are no thugs in the village.
In inns, restaurants, streets, even on the outskirts, there are no thugs.
That afternoon, they regrouped at the inn and decided to leave the village.
They get the minimum info required and that is they are in the eastern continent at the moment and their nearest city is Key City. The only good news was, the eastern continent was under the jurisdiction of the Usaine Sect. Not under the Beast faction
They had to move north to reach the city and it would take three days on foot. The three of them immediately started, they flew towards the city with their ferocious beasts. Watt sat on Falck with Sam as they moved slowly.
They reach Lock town in a day and check in at a luxury inn.
This city was only at the same level as Star-wood city.
The City Lord was just a Beginner stage expert, they had nothing to worry about, but they saw similarities with the village and it was something that made them uneasy.
Spiritual energy was starting to become rare within the city. In every place where people gathered, spiritual energy was absorbed by them, the atmosphere would produce spiritual energy continuously, but these people absorbed it.
Especially in the slums of the city, where ordinary people lived.
Generally, the variation of spiritual energy in that place should be almost zero, since non-cultivators live there, but they noticed that in the entire slum there is not a single non-cultivator.
Only children under their awakening age and parents over the age of fifty are the remaining non-cultivators.
The people belonging to the other age groups were all cultivators, they suddenly felt like their own worldview had collapsed.
There was a certain rejection of the black patches that threatened them when they tried to touch it.
So if people with low cultivation touch this, they might get into trouble. They didn't want it to happen because they couldn't face the consequences.
At least, Sam showed no signs of worsening. Over the next two weeks, they spent time searching for maps and moving from one city to another. They moved slowly to make sure Sam was not affected by the trip.
After they reached the capital of the Duke territory called the Fire town of Orange, they finally hired a healer to see Sam's condition.
The physician looked at Sam and the black spots, but could not identify anything. He diagnoses the whole body and gives a report and that although, Sam's body is weak and unconscious, it is more like a sleeping condition, even his injuries show no signs of growing or diminishing. Her vital signs are fine and her condition is stable with no signs of a life threat.
The current Black Spark showed no negative signs on his body. He advises them to take Sam to the head of the Pharmaceutical Tower.
He even offered his help to make an appointment. In this country, they have no influence. They only had their respective strength and many spiritual stones, though, there is no fame and people do not just connect them with Sam and they cannot access the connection they get from Sam's profession because he is unconscious.
They brought him to the head of the Pharmaceutical Tower after two days and the result turned out to be the same, there was nothing they could do.
They couldn't understand Sam's situation. However, the head of the tower gave some additional statements.
That is about the existence of elemental dark energy in Sam's body which is the result of the black spots.
The head of the tower was unable to identify why the black patch had appeared or what effect it could have, but he found that the black patch had a highly concentrated dark elemental energy.
The second thing was that he said that Sam's body had recovered. He said that Sam's current vital signs are stable but weak, they show no signs if it worsens but he is sure to recover slowly and surely.
A normal person may have trouble recognizing it, but a tower head with his experience and expertise is able to tell the difference.
The three of them felt somewhat relieved after hearing that.
They are not very experienced with dark elemental energy and cannot understand its concentration in Sam's body, but they know that Sam uses dark elemental energy which makes them feel relieved.
They decide to stay in the same town until Sam recovers.
They buy a place to live and keep arranging their own residence for a while. They have no economic problems.
After a few days, they also saw another strange thing in this city. As usual, the city was full of cultivators and there was a great scarcity of spiritual energy in some places. Simultaneously, there were street fights breaking out in every place and there were new hunters and mercenaries enlisted every day.
Almost every person in the fourteen to fifty year age group was a cultivator, which was impossible to happen.
The most astonishing thing was that they saw more Great realm cultivators in this city than in the thunder god temple or the beast faction.
It's something very extraordinary for them. At this moment, they understood that there was something very wrong with this country and not only had many cultivators.
But they chose to ignore him because, whatever the wrong situation was not his concern for now.
Meanwhile, in the western continent.
Arman arrived at this place two weeks ago with Moriya.
While the latter was hiding in the room as he analyzed the candidates for the next inheritance court palace, he wanders around the city to see any way for him to penetrate into Sam's network but to no avail.
He was unable to find a possible way to get into this network directly. After a futile effort during these two weeks, he decided to try another way.
From the next day, there is news of Sam's disappearance that begins to spread throughout the town where he lives and soon within a week, the whole nation knows about this problem because of the perfect communication network created by Sam himself.