
After speaking to Sirona, who thought deeply of Sam's words, he went to deal with the captives.
Sam felt that this war was too big for him.
The old one, the former head of the Pharmaceutical association, was struggling all over the world and he seemed to have made enough preparations. He did not even consider the empire seriously and sent followers through the Space gate as he pleased.
As for Sam and his friends, they were just small fries in the Western Continent. It was almost impossible for them to make a difference in the war with their battle prowess and cultivation.
But there's one thing Sam thinks he should do. It does not change the course of war or defeat the enemy alone. He wanted to secure his territory and survive all these attacks.
The best way to defend yourself is to not let your opponent attack.
So, now Sam's idea was to find a way to influence the war in such a way that the Old One, neither had the time nor the followers to concentrate on the Western continent.
With that in mind, he brought some prisoners to the laboratory he had set up inside the floor of his skyscraper.
The first thing Sam did was tie one of his followers to a table and use his observation skills to examine his entire body.
When he did that, Sam could even see very small muscle fibers in the body of his followers.
And he saw a lot of weirdness. The first is the high rate of absorption of spiritual energy.
The followers might not be able to use spiritual energy to fight, but spiritual energy was still the foundation of their strength. Sam noticed that their bodies were absorbing spiritual energy through pores and the muscle fibers absorbing that spiritual energy were constantly becoming denser.
It was like a situation when he was tempering his body. His muscle fibers and skin would absorb spiritual energy becoming denser and stronger.
The second is Vitality.
Sam noticed the huge amount of vitality accumulated in his follower's body. At first, he felt this was abnormal and thought that only one follower was this strange, but when he passed by the two remaining followers who were held captive, it was only when he passed by, he saw the same phenomenon happening in their bodies.
Their bodies contained a very concentrated vitality. Generally, every living organism would have vitality present within their system, but the vitality of a follower was equal to ten times that of a normal person.
This was practically impossible, to the extent that Sam knew this much amount of vitality was only present in a few high-grade pills or some extremely valuable medicinal herbs.
But seeing that in one person was something he never expected.
Then he increased his concentration on the observation and discovered that their bodies not only absorbed spiritual energy, but also exuded endless vitality through the pores.
Even with that much Vitality on their bodies, the strangest thing was that Vitality kept increasing over time and there were no signs of stopping.
He noticed that the spiritual energy absorbed by the person was not only converted into physical strength, but also into a huge reservoir of vitality.
The presence of this much vitality explained another strange phenomenon within their bodies and it was healing.
Their bodies were so strange that any attacks that landed on them would physically recover in an extremely fast speed.
Sam held a dagger and made wounds all over his followers' hands. The follower did not even make a sound of pain and he still had the stupid smile of a devotee.
Even Sam felt a bit strange upon seeing that face.
After making some superficial cuts and some deep wounds, Sam began to observe the speed of healing.
When he used his observation skills while healing was in progress, he realized that the amount of vitality consumed to heal wounds, was actually far more than the vitality needed to heal a normal person.
But in normal cases, a healer must simulate vitality and control it. But for these people, there was no need for a healer, his vitality only greatly healed the wounds.
After healing the wound, the vitality reservoir only took half an hour to replenish, but currently, the spiritual energy was not absorbed by the muscles, it was completely converted into vitality to replenish the reservoir again.
Sam wanted to test the limits of healing and he started making varying degrees of injuries.
After another half an hour, he came to the conclusion that as long as it was a non-vital flesh wound, the healing was almost instantaneous.
After which, he took out a sword and cut off the arm of the first follower.
The arm did not grow back. The stump of the arm heals, but there are no signs of regrowth of the arm.
He observed the entire process and noticed that vitality was limited to healing the entire arm and he felt there were two reasons.
One of them is the absence of vitality guidelines to heal the arm. To regrow the arm, not just a simulation of vitality is needed, it is necessary to build vitality in such a way that the cells will grow in a certain way so that the arm will be restructured, this is a lot of vitality, this is a lot of vitality, but there is no guide to restructure the arm.
Sam examined his theory by cutting off half the arm on the other side and only cutting the wrist for the other follower and after that only one finger.
The final conclusion was that no matter how small the permanent separation was, it was impossible for them to restructure the severed body parts.
Now, Sam knows all the oddities and reasons for the oddities in that body and now it's time for him to think of something to fight him off.
Before that, Sam tried to look into the pills that made these people like that. He wanted to see what the ingredients were but it was not easy to deconstruct the pill and see what the ingredients were.
He tried all kinds of experiments, but could only find about two ingredients and both happened to be the blood of two different beasts.
One of them was the Illusory Snake. Everything about this snake and its body is linked to illusion, hypnotism, and brainwashing.
The second is blood from a special part of another animal called the black-shelled turtle. These turtles have an extreme amount of vitality and they live the longest on the planet.
Although, Sam discovered these ingredients and was able to relate them to some oddities in the bodies of the followers, there was no way for him to directly use them against him.
But there's another way. The first thing Sam did was try to heal one of the followers whose arms were severed. From what he understood, the lack of guidance for vitality was the only thing that made it impossible for them to regenerate the arms, so he wanted to see if he could provide guidance.
But once he started healing, the vitality generated by his light elemental energy was denied by the other vitality. It's like two liquids that don't mix because of the difference in density.
What surprised him even more was his vitality reaction, extremely turbulent and even lively. It was like a completely different entity living inside the body of a follower.
It is more like a parasite that lives in a host and this gives it some ideas.
Sam felt they could use this thing.
He began conducting various experiments to see what this strange behavior of vitality was and discovered some details that he had neglected before.
Vitality not only in large quantities, but also solid to visibility. Their healing vitality was also not part of the privilege, it was more like a side effect.
Vitality that behaves like a parasite heals a person simply because it wants to protect its host.
After some time, Sam wanted to confirm one more thing and he killed one of the followers there on the table.
During this time, he put his hands down and kept his observation ability at full limits.
The vitality lump began to jump left and right, slowly exiting the body and starting to dance wildly in the air.
As Sam watched the vitality mass jump up and down, he reached the nearest follower and began to join the vitality already present in that person.