
The next day before dawn, Watt and Sam get ready and meet outside the mansion. Falck is with them and when Sam makes a falck disappear with a wave of his hand, Watt is stunned but he asks nothing, when he sees Sam's expression. The latter seemed to be in a hurry.
They went to the gate of the Northern City where the Trade Train was waiting. This is the carriage of the Golden Horse trading company. They traded the resources of this type of underdeveloped area and sold them to the merchants and other noble families who needed them.
Along with this trade, they also provided transportation for a small number of people.
The train will take 17 days to travel to the Marquis city.
The Marquis City was called the Blue city of fire. The city is under the Maverick family who bear the title of Marquis.
The Maverick family was one of the noble families that existed since the founding of the empire. General Blue Flame of the Maverick family made a major contribution to the neighboring kingdom that shared half of the western continent with them.
After the empire was established the first emperor, bestowed this title of Marquis to the general while promoting the Maverick surname which was the last name of the general to the Aristocracy.
Members of this family have a special bloodline that affects the spiritual core and every single one of them has a fire-type spiritual core, but in every generation, every single one of them has a fire-type spiritual core, there will be a person who will awaken the blue flame of power and that person will be the next marquis.
Sam got all of this info from the in charge of the trading carriage. After all, this was common knowledge in the Blue fire city.
When Sam asked about Zeke, the man said something interesting. The marquis had three wives and the funnier thing was that the three of them were brothers. The marquis married them because, he had promised something to the father of the three women, and he had no way of avoiding it.
The marquis had children with each wife and they were all sons and this Zeke was the son of the first wife.
After awakening their spiritual core, the third son was the one who activated the Blue fire bloodline and was crowned as the Young Marquis. Luther's second son had no problem with it because he was not interested in it, but Zeke's eldest son was ambitious.
Because, he was destined not to inherit the title, he wanted to grow through the business. So, he recruited several Craftsmen and Inscriptions Experts to start his own weapons and Crafts business.
When Sam heard this, he smiled lightly.
The train was traveling at a moderate speed, without any hurry. The horses used were Level 2 beasts, so their endurance was also quite high. They only stop once a day. Although they could survive for days without food and sleep, they still stopped to exhaust themselves as they might encounter ferocious beasts or bandits on the way.
Sam maintains a low profile while they travel. He did not want to interact with other passengers or people from the trading company. Right now, he was actually on the edge as he could feel himself returning to his previous self. In particular, in these last days Sam developed a strong rejection of the young master.
Since the person who initiated the attack against him was also a young master, his killing intent appeared and he tried to limit him as much as possible.
After a week of travel, the train entered the Insect Canyon. Anyone who is traveling to the Blue Fire city must pass through this canyon. The carriage increased its speed as they tried to cross the Gorge as soon as possible. Sam looks through the window and finds that there are no green plants. The canyon is an area that is almost like a desert.
Both sides of the canyon were filled with forest and grass, but the canyon was completely empty. There was not even a single blade of grass in the canyon.
After more than half an hour, they crossed the canyon and went into the forest and stopped to rest.
Sam got off the train and asked why they had stopped and found out that the surrounding area was where some kind of grass was growing that was used in some potion and all the passengers and even members of the trading company would try to find it. down here. So, they would stop here and wait for half a day before starting the journey again.
Sam had no interest in the grass and was walking around and when he came around the Insect gorge, he found something and immediately understood why the canyon was like a desert.
There was a strange-looking grass in front of him and it was a different green color almost like an emerald. The clump is like the border between the canyon and the surrounding forest.
Grass has no special medicinal effect, but it has one function and that is to prevent certain insect species and it is called Zoi termites.
These insects are strange, because they live and roam in large groups. Just like ants and they all work on the orders of the termite queen Zoi. The queen would have special metal connections with them and the communication range was enormous.
These Zoi Termites feed on spiritual energy from any organic or living substance, but there is one big problem. When they bite something and suck up spiritual energy they will leave their saliva in that body and this saliva is actually quite dangerous. Because it will begin to drain the body's life energy.
Their targets can be anything, human, animal, plant. They can get food from any living thing or from fresh meat.
The only good side is that they are fairly controlled and not greedy. They are easily satisfied. Although they could increase faster if they ate more, they would not overdo it to avoid the target of a ferocious beast or a strong cultivator.
A wild beast the size of a blazing earth bull would provide them with enough food for over a month.
So, they wouldn't be looking to hunt once they got their prey, but why would everyone avoid insect canyons? This is because, Zoi termites are a species of insects that are quite superior and will not prey on other insects so that all types of insect species take refuge in their territory.
Although these insects were not individually strong, they had a huge advantage in numbers and especially in their own territory, they could make the entire trading carriage vanish.
Many people would compare the weak to the insects, but Sam thought otherwise. Even in his previous life Sam felt that insects were one of the most superior species. Why would he think that?
Well, come to think of it, an ant is strong enough to lift weights many times over and imagine if an ant is the size of an average human.
A grasshopper is so fast that we can barely touch it with difficulty. Imagine if it was only half the size of an average human. It'll play around with special forces soldiers like it's playing with a kid. They have one of the most superior genetics.
Even in this life, Sam had the same opinion about insects. Insects should not be underestimated.
Sam started picking up some of this emerald-colored grass and squeezed out his juice before applying it all over his body. This grass is the only thing that blocks the spread of Zoi termites. These are their natural repellents that are planted by the earth itself by adapting to the changes caused by termites.
Sam entered the valley slowly with his hoverboard. He did not dare to walk normally in the valley. If any horde of insects shocked him, he would be wiped out. No matter how good his senses and spiritual awareness were, he did not dare to take this risk.
As he floated slowly inside, he noticed there was some movement below the ground surface.
He closed his eyes and looked for the Zoi termites. If he could obtain these insects, things would be very easy for him in the future. He wanted to see if he could get an ant queen by himself and if he could get one, he could control the entire herd.
But as his spiritual senses went underground, he felt an immense pressure. He looked at the huge white termite the size of a volleyball and could sense that the insect was staring at him.
The insect is much higher than him.
Sam believes even the amount of emerald grass on the border cannot deter the queen if she wants to move on her own. He immediately turned around and the hover board moved at top speed. Fortunately the queen did not place it in her eyes, otherwise she would die.
Sam came out of the valley in less than two minutes. The queen ant gave him goosebumps. He immediately went to the nearest water source to wash his skin to keep it clean from the emerald grass juice. But he didn't stop sweating.
He returned to the carriage and sat down beside Watt who was meditating. Sam really wanted to escape from this place. The shadow of the termite queen made him nervous.
A huge sense of danger made him feel uncomfortable. He really hoped the train would move soon.
Sam sighed only when the train started moving. But he still couldn't eliminate the termite queen from his mind.
The remaining days, he did not try to get out of the carriage and continued to meditate inside. He only comes out to eat occasionally.
Blue Fire City was also divided into five zones. The first zone is the Academy zone. It occupies a quarter of the city and it is as big as the Falcon-cliff city.
The academy has all kinds of needs in it. It was completely isolated by the outside world and could be said to be a city by itself.
The next known zone is the upper class zone. High-class nobles and Marquis live here. This was a complete noble residence and there were no shops, businesses, and other types of enterprises except for the profession towers and residences of the Craftsmen, healers, inscriptions experts, etc.
But those professionals should also be of the top rank and should be at least of the 3rd rank.
The third zone is the general zone and the largest area of all. All the commoners live here and there are some small companies like daily necessities stores and some cheap weapons shops etc.
The fourth zone is the rich zone and high-end residences. Here if one has money, one can own a house regardless of his status.
The last zone is the market area and the largest business area. Every merchant, noble family, wealthy commoners had a shop here. It has all kinds of business enterprises. Food, weapons, Articraft, etc. Even the gold horse trading company has branches here.
Sam went to the gold horse trading company to buy a big house. Although they do not have a direct business of selling real estate, they do have some connections in the area and find buyers.
Sam and Watt go to the mansion in the Kaya zone to see the mansion. This mansion was not as big as the one in Falcon-cliff city, but it had a nice courtyard and there was even a lake inside. The yard has many trees and lush grass.
Even the interior was more beautiful than the previous mansion.
Sam immediately bought the mansion for 150,000 spirit stones. The price is higher than the previous one but the bigger the city the higher the price.
After settling in the mansion and resting for a day, Sam leaves Watt alone in the mansion and goes out. He stood on his hoverboard as he moved faster and without walking. His lazy and frustrated reluctance to walk the crowded streets was finally satisfied.
Everyone looked at him with a very surprised expression. Some of them even followed him out of greed and desire.
Although they did not see any other use of his hoverboard other than hovering slightly higher than the floor. They knew one thing, some wealthy nobles would love to show off and they could make money from it.
Sam knows this, but he doesn't care. Because despite his status as a rank 3 Scholar artisan that was the highest he had right now might not be so much in this city, but it was not something an ordinary person could offend.
Some people who watched him followed him. Sam moved without hurry and went to the Noble zone. He floated towards the Artisan tower. When the staff from the tower saw him coming with a strange-looking floating board, they wanted to stop him, but Sam showed them his three craftsman badges, they immediately gave way to him.
Sam went to the receptionist, he asked where the examination room was. The receptionist was very polite when she saw her badge and immediately assigned an officer to send her to the examination room and at the same time, to the police, the receptionist moved from the reception and went to the highest floor of the tower to meet the head of the tower.
Sam's age, three professions, one pseudo-rank 2. One pseudo-3, one power-3. This rank might not be too big in the Marquis city because the highest ranked craftsman in the city was rank-5.
But at Sam's age, rank 3 was actually a very big thing and such a genius had to be reported to the head of the tower.
When the head of the tower, which was a rank 5 Artisan heard this, he was immediately startled and descended.
At this moment, Sam was already in the examination room.
Sam did not take the Artisan or Tailor Artisan weapons tests; he took his exams for Artisan scholars.
Because he did not want to go through all the processes by forging equipment and so on. He has no patience for this now. The Artisan Scholar Test is a little different.
All he had to do was, place the finished product or design on the testing platform. When his consciousness entered the dimension. The conditions will be such that the candidate only needs to accurately imagine the whole process and the process will be visible in dimensions and will be simulated.
If a nearly finished product really works, it will be considered to pass the test. But there is one thing, the idea must be original, and the product information will be compared to the database of the Artisan association.
It's like a patent database in the modern world. The spirit tower will approve only if the idea is new.
Sam took out the armband he made and placed it on the platform. The arm protector has a circular energy cell inserted on it. This was one of the byproducts of his experiments.
This arm protector was a device Sam designed to let normal magicians or warriors have spare spiritual energy.
It is like fire ruby, but the main difference is that fire ruby is only used in spells or direct techniques.
But this energy cell has a small formation inscribed beneath it at the junction of the cell and a metal protector. It would help a cultivator to not only use it in spells or battle techniques but also to absorb and cultivate.
Sam uses eight nuclei to make these energy cells and he wants to commercialize his products. Because the feature of having reserves to cultivate large amounts of energy that are easily accessible than ordinary spirit stones as well as the option to use energy directly in attack is very useful in combat and hunting.
The platform shone with a brilliant light and after more than an hour, Sam regained consciousness and the results appeared on the screen. Artisan Scholar 5th.
When Sam saw the number, he was quite disappointed. He thought that he might rank a little higher. But he did not think much and immediately walked out of the room after placing the number on his badge changed and walked out.
Everything he did was in a hurry.
There were not many people around the room, as they were quite used to the noble children taking the examination. Only the head of the tower rarely showed his face standing there in a daze as he looked at the hurried young man.
Just as he was about to call out to her, Sam took out his board and stood on it and immediately disappeared from the place. He opened his mouth wide and after a second followed him.
Sam goes to the business zone which is the center of the city and enters a restaurant. This is a restaurant that serves high level animal meat. But Sam did not sit at any table and directly walked over to the counter where the manager was sitting and directly kicked the other party's chest.
The counter shattered as the other party looked around confusedly and angrily.
"Who is that? Do you know whose place this is? Don't you want to live again?"
But when the manager finished this, Sam held the other party's collar and punched him in the face. But this time the other side retaliated.
After all, the other party was not a coward. He is a Level-3 Beginner. But just as he was about to swing his sword, he felt a punch at his nape and lost consciousness for a moment.
The whole restaurant is quiet. But when Sam pulls out his hoverboard and is about to take their boss away, the workers get ready to make a move, but Sam shows him his newly acquired badge and they immediately stand in their place.
Not only them, While Sam was moving on his board at high speed, and when the city guards were about to stop him, he did the same and with a flash of his badge, they moved away. Although, some of them suspected that it might be fake, but if it was real, they would be in big trouble. After all, the kidnapped party was not a noble child or anything like that, they could only report to the superiors first.
And just like that on the second day, he entered the city, Sam made the whole city bustle with his new self. He made his presence known in a very famous way.
Zeke and his minions don't even know that someone they ambushed and don't even care to remember his face is already in this town.
The hunter had taken his first prey and the rest were unaware of it.