Chapter 26: The Hunt

At the viewing platforms

The spectators are not any less disappointed by the fight between Sam and the duo. They still didn’t see how strong Sam really is. They could only wait in silence.

Time passed slowly. More and more people were being eliminated. And slowly approached dusk. Sam is currently slowly advancing forward as he slowly took care of beasts. His pace is slow and steady. But the difference between him and the second place is still a lot. Right now, the candidate from the city lord mansion dropped to fourth place as Shawn and Jack took second and third place respectively. They are with 64 and 63 points respectively and they are hunting together.

Sam stopped his advance and looked at the sky. Seeing as the dusk has arrived, Sam started looking for the tracks of people instead of tracks of the beasts. Sam just started following the candidate’s tracks. He followed them with a rapid pace. When he finally encountered the first group of people, that is the group of three people. They were fighting a ’Earthen Bear’. This type of bear like beast is a lot difficult to defeat as it has an amazing defence. Sam didn’t stay there for a while as he made his move without disturbing them.

When the spectators at the viewing platform saw this, they were quite confused as why Sam didn’t eliminate them directly. They felt the same confusion when he left Shawn and Jack. Because he didn’t even hesitate to take down the noble groups for even a second.

After leaving the first group of three, Sam encountered another two groups of people and they are all candidates from different villages and commoners. He just left them be. Sam continued on his journey in search of candidates but he left all the commoners alone. Finally, he encountered a group of three people. There is a familiar face in the group. This guy is none other than Raymond. Two other people from the Greyhound family are with him.

Raymond and others sensed a presence near them with the bronze tokens and are in their guard against them. Seeing them, Sam didn’t even bother to hide as he saw the group and made his appearance. As he stood in front of three with a smile, Raymond became surprised for a moment then he gave a wicked laugh.

"Bahahaha, I wished that I could find you, but who knew that you would come to me on your own violation. Seems like even heavens are not on your side as they sent you directly to me. This is your karma for humiliating me like that. Now if you don’t want to be eliminated right now, you better kneel down and apologize, otherwise, even if you beg me after I made my move, you won’t get away." Raymond said to Sam coldly.

Sam didn’t even bother to reply as Raymond blabbered. Seeing that Sam is just standing there smiling and didn’t even bother to reply, Raymond got angry and just ordered his subordinates.

"Beat him up, until he begs for forgiveness." As soon as he finished, the subordinates immediately made his move. Both of them are at Level 2 Acolyte warriors and immediately formed a pincer attack as they wielded their swords from both sides. Sam didn’t even bother with their as he immediately disappeared from the spot and immediately punched Raymond in his guts. Raymond was immediately sent flying. As soon as landed he spat out a mouthful of blood.

The spectators at the viewing platforms are all looking at him surprised. They didn’t understand why Sam completely left all the people he encountered alone and attacked the candidates from Greyhound family. Particularly, the people from the greyhound family are all anxious for Raymond. As Raymond is a direct line descendant of the family, him being in the academy is important for his growth. But when they saw Sam fighting Raymond, they clearly understood that chances if Raymond being making the cut is almost Nil.

Sam slowly walked towards Raymond. The two lackeys immediately attacked him from behind. But they missed again and by the time they came out of the shock of missing on landing an attack from behind they saw Sam kicking Raymond who is already on the ground in the stomach and sent flying again. Then both of them stopped moving. They understood one thing, if they made a move, then Raymond has to bear the price. Sam then slowly walked towards Raymond who just sat up painfully. He squatted down and locked his eyes with Raymond and said.

"You and your guys better quit right now. Otherwise, I won’t even hesitate to kill you." He enunciated every word as he released enormous amount of killing intent. Raymond almost peed in his pants. He picked his last bits of courage and spoke from his gritting teeth.

"Do you know what you are doing? The Greyhound family will not leave you and definitely get revenge." As soon as did, he regretted the very next moment.

Sam didn’t reply to Harry’s question. Instead he took out a black coloured metallic rod which is a bit over six feet long. This rod is one inch in diameter. This is also one of the things he forged in the private forging room.

Harry and the others all became vigilant. Just as they were about to make the first move, Sam beat them to it and moved towards them head on. He spun his staff as he moved towards the crowd.

When Sam swung his staff towards the first person in the group. the black staff has a golden glow as a golden sphere of flames formed at the tip of the staff. When Sam hit the person, an explosion occurred as the staff made contact with his body. The man was sent flying as he became unconscious and his skin scorched black. Before the crowd could react, Sam made his move and sent another person flying with another swing.

Harry immediately turned his tail and began to flee. He felt afraid of getting hit by Sam’s attack. He only has one thing in his mind. To flee. Sam didn’t bother with him. As soon as he dealt with the rest of the people from the city lord mansion, the people from the various village heads already broke their tokens and fled.

When the city lord saw the number on the screen, he sighed in relief. Even though he felt a bit ashamed from the fact that his descendant is fleeing, he didn’t really care as long as he survived. Sam slowly walked towards Oliver.

Just as he stood in front of Oliver, a loud voice reverberated from all directions.

"Only hundred people left. All the people left in the testing grounds are now eligible for joining the Starwood academy." Sam heard the notice and didn’t react. He just looked at Oliver coldly.

Oliver also didn’t feel happy as he heard the notice. He just felt his legs shaking as he stared at Sam. He wanted to break his token and flee desperately, but his hands are in no moving condition. Sam punched Oliver in his Guts and made him sit down.

Oliver who fell on his butt looked at Sam who squatted with fear apparent in his eyes. He felt that he is jus staring at a devil rather than a human. Sam just had an evil smile as he stared coldly at Oliver.

Sam kept his staff away as he slowly took Oliver’s hand into his hands and started stroking his fingers.

"Sam, please I beg you. Just leave me now. I won’t ever interfere in your life ever again." Oliver pleaded in a shaking voice.

*Crack* "Ahhhhhhhhh.." Sam didn’t even bother to reply as he broke one of Oliver’s fingers.

"Oliver, have you ever thought this day would come?" Sam said as he further twisted the broken finger as some shards of bones protruded outside. Sam slowly moved for another finger and again broke it. In the woods with the absolute silence, only sounds of cracking and screaming could be heard.

At the viewing platforms. The Village head of the Lava rock village stood up as he looked at his son pitifully screaming as he got tortured by Sam. All the people from the noble families felt lucky as they felt lucky for not going overboard on scheming against Sam. They looked at Oliver with pity as they wondered what kind of enmity they had. After sometime Oliver disappeared as Sam broke his token after taking away is spatial ring.

The Village head didn’t say a word and just looked at the scene. Oliver’s name has been placed in 100th position. But he didn’t feel the slightest bit happy.