Chapter 476: Puzzle
The negotiations with the Herb garden head are just as tense, but this time Sam didn't budge as easily as the first time.
He was even more stubborn than the first time and just didn't agree to anything more than eight percent.
The Garden Head felt vexed at his stubborn stand. He almost stood up from his seat and smacked Sam out of the building in a single slap. But he didn't let the frustration get into his head and do something rash.
Unlike the ten Consummate realm cultivators, he didn't take a look at how he killed Old One and almost killed Sravan.
But he sure as hell, heard of the deeds and tried to be as careful as he can. If that guy can kill someone who is far away from his place, there is no doubt he would have some plans when the target is right within his property.
Even though Sam rejected to increase the stake, the Garden head took a different approach. He didn't raise the stake, but he started asking for other benefits and finally, after almost an entire day of arguing back and forth, they did come to a conclusion and that is the stake is still eight percent, but the Herb Garden will get a discount for all the purchases in any Park.
And after another tense negotiation battle, they finally settled on a three percent discount for the disciples of the Herb Garden.
After the deal is completed, he sent some people from the Architecture department to take a look at the land.
But then only he realized, he is working on the bare minimum staff. Their lives became extremely hectic.
But they cannot do anything about this current situation but to compromise and send a single Nascent stage artisan and check out the land and if possible to make it flat and ready for construction.
The Garden head didn't have anything to do and wanted to return, but for some reason, he wanted to take a tour over the city and taste the food.
By the time he was done, he had a Spatial ring full of some delicacies and wines that he liked. He even wanted to make a bee puppet, but couldn't.
Because currently, the Bee-Puppets are out of stock. Now, only Pre-order deals are being done. The regular retail of the puppets was halted.
After looking at the city, he wanted to stay for a bit longer and also experience the high-end hotel service of this place.
But he didn't stay in the end because he is also the Sect leader and he couldn't be away from the Sect for several days. So, he made his move back with the architect Sam sent to take a look at the land.
They didn't directly go to the Herb Garden or the empire under the garden. They first arrived at the dusk organization and then moved through the central continent meeting point to arrive at the empire of the Herb Garden. The empire is called the Sage empire.
After handing the architect over to the emperor of that place, the Garden left.
After a few days, the head of the Lightning spear sect and ThunderBolt sect also appeared at the Dusk Organization.
They also heard something about the Herb Garden's head going to Sam's city and making a deal.
This only strengthened after the parks are activated by the team sent by Sam after re-arranging the staff. So, now it is their turn to panic.
They are extremely vexed at the fact that they are the last two major powers who are left out, they even wanted to take it out on the thunder god temple head. After all, in the previous scuffle with the three organizations, the three of them teamed up.
But as soon as the deed was done, the thunder god temple head seemed to have returned to his previous rivalry and didn't even inform them of the deal.
They entered Sam's city and want to use all means to get a better deal than both of them. But they wouldn't help but be disappointed because they had to negotiate for two days and they barely got the same deal as the Herb Garden.
This is the first time, they saw a young man negotiating as if he was negotiating with a grim reaper on his deathbed for some more time.
He is not even letting go of a single spirit stone, much less a percentage of the stake.
After the two of them left, Sam stayed in his office and suddenly felt like half of the weight he was carrying was completely lost.
When he made a list of the construction projects he made and then calculated the budget, he couldn't help but feel that the life of a student is about to be settled.
It is none other than the second patent holder.
The Cement Patent holder. If he knew that there is this much value for his seemingly insignificant invention in other's eyes, he might want to cry in happiness for three days straight.
After settling the matters at hand and assigning the tasks, Sam went to his room. He suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. He doesn't even know where his friends are at this moment, but he didn't want to think too much about that.
He landed on the bed and slept till the next morning.
After he woke up, he went to take a shower and changed into some other clothes. This is the time he became free in a long while. For more than a year, he has been in a complete mess. He lived chaotically without any kind of rest.
He worked his ass off to get what he needs. But he didn't hurry to open the boxes immediately. He just sat there on the floor as he looked at the majestic view of the city from the floor to ceiling window of his room.
He could faintly see the School building in the woods. He wanted to get drunk all of a sudden. Even for Sam, all this seemed a little overbearing and overwhelming. Even he felt that this is too much of a pressure for him to bear. But what can he do? He was under constant threat.
For the whole day, he completely idled away, and only at night, he went on to the top of the building and started taking out the six boxes.
This is the next step. If he finished dealing with the six boxes and figure out the way towards the next realm, he can finally relax a bit and doesn't have to bother himself with unnecessary tensions. He can relax a bit and focus solely on his cultivation and battle prowess.
He wasn't able to practice in a long while that he is feeling a little rusty himself. Not only that, he is feeling that he wasn't using his prowess with great enough efficiency.
There is no way he is okay with that.
After he took out the six boxes and placed them on the floor, he looked at them intently. There is no immediate reaction, but he could feel there is some sort of energy fluctuation around them and soon, faint mechanical sounds could be heard.
The gears inside the boxes started moving slowly and there is a strange glow on the boxes and within a few seconds, there are some protrusions of different shapes and sizes and also grooves of various shapes and sizes on the lateral surfaces of the boxes and when Sam looked at them, he felt like he is seeing a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.
He sat down and started figuring out how to finish the puzzle.
Actually, it is not that difficult. It only took three minutes to figure out the correct order and place them together and creating a much larger rectangular box.
When he connected the whole thing, what he saw on the top surface of the large box stunned him a bit.
Because it reminded him of a sliding puzzle. In fact, it is a sliding puzzle. But the thing is it wouldn't make an image or a sequence. Instead, it would create an inscribed formation.
But the main problem at the moment is what kind of formation would that be. If he doesn't know that, it would be quite tough to actually unlock this.
There are just too many slides in the puzzle and they are quite small. The possibilities are also endless due to this and the number of actual formations is also numerous.
So, he started looking at the boxes continuously to see and figure out if he can find any clues regarding the formation that should appear on them.
After looking all around the box and even using the observation ability, Sam felt like he would be having a handful with this box.
There is no way he would be able to focus on the cultivation for the next half-a-month at least. That is what he understood after he saw the clues around the box.