Chapter 522: Punishment
Before Sam could throw the girl outside with an air cannon, the soldiers came inside the tent running just after the first scream of the girl.
He couldn't help but snicker at the arrangements, it is so obvious that it is fake. If these people really want to frame him, they should at least do so properly.
But they didn't care and neither did the regiment commander. All he wants to do is frame Sam and find an excuse, just to so that he could punish Sam and cover up the matter when the superiors questioned him.
All the soldiers followed his orders and looked at Sam, they do know that if Sam wants to he can just break through their restrictions, in fact, that was the whole plan. But Sam was extremely calm and he is playing with a large metallic thing that looked like a bee.
What they don't know is, since the young lady came over, everything was recorded.
That is Sam's ploy.
Earlier, he said to Yodha that he would become a traitor if the regiment commander schemed against him one more time, but at that point, he should already have turned traitor. But Sam is not going to do so, because it is no joke to say that he tried his best to gain an identity in this world, why would he ruin that by turning traitor.
He just wanted to pressure Yodha and show off his capabilities, so that he wouldn't get the short end of the stick in their partnership. He should leave a deep impression on Yodha. He would have already made his move and did what he wanted to do if yodha was present, but he was absent and the regiment commander kept on giving him more chances so that his idea would work perfectly.
Every mission and every scheme against him was not only a credit farm, but it would also be an extra card that he would use to bury the regiment commander and use him as the foundation for the influence he would build in this world.
So, he just let the whole scene play out and soon enough Arman came running, he gave the control of the puppet to him before giving him some instructions.
After that, he just proceeded to follow the soldiers and was made a criminal was stood up in the middle of the ground.
The regiment commander came running and started condemning him with so many words that Sam felt his vocabulary can be improved.
Apparently, according to this regiment commander, Sam has indeed earned the right to be arrogant by completing all the missions, but he doesn't have the right to force himself on a woman like that.
Since his contributions are huge and the crime has not been committed yet, he was given a 'lenient' punishment.
"All your credits are going to be confiscated and your right to promotion would be suspended for at least twenty years, apart from that you shall be sealed off of your spiritual energy and thrown in the furnace formation for the next three days."
The regiment commander punished him with vicious eyes and went back with a cold and smug expression on his face.
He felt like he finally won, but he didn't notice the cold smile on Sam's face.
He doesn't know that Sam just decided to go with the punishment and just made him lose something precious among his soldiers.
That is, his soldiers' respect. Everyone knows what kind of person the commander's son is and how many women have been violated. Many of the women were grateful to Sam and even normal soldiers are happy that he kept that brat in check.
But now, the regiment commander used such a cheap trick to do such a thing to a soldier who contributed immensely by almost slaying a battalion of the enemy soldiers.
A seed was sown in their hearts that no matter what contributions they made, they can only die under the vicious black heart of the officials.
A commander without any respect from his soldiers, Sam would love to see how he will guide them in a battle that is a life and death situation.
Sam obediently let the other soldiers place a seal on him and followed them to be thrown into the furnace formation.
The furnace formation is a large formation that uses fire elemental energy stones and used to assist the artisans.
This type of formation is not present in Sam's home planet, but here it is common. The fire elemental formation will have some entry points through where the artisans will place the metals that need to be heated or molten to make the products. The furnace can provide high temperature which will reduce the burden on them to provide their own flames to melt them completely.
After Sam was thrown to the center of the formation where the heat is extremely high, his combat armor that the military provided slowly started melting.
But Sam didn't even flinch. His spiritual energy might be sealed, but his tempered body can take more than this.
His hair started burning along with the eyelashes and brows, but he just sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.
After a few minutes, Arman came and threw a cauldron, an anvil, and a hammer with some inscriptions and some metallic ore through the entry point towards Sam.
He recorded everything with the Bee puppet, but when the people observed him, they are more attracted to his hand than the puppet, because Arman's hand was completely mangled and his bones are all protruding out through the skin.
When a soldier came running to give Arman a mission, he simply showed his mangled arm and used it as an excuse to reject the mission.
Then only the rest of the people understood what is happening. They all pitied him a bit.
After some time, the commander's son came with his lackey and started throwing all the insults and started playing with the formation's temperature control.
Sam who was calm, showed the agonizing expressions by sprawling on the ground.
But as soon as the young master left, he tried his best to gather himself and sat cross-legged with an expression that showed his difficulty.
After some time, Arman left the place with the puppet, then the onlookers saw another scene that made them feel cold sweat all over.
Sam opened his eyes and took the cauldron and placed all the metal ore Arman brought inside and even scooped all the molten metal on him into the cauldron, even though his skin is red, and is on the verge of burning up, he didn't care at all.
Soon enough, the soldiers saw Sam making molds and create some metallic ingots, and forged some metallic spikes.
That is the only thing he did for the three days.
After the third day is over, the soldiers seemed to have been delayed by some 'important' matters and came four hours later than his release time, and even after they came, there seemed to be 'some problems' with the formation that they couldn't halt it immediately.
At this moment, Sam stood up and didn't even wait for them to stop the formation, instead, he came out of the formation like he is walking in the park and he carried the metallic spikes, the anvil, and other tools.
As soon as he came out of the formation, he asked the soldiers to unseal him. The soldiers looked at his cracked and burned skin and couldn't help but tremble at this tenacity.
The heat of the formation is not enough to kill a Nascent even if his cultivation is not sealed, but it would extremely torturous.
Even they felt guilty for following along with the regiment commander's ideas.
But as soon as they unsealed Sam, they saw a scene that they couldn't forget in this lifetime.
Sam stood there when golden flames came out of his body and started elemental fusion and soon the metal all over his body just dripped on the floor as he hovered a few inches above the ground.
As the golden flames disappeared, before they could see his bare skin, bright golden light was emitted from his body, and all the wounds and cracked skin are healed in a matter of seconds. Within that dazzling light, Sam wore his usual black attire with a feather coat.
By the time the light disappeared, Sam is back to his usual handsome appearance, even though it was a punishment, he didn't lose anything, in fact, he even benefited a bit.
With all the shocking gazes focused on him, Sam held the hammer that he used in the furnace and held the metal spikes he forged and looked straight ahead.
The arrogant son of the regiment commander is standing right in front of him. He came here to see Sam begging and bawling, but instead he was stunned silly that he didn't notice the malice in Sam's gaze.
Before his lackeys could remind him.
Sam used his light element fusion and disappeared from the spot and reappeared before the commander's son and pinned him to the ground.
The commander's son started screaming.
"Get off of me. Let go of me. Leave. Someone, save me."
As he yelled, Sam placed the still red-hot metal spikes beside him and placed and only held one of them in his left hand and the hammer in his right hand.
Before the young Naga could make sense of the situation, Sam already spread his hands to the side and placed the spike on the young Naga's arm, and hammered into the ground in one strike.