Chapter 543: Vanity
After the recovery, Sam marched forward to the forest along with the troops, and later, he crossed the forest and went to the city gates that are a kilometer away from the forest.
He only stopped until he reached the city lord's office.
He successfully took over the city and he kept on sending the pigeons until the next day night and the last message has only one line.
"It is hard to maintain the city with just the soldiers."
Back in the military camp when they heard the news and watched the reports that were sent to them, they became ecstatic.
Sam really did the impossible.
This battlefield always ends up in a draw. Both sides could win and both sides didn't want to risk the lives of so many people and would order retreat sooner or later. This was the situation for many years.
There will always be one or two battles that any could win, but no party could take over the other party's city.
But Sam did it and did it with a thousand soldiers.
It was almost like a dream.
In two days, the people who are supposed to take over the city and maintain the operations came and they learned that Sam has let go of the citizens who didn't want to stay in the city.
They are a bit frustrated and angry at this, but still, they took over the city silently and let and Sam and his soldiers return to the base.
When he came back, Sam went to the General's tent directly and gave the battle report and along with that a list of gains and the losses in this small war.
And the second list doesn't have much. Even though there is a lot of push back and retaliation, there is minimum damage done to them.
It is so minute to the point that it is almost impossible to believe.
The gains however outweighed the losses by a large margin that is because the gains contained the city and the fields and mine along with it.
He looked at the General and said.
"Half the credits to me and the other half distributed among all the other soldiers that participated in the war.
I need the details of the family members of the soldiers who died in the battle. I think I did more than you wanted. For the next batch of the blood mutants unless they dropped from the sky right in the middle of the camp. Even then, the soldiers will be victorious and they will still be able to kill them all, but the losses would be more.
So, I would like to leave the battle-field.
"Go where?"
"To the capital. Once the war is over I would like to get my rewards there. A who conquered a city that has never been breached might be qualified enough for a meet with the emperor, no?"
"You want to meet the emperor? Why?"
"No specific reason, but don't you think it would be great to take a reward from the emperor. I always liked that, the strongest man in the region giving me reward for the favors I have done for him. Goodbye then."
With those words, Sam left the tent and met with Yodha.
"I am going back, I hope the residence in the factory is ready."
"They are ready. You can go anytime you want."
"Call for me, if you need anything. But I think their battle strategy is extremely dependent on the mutants, so there is no need for you to worry about the situation. Is there any place in the capital I can relax?"
"There is actually. There is an entertainment center of a friend of mine."
"An entertainment center."
"Well, it is complicated, but maybe you will find something there that can make you relax, they offer a good massage, you can try it. Go and ask Rana. My friend knows he works for us, you would get the VIP treatment."
With that, he took out a thin crystal card and gave it to Sam.
Sam checked the card and thanked him before leaving with Arman.
It would be better for him if the war is over and he stayed in the city. This way, he would be able to reach the Palace of inheritance faster and there is a guarantee that he will even reach the palace at all.
After another day, he was at the factory and both of them stayed in the residence for a bit.
After taking enough rest and getting the mental fatigue out, Sam first looked through the factory and its production. The military still ordered a lot more grenades and the money is rolling in. From what Sam could see, the war would go on at least for one month and this time would be enough for them to recover all the investment and much more profit from this project.
After checking everything and adding some more methane to the stocks, he went to roam the city with Rana and Arman.
He arrived at the so-called entertainment center and realized that he came to a high-class brothel.
He really wanted to beat the crap out of Yodha at that moment. Only after Rana convinced him that it is more than just a brothel did he enter.
The place is called Paradise. Even though Sam labeled it as a high-class brothel, it really is more than just a brothel. In fact, it is a combination of a spa, restaurant, bar, and a brothel.
Sam waited for Rana to make arrangements, he could use a good massage. The time he spent in the Naga Loka was the most relaxed time in his second life, he might as well increase the pleasure and relax even more.
The manager of the paradise said that the boss, who is Yodha's friend is not present at the moment and he arranged everything Sam needed.
Sam is not deficient of money, all he has is money, and he spent it to his heart's content.
He experienced the most pleasurable massage he ever had. A Naga lady used her spiritual energy to relax the muscle fibers and it is so soothing that he wanted to sleep all of a sudden.
After the massage is over, he went for a medicinal bath, and then he went for a great meal with the wonderful wine.
Except for the wine that is extremely inferior to the one he had in his possession, the rest of the service is extremely good.
From that day onwards, Sam came to paradise every day for the next one month.
He experienced everything except for the sexual pleasures that this paradise could offer.
He encountered many young masters some of them he has seen before and some of them he didn't see. Thankfully, no one found any trouble with him.
Some noble scions and ladies wanted to talk with him and tried to gain his friendship, but he tacitly ignored them.
After some constant pestering, he finally understood why this is happening, they learned about him and his achievements in the battle, so they wanted to befriend him because they thought, he might be one of the variables in the future politics of the empire.
They thought that his achievements will be more in the future and they wanted to be his friends while they still can.
Of course, most of the major families that hold enough power in the empire didn't come and some prideful Nagas didn't even care about him.
In their opinion, no matter what Sam achieved, he is still not worth their friendship.
But he didn't care about either party.
All he cared about was enjoying himself. Apart from him, Arman is also enjoying the time of his life. He bedded almost every famous woman of the paradise. He even vouched for Yodha's claim that the Naga ladies in the human form are wonderful partners in the bed.
After spending a month like this, he got the news he is waiting for, the war is finally over and this time, the Mov Empire has won a great victory and conquered some cities from their enemies and lost none of her own cities.
The casualties also reduced as the most volatile region where the casualties are most likely to be highest was the one with the least casualties this time.
Even after Sam left, the casualties didn't surpass two digits.
Now, all the camps are sending their people in-charge along with representatives of the soldiers and the war heroes who had the greatest achievements of all.
Sam received a golden-colored scroll from the imperial palace separately to visit the palace two days later and receive the rewards he deserved.
He was finally relieved. He doesn't know what he wants with the rewards yet. But he doesn't want to lose anything he worked for, he has something in mind, but he doesn't know if it is achievable or not.
But he will find out soon, he will be meeting the emperor after all. No matter how difficult it is, if the emperor says it is possible, then it would be, and no matter how easy it is if he says otherwise, then it is impossible.