Chapter 596: Hard stand
Sam came back to Mov without a single hiccup and when they were about to reach Mirage city, Buck once again came to talk to Sam. This time, he came with a spatial ring.
"Here are the items you wanted. Everything, the Flavos empire can offer in terms of metal are inside this thing."
Sam took the ring and checked it before saying.
"Why did you only give it to me now?"
"I didn't carry it on me all this while, some people were tasked to carry it and they gave it to me in the last stop."
"Why?"
"Do you really think these things are easy to get? The mining of metals is done in an entirely different way than you could ever imagine. They wouldn't dare to exchange the metal for money directly anywhere near the Flavos' waters.
That is why we had to take a detour. Otherwise, I would have dropped those people in Mirage city and let them go on their way. Even my close associates don't know about this deal and I used dropping those guys as a cover-up."
Sam smiled and said.
"You really are capable. How did you get your hands on these things?"
"You really think I would say it out loud?"
Sam shook his head slightly and stared into the horizon as he looked at the Mirage city they are approaching. It is beautiful to look at.
Buck also enjoyed the view as the sun is setting and said.
"You know, it has been a long time since I made a deal of this scale. I stopped smuggling the metals and herbs a long time ago. Particularly the military-grade things. I almost got caught once and then I lost my fleet and almost lost my life when I was doing the biggest deal of my life."
Sam looked at him and took two wine jars and offered him one before asking.
"What happened?"
"I used to have a rule that I wouldn't deal with the imperials and royals. But one of my subordinates who I took a liking to and wanted to make him my successor got drunk with the authority I gave him and made a deal with an imperial prince. And he only told me after the deal is made. If we back away from that now, the prince would deal with us directly.
The prince had a mole in the ranks of another empire's imperial farmland and got some special herbs from them, my task is to transport them without any problem. The empire we took from had a rather good emperor that he noticed something was off and caught the mole and sent a fleet on our trial. I had a rather large fleet and tried my best to divert them and finally completed the objective.
But when we handed over, we got fucked. The imperial prince my subordinate made a deal with and another imperial prince of the empire where the herbs are from, the one who is chasing us on the sea are together and they wanted to throw the blame on a third party while they take the goods.
So, we got caught and while escaping almost all my crew has died. Only a few people survived and they left the trade."
"Then why did you agree to such a deal with me? You are even being the intermediary to buy the objects."
"I don't know actually. After that deal, no one came to me with a deal of your scale and the ones that came to me with military or nobility-related deal are all simple they didn't interest me. But the deal you gave me, made me want to test my expertise of this whole life.
At the same time, I had a dream. I wanted to have my own shipping company with the best ships and retire peacefully as I roam all over the world on those ships in relaxation without any anxiety of getting caught.
But every time, I take a step towards that goal, my old smuggler habits are kicking in. I couldn't save enough money to reach the goal. But since you are giving me a fleet directly, I might be able to pull it off and retire."
"Are you sure it is just your smuggling habits that stopped you from owning a fleet? You can still save money and all it needs is having a large enough to store all those spirit stones."
"Well, there are many other things, but I would like to keep it for myself."
They arrived at the city before it was completely dark. And Sam went to his resort. While Buck followed.
The next day, he reported to the Navy base and went for a training session. The first batch of the puppets is out and they only need to be assembled properly. So, Sam went on to show them how to assemble and train them properly.
He even organized a small tournament to select the first batch of flatfish puppet troops.
One week passed and Yodha finally made his appearance with the rest of the team. And to his surprise, they directly stormed into Sam's cottage.
Sam who is cooking something for himself looked at the team members who came and said coldly.
"You better have a proper explanation regarding this, otherwise you would wish you were dead."
"How dare you threaten a prince?" The prince in the group directly tried to pull one over Sam.
Sam looked at him and it is a gaze full of disdain and disregard. He looked at Yodha and said.
"You are the only reason, they are still standing here. Tell them to get the fuck out if they don't have anything to say."
"Handover the lotus." The leader of the team barked.
"Then you can just fuck off directly without wasting my time."
"I demand you hand over the lotus, or else you will be punished for insubordination." The leader of the team tried to pull his rank.
"And who said I would give a fuck about that. Go and file a complaint and see if anyone tries to take action. First, they will curse you till yours bleed and then they will tell you that your rank can be shoved up your ass for all they care because I don't take orders from you dipshit." Sam grew more and more impatient.
He turned to Yodha and said.
"Tell them to get the fuck out of this place right now. They are blacklisted from using any of the services that come from me, my resort or any other product that comes from the Dusk organization that includes the current and any future partnerships we have. And this will extend to all their personal and military subordinates."
Yodha was stunned and asked.
"What do you mean direct subordinates?"
"Since this hotshot wants to throw commands at me, every soldier that is under his command can forget about getting the grenades, puppets and any other weapon that I am going to sell to the military and that extends to the remaining people that are standing right in front of me except you. And as I mentioned services, they also include the training. The special division and his battalion are done for any future training programs."
There is a nascent who is the special division commander and the leader of the team who is a battalion commander in front of him at the moment. So, when Sam said this their faces paled. Particularly the special division.
They are planning for special combat training on seas and applied for Sam's time, now it is gone.
"Instructor Sam, it has nothing to do with me. I am under orders."
"And I am about to have my dinner," Sam said with an unreasonable tone.
"I, as an imperial prince order you to handover the lotus this instant, otherwise you will be arrested for insubordination and investigated. And when you are under investigation all your businesses will be taken over by the Imperial authority until you are proven innocent."
Sam didn't reply to him once again and just stopped the stove and took the dishes as he set his table and was about to eat it.
The prince got enraged by this and came forward to flip the table, just before did so, Yodha yelled.
"Stop it."
But the prince didn't listen. When Sam is about to start eating, he looked at Yodha because of the sudden shout and turned around, only for the table to be flipped. The dishes fell and the food Sam spent one hour cooking was all spilled over the floor.
Sam finally looked at the Prince with an expression other than disdain. It is a cold and emotionless expression. He stood up from his chair and stood up. He walked to another table on which the scrolls and papers are placed and wrote something, before taking out the communication device and called the Orphan One who is managing the resort.
After he came, he directly gave the paper to him and said.
"Take this to the Navy base and give it to the General who is in charge there. Tell them I am resigning. Call the rest of your three brothers. Shut down the ship manufacturing and the engine business to any military and government. Send a message to the grenade factory that we are halting the production to the military indefinitely.
All the soldiers and government officials are banned from the resort from this day on. I want these executed from tomorrow morning."
Orphan One heard everything and didn't even take a single look at the prince and the rest and went on to execute the orders.
Yodha came out of his senses and said.
"Sam, don't do something foolish."
"Foolish? You will realize that the most foolish thing you have ever seen is this prince here spilling my food."