Chapter 638: A Mare from the Myths
Two days after Chatur gave the news, Sam went to Untamable Beast forest.
He went on harbinger and he went alone.
But the journey took for around one week, which should have been three days at most.
The reason is simple. The whole dimension is completely infested with all types of beasts. Not just from the beast tide, but also all the beasts in the forest seemed to have been infected with some sort of courage due to the beast tide as they all ran rampant.
Now all the wars and conflicts are gone. All the beasts are occupying or attacking the resource points and the bases. Every castle is surrounded by these beasts.
If not for the fact, Sam left Yanwu, Raiju and the Mia at the lake, it would have been surrounded by the beasts too.
He left Chatur, Arman, and even Dharkan there.
Anyway, there is a small step left with the deal he made with him and the beast tide is the perfect cover for him.
But before that, he has to finish this problem. There is no way, he would be able to enter the Nagin Planet peacefully without the pestering of the emperor if he didn't help with that. Anyway, it would be great if he could get a few favors from the Emperor, then he can go ahead with the future plans easily.
He is also interested in beast forest. Apparently, this beast forest has a space crack that opens and the beasts come out of that. Not only would they create a beast tide, after some time, but new types of beasts will also create their habitats in this dimension.
On his way to this forest, all the beasts tried to attack him non-stop. There are even a lot of bird-type beasts that attacked without rest. Even with the speed of the harbinger, there are just too many of them in all directions for him to escape.
After arriving at the place, he could see some other members from the other castles, they came in teams and they are extremely rugged.
There is some area around the forest without many beasts, all the beasts that would come out of the forest already came out. Now all they have to worry about is the beasts inside the forest, the rest of the beasts are the remaining forces' business.
Sam observed all the teams that arrived. There is one member at least, who didn't seem tired or exhausted at all. The rest of the members are tired and battle-torn.
The team is to safely get that elite here and they also took care of all the dangers for that one special person, so that person wouldn't have to exhaust himself in the battle and keep their energy to enter the forest.
Sam could see many familiar faces. Sandra is here, Praneeth is here, someone else came from Fysi castle because Dharkan was out somewhere else, the people from fysi don't know where he went, for all they knew he was out to do some business on other planets. Since he started his new business, he was completely immersed in the preparations for months.
Now, he is out there to cut his first business deal.
That is the only thing his family members and the other castle members knew.
After greeting the familiar people casually, he observed the forest with the energy vision.
He was baffled when he saw the situation inside the forest.
He could feel the energy signatures all over the forest, the trees, the caves, the ground, and even underground.
There are too many energy signatures that it made him feel baffled that they are fighting each other over territory. There are even bird-type beasts flying over the sky in the forest.
He increased his concentration and tried to find the largest energy signature in the place. Even though every beast is Level-6 equal to the Nascent stage, there is bound to be a difference, to be the key to stop this beast tide, if that beast is at least on the level of a frost dragon in terms of bloodline, then Sam would be disappointed.
After searching for a few minutes, he did spot a place where the energy signature is highest and he could see the outline of the body which looked like a horse. Sam started searching his memory to remember the horses of that level and thought of how to enter the forest at the same time.
Even though it is called a forest, it is merely a patch of trees covering an area that is almost equal to the area a castle occupied in this dimension.
No one knows how the space crack appears and where it starts, there are very few people who managed to get a glimpse of the crack.
Not many people are lucky enough to be able to live after seeing that crack as the beasts would be just coming out of the forest and it is extremely dangerous to stay here.
Sam finished circling around and finally noticed an opening point. This place has mostly snake-type beasts around. Even though they are equally dangerous, with the Harbinger, this place would be relatively safer than the rest.
Even though he has his ways to handle these beasts if push comes to shove, it is always better to have a less dangerous way.
Anyway, Sam wanted to curb his killings a bit. He has killed thousands in this dimension. He didn't even kill that many on the home planet. He might have killed over a thousand to thousand five hundred, but that is cumulative of the years, but here, he only stayed for one year and he is responsible for killing so many, if he added the kills of the soldiers under his lead, then that would be a huge number.
He has to control it, so as not to influence his way of thinking subconsciously.
Sam noticed that the other parties are also moving, they even seemed to be making a deal, when he was about to enter, Sandra and Praneeth neared him and asked for cooperation.
Even though I don't want to cooperate with them, it would better if he has someone at the side. He already wanted to take that beast as his companion, having some partners here would help influence the rest of the people to refrain from killing the beast and stay their hand.
He agreed and said his chosen way. The rest of the teams are not so sure though. They really don't want to lose control of the situation to Sam.
But Sam didn't have a single thought on convincing them, he just said to Sandra and Praneeth, that he could choose this route.
So, now the teams were divided. At this exact moment though, another group came and they are the last few of the Elite ten.
Only four members left. Sam killed one of them in their ambushes in a fit of rage.
Most of the time, Sam just left the battlefield not giving them a chance for to catch up, but once he made a great meal for himself and this guy disturbed it. So, Sam killed him in a fit of rage.
The four of them looked at Sam in an extremely hostile way, which he didn't even bother to react to.
He took Sandra and Praneeth to enter the forest, their team members are also coming. Sam didn't get down from the Harbinger, but the rest of them followed as they walked.
The snakes in this place are mostly hidden and coiled to the trees, they are not that dangerous in a comparison of strength, but their hidden methods and sneak snake bites are extremely dangerous as they suck blood instead of injecting normal venom.
They are more like mosquitos as they inject some kind of fluid in, which would stop the coagulation of the blood and make it easier for them to suck all the blood in.
He carefully guided the teams. He didn't let all of them follow and made them only bring a few of their teammates.
They agreed to and walked beside him.
For a significant distance, they didn't have any form of hindrance from the beasts, but after that Sam could only give a heads-up before they started clashing with the beasts.
But he is a great help as most beasts with lower bloodlines wouldn't come near him due to his bloodline aura.
For some reason, half of the beasts with a decent bloodline are not stopping even though, they are clearly afraid. He could think of only one reason.
Since their attacks on the castles were led by the single beast, they must have some contract and the beast is the cause for the rest of them to resist the aura.
But Sam is not at all worried, in fact, he is a bit excited. After all, he doesn't have any beasts that could suit him to make a contract when he became a Pre-transcendent.
He has to find a suitable beast that has multiple elements as he had limited contracts left.
Even though the forest is not large, the constant battling made them take a whole day to reach the center and when he saw the beast clearly, Sam is extremely ecstatic.
It is a horse and it is not even large as other beasts, it is the same size as a horse, a tiny bit sturdier and taller than a normal horse, but it is of the same size more or less.
Many people might be disappointed if they saw it like that, but since Sam knew what kind of beast it is, he is only happy.
The beast is actually a descendant of one of the mythical creatures. The mares of Diomedes. Many people knew about this myth, but all they knew is these horses eat flesh, but Sam only learned after coming to this world that there is more to this myth.