Chapter 766: War at the Seashore
The tigers are not leaving Sam alone. Even though Sam never stayed in the sights of the tiger and the cultivators also didn't manage to catch him in their sight, he is still being sensed faintly even without any contact with the trees and the ground.
Sam thought of how to escape and soon found a way, he came to the area where Sam found some traces of claws and smell of urine.
He entered into another beast's territory and from the looks of it, the beast has the same habits as a canine.
Sam activated his Raiju aura showing his weak strength as he drifted into the territory. After he went deeper, but not deep enough to piss the beast off, he saw that the tigers halted in their tracks and didn't want to come in.
Even the riders on their backs are looking at the scene curiously. They didn't speak all this while for some reason and even now they are not making a single sound.
They seemed to be wary of the people that entered and recognizing they are humans. As Sam thought like this, he also noticed something else, the four people are actually wearing clothes and armor that has the same pattern as the tiger's back.
Sam only managed to see them with his eye technique.
Even though in close combat this technique is almost useless, from a long-range, they can still deceive the cultivators when they are outside the range of the spiritual sense.
After looking there for a while, Sam thought for a moment, before he let a shadow out. The shadow of a beast. He didn't let the shadow go near them and instead let it move within the thickness of the trees so they could only get a faint image of it all the while hiding behind a large tree.
The tigers already stopped their detection through trees, if they did try to use that on the trees of another beast's territory that would be seen as the provocation.
So, they are careful and after seeing an incredible speed the shadow is moving without even giving a proper glimpse, they decided that it was a beast and left the place.
Meanwhile, Sam is still tense because he could see another large mass of energy slowly walking towards his direction with the energy vision. The beast has a similar outline as a fox. But it is quite large.
Sam didn't wait for it to come. He left the shadow as a distraction and started moving towards the town on Harbinger.
After he moved to a significant distance, he recalled the shadow and continued his journey.
He felt lucky that he managed to get rid of the beasts without causing many scenes and without leaving any traces of his presence.
After reaching far enough, he turned back and used the telescope to once again observe the tigers and the fox and they are clearly not trying to pursue him anymore. He heaved a sigh of relief.
It is not that he is afraid of the beasts, it is just that he wants a calm and silent way out of the current situation.
He shouldn't be causing too much of a scene at this moment.
Soon, Sam saw traces of some activity and stored the harbinger as he walked. From this point, he could even see the town and some of the elves and centaurs that are constantly moving around.
There are very few humans.
Sam climbed onto a tall tree and used the telescope to take a look at the horizon and he can see the seashore.
But what he saw surprised him. He could only get a faint image because of the town that was in the middle, but from what he saw he made out a group of soldiers standing on their posts and a barricade on the beach as if they are defending against some enemies.
He moved to the other side and looked over from another tree and there he saw some traces of cleaning up by the soldiers.
They are recreating and reconstructing the barricades.
It seems like a battle is just over.
Sam let the shadow mice take reign now. He sent them into the town to scout around a bit.
He looked at the sky. It is already almost dawn. He just stayed on top of the tree and only came down after the sunrise. Soon the shadow mice came back with the information.
As the trio said, the whole area is indeed filled with soldiers.
There are at least three to four thousand soldiers in this one town alone And there are two transcendent stage cultivators.
Sam is a bit surprised by this. There are four transcendent stage cultivators in the forest and four beasts along with them which equals eight, but there are only two of them in the town, he didn't get what is happening.
The shadow mice scouted all the places as much as they can.
Currently, most of the soldiers that are still staying in the town are focusing on recovering as they took medicine, pills and getting healed by the healers.
It seems like Sam has come too late, they couldn't find a single dead body of their enemies.
There is not even a meeting being held.
Sam scouted around the edges of the forests and the shadow mice made some regular rounds.
By afternoon, Sam finally understood why there are four transcendent stage cultivators in the forest and only two in the town.
Because the two from the town came to the edge of the forest where the two from the forest came out and exchanged their places.
It seems like the two transcendent stage cultivators are rotating after a battle to recover while the other acts a backup.
The area seems to be a constant war zone. Sam is really looking forward to seeing what is making them have so much trouble.
By evening every single soldier that is not healing and recovering is all on the beach with the barricades.
As the sunset, the whole town is like a haunted area. All the soldiers that are too injured to fight are all in the houses and the people didn't come out.
Sam took this to his advantage and made a move. He sneaked into the town and found a hiding spot on a rooftop with great difficulty from where he could see the beach more clearly.
The soldiers are tense and everyone is extremely focused as they held their weapons.
Soon there is a trace of movement on the seawater as the calm sea started riling up. Sam saw as humanoid figures came out of the water.
Their body also looked like water, except it is not really transparent, it is just giving an illusion.
With blue skin and they seem to have an ability to blend with the water as they stood up and started walking forward and even the weapons they are holding are made by the water from the sea.
Along with them, there are some creatures that could stay in the water and on the land. Some crabs, turtles and some sea snakes, some lobster-type beasts all coming on onto the land and some of those blue humanoids jumped off of the water and landed on the backs of these beasts as they rode them.
Now their skins are looking more normal. The mystifying water look was gone. Their skin texture is more similar to the mermen but the mermen are far more beautiful and smooth.
They started attacking the human barricades. But the major attack is still from the sea. Many sea creatures are launching water-based attacks along with those blue humanoids and the soldiers are all defending the attack carefully and countering them.
They engaged in the battle extremely fiercely.
It is an all-out war and due to the situation being night the water humanoids have more advantages.
Sam looked and saw something that is even more surprising. Behind the water humanoids, a similar humanoid came out of the water and a mass of water is supporting him as a platform as he ascended into the air and he was being taken towards the shore.
The transcendent stage cultivators who are still at the rear of the battlefield looked at this and got ready as they zoomed forward.
As soon as the blue creature stepped its foot on the ground, the battle began.
Only one transcendent stage cultivator engaged as the other was still in a lookout over the sea and as if it was on a cue, a large shark came out of nowhere and shot a beam of water elemental energy at the transcendent engaged in combat.
The backup transcendent immediately blocked the attack and save his teammate as he engaged the shark in long-range combat.
The whole situation is a chaotic mess.
The blue humanoids didn't hold many advantages over the soldiers, but they are mostly there to distract the soldiers and make them a good and easy target to the long-range attacks that are coming from the water.
Sam looked at the war and was intrigued by it.
There is nothing intriguing for an arms dealer than a war that has to be hidden from the public but should be definitely won.