Chapter 775: Intense war
Sam is currently in the forest of Planet 2. He is a few kilometers away from the base and is thinking of what to do next.
It has been around a week since he came back from Planet 1 without anyone noticing.
He is currently thinking about what he should do. The war at the Seashore is simply direct and there are not too many variables involved. But from what he saw, there is no way that the war could be hidden longer from the residents.
They will come to know about it sooner or later and Sam has a feeling that his visit to that large breeding base, the process will only be escalated.
He is sure that the Sea folk would be pissed beyond belief and would definitely take it out on the troops.
Sam is thinking about whether he should help them directly or indirectly. Even though he doesn't have to care too much and has no obligations towards the people of this realm and even the rage of these sea folk is inevitable with time, he did escalate the situation faster. He is responsible for their loss of time to prepare.
So, he has to make it up some way and he also has to think of a way to sell them to the military without anyone suspecting that he visited the sea.
This is a bit problematic.
No matter how he hinted it to them, he would have trouble selling them without raising any suspicions.
He shook his head and decided to think about it later. Currently, the breathing device will be a great device for them and even the flatfish puppets would work, but the harpoon guns will be a bit troublesome.
As they are made to attack beasts and they are not even made for killing, they can only severely damage them.
But with the coordination of these Sea folk and their care for each other, not only would they rescue then injured one, they will even deal with the attacker with a newfound anger.
They have to have more trouble than that.
Sam thought for a minute and went into the research mode.
But he couldn't do that in the middle of the forest, even if it is in the divine dimension. He went to the underground cave where he killed those black-cloaked people and decided to stay there for now.
He doesn't want to go back to Planet 1 as he wants to test the effectiveness of the research results right here on this planet and he can also use his crew in the base to help with some assemblies whenever he wanted.
He decided to upgrade all three items he wants to sell.
Particularly, the flatfish puppets and the harpoon guns.
He wants to change the harpoon mechanism of the flatfish puppets which will make the attacks more effective. He decided to use the air-powered harpoon gun mechanism. Even though the harpoons are shorter and smaller, it would still be a significantly lethal attack if used correctly and he also decided to add the metal cable and trapped spear tip.
That would make the flatfish puppet more useful and versatile as they can even lock their opponents down in place.
The normal harpoon gun is not that useful against the sea folk, the second generation worked well, but the spear is too large that is not staying within and creating enough damage.
He has to find a way to create more damage, so he has to change the way the spear tip trap works.
He started researching without any rest.
The changes are not exactly too complicated. He doesn't even have to create any new mechanisms, he has all the research in his hands and all he has to do is change the size and shape a bit to fit his requirements.
It only took fifteen days within the divine dimension which is around one and a half-day outside.
He went in in the afternoon of the previous day.
Now it is already night.
He took a brief rest and went back into the divine dimension to research something else.
The corpses of the sea folk.
He noticed that the sea folks are completely different in biological aspects. First, they don't have any genitals or other sexual organs that could indicate their gender. It is as if they are gender-neutral and they can reproduce as long as they reached a certain level without any intercourse.
But that is not even the point that made Sam curious. What made him curious is the flesh and the rest of the body structure.
It is as if they don't have any bones at all. Their body's defense is also handled differently. They are not defending the attacks with the hardness of the skin or some defensive spells and flashy tricks, their flesh is becoming a gel-like viscous substance that is stopping the flow of the attacks into the body.
The blood that is coming out of their body is even more interesting.
Sam looked at the corpses in front of him. Most of them have minimum blood and they didn't even rot even after staying there for such a long time.
There is little blood though.
The blood seemed to have seeped into the flesh of the body and hardened it.
Sam took out the remaining blood and the gel-like flesh and started experimenting.
The first thing he did is to feed them to some water-type beasts. There are some fish in his new salt-watered lake and the stingrays are too many anyway.
Sam fed the blood and flesh to the stingrays and to his surprise they are eating it extremely well. In fact, they are devouring it and became extremely active as if they had taken a steroid shot.
Sam wanted to conduct more experiments, but he couldn't do much as the flesh is minimal and the hardened flesh is not suitable for anything other than being a rock.
Even when he threw it into the lake, the fish are ignoring it. Maybe this is the form of rotting for these species.
Sam didn't even manage to stay for a long time, he stayed for an hour or two in the divine dimension, which is barely a few minutes outside.
After he came out, he decided to start his travel once again.
He has to go back to the sea and check what the consequences he brought were and how his new toys work.
And this time he didn't use the dimensional drifter. He wants to travel on a different route. After all, one of the reasons he came to this planet is to find some plants that could help him with the problem he is having with his puppet making.
Until now he is a bit busy, but he and his friends searched for it as much as possible even in their chaotically busy schedule.
The trio even searched for it when they went on that trip of self-pity.
But there are no results.
Sam used this chance to finish some more exploration.
He took off on the harbinger and went through the forests. He took a long detour. If he had taken the original route, he would have seen a lot of new soldiers are traveling through the forest routes towards the seashore bases.
Sam traveled for three days and collected some samples, he did find some vines that could satisfy some of his requirements even if they cannot satisfy all of them.
After reaching the forests separating the bases from the rest of the planet, Sam was surprised a bit, because he didn't see a single guardian standing guard there.
Even the four green tigers are not present and seemed to have disappeared from their original guarding position.
Even the large fox that lives by itself is not there.
If the villages on the other side tried to cross the forest now, they would be able to do so with ease.
But they have to sneak past the soldiers that are also entering the forests sneakily.
Sam traveled through the forest edge and noticed that dozens of soldiers are coming every hour and they seemed to have taken the same route, but just coming here in batches.
In fact, even if he got caught, if he managed to bluff them into thinking that he is part of them, it would easy for him to escape.
He took vantage on a large tree once again and looked at the situation at the sea and Sam couldn't help but feel sorry for the soldiers there.
The Sea folk completely lost it. They are like crazy madmen rampaging without any care for the world.
Even the four tigers and the six transcendent stage cultivators are on the field as they are fighting against their counterparts from the sea.
The war is completely chaotic and this time, the sea folk didn't just bring the sea creatures with them, they even brought a bit of sea.
Currently, the sea waves are high and the water is reaching the edge of the barricades made by the soldiers.
The new soldiers that just joined the base are changing into their battle attire and joined the battle immediately.
The casualties on both sides are high but to Sam's surprise, the one losing most is sea folk instead.
They have larger numbers, but due to their made state, they are behaving crazily and are trying to kill as many as possible instead of killing as efficiently as possible.
Which made them lose a small edge, but he knew that it is just temporary.
It is the anger caused by Sam when he killed that one Sea folk right in front of that large egg.
Maybe they have too much affection towards their younger generations or something, but they are pissed off big time.
The war is so intense that the soldiers might not even care if Sam entered the base directly.