Chapter 860: Puppets
The Bi Fangs are dealt with soon enough. Now it is time for them to move to their next target. Now they are not completely focused on killing or capturing the beasts. Their major target is to conquer the areas with resources, whether they have beasts or not.
They already have a place in mind.
A nearby fire elemental spirit stone mine.
He really wished that tempest valley is nearby. But it is actually on the opposite side of this area.
It would take some time for their people to come here and clear the area so that they could take over.
For the next week, they are focused on searching for the mine's exact location and relocating the smaller beast tribes that are living nearby. Most of them went to the mountain that was previously occupied by Bi fangs.
That is the most resourceful place after all.
Sam caught a pair of beasts from each tribe to add to his collection and for the research.
Within two weeks they are done with the mine. They only have to wait for the miners from the organization to come here and take over.
"What's next?" Arkiv asked Sam.
"What else? We are going deeper inside."
When the miners finally came, Sam and Arkiv went deeper into the forest.
Days became weeks, weeks became months.
They just went on with the exploration. Even if they couldn't find some high-level resources at every spot, Arkiv is getting a map which would be great for his exploration team.
The Central continent is bigger. In fact as big as the Western continent, eastern continent, and Northern continent combined.
They would take years to completely explore this area and with all the beasts that are guarding various places, it would only be harder and longer.
Soon, years passed and it is time for the Next Palace of inheritance.
In between, Sam only came out of this place a few times. Mostly to go back to the city and take a look at the research situation and talk to Sirona about the new leads in the research.
Within this time frame. They created many models and conducted tests so that they could modify and improve the framework they established before Sam's journey and in this process, some new types of puppets came into existence within the city.
The most eye-catching one of them is a bird-type puppet. It is a lightning elemental puppet and it looked exactly like an eagle.
The most important aspect of this puppet is actually that it can do at least ten different lightning-type attacks.
Like spewing lightning from its mouth, lightning wings, crashing with lightning covered all over its body, throw lightning blades, and so on.
All of these attacks are taken from the natural attacks of the lightning eagle.
The vines which they got from the Charbhum realm and modified after months of experimentation are used to create an artificial meridian network within the puppet. And the puppet core which they designed has twelve rooms for programming these attacks. Out of which one is there for flying, one for spare and the rest of the ten are for programming these attacks.
Now after injecting a spirit into with and that too with some memory implantation of the spirit which is also kind of like programming but with soul necromancy, they managed to create it.
The only problem is that it is not powerful enough to attack the Pre-transcendent stage cultivators. It is only suitable for Nascent stage cultivators and the power source is not enough for too many attacks.
But it was the first product after the new research, so it is bound to be like that.
Even though it is taking a long time for the results, Sam is still satisfied. But that is not the only result in these almost three years.
They made some new stationary puppets which are good for guarding the walls as they have many long-range attacks.
This is a fire type and it can even manage some close combat skills when someone manages to climb the wall.
This is based on a fire-type gorilla beast.
But the whole body is not built that way. The base is stationary and attached to the wall on the base, there is a swiveling mechanism that supports the swiveling motion of the upper body to cover the three sixty degrees.
The upper body has a gorilla chest, long gorilla arms, but a somewhat robotic humanoid head. The head can also swivel in different directions.
The head also acts a surveillance device which the chest is the house for the powersource and half of the meridian network. The remaining half of the network is extended to the arms.
The arms can create up to eight long-range fire-type attacks and they can establish a close combat punching and grappling routine only with the hands without moving all based on the different attacks. But these fire-type attacks are based both on the gorilla and the human fire elemental attacks.
And when placed in a proper position altogether the puppets can create combination attacks and even some formation attacks.
These are not actually directed to the market. They are not for sale yet. Currently, before Sam has to go for the Palace of inheritance, the third test product is on the way.
As for the business expansions of the organization, the space gate formations are built on the Feathered planet.
One space gate connects the Tempest valley and the Feathered Planet and the rest of the Space gates are constructed to connect various realms under the expansion plan.
In the middle of his central continent expansion, he already sent twelve groups of his employees to different realms along with the Space gate staff to construct the Space gates on the other side too.
Now the business plans are going at a rapid pace.
As for the Palace of inheritance this time, Sam didn't even bother to worry too much, because it is happening in a familiar realm this time.
The Charbhum realm.
The place Sam is extremely familiar with and in fact has a lot of influence.
Sam was a bit surprised to find out that the next Palace of inheritance was there. Because the king and the Elders are only of Consummate level.
But in between the exploration he went there once to check on the situation and also ask Raunak who is now a high-level officer to keep an eye out for the Palace of inheritance thing and how the situation is proceeding, then only he learned that about the existence of the Grand elders.
They are people whose strength is beyond Consummate level.
The Astral plane of cultivation.
This is something Sam didn't expect, but still, he came to terms with it and returned.
The rest of the players left the Desolate a year early to take a look at the realm and get to the palace of inheritance. But Sam doesn't have to.
He just has to go a month before.
And he did exactly that. Arkiv and Arman just tagged along.
When they entered the Palace of inheritance, it didn't have too many tests. It is a single large survival test that would select the top three participants to fight it out in the finals.
They are all thrown into the forest. They have to survive there for a month.
And most of the enemies this time are vegetation. There are some beasts and the players can attack each other, but the worst enemies are still the flora.
At first, the vines that are present everywhere are after the players along with the beasts of the forest and after a week, one third of the trees also became hostile, then came a new species out of nowhere. The flowers that give out the poisonous pollen.
Sam is immune to that though.
The threats kept on increasing until even breathing in the forest became difficult.
And this doesn't have any safety nets like people getting healed right before they died or something.
Most of the players managed to give up before things got dangerous, but not all of them. One of the players died.
He is from the Usaine sect.
The Usaine sect has the most players at the beginning with three of them being there. But now two of them died.
As for the mysterious twelfth candidate who they never saw, they don't know where they are from or who they are.
Now there are only nine of them left. At least until the twelfth candidate finally decides to show themselves out in the open.
When they reached the final stage. Sam, Noah, and Akhil are the only ones left. Noah looked at Sam and sighed in exasperation.
This is getting on her nerves so much. She walked to him directly and said.
"Just give up this one Palace of inheritance. This is from my god. I need this."
Sam didn't even know what to say. But after thinking about Agun and the player that died today, he agreed.
"But I need the second place."
When he said this, both Noah and Sam looked at Akhil who became angry at both of them.
"Come on guys, how is that fair?"
"You are getting the third place and I will give you an ape-type beast with a decent bloodline. How about that?" Sam offered. And just like that all three of them came to a consensus without fighting.
Then came the god or to be precise the goddess of forests. Aranyani.
This is the third Hindu god Sam saw.
When he saw her he couldn't help but ask.
"You are not that famous back on earth. I didn't know you were this powerful."
"Well, sometimes there is more to the game than the power of the gods. I may not be as strong as Kartikeya and Indra, but I have my own perks. I am even surprised you knew me. Most humans don't pray for me as much as they prey on the forests I created."
"You can say I am a reader and Rig Veda is a good read in which you were credited a lot."
"Of course it did. I didn't expect that someone still read Vedas. Not so bad. Anyway, are you going to fight?"
"No, your protégé has a deal for us and we obliged. You can talk to her."
Aranya directed her attention to Noah who is looking at her and their conversation led to the end of the Palace of inheritance.