Chapter 76: Going to Banquet

The ten days are of course, in the dimension.

Sam took out a sheet of fire bronze, he took out the make shift claws he made for temporary use and wore the one for right hand.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.

He spread the sheet of fire bronze open and placed the tip of the claw near one edge. He forcefully cut a small line of fire bronze with the claw.

He used a small bamboo pipe as a support and bent the wire on it in such a way that after some time, a small spring was in his hands.

He repeated the same method and made several springs. After that job was done, he took a cylindrical cup from each pile.

In one glance both the cups seemed to be of same size, but if carefully observed, one would realize that one cup is a little bit smaller than the other.

The dimensions are in such a way that, the inner diameter of the big cup is equal to the outer diameter of the small cup.

There are various types of runic symbols on both the cups and the symbols are so dense and complex too.

He picked up the bigger cup. There is a thin L shaped slit on the curved surface. The smaller cup has a small protrusion on one end.

Sam placed the spring and welded one end on the inner side of the big cup. He took the smaller cup and placed it inside the bigger cup, the cavities of both cups will face each other and the protrusion will enter the L shaped slit. He applied force so that the spring would compress then he placed his finger on the outer side of the smaller cup. The spot is exactly where the spring end would be inside.

He started heating the spot, the metal went soft and started melting. Just before the metal will drip and form a hole, he stopped, but the spring end already formed a bond.

After the joint cooled off, he made a hole on the curved surface area and started pouring the poisonous liquor inside it, until it was full.

After Sam placed his palm over the larger cup and rotated it. The protrusion on the smaller cup which just entered the slit vertically, moved horizontally. He took out a piece of metal wire of placed the wire, in the small hole, which he made on the small protrusion.

Sam stood up and laid a restricting formation a distance away, then he took out the small wire piece which is acting as pin, for holding the cup from rotating backwards in its place and immediately threw it inside the formation, while he ran away from it.

In a few seconds, a small explosion sound came and a smoke full of poison filled the restriction formation, Sam controlled the tower’s second floor and eliminated the smoke before working.

He is repeating the same thing he did and created several of these. But he didn’t use them like before and just kept them aside.

These are the things he wanted to use against the Black pond. Actually, what he is using is a simple make shift hand grenade which depends on the spring.

When he rotated the cups, the spring will also rotate and will have try to push them back to their original place. But the small pin made of wire, is holding it there. When the pin is removed the cups will move back to the original position, where there will be a hole appearing on the curved surface, through which, he filled it with liquor.

After a few seconds the liquor will catch a fire and the poisonous fumes will be coming out of the hole, with an explosion.

How is the liquor catching the fire? That is the reason the runes are for.

Sam placed an inscribed formation which is responsible for collecting the spiritual energy in surroundings, he made the inscription by combining the two cups. The first half of the inscription is on the bigger cup and other half is on the smaller cup. When both halves aligned, the formation will activate.

The formation will gain its aligned form, after the pin is removed. As for why, the formation didn’t activate when pouring the liquor, it is due to the fact that Sam’s actions are fast and didn’t give enough time for the formation to fully activate.

Then for the next step. After the formation is activated, it will direct the spiritual energy to the consumable inscription which was laid inside of cavity of the cup. It is a flaming inscription.

Now, there are only three empty chairs at the table, which are seats for Hawk, Ray and Drew.

There are still a few minutes for banquet to begin. But these few minutes are torture for Sam. All kinds of people are coming to greet him, with flattering smiles. They are so obvious at their boot licking attempt that it felt like they aren’t even hiding their intentions.

But they are all some small fries. Only they are coming up to suck up to him. When he saw that the rest of the members are sitting leisurely without any disturbance. Jack and Philip are looking at him with gloating smiles. Sam gritted his teeth as he thought.

’I will get my chance. You can gloat all you want.’

The rest of the people are really free. Nobody, is greeting them and even someone did, that out of courtesy. All the people are coming towards him, not because of his status of first place ranker, rather his status of the Artisan. He is a rank 3 Artisan after all.

Sam is getting frustrated over this.

After a few moments, all the people in the hall turned towards the entrance again, there are three people who are entering and three of them are Hawk, Ray and Drew.

Everyone greeted them as soon they saw. This time, even the noble family people also went to greet them.

Sam overheard something which piqued his interest.

"See, three people of the Big four are here. I wonder the last one will come today."

"Yeah. It has been a long time since the Big four has gathered."

Sam looked at Hawk and the others walking towards the table. When they arrived, Hawk greeted him first.

"Hi Sam. Thanks for coming." He said with a bright smile.

"Don’t mention it. Thanks for inviting me." Sam also said with smile. Then he looked at Ray and Drew.

"Hello. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too."

They also exchanged greetings and made some small talk. Even Kelly, Jack and Philip are pulled in. Only the weird trio aren’t talking.

Sam suddenly thought of the Big four thing and asked.

"What is the Big four they are talking about?" Sam asked with a curious expression. But it was Kelly that gave him reply.

"Haha, that is actually something made we made up when we were kids. At that time, we agreed that the top four people in the capabilities of our generation will be named as Big four and the rest of the younger generation should respect the four and treat them as leaders.

Even though, we started this as a joke, the thing actually spread among the city and the Big four were named since we awakened. Hawk is always the first in the rank and he still kept it that way."

Everyone couldn’t help but laugh at that. Some kids fooling around actually became this popular in the City and they even followed the suggestion.

"Then who is the fourth one?" Sam asked

"well, you might see her today. So, don’t be in a hurry." Hawk replied.