Chapter 1224: Self-destruction

They explained the situation to Sam.

"Who is that person’s boss? Do you know him by any chance?" Sam asked Markan.

"I don’t know him personally. But I know that he has some status under the current leader. So, we wanted to wait and capture him."

"Then, why don’t we use Kiran like always. We will capture this guy and replace him with Kiran and we would be able to capture him too. We could save some time in the process."

Everyone looked at Kiran who has a sulky expression. It is clear that he doesn’t want to be used as this infiltration piece. He knew that he is good at it and if Sam is not wrong, the other teammates must have already asked him once or twice, but he must have refused both times and they didn’t bother to pursue more.

Sam looked at him with a meaningful gaze and he said.

"Boss, don’t look at me like that. I will go" He relented immediately.

"Why did it take so long for us to convince you, but you still refused, but Sam can immediately make you agree?" Sia asked as she looked at Kiran weirdly.

"It is because Boss is not a numbskull like you guys. You cannot plan as well as the boss. If it is him, I can be sure that I would be safe, even if I have to meet the enemy boss. But with you guys, I wouldn’t be able to feel safe even if I have to infiltrate into a little kid’s bedroom."

Everyone looked at him with a sharp gaze, but Kiran is looking at Sam with a flattering smile.

Sam sneered a bit and threw a jar of wine to him which Kiran caught and stored away in glee.

After that, the team made a move.

By evening they already captured their target and brought him back.

He was tied up to a chair and Sam placed his hand on that guy’s head to use the observation ability and this time, it only covered the head of this person.

Sam then looked at Night Ghost who is suppressing this guy and nodded for which he slit the captive’s throat.

Sam then used the memory extraction on the captive before sitting on the ground cross-legged while going through the memories.

Sam looked through each memory and each image carefully and his frown only got deeper and deeper.

He opened his eyes and he transferred the memories to Markan to get his opinion and when Markan looked through them he also frowned.

"Did you notice anything weird in this?" Markan asked as soon as he opened his eyes. Sam nodded and said.

"These memories are not... I don’t know how to put it, but I think they are not concrete. They are not solid enough. It is like the memories are faint and are mere illusions for these guys. Did you notice anything?"

"Yes. There are no personal memories for this person."

"Personal memories?"

"Yes. The training of the Black Ghosts is actually pretty tough, but the thing is, the training regiment and process didn’t change for hundreds of years. If they are assigned to one division within the organization in their childhood, they would go through the same training process.

This person has the memories of all the training and all the possible interactions with the trainers and examiners and even some elders. But other than that, there are no personal memories.

With that, Kiran was sent into the place of the captive by that evening, while spent his time on the research for the next few days.

A few days passed just like that and in these few days, Sam checked each and every inch of the dead bodies. He even went as far as dissecting the body and checking different organs without the extra protection of the bones and skin, even though he has the observation ability.

After so much effort, he finally managed to find some traces. A trace of the curse was placed on both of them.

Sam doesn’t know which curse it is and they don’t have a soul to see the potency of the curse and what kind of purpose it serves.

But at least, this is a start.

Meanwhile, on Kiran’s side, the infiltration succeeded and the boss they are waiting for finally arrived.

Even though he is called the boss, he does not actually have that high of status, he had the same cultivation level as Kiran and he just kicked that guy’s ass and brought him here.

This time, Sam didn’t kill him immediately and searched for the curse, but he couldn’t find any, he also used the observation skill on his face which didn’t show any signs of that weird facial surgery.

"It seems like we caught an original this time."

Sam said as he looked at Markan.

Markan was surprised and he looked at this guy carefully.

"You were a shortlisted candidate for successor position in childhood right?"

The captive was stunned when he heard that question.

"How did you know? Who are you guys? If you know who I am, then you should also know what I am capable of."

"Boring threats. Just shut up already."

Kiran said from the side as he enjoyed his hard-earned wine.

Markan channeled his energy into his palm and a hexagram made of six elemental energies formed there.

"You... You... How is that possible? You shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t be alive. No... No... This cannot be possible."

As he stuttered and spoke, he suddenly started chanting something.

Sam had a bad feeling and tried to stop him, but he was still too late.

The body exploded and died right there.

Sam hurriedly performed the memory extraction, but he wasn’t able to find anything.

"His soul dissipated. This self-destruction is quite powerful."

He muttered in disappointment.