Chapter 1274: Dark Range

Sam left Gravin’s realm and made his way to another realm. Now, he doesn’t need to carry the staff in his hands and he also made some modifications to his metal mask.

Instead of covering the face as a whole, it is mostly covering the upper half of the face. With his mouth and chin visible outside.

It gave out a less eerie feeling to the others. He also changed his hairstyle. He cut it short, just the way he used to have it in his real body.

Now, he felt more comfortable with this body than before. He doesn’t have to limp, he has two hands to use and he can run and hop at an extremely high speed that is suitable for his cultivation level.

He is currently going to a nearby planet in the same realm. It has a special location called the Dark Range.

It is a mountain range with a lot of dark elemental energy and even many variations of dark elemental energy. He heard of the location from Gravin and he was amused by the story behind it.

It all started many centuries ago with some dark elemental beasts called the Twilight Elephants. These elephants have one of the most basic behaviors of a normal elephant. They move to an elephant graveyard when they are on the verge of death.

They used this Dark Range as that spot. This place used to have nothing. It was just a large lump of stone with mediocre spiritual energy. Even the earth elemental beasts nearby wouldn’t go there for the mediocre herbs and resources available in that place. There is no food chain whatsoever in there.

But as the elephants died and their blood and flesh seeped into this area over the years, the terrain changed.

Dark elemental energy and death energy along with the natural cursed energy prevailed and soon the whole range changed.

The mountain range that used to be desolate and useless has changed into something else.

Now, the mountain range houses hundreds of ghosts of the Twilight elephants along with the undead and ghosts of both elephants and other creatures that came in the hopes of feasting on an almost dead elephant.

When the creatures finally started noticing that a large elephant is going to die here and a fresh corpse could be found without any struggle and they could feast on it, it was already late.

The range already started showing some changes. At first, some of the creatures managed to eat the flesh and got away with it, but as the time passed, the range became dangerous and the beasts that went to feast on the corpses of the elephants never came back.

The cultivators took notice of this area and they also went in for the skeletons and tusks of the elephants along with the other beasts.

After all, the bones of many beasts are used in making weapons, defensive artifacts and such. So, many people believed this to be a treasure trove and gradually it became a no man’s land to one of the most visited places of the planet.

In fact, they are the only ones daring enough to stay in the mountain range overnight.

The rest of the expedition teams barely do that. Sam got as much information from the three groups as possible.

Most of the members are dark elemental users. At least the important members that have authority to call some shots.

The three people in the Three ghosts are also dark elemental members. Sam is sure that he wouldn’t be able to poach a guy from the main members of the Government group and the Second group, his best choice is to find some secondary members who joined these two groups directly without any links to the organization.

Or he has to convince one of the three ghosts to come with him.

If he couldn’t do any of this, he has to find the best specter in the mountain range and employ one of these groups to help him capture it.

No matter what decision it is, he decided to join the expeditions of the three groups and look at their performance first hand before proceeding with his further plans.

So, he waited for the expedition groups to announce their next expeditions.

Luckily, he didn’t have to wait for long. The very next day, the second group announced their expedition.

The second group has two teams. One is the scouting team led by a necromancer and the second one is the main fighting team.

The scouting is obviously smaller, but its members are also fixed. They are all the members of their organization and they have complete loyalty to the group.

While the recruited external members will be added to the main fighting group.

Sam read the expedition details posted on a notice board in the bar.

They are looking for ten members and it would be better if they are warriors who are good in close-range combat.

They are going into a valley within the mountain range and they are looking for a special specter. Anything that was found individually apart from the specter, could be kept by the person and if something was found by the group, then they will sell it and the profits will be shared. Apart from that, there is no payment for the people who join the group.

Sam was amused by this. The expedition groups clearly knew that everyone that came here would be dying to get into the top three groups and they wouldn’t need any payment. After all, with the top three groups, people can go deeper and have a higher chance of finding something valuable.

In every expedition even though the group had only one goal in mind, they would always find some extra valuable items which would then be sold and the profits are divided.