Chapter 1309: Ghosts

Butler Si and Disciple One along with a bunch of onlookers watched as the tower started collapsing in front of them. They were stunned by such an event happening right in the middle. Everyone heard of what happened at the inn a few days ago.

They heard of the challenge between Sam and Disciple One, but no one expected Sam to take this kind of action.

The explosion clearly showcased the chaos of the energy waves. When the collapse of the tower was completed, only half of the people inside the tower were alive and even they were severely injured.

But that was not the end of it. From what looked like distorted corpses and bloody messes, several ghosts suddenly shot out.

*SCREEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCH*

*SCREEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCH*

*SCREEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCH*

Several screams were heard from them as they dove towards the weak and puny members that are still alive. Butler Si felt a cold shiver through his spine as he looked at what transpired next. Even with the decades of experience and the bloodshed he himself created, he couldn’t digest what he saw.

Each ghost possessed the bodies of the mercenary group mercilessly and inflicted what seemed like a soul searing excruciating pain.

"AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH..."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....."

"HEEEELLLP...."

Everyone started screaming even though they barely had any energy left in their bodies. They are feeling the most pain they had ever felt in their lives.

And the pain is not for their bodies, it was directed to their souls. They felt the pain of being pierced with a thousand needles, being burned in a furnace and drowned in ice cold water all at the same time.

Apart from that, they also lost the control over their bodies. They started attacking each other as if they are archenemies for several lifetimes.

One by one they started losing lives and the original souls in the bodies are merging with the cursed souls that are taking the possession of their bodies.

As the cursed souls increased their strengths, they all turned towards Butler Si and Disciple One.

Butler Si, immediately understood who their target was.

Sam has programmed the souls such that they would increase their strength with the help of the souls of all the red glove mercenary members and they will then target Disciple One.

From their strength, Butler Si, immediately understood one thing. If not for the fact that he is present here today, Disciple One would die worst of the deaths.

He immediately extended his hands as his spatial energy transcended the physical space and blocked the coming ghosts.

Disciple one did as he was told, but as if they were not even there initially, the ghosts directly disappeared from the spot zoomed past Butler Si, as they went to the next street.

Butler Si also disappeared from the spot and reappeared right next to the Disciple One.

He knew that something like this is going to happen. Disciple One’s soul is marked by these ghosts and they wouldn’t stop until they get to him or until they disappear completely.

He could only battle it out with them.

But it didn’t take long within a few minutes, he destroyed all the ghosts and caught a hold of Disciple One as he got ready to leave this place. But he has stop because someone else arrived at the place. The strongest wormhole guard and people in charge arrived which made him stop. He knew there is no easy way out.

If he just disappeared like this, Mari Clan would have to explain, so he calmed down and had a discussion with them and only then was he able to leave.

Even then, he was walked to the wormholes.

"A young man who had fake leg and fake arm came here running when the explosion started. Where did he go?"

The guard posted there pointed into one of the wormholes and after taking note of which place the wormhole leads to, he went back to Mari Clan along with his Disciple.

Sam waited there in the room as he thought of ways to escape this situation if push comes to shove. He looked at the hundreds of thousands of inscriptions runes on the wall as he analyzed them. He managed to differentiate a few formations separately.

He took his own brush and started writing here and there. He knew there is no way out, but if it really comes to it, he will completely destroy the whole thing and find a different way with the specter ad try to escape. The worst case scenario is that he would die which he is extremely unwilling to do.

As he was thinking, Grivon entered the room and looked at Sam who is extremely vigilant.

"Don’t worry. You are way too valuable for me to kill you like this. I have a lot of things that I need you to do for me."

"I am not a goon to be hired. I don’t do dirty work of someone else. Those days are far too behind me."

"Of course, I am not hiring you for a goon. I am looking for your strength, I am hiring you for your brain."

"That is something I am still selling. But I doubt you would be happy with the price."

"You never know, until you name it. But first, let’s get out of here. I have a perfectly safe place where any of your enemies can never reach."

Sam thought for a moment and said.

"I am not leaving without a contract."

"Really? You are that cautious?"

"Last time I was not cautious, I lost a body and that is to someone from a clan like yours. I am way too far away from my own organization and I am deprived of all of my resources which I painstakingly built over decades. I don’t think I can ever be cautious enough in the future."