Chapter 1313: Shields

"What kind of revenge do you want?"

"What do you mean?"

"If you just want to kill them, you don’t have to come to me. But if you want to kill them without anyone knowing and with a sense of mystery left behind, I could help you a bit."

"No, no. No killing. If the clan finds out, that I killed my peers even before my previous generation heir selection was not over, then I would be dead."

Sam shrugged and said.

"Okay, that is just one option anyway, there are others.

If you want to take revenge on the business side of things, there are a few methods. You can penetrate the market and take away their share of customer base, you can destroy their business without any involvement in the market too.

If you ask me, these two are the best options. I would proceed with either of those two."

"What about others?"

"they involve some killing and smearing the reputation and a lot more deeds that accumulate to kill their business."

"Then I will go with the first two options, but still the question is which one is better?"

"That is the question you need to answer. Do you have interest in penetrating into that market?"

"Of course, I have interest, but those places were a bit too difficult, my brothers and sisters saturated their position a long time, in fact their parents did that for them when they gave those businesses to them. They have decades of loyalty and reputation behind their stability, I would say it is impossible."

"Nothing is impossible. Particularly in the business world. Customers might appear extremely loyal to a single enterprise, but that cannot be more wrong. They are fickle, as fickle as weathers in the wind. They just fly away along with the strongest current.

Most of the time, the customers appear loyal to one particular brand because, there is no other brand offering a better of similar service or there is no other brand with a better service that they could afford.

It is easy to get majority of customers to shift their interest as long as they have better product."

Grivon looked at Sam with a but skeptical expression.

Sam chuckled and said.

"Okay, it seems like your age-old clan teachings really got to you. I will prove it. Give me the profiles of the main businesses of the people you want to take revenge on. I will pick one as a trail and prove my point to you."

Grivon still had that skeptical expression and took out a bunch of profiles, Sam looked through them briefly and picked one.

"This is new. I never knew that people can target this niche and gain that many profits."

Grivon took a peek and said.

"Well, that is because of the loyalty and the brains behind the creations of that business. There is one main person behind this business. My sister only takes care of the customer and financial side, the person who creates the product is a complete outsider from the clan."

"She is not your real sister, is she?"

"What do you mean real?"

It has one button on the top for activation and two more on the body for variations within.

Sam showed all three buttons and explained which is which.

Grivon pressed the activation button. The energy suddenly condensed from within the cylinder and the surroundings as it condensed in the form of a large shield in front of him.

It is translucent and it is glowing.

Sam stood in front of the shield and said.

"Hold it properly."

Grivon held it tighly as Sam took a step back and threw a punch. He used the strength of a middle stage Astral Plane pre-transcendent cultivator.

*BAM*

There was a loud sound, before the translucent barrier rippled and the blow completely dissipated. Grivon was stunned. He almost didn’t feel the impact at all. It as if the shield directly took the attack and sent it somewhere else.

"Use the first variation."

Sam said as he lunged forward and moved to the side attacking from the opening there.

But as soon as the first variation was pressed, the shield expanded and covered Grivon in spherical barrier. The attack was once again absorbed.

"The second variation."

Sam said calmly and Grivon pressed it. This time it still stayed as a spherical barrier, but the as soon as the punch landed, Sam was blown away from that spot and was sent flying.

He moved mid-air and landed safely as he walked forward.

"The second variation works on both normal activation mode and the first variation. To deactivate it, all you have to do is press the button on top again."

Grivon pressed it and the shield was gone.

"I didn’t think these kinds of barriers existed. I know defense artifacts use energy barriers, but these barriers are different."

"Of course, they are different, I made them."

"What about their durability though?"

"That’s what I am going for next." With that, Sam took out a very different device. It is a small stand with a groove that fits the cylinder base perfectly. The cylinder stands in it. Within that stand, there is another groove where he placed a space jade.

"One charge of the artifact can take ten blows from an Astral Plane Pre-transcendent cultivator at Middle-stage, three from late-stage and one from peak stage. As for the Initial stage, I think it can last for quite a while.

After it was gone, as long as the cylinder was not damaged, they can place it in this and place a space jade filled with spirit stones and place it here, the cylinder will charge itself.

Sam then turned the stand upside down and there is a small glowing semi-circle on it.

"This circle indicates the charge it holds, if it is complete, then the charge is full."