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nSam sent the team away after a break.

nMeanwhile, he sat down in the centre of the base at a certain spot.

nHe took out a bunch of scrolls and spread them on the ground. All of them combined created a map of the areas they have already explored and Sam started drawing the formations he made the team members put up.

nEven though Sam noticed that he cannot place the formations himself and appear to be making dumb mistakes when he used normal nodes or any other material as nodes for that matter, he also figured that if he used his subordinates as the builders of the formation and all he did is draw the formation on a paper, there is no problem.

nAll his skills disappeared. His arms are magically becoming clumsy when he is setting up a normal formation, but the knowledge is not disappearing.

nHe can utilize his knowledge but not skills.

nThis actually didn't take much from him in this aspect.

nThe saying Knowledge is Power didn't come for no reason.

nKnowledge is indeed power. When it is possessed by the right person. Not every tom dick and harry can use this power well. But luckily Sam is not a Tom, neither Dick nor a Harry.

nAfter drawing all the formations on the scrolls, he made some calculations on the side. After that, he took out a loom while the scrolls are still laid down.

nHe started weaving. But this he didn't have threads on the loom. He is weaving with pure energy.

nThe energy became visible as it is slowly injected into the loom and one could see it being divided, spread and turned into a bunch of energy threads which is turning into an energy fabric.

nThe process is slow. But the fabric is very neatly woven and cleanly constructed. It floated slightly above the ground level and it spread around Sam.

nSince Sam could control the energy that came out of the loom, he is able to spread it evenly without any destabilization of the energy. If a person could see the scene now, they would be seeing a large fine blanket slowly expanding over the whole area.

nWithin an hour, Sam covered the whole base camp and covered up until the perimeter.

nThen came the real challenge.

nNow the blanket is spread. The energy is stable at the moment. But that is only because Sam is connected to the blanket with the loom.

nHe has to three things before he could remove the loom.

nFirst one, he has to keep the blanket existent and stable even after he removes the loom.

nThe second thing is that after he connects the blanket to the formation, he has to leave an opening so that he can connect to the blanket later on and work with the formation through the blanket.

nThe final thing is that he should make sure that his allies and him are not effected by the blanket while he should be able to use it when the enemies are here and he should be able to manipulate the strings of the fabric as he liked afterwards.

nThere is also an additional task which gives him some easier time when he is connecting this blanket to the next one.

nSince this is the first area he is doing this, Sam had to spend some time here.

nBut after spending some time there, he got a hang of it and moved to the second area.

nThe process went on for the whole night and he only stopped by the time of sunset. In this time, he made blankets of pure spiritual energy, different elemental energies and even blankets that have multiple elemental energies.

nThe subordinates came with a bunch of beasts they captured along with the samples of soil and vegetation they collected.

nThey also got the reports of the new formations they set up.

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"Boss, from the estimation given to us by our clan, we already took over one-eighth of the valley.

nOut of which a little more than half was completely set with the formations and you also marked your second visit that you made last night.

nWe already set up a basic perimeter and planted some formation discs around the remaining area that is surrounding the first area. So no matter who comes into that territory we will be notified.

nI think we should be a lot more careful now. Since people from other clans might be here. If they set up their basecamps, they will also start exploring now. And if we divide the whole valley into seven equal parts and divide them for different clans, we already almost explored all the land under our clan.

nWe do another rapid expansion like we did last night, we will be moving into the territory of other young masters.

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"Hmm, dividing the territory is a good idea. Even assigning to other clan young masters is also a good idea. Since it will be much easier to remember the territories.

nBut that doesn't mean, we are going to sit back and relax. Why the ** do you think I have been preparing so much.

nWe will indeed slow down the process. But not by much. We will move in a similar way. The only difference is the area sections we made before are no longer the same. We are going to pick a much smaller section. You also have to be a bit more discreet in setting up the formations.

nFor that, you will be burying the beast bones and use the buried objects are nodes. These nodes cannot be visible to the rest.

nThat is the basic gist of it. Do you understand? If you have any questions, this is the moment for you ask.

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"But Cap…

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nVice was about start his usual dialogue and this time all he needed was a glare from Sam to shut up.

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"Just do as you are told. If you encounter any subordinates from other clans, don't try to engage. If they are lower level than you, just capture them and bring them here to the base camp.

nIf they are of equal level, do one proper sneak attack and escape immediately. Don't try to kill them, don't try to confirm if they are killed or if your sneak attack has proper landed, don't try to see if you can capture them.

nJust launch a proper sneak attack and escape immediately to the base camp.

nJust see if they are following you and if they are use the special code I taught you to give signal to the rest of your team members and me. Even if they whole camp is tailing you, your job is to safely return to the Perimeter number 2.

nI will handle the rest.

nAnd one thing to remember. If you know for sure that the person you encountered is stronger than you, leave.

nThose are the rules that you are not allowed to disobey no matter the cost.

nIt is an order for you guys to come back here. So, be careful.

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"Okay, Sir.

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"Leave now.

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nSam sent them away and started dealing with more calculation and such. He is sure that the situation is very hard to handle. The new method that he is using is also not proven to be local or normal. He is looking forward to it, but what will be the consequence.

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