Once again, Bloody Chariot wasn't impressed at all.

This is the most direct method, but the energy consumption is a lot more than the first. The only saving grace is that the spirit allows a better recovery from the atmosphere. Bloody Chariot moved on to the final formation.

This one is very similar to the first one. However, instead of prefixed actions, the controlled can make the energy do the actions in real time.

He can think and the energy will act like a conscious entity and will make it happen.

When Bloody Chariot tried to toss a coin. The energy inside condensed together to toss the coin into the air and the same energy dispersed a bit, slowed down the descent of the coin and finally made it levitate.

The action is very similar to what Bloody Chariot has asked for.

But…

"Why the hell is the energy consumption so high? All I did was toss a coin. The energy wasn't even used much to throw it in the air.

"

"True sir. But we are still using the spirit as a medium for the formation to understand the commands. And the spirit needs to consume a lot of mental energy to derive a solution that is suitable based on your commands.

Right now, you sent a command to toss a coin.

The formation spirit processed the thoughts and tried to think of a solution on its own. It went ahead and used the small energy explosion to toss the coin and another one to make it stop and levitate.

Even the energy consumed for the action itself is not that high, the problem lies in the mental energy of the spirit. Once it is dissipated, the spirit might extinguish itself, so the immense spiritual energy and Divine energy acts as a supplement to replenish it.

"

Bloody Chariot nodded in understanding.

Just when the elder felt relieved a bit, Bloody Chariot asked more questions.

"So, if the spirit is taking this much energy to conjure the thoughts, can it at least consume less when it is doing the same action second time? After all, the difficult part of thinking up the solution is over.

The execution shouldn't be much of a problem right?

"

The elder was stumped.

"Well…

"

After twenty minutes, Bloody Chariot went back to the research area to see the results of the chip decoding. The deep frown indicated his dissatisfaction and even a slight anger towards the answers given by the elder.

Simply put, the Elder wasn't able to replicate the effect that Bloody Chariot wanted. The spirit cannot store too much information. It can only store the information when the formation is programmed to do something already, which is the first mode of formation the elder showed.

Of course, they could improve this with the quality of spirits, layered formations to increase energy absorption and improvement on energy conservation, but Bloody Chariot is not exactly satisfied.

Because what he saw in the hub…

The whole time while Joker was demonstrating the decoding process of the chip, the projection of the scaled image, the movement of the chip…

It is not that they are difficult to do.

Bloody Chariot could do them as easily as he breathes. Anyone in Divine Plane can do it, but the thing is Bloody Chariot didn't sense any movement of energy, or to be precise, the energy movement is very subtle.

And the worst part is, he couldn't sense from where the energy is being controlled from.

He is sure that Joker is not in the hub building. He is sure that the projection of Joker is being controlled far away from the hub. If that is true, then how is that person doing what they are doing in the hub?

He has seen a dozen times at least and he got all kinds of descriptions from other students. Joker can actually control every single aspect of the formation remotely, without his physical presence directly there.

And the remote control range is so high to the point that he can control them even when they are all placed in various cities of the academy realm.

As for why he is suddenly obsessed with this situation?

It is because, he suddenly had a thought. Even if he managed to find the link between Sam and the hub and then investigated deeper into it. What if… what if Joker is not even in this realm. What if Joker doesn't even exist.

After all, they knew was a name a projection. There is a huge possibility that Joker doesn't even exist at all.

What if this whole manhunt will just be a waste of their time resources?

This also opened a new branch of questions. What if that person who masked himself as a joker, comes back in a different way? Since they don't even know his real identity can they defend against his tricks?

If the Joker is that powerful, what is his true goal?

Can they even fight with him?

These are all the questions that haunted his mind, as he looked more and more into Hub, Sam and the overall situation of the Olympian realm.

However, these are the questions that he cannot answer now. Until then, all he could do is try to understand the Hub better and prepare.

Two more days passed with the things almost in the same situation.

However, only after Bloody Chariot received various messages from other academies and some outside forces did he understand that the outside world is actually burning.

The Vlachous family's situation which was abrupt to begin with had some developments. At the risk of losing some important resource points of their family, the clan went ahead and laid down a trap to catch a few of the perpetrators.

After expending tedious effort, they did manage to capture someone and interrogate them.

However, the results only made them become more wary of their situation.

The people turned out to be part of another Noble league family and that too a family of equal stature as the Vlachous.

The Vlachous family members grew so angry by this sudden and abrupt assault that they killed the two captives in a fit of anger. At first, they wanted to use these people as some bargaining chips. That is also the reason, they didn't just use some soul search or other disruptive method to interrogate them.

But after hearing part of the story from them, they couldn't control themselves.

They realized, they are not just being targeted by one family from the Noble league, but from around nine families. Out of which three of them can directly contend with Vlachous, while the remaining six are slightly inferior.

That is not even the worst part of the story.

They only managed to identify one family. The two captives don't know who the remaining eight families are.

They are cooperating, but only people who are handling the talks and deals between the families know who they are cooperating with.

In fact, even the family heads who are directly involved in this collaboration, don't know all the nine families that are involved. Each party only knew three to four of the nine.

So, it is no wonder that these small fries that got caught would not know any answers. However, the Vlachous didn't expect that there would be such a tight knit net being cast at them.

To think that they would even keep each other in the dark just to deal with them. They knew that they couldn't handle them that easily.

This news obviously reached all the important people of the Vlachous family, which included Christos. Despite his current demoted state, he is one of the promising members of the Vlachous that contributed a lot.

People might try to take him down for political reasons, but they wouldn't object to using his brain in times of crisis.

When Christos received the news, he felt his heart beat rapidly in anxiety. Because, the family that they found out was one of the families that was involved in Sam's trap. Just like Thalassa family, this one also sent a bunch of people to kill Sam in Pseudo-hell realm.

Christos didn't know if he was just seeing things because of how deep he was in with investigating Sam. But his gut feeling told him that all of this is related.

While he is brewing that anxiety, Bloody Chariot also received the news and this made him feel another wave of headache. He heard more bad news in the past few weeks that he had in decades that he spent on battlefield.

However, there is just one silver lining to all of this.

That is, the elders managed to decode one of the chips. The bird puppet chip was obviously less complex was broken and they managed to find the coordinates of the nest location.

Bloody Chariot decided that he would go to this expedition alone. Only after witnessing what is happening there, would be return and gather what is needed to perform a proper exploration there.