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nSam still hovered on the harbinger as he dodged the falling golems with a peculiar look. Even though he didn't see a lot of golems and particularly not the naturally formed one, to the best of his knowledge, he knew they wouldn't fall mindlessly like that.

nHe wanted to just go straight away from the canyon, but he was stunned by what he saw. Because a giant golem came rolling down. It is ten times larger than the rest of the golems and it blocked the canyon's entrance.

nHe wanted to go back, but another golem came there which is of the same size and blocked that way too. He didn't expect something like this to happen and wanted to increase the altitude and getaway. But then there came some beasts on top of the canyon. They are bird-type fire elemental beasts.

nSam frowned at this. As he tried to increase the altitude, the birds are launching at him as if they are catching a chick. He felt extremely annoyed because the number of them is too large and they are both Pre-transcendent and Nascent stage ones.

nHe was being attacked by the golems and the birds at the same time. This is something he didn't expect.

nHe didn't think this thing is coincidental though.

nAs he was thinking that and was hovering at the maximum altitude he can and trying to dodge the birds and find his way out, he saw some familiar faces behind the large golem that is throwing lava at him.

nThey are two teams of people. One of them is the rubrum empire and the other is of another nation that he doesn't know, but their scales black.

nHe frowned at this. He didn't expect these people would beat him to this spot and even set such a trap on top of that.

nThe team members looked at him and smirked. Particularly the team leader of the rubrum empire.

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"There is no way out for you. These things wouldn't get out of the valley anytime soon and they wouldn't let you get away easily. Particularly, when they are sure that is in that canyon but it is not present and you are the only foreign presence that is there which will automatically make their dumb brains think that you are the one that stole it.

nGood luck getting out of that. Even with your extremely practical and fast toy, I highly doubt you would be able to do that.

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nSam raised an eyebrow when he looked at their cocky expressions as if they have one. He doesn't know what they used to lure these creatures into this canyon at the exact same time, he entered it, but they sure did a great job.

nHe is sure that if it is anyone normal they would have definitely had a hard time getting out of here. But they don't realize, that Sam is not anyone.

nSam looked at them for a second and once again reduced his altitude. The birds are the most pestering at this moment. They are called Flame owls. Their talons are extremely sharp and they can secrete fire poison through them.

nEven though Sam has experience with that and fire poison has the word 'poison' in it, it is not a normal poison and the hydra bloodline wouldn't do anything to it. Golden crow's bloodline will help him absorb it, but the process will want to make him cut the part where it is infected rather than absorb. It would be that painful.

nAs for the golems, they are just mindless brutes and if not for their numbers and the size of their leaders, he wouldn't have any problem getting away at this moment.

nHe decreased his altitude and dove deep into the valley. He took out the two handguns and started shooting at the golems. Every golem, whether it is a natural one or an artificial one will have a core and once it is hit, it would be done for.

nAnd unlike the Lava slime, it cannot move the core as it wished.

nSam barraged to golems with bullets with his two handguns as he tried to identify the core's location and soon both the golems fell. Sam noticed the location and the first thing he wanted to do was to reduce the numbers.

nHe changed the bullets and used the energy cell bullets and started shooting. A Grade-5 Golems that are equivalent to the Nascent stage are down for one hit. They don't have enough intelligence to even dodge. As for the Grade-6 ones, he was able to do it for a few more hits. As for two bosses, he would need an energy cell the size of an RPG to get through that and he doesn't have one.

nAnd they don't even have any rage for the loss of their kin.

nAfter reducing their numbers by a bit, Sam aimed his guns at the owls. He didn't aim for their heads though, he aimed for their wings. They might be fast and they might be fierce, but they are birds and they need wings to fly.

nAnd when they got hit, they started falling down.

nAs he was doing this, Sam also started taking hits from the golems and the long-range attacks of the Lava and fire from both the golems and birds.

nBut he cared little about that. He tried his best to dodge and he let the rest hit him and he tried his best to defend.

nWhen the birds fell, the golems got distracted and started getting to them. For the golems, the birds are not allies, but just another source of energy they could absorb to survive and since such a thick piece of meaty resource fell in the middle of them, they started tearing them apart and absorbing the energy and lifeforce from them.

nThese are the only two things these golems need and they are taking it.

nSam smirked at this because the leaders of these owls are not as dumb as the golems. They might be dumb enough to be manipulated by some Nagas, but they have enough sentience and instincts to attack the one who is hurting their kin the most.

nIn their eyes, Sam's attacks that only damaged their wings are not the worst, the golems that are tearing them apart and absorbing them are the worst of the two, and most of their aggression was diverted at them.

nSam got the breathing space he needed and he went down the valley and entered the divine dimension for a second, before coming back. He didn't do that as soon as he was surrounded because he was afraid that the divine dimension would end up in the belly of a bird or get stuck in the body of a golem if he did that. But now that both parties are engaged, he was fine with it.

nWhen the two teams beyond the large golem saw this, they were stunned, they didn't expect that something like this would happen.

nThey couldn't see what Sam is using and they couldn't see, but what they could see is that some birds started falling off and now the golems and the birds started fighting.

nEven the bosses of both sides are engaged and at this moment, they saw Sam once again. He is battered and ragged with some blood escaping his mouth and his clothes burned off as they became a little more than rags just now.

nBut he is smiling at the six cultivators with a lot of mischief in his eyes and he zoomed past the large golem which is currently fighting with the bird king and took out two glass bottles before throwing them onto the teams all of a sudden.

nA golden-green liquid was spilled on them and they were stunned for a second before they could react to what it is, they noticed that it has a lot of fire elemental energy in it and the energy is extremely dense and easy to absorb.

nAll of them recognized the effects because they knew what it was, it was the juice made out of the stem of the lotus.

nThe lotus is born from the absorption of a lot of fire elemental energy, in fact, the fire elemental energy of the whole volcanic region. It is even beneficial for transcendent stage cultivators and generally, it would go for those cultivators when the teams harvest it.

nBut they do get the leftover, like this stem. When they saw Sam throwing such a precious resource at them, they became furious, but before they could express their anger, they realized what is happening. This type of resource is too precious and tempting for the creatures in the region and if not for the slime and the intensity of the Lava that makes these beasts cower in fear, they would have gone for the Lotus themselves.

nBut now that such a lotus fragrance was coming from these people, they would surely not give up the chance and then they saw the golem king and the bird king, both halting and making their way towards the six members.

nThe six of them didn't become extremely panicky though, they are fine for a moment, but they suddenly sensed something and turned around and what greeted them is Sam aiming his guns at them.

nHe shot twelve bullets in total before they could react and all the twelve bullets are energy cells and every one of them was targeted on the limbs and joints.

nThe six members were injured and they lost a pretty good chunk of their flesh from their bodies as one arm and one leg for each has been injured.

nTheir eyes turned wide in horror.

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"Since you guys wanted to set me up, you must have been prepared for this.

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nSam left these words and left and the six Pre-transcendent elite Nagas are left with a horde of golems and owls to deal with in their injured states.

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