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nSam is currently inside his room along with the Void hopper.

nAlthough it is an insect, most of its characteristics are like a beast. Even though the beast itself is not powerful, it is almost impossible to kill in the same level of cultivation.

nSam is currently examining it closely as it displayed the skills it already has. One of them is to create a fixed space within a radius of twenty meters making everything else stop moving, another one is blinking one place to another within the twenty meters, and the space tearing attacks that could cause extra damage to the opponents.

nAll of these attacks may sound minute and not too flashy and grand, but that is one of the drawbacks of getting the spatial element and also the capacity of the Void hopper at the current stage.

nA void hopper always has limited abilities below the Astral plane, in fact, the current abilities are limited to its transcendent stage cultivation.

nIf it reaches the Consummate level, the range will increase by at least three times the normal, and also the attacks of a beast are mostly determined by the genetic memory it inherits from its parent.

nBut these are not the things that are bothering Sam at all, he is currently looking at the one long silver-grey stripe on the dark grey body of the Void bug.

nAccording to the description in the bestiary, the stripe shouldn't exist.

nSo, he is currently using the bloodline refinement techniques to see if there is anything he could find and he did find something.

nThe Void bug has an extra bloodline inside its body, but Sam couldn't identify it. Its nature doesn't match with any beast in the bestiary. That or, it is unrecognizable after merging with the bloodline of the Void hopper.

nHe was a little hesitant to finish the contract, but he still decided to do it anyway.

nHe is sure that Gambler needs him for now and any problem that could come will be dealt later.

nSo, he went out of the room and stood on top of the building as he started the process.

nWhen the whole process was done, he took a look at the spiritual core and a new orb is floating within it along with all the old ones.

nThis one is a ball of two shades of grey. The dark and the silver-grey.

nSam tried to use it and he managed to channel the spatial energy all over his body, but the orb turned dark grey, the silver-grey part of the bloodline is completely unaccessible.

nAnd there is not much he could do and he couldn't even ask the Void hopper anything, because the beast is not capable of communication yet. It can listen and understand and that too, the beast tongue and barely any normal language, but it cannot speak back. It can give out some hints which the beasts could understand, but Sam is still having a hard time.

nThat is because the age of the Void hopper which might be around ten to twenty years is actually considered a child.

nOnly after it reached a certain cultivation level after a few years could it be considered an adult and until then, it wouldn't get any form of direct communication.

nHe just has to wait for the Void hopper to grow or just let it show the abilities of the Silver Grey bloodline.

nWhile Sam is contemplating all of this, he took his attention back to the spiritual core because he felt something.

nAnd he was shocked by what he saw.

nHis spiritual core which looked like a transparent glass ball with different types of marbles inside started crystalizing.

nA faint crystalized line appeared on the core and stopped. The line which circled around the core divided the whole core into two halves.

nHe noticed that the energy seemed to have increased and it is more than it should even for the Consummate level standards. His energy reserves are higher to begin with and it seems like the crystallization brought one more fold of energy to raise.

nAfter making sure that his body doesn't have any adverse effects, he went out to train for a bit to get used to the new strength.

nTwo days of training later, he went to meet the executives who completed the list.

nThe eligible candidates are actually higher in number than Sam thought.

nThere are around six hundred people in the transcendent stage middle-stage and higher and the consummate level cultivators are not many. Everyone that broke through is already at the end of their potential and there are barely any that could qualify for his requirements. Except for the Ark, Adrian, and some recently broken through people, not many are selected. They are around ten.

nThis is devastating, to be honest. But that is alright.

nWhen he saw more than a hundred people who are at the Peak of the transcendent stage, he is hopeful once again.

nHe gave out orders to send divide them into groups and he decided to visit each group separately.

nAfter that, he went to check how the administration is going on and what the profits are, and how much he could use.

nThe next decade will lead to another fast expansion plan. But this time it will be within the realms that Sam is going to enter. He wouldn't spread too thin and the ones who will be in the lead of the expansion plan are the people in the earlier list.

nBecause previously they took their sweet time with expansion even though it is considered rapid, they didn't hammer their presence directly and boldly.

nBut this time, he is going to do exactly that.

nHe would almost create an invasion in that realm and the main thing that he would be selling the people and the rulers there is going to be fear.

nHe would establish himself there with brute force and open up his businesses rapidly without even giving the people any chance to retaliate.

nEven though he wanted to do that before, he couldn't because of the lack of resources which led to the slow growth of the individual strength of people under him.

nEven though many people in the world would beg to disagree, he is sure that as long as he could increase the growth and created a strong force with him, he would have no problems fearlessly expanding the business.

nAs long as he is strong enough he doesn't have to cozy up to the local bigshots and share too big of a pie with them.

nBut for that, he needs another plan. Because the faster the expansion the faster his manpower who runs things from bottom to the administrator level would thin down.

nHis new academies are already established in all the realms and by the end of the decade he is sure that just the number of orphan students would be enough to maintain this manpower, but that is not enough. He needs more.

nSo, he thought of something different and he went to the Feathered realm to talk to all kinds of administrators from various areas so that they would follow his instructions.

nThe plan was put to action.

nThe whole organization once again got the busiest.

nPeople are always running around and doing multiple tasks, while Sam went to the Central continent to flex his muscles a bit.

nMost of their expansion was within outer regions of the central continent, but they still got a lot of resources, and Arkiv's exploration company was also launched.

nNow it is time they went deeper and see what this place has to offer.

nWhile Sam is hunting the central continent, their plans of his are being implemented in various areas.

nThe higher executives of every realm sent the lower-level executives to various corners of their respective realm, from the villages to the city with a bunch of patents and ideas and along with a small research team.

nIt is about time the graduates that are specialized in research took a proper practical experience head-on.

nThe executives and the teams met with the local big shots, the village heads, town heads, the city heads and examined their respective locations and researchers before they proposed some kind of development plans which would not only increase the local economy but also some profits to the organization.

nThe profit margin for the organization is very small, but the profit is not what they are after.

nSam wanted to gain two things from this. One is that the research freshers would get practical experience and two is that he is taking the smaller portion of the profit in exchange for the death row inmates or people with long prison sentences.

nNo matter which place it is or what government is ruling, the death row inmates are common. In fact, they are placed on death row without an instant execution because of one main reason, the big shot whoever imprisoned them will execute them in the bunch to create some show of strength which he didn't possess and create fear in people.

nAnd in chaotic times like this, the death row inmates are more. Sam decided to take them and use them as manpower.

nA desperate man who is counting his days to death, what would he be not willing to do to get a second chance.

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