Sam stepped forward and stood before Ben who is still rolling on the ground.

He is still confused.

But when he saw Sam's cold gaze, he came back to his senses and a myriad of emotions came to his head.

Pain, embarrassment and anger, just as he was about say something, Sam took out the reaper sword.

The bloody aura emitted by the blade which is in colour of blood red itself, made him shut up instinctively.

At this moment, Moriya extended his hand blocking Sam and Ben's exchange and said to Sam.

"It's his fault, you paid him back, just let us leave it at that."

Sam scanned the person and did take a step back, but before that, he looked at Ben with an extremely murderous glare.

"Se.. Senior Brother…" Ben stood up and just as he looked gloomy, he wiped the blood at the corner of his mouth and glared at Sam's back and was about to say something. But was cut off by Moriya.

"Ben, I think you better shut your mouth, anymore of your crap you would be done for, after all from the rules, he has more stars than you and even if you are dead, the temple head wouldn't find any trouble.

The only person who will be pissed by that would be your father but I assure you, even he wouldn't dare to mess with the rules of the temple.

I can save you once or twice, but not all the times, after all, who can make sure that you guys wouldn't end up together without anyone supervising.

He will slaughter you like lamb in a single move. Don't think that everyone will be docile just because of your father's status in the temple.

The only reason, I am even bothering to waste my saliva on you is because of former position as a senior disciple, if you cause trouble one more time, you are dead meat."

Moriya, gave a cold and unfeeling lecture and then took a step forward towards the candidates.

"I am Moriya, an envoy and also an elder of the thunder god temple. I wouldn't bother you with explaining what thunder god temple is and its significance but you should have one thing in mind and that is your empire, Orion is under thunder god temple's jurisdiction."

The candidates were stunned, except for Nathan, but no one didn't say anything and listened attentively as Moriya continued.

"The competition you have undergone was organised because of the orders from the thunder god temple. You ten are the representation of the young talent of the Orion empire.

You are tested and tested for almost three years for this day.

In a week, you guys will be faced with a final test which also an opportunity.

Whatever you gain from the competition is yours and yours alone, trust me this may change your life in ways you would have never ever expected."

He paused and took out some golden coloured cards and distributed each of them to the candidates. Each card has a person's name on one side and below the name there are stars. But the colour and number of stars differed from each other.

Behind the card there is a string of numbers, after looking at the number, Sam understood what these cards are. They are the new card holders and Sam's card shown him the total number of points he has.

It is 453,628. A six-digit number. That's right Sam got that many points and that is mainly due to the stolen hidden cards.

Jack and Philip also have points around three hundred thousand. As these three guys monopolised the entire hidden card section, they made a great haul. Their points are hundreds of times higher than the remaining seven candidates.

Sam looked at the four golden stars on his card and then he saw that that there are two golden stars and one silver star on the cards of Jack and Philip.

"The points on your card are going to help you a lot in the near future, there will be someone who will be explaining the remaining details later, so before that we shall leave this place and go to the thunder god temple.

The group followed Moriya and Ben into the room, Sam saw a very large complex and compound formation.

After everyone entered the main circle, the emperor activated the formation from this side and the group disappeared.

Sam felt as if he was being sucked by an intangible force all of a sudden.

His head felt fuzzy and he almost lost his consciousness, but just when felt that, his body came to a halt and saw a blinding white light disappearing in front of his eyes.

He saw that he was in a similar formation but in a different room.

Moriya and Ben are the only ones who are unfazed by the journey.

"The first time in the space gate will always feel like that, you will get better in a few minutes."

They slowly walked out of the room.

Sam felt a salty sea breeze on his face. He could easily guess that they are on an island.

"This island is the space gate station of the thunder god temple.

There are a group of islands near these surroundings which are under temple's control. The direction behind, you is where the Orion is located, but it was separated by a vast sea which is a bane to any type of cultivator.

Trust me, the sea in between was unconquered and you wouldn't be able to survive it. Follow me."

Moriya started explaining somethings about the thunder god temple.

There is a total of four empires under the thunder god temple and there is a space gate for every one of them.

Apart from them there are a few other space gates, but Moriya didn't explain about them.

As for the thunder god temple itself. It has a main island which is the main temple base. And they occupied tens of islands around it.

This space gate station is only on of those islands.

As they moved, they boarded some level 5 beasts and flew towards the main island.

Sam saw the beautiful scenery and was mesmerized by it.

He was momentarily lost in the natural beauty.

After travelling for a day, they arrived at the main island.

"Half of the islands you have seen are places for commoners to live and the other half are the residences of the disciples of the thunder god temple."

Moriya explained and led them to a place similar to a dormitory, there is a room for each person.

"You will be residing here and rest for the night. Tomorrow, morning there will be a person coming to you and will show you the surroundings. If you have any complains or troubles you can contact me."

With that he exchanged the contact information with the tokens and left the place.

Sam entered the dormitory and closed the door without even waiting for the rest of them to speak. He has something to deal with because, Sky is trying to say something through their connection.

After closing the door, he laid a formation of concealment and let Sky out.

"What do you want to say?"

[ We are near the central continent.]

"Central continent?"

[Yes, the central continent, the largest land mass of this world. That place is a land of beasts. The human influence is very scarce there and the continent is a treasure trove. In fact, this thunder god temple is on one of the island groups near the borders of the central continent.

There are more than six such island groups surrounding the central continent, compared to this place, your empires are rural lands.]

"So are you from the central continent?"

[Yes, I wanted to tell you, but I figured it would be better if I tell you after you reach a certain strength. The central continent is a a very dangerous land. It has vast deserts, marsh lands, snowy mountains, volcanic regions.

The humans are trying to explore and conquer the area from many years, but to no avail. The strongest existences of the continents reside there.

I am from the Great roc tribe in that central continent and Bi fang tribe is our archenemy.

Our tribe was almost destroyed in that land and the remnants like me scattered over the planet, I don't even know if there are any others left. But no matter what, do not enter the central continent at this moment, it is too dangerous for your strength.]

Sam thought for a moment before asking.

"Is there anything I should know about the thunder god temple?"

[I don't know much, but the elders of my tribe said that the temple worships a thunder god and the legacy was passed by him to the descendants. The temple is now managed by the members of that descendants at core.

Even though, they are named thunder god tribe, all kinds of element users and warriors will be recruited. They have many islands with lot of resources under their control.

In fact, there are a lot of islands that are unexplored around the central continent and all the powerful organisations try to gather their resources by conquering them.]

"Why do you think, these people wanted to gather us?"

[Basically, these people don't have a good impression on the people from the rural places like you, they look down on the people like you, I cannot possibly guess why they gathered you guys here.]