Sam looked around and since he already knew that the fighting would be hard, he immediately used another method. He gave a taunting smirk and ignored the both of them as he ran towards Arkiv.

Clearly, he is quite faster than the two of them and even if they are fast, it is not easy to catch up.

Before leaving Sam screamed to Praneeth.

"Keep both of them safe, I will meet you at Vronti castle after I am done with this."

With those words, he ran faster, and while he did that, he continuously throws lightning strikes to the rear and the front,

Arkiv is also moving so that he could keep his distance from Sam. He is the only one who has escaped Sam's guns and he knew that if he is within the range of the guns, he might as well commit suicide.

So, he maintained the same distance. The distance he remembers when they had the guns vs bows fight in the second Palace of inheritance.

To his relief, Sam didn't take out the guns and after some consideration, he gave that credit to his two companions.

As they ran and ran, Sam chased and lured them into an unknown place and the terrain is slowly starting to change. There are many metallic trees in the area and they seemed to have entered a part of the woods.

Arkiv felt like he could take a breather as he could use archery better in the woods. But, when they are in the middle of the forest, Sam suddenly climbed a tree and used all his power to strike into the clouds.

All of a sudden, the clouds roared as if they are provoked and started crackling. Sam jumped off of the tree and called for Raiju.

He even let Raiju activate elemental fusion and made him attack the clouds once again before dashing away.

He didn't go the way he came nor did he go in the direction he was chasing. He moved in a lateral direction and simply escaped.

When the three players wanted to catch him, they suddenly noticed that the clouds started creating a miniature thunderstorm. Except for the water, there are only lightning sparks and lightning strikes. Except for Dyaus, the remaining two will take some damage, if they stayed, and even if they don't get injured severely, they would definitely become slower.

And Sam is confident that he could get away before they catch up with this headstart.

As for how he knew about that place, it is a training ground of Praneeth's family. As long as they hit the clouds with lightning strikes, they will strike back in a barrage.

Sam is on his way to the Portal. He clearly thought of this. Since the fights are getting boring, Sam decided to use escape tactics. He will make them frustrated like the pigs ready for slaughter. He could finally have a good enough fight at the end of this competition.

As for why Sam is searching for so much fun lately, he doesn't know it. He is also exploring his own mind and evaluating himself as he thought why he would need that much fun all of a sudden.

He stayed on this planet more than necessary. Him, disguising and entering the battle like normal troops. Even attacking Wind fiend with such disadvantage. All of a sudden Sam felt quite boring and felt like his life has been too saturated.

He has to think of the problem and solution as soon as possible.

It is almost like he lost interest and mojo completely. Even this black horse game is just a little fun game for him as he had a lead because of the coincidence from the emperor and got two herbs before these even came to the dimension.

Of course, they don't have enough connections like Sam to enquire about the way to access other planets which played a big role, but it is still okay.

After exploring these planets, Sam is feeling something else in his heart, he is finding a long-lost excitement and some sort of fun.

Every place he went, all he could think of was how he can develop in that place from the scratch. Even though he got sick of the Vronti before he visited the city after he did that he has half a mind to build a city like that and another half is screaming to smelt the whole soil down and separate the metals.

There is an inkling inside his heart that is saying what the problem is but he wasn't able to catch it.

After returning to the Vronti castle, he met with Chatur and Arman, before bidding goodbye to Praneeth, but not before reminding him to gather all his required resources.

When the trio returned to the lake, the fire elemental stones disappeared. Because pearl day was already over within their field trip. But they didn't panic.

Because they knew where the pearl went. The lake is even replaced by the Dark element stones.

Chatur made himself scarce as soon as they arrived at the late and came back a day later with the required information.

Sam smiled at the information he gave.

The first batch is related to the home planets of the elite ten. Since Sam is making deals with scions of the other planets, Chatur hoped that it would help. After all, the Elite ten is extremely juicy targets and wanted people on their own planets. So, if Sam captured them and gave them to Noble scions, he could get credit which Sam doesn't have any use to and he will give resources Sam wants, which are actually pretty useful.

When Sam looked at this he couldn't help but smile.

But the second batch of information made his smile turn into a grin. It is the position of the current elite ten.

For all the days, Sam has disappeared, the Elite wanted to take advantage to study all his previous battles without his disturbance and the mighty Battle erudite seemed to have prepared some battle strategy the attacks are once again in full swing.

But the location of the Elite ten is a bit more complicated.

They are placed in a small circle such that they can communicate with each other easily but the circle is large enough for them to move to their designated location as fast as they can and if necessary they can even pull the Elite ten.

After players joined, the Special commanders created a joint command. Finally, there are signs of organized war and the Players are clashing with the elite ten. Or to be precise Elite Eight.

But the players are nine members as Sam and Arman are clearly not on the Players' side in this ploy.

Speaking of Arman, Sam was extremely surprised by his actions in this Black horse game. He thought, that Arman would definitely rat him out and use this situation to get some revenge, but it seemed that their private time spent together was well worth it.

Even with the enticement of the points that could come with this situation, he didn't do anything to betray Sam.

After studying the information, Sam didn't immediately move, he waited for the three players that came to Vronti to come and join.

He decided to get involved when the situation is most chaotic.

But he didn't have to wait for a long time. They joined the very next day and Sam also got ready to join the fray.

This time, Chatur also wanted to join, as he could get the information from the enemies easily and hide at the special spots only he would know.

He didn't stop and took him.

His first targets are the young men who attacked Sam when he captured Night Charm.

These young men are ice and fire users and they turned out to be brothers. That too they are born on same days. The only thing that is not making them twins is that their father is the same but their mothers are different and those mothers are also sisters.

As for why them, they have some juicy bounty on their heads in the next place Sam wanted to visit.

The fifth-place Castle or the representative of the fifth Planet from which Sam has a need.

The planet is closest to the normal planet in this Naga Loka. It is almost like Nagin, but not as large. Sam even felt Nagin is smaller compared to the home planet. Much less this.

This is extremely small. Small to the point, there are only three nations in this and they don't have many disputes as they created a deadlock for each other. No matter which country provokes another one, the remaining one will join the second country and suppress the provoker.

This is a tacit understanding and except for some small skirmishes, there is nothing else between them. Even the resources are not that rich. They are just average. The only thing this place can offer is highly fertile lands for the herbs.

And these two Ice and fire brothers actually managed to provoke all three nations and any representative would want them alive.

After confirming all the required information and contacting the necessary people, Sam got ready to take action.