Sam didn't even move from his chair as he just threw the laser beams into the crystal on the table.

The mirrors did the rest of the trick.

Every time a Vampire moved, Sam shot them with a beam of light. Since he is the one who installed the mirrors, he knew exactly how they worked and how he has to shoot in the crystal to hit him.

Their bodies slowly started taking the brunt of the attack.

Sam activated his energy vision and looked at them carefully, as long as he could detect any form of energy, he would attack that Vampire.

He didn't give them a single chance to leeway. He didn't give them the time to defend or to attack Sam. They don't even have the chance to turn into their forms.

Sam felt like this is extremely easy. All he needed was to lure them into a trap and they are done.

He looked at them and spoke.

"I have a game for you. I will ask questions and the one who answers will be spared from the attacks for one minute, if no one answers, the intensity of the attacks will be increased by ten percent for every minute you delay.

Let's get started with the first question.

Are the Vampires only races involved in this war or are there other races from the Undead realm involved?"

Sam said as he shot a continuous light beam. The six of them are being hit in six different places and slowly their skin is burning.

They couldn't take it anymore and everyone wanted to speak, but one person beat the rest of them to it.

"Vampires, Ghouls, and Wights are involved. But only Vampires and Ghouls are currently here, the wights didn't come."

Sam smiled and made small finger movements which made that one person exempt from this torture. The rest of the five are shot with light beams of the same intensity.

After a minute is over, Sam once again included that sixth person in this and asked his second question.

"What is your purpose of coming here? What is the true purpose of this war?"

This time it didn't take long before one of them opened his mouth.

"We don't know the exact details, all we know is lead the Minotaurs and the Orcs to capture four major towns and the City of the Council in the dwarven territory, and our the task will be done. We will only get further details after we finish it."

Sam modified the crystal position once again and let this guy go.

After another minute, Sam once again asked.

"What are those grey stones that you got?"

"They are the stones from the undead realm. A volcanic stone formed by the Volcano called the Undying Volcano.

They are hard to find and they have grades. Ours is one of the lowest grades, it turns every living creatures into undead by burning their vitality and soul away."

"What is the progress of this war in other towns and the City?"

"Dwarves were really caught off guard with the attacks of both Minotaurs and the Orcs. They couldn't react in time and almost all the villages were sacked.

One of the towns that were being attacked by Orcs was destroyed and people retreated to the Town head mansion. They are still working on it.

Another town has its wall destroyed and they are still at war.

The third town was being occupied by us.

The last town is this.

As for the City. The war is still balanced. The Dwarves are stronger than we thought and they are holding their own against the top dogs of both races.

There is not much we can do in that battle-field."

"Why are only Initial stage Pre-transcendent stage Vampires in this place?"

"We can't send the people of superior cultivation. This is our limit."

"So, when are the wights coming here?"

"Two weeks."

Sam asked a few more questions and asked for their storage devices before throwing the chessboard towards them.

All six of them disappeared and Sam finally stopped his light onslaught.

He went through their belongings and checked all the scrolls to see if the information they gave matched and it did.

After finishing it up, all that is left for him to do is to deal with the Minotaur soldiers.

He once again focused on the situation through the Crystal table while he took out the wine and took a huge swig.

The table usually consumes a lot of energy and now he even used his light element, the energy consumed is extremely high. There is no way he could take it without any other energy intake.

After recovering a bit, he observed the war. The Minotaurs are okay for a bit as they tried to survive, but Sam sent a series of messages to his friends and they became aggressive. All this while, even though they had the upper hand the scene looked like there is still a chance for Minotaurs for their superior members, but they are done immediately after this.

Two Minotaurs died in every location almost instantly. This made the rest of them afraid as they started retreating. They tried to wait for the commands from the Vampires, but they didn't give any commands for the past half an hour.

So they didn't care anymore and went back.

The enemies slowly retreated and felt the loss.

Sam just ordered for the cleanup and didn't chase them.

The Minotaurs are just pawns, there is no need for him to exert too much energy and suffer losses to deal with pawns. He has to wait for other pieces of the game to come out.

He did order one thing though. The Minotaurs with elemental affinity. Particularly the Nascent stage ones. He has to create his own chess teams. The first one would be the Minotaur team. All the pawns will be the Nascent stage Minotaurs with elemental affinity and he would collect them.

Even if he didn't manage to collect the rest of the pieces, he would leave them be for now. The second team is the undead team.

He is going to collect these Vampires, Ghouls, and Wights that are coming here.

Currently, he has six vampires and from what he heard, this town is being most troublesome and they already sent the call for the other vampires that took the other town.

They will be coming here soon enough and Sam also took out some tokens that would send the signal to the Vampires that are within the Minotaur territory gathering the troops.

The wights will still take two weeks to come. If Sam managed to gather the remaining sixteen Vampires, then that would be great, if not he would gather the vampires, ghouls and wights combined and make a chess team.

After training them properly within this chessboard, he would drill the obedience and subservience into their very souls and make them part of his army and troops.

They could become elites and would work solely for him and his organization.

As for why Sam is collecting these troops, it is simple. He doesn't know where he is going with these tasks from those gods. But he wants to be prepared for all kinds of scenarios. If there came a time where he would need an army behind him, he wouldn't be in a position where he would be a sitting duck, trying to gather an army on such short notice.

Sam shook those thoughts off of his head and started making preparations for the next attacks. Since the element of surprise is gone along with the wall, it is better for him to add another line of defense to replace the wall and he once again felt like using the water.

While Sam is planning for the immediate future in a distant place, someone is plotting to end his future.

Indra is currently in a meeting with some of the gods.

He just finished speaking his mind on what he is planning and the rest of the gods couldn't help but feel a bit ashamed of him.

"Indra, you are the king of all the Lesser gods within the Hindu realm. Don't you feel it is beneath you to be this petty to plot this much against a player? You have been getting more and more brazen. You might not have experienced the same tribulations like everyone else to become the god you are now, but you should at least think of your position and honor before you do something like this."

Kartikeya pointed his finger at him angrily and stood up.

"Hmph, do you really think you can talk to me like that? You are also a god belonging to the Hindu realm, don't forget that I am a king to you too."

Kartikeya suddenly release his aura and looked at Indra coldly. The whole room was filled with the stench of blood.

"Do you believe me, I can destroy you right now and go beg for forgiveness from Brahma who put you in this position.

I bet that he wouldn't do much to me, except for some small punishment as long as I don't cripple you. After all, my father is the destroyer of the realms, no one wants to get on his bad side and that includes the creator.

Do you want to give it a try?"

He said as a spear appeared in his hand and he stabbed it into the table in front of him.

Indra gulped nervously.

Kartikeya looked at him and smirked before saying.

"I didn't think so. So, you better watch your tongue. The only reason you are the king is the rest of the gods disdain that position that includes me. I could dethrone you in my sleep if I want to."

With that, he withdrew his spear and left the place.

But Indra didn't stop his plan. He looked at the rest of the gods and said.

"My plan is still on the table."

He looked at another person and said.

"You are the one who is sending the next Palace of inheritance. I am not asking you to make it unfair to him, all you have to do is change the next Palace of Inheritance. I would give you all that I promised if you support this proposal."

The rest of them thought for a bit and they nodded after negotiating for a better price. They felt like their players can suffer a bit for this.

"We will see you in the meeting." With those words, everyone left.