Both the teams slowly started getting on the stage. They don't have enough authority to even request the temple heads to stop this battle.

They have to. The thunder god temple candidates are a bit nervous, while the beast faction people are a bit more confident.

Because some of the Beast Faction candidates will have beast companions to fight along with him.

The beasts are not restricted from the rules and that is why every year the beast faction people have an edge over the rest of the candidates.

But Sam didn't seem to care. He is just looking at the candidates who are slowly coming onto the stage.

For some reason, ll of them are kind of freaked out by his aura. They know that something is different, but they couldn't put a finger on it.

After all of the got on. The thunder god temple candidates are standing on one side, while the Beast faction candidates are standing on another side. Sam is standing in the middle.

There is no neutral party to act as referee, so every time two teams are battling, the idle team will act as a referee and now it was the Herb Garden who are acting as referees.

A Nascent stage cultivator stood beside the stage to act as a referee.

Sam coldly observed the beast faction candidates as if they are lambs ready to be slaughtered.

He couldn't find Sanjay there, but he is not sane enough to think about the reasons of his absence.

"Fight."

When the referee signaled the beginning of the fight, the beast faction members took out their beasts.

Only six out of ten have beasts as their companions and Sam could recognize that out of three only three are complete beast warriors with a contract with their beasts, the remaining three are just ordinary tamers.

This is their plan. The faction also agreed for the same reason. Since they can overwhelm the others with numbers, why would they let go of such an opportunity?

And thunder god temple is always a tough competitor for all of them, in all categories. So, they didn't even bother to stop them. They are actually extremely glad that the two tough competitors are dealing with each other.

Philip and Jack are on tenterhooks, while Nicholas is extremely excited, he controlled his urge to start a fight, he noticed that Sam is really pissed about this, he would really piss him off more if he wants to take a share in the battle.

The Beast faction candidates first decided to send the beasts instead of fighting themselves.

But as they took a step forward, Sam looked at them with a smirk and released the beastly aura of the five beasts. All the beasts Sam had a contract with are of far superior bloodline, in front of them, these six beasts are like vermin.

He didn't even bother with to battle them.

"Kneel." Sam spat out coldly and the six beasts prostrated as if they received a goldy command.

All the spectators are stunned. Particularly the seniors from the Beast faction. He could sense the primordial beastly aura from Sam.

He is one of the knowledgeable persons, regarding beasts on this planet, but he couldn't recognize the beastly aura.

What surprised him, even more, is with a single command, he made the beasts kneel and made them completely disregard the command of their owners.

The Beast faction members felt something was off and ran towards the beasts hastily. The beasts are their companions, not meat shields, so they are not going to leave them like that. They were afraid that the thunder god temple candidates will make a move directly.

Sam looked at Jack and Philip and said.

"Try to hold them off for a few seconds."

With that, he made a move and arrived at the nearest corner of the hexagon. He poured some inscription ink and controlled it with the water elemental energy.

The rest of them couldn't understand what he is doing, but one of the Beast faction candidates who held a spear was about to make a move on Sam, but Jack interrupted him.

The rest of the candidates are also about to make a move, but Philip and Nicholas also sprang into action.

Sam didn't even take a glance at the situation, he moved from one corner to another and soon covered all six corners and before they knew it there is a barrier formed around the hexagonal stage.

Sam used the inscriptions to create energy nodes and created a formation and now all of them are trapped inside, there is no way out for them.

The thunder god temple candidates have yet to make a move, except for Philip, Jack,and Nicholas, the rest of them didn't get involved yet as the beast faction candidates are mainly focusing on dealing with Sam.

Suddenly, the spear-wielding guy from the t faction escaped the siege of Philip and ran towards Sam, who is still turned outside. His arms started glowing and the muscles became extremely tense as he used maximum power to thrust at the of Sam.

Sam evaded to the side, but still couldn't dodge the attack properly, he threw a left hook at the shaft if the spear, making the attack deflect to the side.

A hole appeared on the stage.

Sam's knuckles are bruised and there is a small cut in his fist, but he didn't even bother to heal.

He made his move and took out a spear from his storage, this is the spear he got from Murali's inheritance and this is only one of the spear's he got.

When the spear wielder turned around to face Sam, all he could see is, Sam,impaling the spear in his right abdomen forcefully.

The spear went through him diagonally and the tip pierced itself into the stage, making the opponent stuck to the stage.

Sam walked closer and looked at the man in the eyes. The opponent felt his heart turn cold and he started sweating profusely.

"What did you call me?" Sam asked in an extremely cold tone, which is almost like the per of Grim reaper.

"I… I.."

The opponent wanted to say something but Sam didn't give him the chance. As soon as he opened his mouth, Sam stabbed a knife right into his tongue. The knife came out of the lower jaw barely missing the esophagus and the windpipe.

"Ahhh…. Ahhhhh…"

The opponent started groaning, but Sam didn't show mercy. He took out another ordinary spear and impaled it into the abdomen. He started harming the non-lethal areas.

"AHHHHHHH…."

"Ahhhhhh..."

"Nwwwoooo…."

One spear after another started piercing into this body and every tip went straight through him and got stuck on the floor.

Even when, he was about to faint, Sam didn't let him. He started slapping him awake and even used the water sprays to wake him up.

He pierced a total of twelve spears into him and took out two more spears.

He leaped into the air and landed on the spear shafts protruding out of him. He looked down on the opponent right in his eyes and impaled them straight into the two eyes.

The spears have thinner tips than the rest and they penetrated right through the head taking off most of the head and impaled itself into the ground.

The audience is stunned by the gore. There are many veterans at the scene and even they couldn't see Sam's brutality.

They all had goosebumps as they watched the soul-searing torture.

Only Philip and Jack are a bit normal, not because they got used to it, but rather they prepared themselves for such a scene beforehand.

But they still held a tight guard on the remaining candidates not allowing them to gang up on Sam. Not because they are afraid that Sam wouldn't be able to handle them.

They are afraid that Sam would kill them faster and his blood lust wouldn't be satiated.

Sam turned around and looked at the remaining beast faction members.

Philip suddenly relaxed a bit and let one guy go out of his control.

That guy is a water elemental beast warrior with a turtle as his beast. Right now, the turtle is hiding in its shell in fear of Sam's aura.

The water element user didn't know what to do. Philip and others are stopping the rest and are not letting them go. He looked at the corpse which is still standing because of the pierced Spears and gulped.

The next second, he turned around and wanted to jump off the stage, but the formation blocked him.

He started sending one after other water bullets as if he is going crazy, he didn't even care about his spiritual energy usage.

But the formation is not budging at all.

Suddenly, he felt a hand over his shouldered and he shuddered. He didn't even dare to move a single finger when a cold voice was heard.

"Why the hurry? I will send you."

He abruptly turned around and involuntarily backed away, but his back was against the barrier.

He made some hand signs whilst they are shivering and kept all the energy in his final attack.