The Blood red-cloaked guy looked at the burning house and the screams. He instantly ran towards the mansion.

There are many thoughts running through his mind. He just had a conversation about this arsonist burning their people down with Ragad.

Since Ragad is a relatively important guy in the faction and he is alive till now, they thought that Sam and his backers have some reservations against attacking someone who has some significant influence.

But it turned out, he doesn't care.

Right after they had a discussion about making a move on them, they attacked. He didn't even get the time to get out of the place before the attack happened.

There is a great possibility that their plan was heard and this is the answer to that.

When he ran to the entrance of the building and kicked the door down. He saw that the servants who are living in the quarters nearby are also running towards the house. And there is one water element user who is already trying to put the fire down.

The cloaked person looked at them and said.

"Block the entrances and make sure that no person gets out." The servants obliged immediately. The main reason they are in their own quarters instead of the mansion is the arrival of this cloaked guy. Due to privacy issues, all the servants are sent away and this is the perfect chance for Sam to burn the whole mansion alive.

When the cloaked guy entered the mansion and looked at the office room he was in with Ragad, all he saw is the black-cloaked man standing like the fire means nothing and looking down on the burning person that is rolling on the ground.

Sam already covered his face back. He just wanted to see how this guy would react.

And as he guessed, this guy came along. He didn't come with the rest of the servants, even the transcendent stage cultivator who is a guard for Ragad also stayed down.

This must have stemmed from the fact that this red-cloaked guy felt like he can deal with Sam and make him escape. One scan with energy vision and he can already see everyone surrounding the area.

"You seem to be the person I am looking for. The Arsonist that killed our people." The red-cloaked man spoke.

"Arsonist? Is that a new title? That is not so bad. But Arson is only one of the many things I am good at and it is not even my best element."

"Maybe I can find out after I catch you and take that cloak off of you."

"I don't think that you would be able to find that out in this life."

"Why is that?"

"Because your days are numbered, you wouldn't be able to live long."

With that Sam's body was covered in golden flames. The fire elemental fusion and his clothes burned while his body merged with the raging orange flames around.

The red-cloaked man took out a sword and got ready to make a move, but before he could do anything, Sam is already behind him as he moved through the flame and a jet of golden flames hit the red-cloaked man in the back.

"We will meet again. Until then, keep that as a parting gift. Next time we meet, I will take that head off and give it to the rest of your team or that person that sent you here. Until then, keep your life. That is mine to take."

With that, Sam escaped as if he was never there. He used the flames and reached the entrance and the shadow mouse that is waiting there carried the crystal in which he entered and escaped.

Even though some people saw the small shadow moving away, they couldn't care less as they don't know what it is and they didn't even suspect it.

Meanwhile, on the top floor, Ragad is dead while the red-cloaked guy had all his back burned and there is Sam's symbol burned on his skin.

The double S symbol. The skin is completely burned in that shape leaving a lasting mark on that skin.

Then man scanned his own back with his spiritual sense and he slammed his hands on the floor which made it crack and made him fall into the lower room.

He stood up from the rubble and came out of the burning down which is collapsing slowly.

The people that surrounded the house came to him and started asking questions. He took out another cloak and covered the back before anyone could see and left this place. But what he doesn't know is that there is a small shadow following him.

There has never been a single person that broke this tailing method. It is still working great.

The shadow mouse followed that guy out of the city and in a route to a nearby town. In the middle of the route, there are a few hills in the forest beside the road.

These hills created a natural crevice and in that crevice, there are the remaining twenty-nine people. Thirty seemed to be a common number in these cloaked teams.

The shadow mouse marked the location and left the place to return by the next morning.

Currently, Sam is sending a courier to the military unit regarding the plan of faction 1 about halting their arrival by a week. But he didn't say the complete truth, he just made it seem like faction 1's main aim is the military unit and not Sam.

He didn't provide any evidence or didn't give any statements to convince them. He only sent the message.

As for how they will be convinced enough to come here faster, he doesn't have to worry about that for now. They will learn the truth as soon as they saw the signs of faction 1's activities to block them.

They are going to learn it anyway, but Sam decided to take advantage of the situation and sell a favor.

But to his surprise, after the courier was sent, a person came to meet him. It is a sheer coincidence that this person came.

The person that came to meet Sam is actually a merchant from the Planet. He is an elf and he is one of the best builders on planet 1.

There is only one other company that is considered better than his own and that company belongs to faction1.

Sam was surprised, but there are many of his speculations answered after that initial surprise.

There is definitely a third faction and they are tighter than the first two factions. Their end goals are definitely not clear, but from what he saw until now, they just want a certain level of independence from the two factions.

They are trying to gather as much power as possible and all the means that could gain them wealth and power.

They might not have ideals to take over this world, or they might have them. But from what Sam can see they are trying to increase the influence in different ways.

They bought the coconut biscuits at such premium prices because of that so that they can increase the influence within the army and also gain some wealth.

Now they gave out the information about the new cement to that respective person who is in the relevant business and that person came the very next day.

Which shows that they are in a state of little desperation. They don't want to lose any of the opportunities that can be useful.

The person who came is even a late-stage Transcendent stage cultivator who is a person of significant power in this realm as the three planets out of the four are ruled by transcendent stage cultivators and he heard that the situation is a little different in Planet 1 where the town heads are late-stage Pre-transcendent stage cultivators and the cities that they have are ruled by transcendent and the king or the queen is a late-stage consummate realm cultivator which made Sam feel a bit surprised and confused.

The realm is supposed to be a superior realm to that of the banished realm and the Undead realm, but he didn't hear about any cultivators that are stronger than the consummate realm.

Anyway, that is not the main point.

He met with the builder that came and he took him on a tour over the factory as he checked the structure and construction method. The cement mixture the plant and animal extracts and Sam let him check the ingredients when they signed a contract saying that the man would buy the cement after checking that.

After checking every ingredient, he is extremely happy, almost to the point of Ecstasy and they started discussing the price.

This time Sam is extremely happy with the price negotiation. Because there is a lot of business he can do here.

The deal includes Sam, selling cement recipe, a factory being built here, a farm that is specially made for cultivating the plants that are needed for the recipe, and finally a pasture to rear these animals and he managed to cut the deal for around 1.5Billion.

Sam really liked this realm. He can make money easily. He never earned money this fast.