Re-Birth Of A Genius. Creator/Destroyer

All the players couldn't help but take a cold breath when they heard all the rules.

This is indeed a very tough round.

They looked at Sam not knowing what to say to him. This test is really unfair to him. Even though they felt that they are experiencing unfair treatment since the start as they went against Sam himself, they still felt bad.

But Noah gritted her teeth and firmed her resolve.

"Sorry, but I am not going to go easy on you."

She turned around and left without staying for a moment.

Kumar also nodded at Sam and turned around to follow Noah. His attitude is obvious.

Donner wanted to stay with Sam, but when he looked at Sam's expression, he understood that he is not really welcome. He thought for a moment and sighed before forfeiting.

It has been ages since the altercation between him and Sam, but a tear appear amongst the players at that time that it hasn't healed yet.

The players do include him in some conversations that are related to everyone's survival and the tasks, but none of them will come forward to initiate a friendly gesture towards him and neither do they receive one if he extended.

There is actually no hatred or anything behind this attitude, it started with hatred and some enmity, but soon it waned, but the habit as a result stayed.

He has lost all hopes of proper reconciliation.

As for Akhil and Arkiv, they stayed back on Sam's side.

"Are you sure you want to stay? Noah and Kumar aside, there are way too many peak Astral Plane cultivators in the organization. Are you sure you can handle yourself?"

"Come on man, let us in on the action a bit. You overshadowed us completely since the start. At least leave us the crumbs in that.

Anyway, don't you think you are looking down on us way too much with you assumptions? We might not be as strong as you, but we are quite capable."

Arkiv said as if he was wronged severely.

"Suit yourself."

Sam looked at Lucifer who is still standing in the air.

"Since the teams are done, let's start the last round of this amazing task. I would like to witness something amazing, so please don't hold back."

With that Lucifer disappeared.

Inside the clan grounds, Noah looked at the clan leader and the elders.

"Clan leader, shouldn't make a move against anyone until the last moment. As you have seen there is a formation outside and it will open up in three hours. All the clan leaders will come inside then.

Sam only has that much time.

You might want to go ahead and kill him, but that would be a bad idea. We don't really know what kind of trump cards he might have and if by any chance he could damage you, things wouldn't be good for us.

So, all of your forces, the elders, mercenaries, clan members, will go, of course men and my friend here will also go.

I want half of your elders focusing on Sam and us two will also do the same.

The remaining half will go ahead and target the other two friends Sam has beside him.

But not at the start.

First, the mercenaries are going to go.

Tell them to maintain a perimeter. Attack with all of their defenses on. Don't go past the perimeter and only long range attacks. After three attacks, tell them to use their ultimate techniques.

The clan leader watched as Noah took over. She commanded everyone and no one dared to disobey or resist her authority.

The mercenaries were instantly deployed. All of them carried some heavy wood shields. One look, Sam, Akhil and Arkiv couldn't help but exchange a glance.

The shields are definitely made by Noah.

Sam activated his energy vision and he could see the shields emitting a lot of vitality along with spiritual energy.

It not only acts as a defense, it is also a healing aid as well as energy replenishment device.

Sam looked as the mercenaries stopped and took shelter behind the residences and corners.

Arkiv tapped his foot on the ground as he looked at the people getting in positions. He took out his bow and said to Sam.

"Give me some height."

Sam snapped his fingers without turning back, a large earthen pillar immediately appeared under Arkiv's feet as he was slowly taken upwards.

Akhil looked at Sam and said.

"If you don't mind, I will be going in. I am assuming you don't have anything planned for now."

"Nope. You can be on your own. We don't need to cooperate until the threat is too big. You can go crazy until then."

"Thanks."

Akhil smiled and there is a hint of savagery behind those eyes as he whipped out his staff. The spiritual energy had a thick golden hue as it revolved around him and he started dashing towards the permitter of mercenaries.

"Boss, one of the targets is approaching the perimeter while the other has taken the height. The third person didn't show any movements until now."

The third person they are referring to is of course Sam.

"Start the first wave of attacks. Ranged. Triple strike, each attack should target one of the three targets and everyone should target them."

Before the instructions could even be heard, Arkiv took his stance and shot an arrow.

The spiritual energy whistled as it went towards one of the mercenaries at the front of the line.

He hurriedly raised the wooden shield to block it. The formation on the shield activated as it created a forcefield of spiritual energy. Sam is surprised as he saw the forcefield clashed with the arrow.

The mercenary was also surprised, but he felt like a huge weight has been lifted off of his shoulders. Just when he thought the arrow would be deflected after it hit the forcefield, he was surprised to see the arrow standing there proudly as if it was stuck on a soft wooden target.

Arkiv snapped his fingers as he smiled.

*BOOM*

The arrow exploded with the surrounding spiritual energy turning chaotic. The shield broke and the impact sent the mercenary along with his formation into a disarray.

Sam looked at Arkiv and said.

"You seemed to have picked up some of my tricks."

"Yeah, like you are the inventor of an exploding arrow. Way to be a credit hog Sam."

As he spoke, he shot another arrow, this time into the disarrayed troops. The target wasn't able to react in time to use the shield and activate its formation. The arrow pierced through the wood and then through the chest before it came out from the other side of the body and hit the ground.

"They aren't much in terms of pure physical defense with no formations. A decent attack from me is piercing it. The formation will just add to the chaos."

He told Sam.

Akhil who is running at a moderate pace was about to reach the mercenaries and at this exact moment, the attacks from all the mercenaries appeared.

There are more than a hundred mercenaries standing guard in the surroundings, now all of them launched three attacks back to back and they are all targeted Sam and his friends.

Each one of them is facing over three hundred attacks right now this instant.

Akhil didn't even care, he just swung his staff with that golden flow.

The staff slammed on the wooden shield that was activated with the formation. The force field is destroyed. Akhil just jumped right into the mercenaries ignoring the attacks that are coming at him.

Of course, the attacks didn't really manage to hit him. Before they could, they were being deflected by the staff.

Sam didn't even bother to work as much as his two peers, he stomped his foot on the ground, an energy shield covered him from all sides and it started emitting ripples of energy with the ripples style.

As the attacks fell into the range of the ripples, they are simply disintegrated.

While the attacks are being taken care, Sam suddenly thought of something and decided to make a move.

He took out a liquid energy capsule. A large one. That was the biggest size he had and for a while as he hadn't made any of the energy capsule for a long time,

He activated the capsule before throwing. The capsule flew through the sky as it landed directly in the middle of a mercenary formation.

"BOOM*

Another massive explosion.

The formation is nowhere to be seen.

Sam's shield didn't even blink as he took out another capsule, this one is a smaller one, but more concentrated.

The capsule exploded and it was followed by another capsule. Soon the mercenaries are dying like flies.