Days passed.

It has been a week since the biscuit samples were sent to Raunak's mentor.

Sam is silent for this week. There are some mercenaries here and there trying to attack him. But the one he cared most about is still the person that is watching him from a long distance. By now, Sam already installed his surveillance devices near that person's position with the help of shadow mice and is watching the whole scene.

And it turned out, it is not a single person that is watching him. They are taking turns. And once this became clear, Sam sent a mouse to follow one of the people that are leaving and it led to a cave in distance.

There is a tunnel inside that cave that led to an underground cave. The shadow mice didn't manage to infiltrate that place, because in their own words. They sensed an aura of a natural predator inside.

They didn't want to go inside. Sam also didn't push them. For now, he has an idea of their exact location. So, he can prepare for something.

As for his next target on this side, Ragad, Sam didn't want to make a move immediately. For now, it is easy for him if faction 1 makes a deal with him if Ragad was present here.

He doesn't want to make the new substitute understand what exactly is happening.

But what he doesn't know is, Ragad is currently quaking in his boots as he sat on his bed within the City.

It has been a while since he even dared to come out. All his personal guards are outside his room and he even called for some extra help with the local faction 1 members.

But the problem is even faction 1 and faction 2 are alerted with the continuous deaths and disappearances.

Everyone in the official positions knew that the mercenaries that are going into the forest are all going there for Sam. But all of them are disappearing by the time city guards get there.

As for the deaths of two officials and one of them being the person in charge of the whole city, security is causing a serious backlash.

Particularly, to the newly elected city lord. Faction 1 won this time and with a significant margin. They are managed to push faction 2 back. Sam didn't influence these elections much, so he didn't care. But it has something to do with most towns getting faction 1 as their leader.

Now as soon as faction 1 took over two officials died and everyone knows that both of them belonged to faction 1.

This not only caused unrest in the people, even faction 2 is trying to take advantage of the situation. They are questioning the credibility and competence of the new