61 Junkie Territory (1/2)
After the dust settled from the barrage of Final Resorts, Jam collected everyone into his Storage Dimension and used Return Teleportation to reunite with the group of Junkie Tribesmen that had been travelling with Rina and Kirin. The group of Junkie Tribesmen had only travelled a couple hundred thousand kilometers since Jam left their side, so Return Teleportation was well within range.
When the Junkies saw Jam teleport in front of them again, while they were alerted, they calmed down much faster than their initial encounter, now that they knew that Jam was an ally. Jam turned to the leader and said ”I've already rescued everyone from the Muchie's prison. Should I release them here? Or should I travel with you to the Junkie village and release them there?”
”What?!” The leader couldn't believe what Jam just said.
Jam thought it would be too much trouble to explain himself, so he just released everyone from his Spatial Storage Dimension. After the wandering Junkie tribesmen saw the familiar faces of those that had been captured in previous battles, they were ecstatic. They couldn't help but begin to express their gratitude towards Jam.
They had to admit that Jam was a monster. Even if all the people he rescued were not from the Junkie tribe, there were still tens of thousands of prisoners present in front of them. Those that were captured by the Muchie Tribe were all either Junkie tribesmen or tribesmen allied with the Junkies; very few were foreign cultivators that came to the Titanic Beast Mountain Range with the same intentions as Jam and his friends.
Now that all the people Jam rescued were out facing the Junkie Tribesmen, they began discussing what the next course of action would be. It wasn't much of a debate, since everyone wanted to go to the Junkie Village. Even the non-Junkie tribesmen would go there as well, not only to recover from their ”imprisonment,” but also to have someone from the Junkie Tribe send word to their tribes that they had been rescued.
In the end, it was decided that Jam would collect everyone and teleport them to the Junkie village. Cynthia might have a much greater range for true teleportation than Jam, but she didn't have the Spatial Storage technique. Given that it was a technique that Tzatziki impart to Jam, Jam felt he had no right to share the technique without Tzatziki's permission.
When Jam asked Tzatziki if he could give her the technique, he said ”You can do whatever you want. Even if you told the world about any of the techniques I've given you, nothing bad would happen to you since there is no consequence for such an action in the soul contract. However, if you could please limit the distribution of my techniques to only important people like your Tamed Beasts and Dao Companions, that would be much appreciated.”
Jam wasn't ungrateful, so he took Tzatziki's words to heart and didn't teach Cynthia the technique. Besides, the difference in their range was within a couple hundred meters; with the rate of teleportation being several times a second, having to teleport a couple dozen more times than Cynthia wouldn't waste much time.
After Jam learned what direction to teleport and the distance, he gathered everyone into his personal storage dimension and quickly made his way to the Junkie village. Once he could sense the village in his teleportation range, he teleported just a couple kilometers away from the entrance and released everyone from his dimension.
Everyone knew exactly where they were, thus they headed towards the village. Almost immediately after they were transported from the Spatial Storage Dimension to the outside world, the Junkie Tribe became alerted. Since no one had hidden their spiritual aura, it was very easy to detect them, as they were only a couple kilometers away from the entrance.
The sudden influx of spiritual aura generated by tens of thousands of Saint Realm Cultivators spooked the Junkie village to the point that their eight Saint Gods came out to confront all the people that suddenly appeared.
However, the tension was cut off almost as fast as it appeared. Once the Saint Gods took a closer look at who had appeared outside their village, they showed several emotions at the same time.
Some of these Saint Gods had friends and family that were captured by the Munchies, seeing all of them appear again as well as other tribe members caused them to lose their cool. All of the Junkie Saint Gods were in a good mood at the very least.
As the Saint Gods flew towards the returning members they began to have a happy reunion. One of the Saint Gods though, was visibly distraught after not seeing someone in particular. Even after scanning all the people with her divine sense she couldn't find the person she was looking for, so she asked ”Is this really everyone?”
There were many prisoners that had been killed after been thoroughly interrogated, so it would make sense if she was the wife of some prisoner that had unfortunately died before Jam could save them. The Saint God had almost given up, when suddenly Jam said ”I have one more person with me, but he's in critical condition and needs to rest. That's the reason I haven't taken him out of my personal dimension.”