While Sam's students are going crazy with their exploits.
Back at the city where the task is going on.
The players breezed through the first night mode. Sam got enough data from this easy round.
By the next morning, the players also got a hang of the city's layout and it seems like there were some prior agreements in place as some of them joined together.
Arkiv didn't come for Sam this time. But Sam didn't mind. In fact, he is glad that Arkiv is not getting involved so that as Sam's friend he won't get into too much mess. Even though Arkiv had a totally different reason.
He doesn't want to hold back Sam. He knew that Sam is planning big things against these gods and he doesn't want to be the one to cause Sam to falter in any way.
So, Arkiv made a deal with Akhil for some slight collaboration.