Sam's message had a magical effect.
All the players who were already on fast track for a breakthrough, increased their speed of actions even more. Meanwhile, Sam made some more arrangements before he found a way to slip to the Duat region.
Trike helped with that actually.
The elder somehow managed to convince all of the Duat region in just a couple to days and made it so that Sam will not be targeted there. He even arranged long winding appointments with the people of Duat region whose descendants or affiliated people have signed the agreements with Sam.
So, he is basically going there to inherit the properties and riches that he strongarmed them into signing off to him.
Everyone just assumed that various powers will look for a way to break that agreement with Sam. In fact, most people are doing that. They even estimated much more pushback from relatively neutral territories like Duat and Xia will be a lot more resistant to this.
