Sam was bounded to the tree and saw the man coming closer so he thought of engaging him in talk for as long as possible and hope that somebody notices his disappearance.
"Tell me what is your name?", Sam asked. The man smiled, "haha Right I didn't tell you my name. White Ghost is what they call me". He brought his scythe closer to Sam's face and touched the cold blade to his chin. "This is my pal, it loves the taste of warm blood", he laughed while Sam was in deeper despair seeing the blade inch closer to his neck.
"At least tell me what I did wrong", Sam tried to make him talk about his mistakes. White Ghost saw the terrified look on Sam's face and got a tingle of excitement run down his body. He was a person who loved seeing his prey cower in fear and would usually go to extreme length to enjoy.
"Your sins, let me think", bringing his fingers to his forehead he pretended to think and then laughed again. "Let's just say you stole the pet we raised for so long. Yes the one you encountered in the dungeon, The phantom wolf. Next you freed the dragon that we have been holding on for his life crystal. The organization is very very angry with your actions".
'What organization is he talking about', Sam couldn't think of anyone he had made enemy of but he knew what incident the man was referring to and that he was screwed very bad.
"Say, isn't there any way of being forgiven", Sam talked about bribe in a roundabout way and White Ghost quickly catched on. "I like it, more, beg for more and maybe I will consider it", his eyes were shining with amusement and he had this devilish grin.
'Looks like we are dealing with a pervert', Sam had been watching his actions and concluded that he liked torturing people. Sam knew the way to deal with them was not play their game and started racking his brain for any plan. The plan he thought was to first get himself freed from these confinement and then deal with this man. He started taunting the man by not playing with him and like he thought White Ghost released him from his bounds.
"Last chance, if you can escape from me I will leave you alive. Now I will count to ten and you run away", saying this, White Ghost started counting to ten. Sam immediately ran back into the forest trying to find where he should hide. 'Is there no place to hide', while Sam was searching White Ghost finishes counting and started his search for Sam.
"In the great forest..🎵 Lived an old man🎵", singing a song White Ghost started searching for Sam. Sam heard the music coming closer and started panicking. [Up that tree], Sei pointed to a large tree which had many branches and cover in leaves. Sam immediately climbed the tree and hid himself.
White Ghost came and stood beneath the same tree, "Not good if you hide so carelessly". He punched the tree and Sam fell down like a fruit to the ground. "Ouch".
"Non non this is no fun", booing to Sam's skill White Ghost added, "Okay, play times over", and with a swift strike pushed the scythe through Sam's shoulder. "Aaaagh", Sam could only scream in pain when the scythe's blade went in. Picking Sam up with his scythe still pierced in his shoulder White Ghost took him back to where they started and dumped him on the ground. "I love seeing the life slowly fading through people eye".
The place where the scythe had went in blood was continuously flowing out and the pendant was slowly absorbing the blood. White Ghost kicked Sam to torment him and Sam found it hard to breath with every passing minute. "GoodBye", White Ghost pulled his scythe out and raised it to strike him when Sam's shoulder wound stopped bleeding and the pendant started glowing faintly.
The space around him warped up and Sam reached his hands out and pulled the sword out. White Ghost sensed a killing chill and immediately jumped back. "You.. you like playing with life. I will give you a thousand painful deaths", Sam pointed the sword to White Ghost and screamed like a madman.
Concentrating his aura in the sword Sam molded the black flames covering the sword densely making it appear that the sword was black and intense heat could be seen being released. White Ghost suddenly started trembling and before he could say something Sam jumped and attacked him. White Ghost stopped the attack with his scythe but the flames melted the scythe.
With ever burning passion Sam continued attacking White Ghost who was having a difficult time dodging the attacks. 'One moment of concentration break and these flames will become my doom. What is with this sword', White Ghost was focusing to his fullest.
After encountering so many death situations Sam had become many times stronger and now was able to control the sword somewhat to his desires. "Die", Sam plunged forward and stabbed White Ghost in his shoulder. "Aaargh, it is burning.. it is burning", White Ghost was wailing in pai while the wound continued to burn slowly.
Sam went near him and asked, "What is this organization you were talking about". White Ghost barely had any life left in his eyes yet he smiled and said, "They will come for you. They will not leave you alone, the cult of ", saying this he breathed his last and died.
"What a pain in the ass", Sam fell on the ground due to exhaustion. He looked at the sword and wondered how it was not affected by the flame, 'Is the flame a part of it'. The space opened again and the sword disappeared. 'It comes to my rescue whenever I need it the most, strange'. Sam was seeing the body of White Ghost slowly disintegrate into nothingness.
After the fight was over Sam covered every evidence and left to continue his mission. It further took them five days to reach Magnolia and there Sam said goodbye to Eiritz and his party and started his journey for Sett.