Chapter 673: Revenge
When Holmes arrived, Graham hid nearby, less than a hundred meters from him, disguised as a rock.
Gram is not worried about being discovered by Holmes, because as long as he does not use his consciousness to explore the situation around him, but uses the senses that ordinary people have, that is, his eyes to see, his ears to hear, his nose to smell, and change his body form to blend into the environment, even if he is close at hand, he will not be discovered by Holmes.
Holmes's mental power works only on those who have thought activity.
At the height of camouflage, Gram has no mental activity. To be precise, he confined his mental activity to a very small area of his brain.
Despite the closeness, Graham wasn't stupid enough to attack Holmes.
Holmes was a senator, and he had two more by his side. Although he didn't use his consciousness to perceive it, Gram could see at a glance that the patriarch who was too beautiful to look like a human at all had great strength, and Lombador was also a fighting patriarch.
With his ability, it is simply impossible to deal with three patriarchs at the same time, and it is even impossible to defeat Homs head-on.
He's too weak to get stronger, and he needs more superpowers, and he needs to increase them by attacking other modulators.
Long before coming to the New World, Gram recognized this.
Whether it's killing Chu Tianjiang and avenging the tragic death of his three brothers, or killing Holmes and making him pay for what he did, Gram needs more powerful superpowers, and the only way for him to obtain them is to constantly attack the modulators with superpowers.
In fact, when he was defeated by Chu Tianjiang, Graham woke up.
His existence is nothing more than a pawn in Holmes's hands, and an insignificant pawn that can be discarded at any time.
For those who are controlled by the spiritual power of the patriarchs, this is the value of their existence.
But for Gram, who is no longer controlled by the patriarch and has gained a completely independent personality and a sense of autonomy, this is definitely not the value of his existence. If, before that, Gram lived for revenge. So now, in addition to revenge, also live for the realization of personal values.
After the battle outside Odin, Graham went into hiding.
Of course, he was lucky, because not only was he not completely killed by Chu Tianjiang, but he also happened to meet a concoctor who came out of Odin City. If he hadn't encountered the Modulator and discovered that he had the superpower to regenerate by encroaching on other Modulators, Graham would have died long ago, and in a place where no one knew about his existence.
After that, Gram spent several days thinking about what he was worth, and what he was going to do next.
Although it had long been known that the Northern Continent was not the only worldly realm, and that the center of the Church was on the Old Continent, Graham did not leave the Northern Continent immediately.
To put it bluntly, with his superpowers at that time, he couldn't cross the ocean and return to the old continent.
He stayed behind and has been operating near the Resistance camp.
At the time, Gram thought about attacking the Resistance fighters and gaining even more powerful superpowers from those who had been concocted. It's just that he sensibly gave up on this idea, because the resistance fighters are not the modulators of the church, and the resistance fighters rarely act alone. What's more, these resistance fighters have not only been modulated, but also modified, and possess superpowers that far surpass those of the modulators.
During this period, Gram encountered Chu Tianjiang several times. Of course, Chu Tianjiang didn't know about his existence, or didn't regard him as a threat. Gram was not stupid enough to attack Chu Tianjiang, because after regeneration, his combat power was actually not as good as before regeneration.
It wasn't until Holmes appeared with the woman named Saga that Graham saw an opportunity.
Obviously, Sakya's superpowers in the battle far exceeded Gramm's imagination, and Chu Tianjiang was also more powerful than he had known before.
Gram watched the battle the whole time, but didn't find the slightest chance to make a move.
He had to be patient, and he had to be patient.
It's just that what happened next shocked Gram even more.
That is, after being defeated by Chu Tianjiang, Holmes did not stay on the Northern Continent, and even ordered everyone in the church to evacuate the Northern Continent.
That is, Homs abandoned the northern continent.
Holmes's arrangement made Gram realize that continuing to stay on the northern continent would only make him lose the opportunity for revenge, and it would be impossible for him to become stronger.
Of course, Gram knew that the only way to gain more powerful superpowers was to go to the Old World.
There, there are enough modulators!
As a result, when the church was evacuated, Gram used the superpowers gained by the raiders, especially the superpowers of changing appearance, and a set of unified equipment for the occupying army, to successfully infiltrate the occupying forces and leave the northern continent on a ship arranged by the church.
The evacuees were thousands, and no one would notice an ordinary soldier.
Of course, it is impossible for the officer who organized the retreat to perceive all the soldiers with mental strength.
For Gram, leaving the Northern Continent was an adventure, but also a new life.
The troop carrier first headed for the New World, docked in the New World for a few days, and then sailed to the Old World, where Gram made it.
Over the next few months, Graham traveled nearly all over the Old Continent and ambushed a large number of modulators.
Gramm's strength continued to grow, but he was still unable to defeat the patriarchs of the church, especially Holmes, and he had discovered more.
For example, the secrets hidden in this bay.
Building a fortress requires a lot of resources, especially for cultivating the various organic matter needed for single-celled lifeforms, so the fortress is built separately in order to make reasonable and efficient use of the resources of each place. The problem is that the final assembly is actually a kind of modulation, which also requires a lot of resources. The population and productivity of the Old Continent could not produce all the resources needed to complete the preparation, so they had to transport resources from other continents by ship. More importantly, there must be enough manpower to make use of these resources.
The bay is a huge modulation ground and also a port.
Over the past few months, a large number of ships have come in and out every day, bringing in the resources needed to complete the concoction and change the hydrological environment in the bay.
Most of the people who do this work are ordinary modulators, like worker ants in an ant colony.
Their superpowers are very limited, and attacking them, and getting their genes, is of little value to Gram.
Soon after arriving in the Old World, Graham realized that enhancing superpowers had nothing to do with how many modulators were attacked, but rather with the superpowers possessed by the modulators of the raid. To put it simply, the only way for Gram to become stronger is to attack the modulator who is stronger than himself, and obtain the modulator's genes to gain its superpowers. If you just attack a modulator who is weaker than you, no matter how many attacks you make, it won't help at all.
That is, Graham must attack the high-ranking modulators, and even the patriarchs of the church.
It's a pity that he simply doesn't have such abilities.
In a face-to-face battle, Gram is definitely no match for the patriarch.
What to do?
Gram is not stupid, and the fact that he can't kill the patriarch in a head-to-head battle doesn't mean that he can't defeat the patriarch, and a sudden attack is likely to produce unexpected results.
A sneak attack is the only way to deal with the patriarch.
Of course, the premise is that there needs to be an opportunity to be able to sneak up on the patriarch.
There were three elders in the bay, but Graham waited for months and did not get such an opportunity.
These patriarchs would not leave the camp at all, or even go it alone. Gram can infiltrate the camp, but he can't launch a surprise attack.
If you want to sneak up on the Senator, you have to get the Senator out of the camp, and preferably alone.
If the Patriarch had several powerful modulators around him, even if Gram hid well and launched a surprise attack, he might not be able to get close to the Patriarch.
If he waited, Gram didn't know when he would be able to wait for such an opportunity.
With the concoction complete, the Patriarch will definitely leave here, so Gram can't wait any longer, he must create an opportunity for himself.
That's why, for months, Graham has been attacking patrols that are out and causing problems for the elders stationed there.
To Gramm's dismay, the church didn't care about the attack, nor how many of its conspirators were killed in the attack.
Of course, this is understandable.
There are at least a million modulators in the bay, and even if Gram attacks a patrol every day and kills a few modulators, it won't make any difference.
To put it bluntly, for a million modulators, there is no difference at all between a few more and a few.
Although Gram increased the frequency of his attacks and began to attack some of the more powerful modulators, he never got the opportunity to sneak up on the Patriarch.
Only, the situation has changed.
The presence of Homs, especially the patriarch named Umma, helped Gram achieve his goal.
Lombador plans to send his men to deal with the natives who are hiding in the mountains, and if the clean-up operation fails, Lombador is likely to take action himself.
After months of waiting, Gram knew that the opportunity would soon come.
After Lombardo led his men to leave, Graham also quietly left.
According to Gramm's judgment, if he can successfully sneak up on Lombard and get Lombardo's superpowers, then he will be able to sneak up on Homs next time, at least the chance of success in sneaking up on Homs will be much higher. Kill Holmes, obtain Holmes's superpower to deal with other elders, so as to obtain the superpowers of other elders, and finally have the superpower to challenge Chu Tianjiang and kill Chu Tianjiang.
Revenge is not a distant thing.