Sam disconnected himself as well as the weapon spirits.
He sent the weapons back into the storage and took out some specters. He fed one of the specters into the cylinder. The faces didn't show the same excited reaction as they did with the weapon spirit. However, they did show some reaction.
Sam connected himself once again and observed as the specter being forcefully devoured by the faces. All these faces are representatives of the spirits within and these spirits are now devouring the specter as if it is nothing more than a snack.
However, the urges and the actions of these spirits is completely different compared to how they acted when he made the weapon spirits go into contact with them.
He went into a deep thought and decided to go with another experiment. He took out a weapon and another specter. Then with his spell made enchanted the weapon with the specter and made that specter a spirit.