"Too much blood loss …"
After confirming that the lion-type blood fiend was dead, Gray hurriedly collected the blood with a rune bag.
After a round of collection, he obtained about 150 portions of blood. Judging from the size of the blood fiend, more than half of its blood had been lost. The remaining blood was not enough to extract the blood essence.
"The main reason is that the murderous level blood fiend's attack power is too low. I can't kill it in a short period of time, so I lost too much blood."
The murderous level blood fiend's attack power was too low for a blood fiend that had reached the mad level.
In addition, he couldn't attack its head or throat, so he couldn't kill it in a short period of time. As a result, the blood fiend lost a lot of blood.
In fact, the reason why the lion-type blood fiend died was because of the large amount of blood loss.
"What a huge loss."
Looking back at his army of blood fiends, Gray couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Four of the blood fiends' brains were damaged and could no longer be controlled. Most of the other blood fiends had horrifying injuries on their bodies. They had become "disabled" and their combat power was greatly reduced.
Even the iron-armored rhinoceros, which had the strongest defense, had many injuries on its body.
"I hope I can control it. Otherwise, the loss this time will be too great."
Although only four of his blood fiends were completely destroyed, including the ones that were severely damaged, he had lost at least ten blood fiends in this battle.
Patter!
Using his ability to control corpses, a black meatball with tentacles fell on the lion-type blood fiend's body and slowly crawled into its mouth.
Patter, patter, patter!
As the black meatball crawled in, the corpse of the lion-type blood fiend began to tremble slightly.
One minute.
Two minutes.
...
A few minutes had passed. In the past, he should have already controlled the lion-type blood fiend, but he still couldn't control it. Just as Gray was worried that his control had failed …
The lion-type blood fiend stood up, trembling.
Seeing this, Gray heaved a sigh of relief. But at the next moment …
Patter!
The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard.
Gray's expression changed. He hurriedly confirmed the source of the sound. After confirming that it wasn't the lion-type blood fiend, he heaved a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness."
He looked back at the fallen blood fiend and saw a blood fiend with gray scales on its body.
"This blood fiend's head isn't injured, so it shouldn't have gone out of control. Could it be that it has reached its limit like before?"
Gray frowned as he walked to the side of the gray-scaled blood beast.
"No, even including this gray-scaled blood beast, I can only control 16 beasts in total, which is far from the upper limit. Could it be …?"
A guess formed in Gray's mind.
A berserk class blood fiend was much stronger than a murderous class blood fiend. It was definitely more difficult to control it.
Would it be because of this that the number of blood fiends he could control would decrease?
To put it simply, he could control up to 20 murderous level blood fiends. However, the number of mad level blood fiends would be drastically reduced.
"That's possible. After all, if he could control 20 blood fiends of any grade, the white-haired ape-type blood fiend back then would have swept through all the other blood fiends."
If the white-haired ape-type blood fiend used 20 murderous level blood fiends to hunt down a mad level blood fiend, then replaced all 20 murderous level blood fiends with mad level blood fiends, then used 20 mad level blood fiends to kill a barbarian level blood fiend.
By analogy, the white-haired ape-type blood fiend would have swept through all the other blood fiends and become the most powerful blood fiend.
But in fact, such a thing did not happen. Therefore, it was inevitable that there would be a drastic reduction in the number of blood fiends he could control.
"I'll know if this is the case after I give it a try."
Gray took all the beasts he could control and began to search for blood fiends.
Half an hour later, he found a murderous level blood fiend covered with white scales.
In order to test the combat power of the lion-type blood fiend, Gray ordered the lion-type blood fiend to charge forward and attack.
It easily crushed the blood fiend!
Even without the blood fiend ability, the lion-type blood fiend could still crush the blood fiend with its physical strength alone.
The white-haired blood fiend was injured as soon as the lion-type blood fiend stepped forward and slapped it.
The injured white-haired blood fiend fled in fear, but the lion-type blood fiend easily caught up and slapped it back.
The white-haired blood fiend used its blood fiend ability to attack the lion-type blood fiend with a water arrow, but the lion-type blood fiend easily dodged it.
The lion-type blood fiend was slapped to the ground and pinned to the ground. Its claws dug a big hole in the white-haired blood fiend's body and killed it on the spot.
Gray had ordered the lion-type blood fiend not to attack the head and throat. Otherwise, it would have been even easier to kill it.
He used his ability to control corpses to control the white-scaled blood beast. The moment the white-scaled blood beast was under his control, the other blood beast that was under his control suddenly fell to the ground.
"As expected …"
Seeing this scene, Gray's face revealed an expression of "as expected."
Obviously, Gray's guess was right. The number of blood fiends had reached the limit of what he could control.
"Including the lion-type blood fiend, I have a total of sixteen blood fiends left. In other words, if I can control five murderous level blood fiends, I can only control one mad level blood fiend."
Based on this ratio, if all the murderous level blood fiends were replaced with mad level blood fiends, Gray could only control four blood fiends.
"Is it worth exchanging twenty murderous level blood fiends for four mad level blood fiends?"
This question flashed across Gray's mind, and he already had an answer.
From the previous battle with the white-haired blood fiend, it was not difficult to tell that even one mad level blood fiend was stronger than five murderous level blood fiends. Exchanging all the murderous level blood fiends for mad level blood fiends was completely worth it.
Most importantly, the mad level blood fiend in front of him was only average in terms of physical strength. If the one being controlled was a mad level blood fiend with stronger physical strength, its combat strength would be enhanced significantly.
After making up his mind, Gray began to search for mad level blood fiends.
Four days later, he encountered a mad level leopard blood fiend.
Excluding its tail, this leopard blood fiend was about three meters long. Its limbs were slender and strong, and its body was covered with purple spots.
These purple spots were curved and curved like zigzagged lightning bolts.
As a leopard type blood fiend, its speed was usually extremely fast. As expected, the leopard blood fiend possessed an extremely terrifying speed.
Fortunately, Gray was controlling too many blood fiends. There was one mad level blood fiend, fourteen murderous level blood fiends, and a murderous level blood warrior.
Quantity made up for the difference in speed.
Besieged from all sides, the leopard blood fiend was unable to escape and was killed by the besiegement.
Three days later, he encountered a mad level ox-type blood fiend.
This ox-type blood fiend was green all over. Its body was four meters long, and its four legs were as thick as water buckets. Standing there, it looked like a tank.
It was a mad level blood fiend of the Herculean Bull series — a mad bull.
Fighting it was no different from fighting a real tank. Its fur was as hard as steel plates, and its skin was as hard as iron.
After expending a lot of effort and losing seven murderous level blood fiends, he finally managed to kill the mad bull.
Five days later, after controlling the mad bull and replenishing the murderous level blood fiends, Gray encountered a mad level crocodile type blood fiend.
The crocodile type blood fiend was more than five meters long, and its thick tail was full of bumps. When it swung its tail, it was as if a thousand-pound hammer had smashed down. Any blood fiend that was hit by the tail would be turned into a pile of mud.
The ferocious crocodile's mouth was unusually sharp. Once it bit down, there was no way it could stop.
As for its ability as a blood fiend, it was also extremely powerful. A large amount of mud would turn into thick tentacles and wrap around its opponent. With a squeeze, the opponent's bones would be crushed.
Similarly, it took a lot of blood fiends to kill the crocodile type blood fiend.
Since then, Gray's creatures of control had all become mad level blood fiends.
One leopard type blood fiend, one ox-type blood fiend, one lion-type blood fiend, and one crocodile type blood fiend.
In the evening, Gray set up a tent in a clearing in the forest.
The lion-type blood fiend was ordered by Gray to hunt. The ox-type blood fiend, leopard type blood fiend, and crocodile type blood fiend guarded him.
Half a month had passed, and the dry rations that he had brought along had been depleted. He had no choice but to hunt by himself.
Fortunately, in order to prevent situations like this from happening, he had asked the kitchen chef to prepare some seasonings that could be used for barbecue. Of course, as a newbie, the taste was mediocre.
"Hmm...?"
Gray, who was cultivating in the clearing in the forest, suddenly stopped cultivating. A sharp glint flashed across his eyes.
As a creature of control, although Gray could not see what the other party was looking at, he could vaguely sense the other party's condition.
At this moment, he could sense that the lion-type blood fiend was in the middle of a fierce battle. It was not a one-sided battle. Obviously, the lion-type blood fiend had met its match.
Gray immediately led the other three blood fiends and rushed in that direction.
Soon, he arrived at the battle site and saw the lion-type blood fiend fighting with the other party.