In a high-class room, an old man who was lying quietly on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of extremely cold eyes.
His eyes moved left and right, and the unfamiliar environment made him suddenly alert. He turned over and tried to sit up.
"Ah!"
A piercing pain came from his abdomen, causing him to cry out in pain. He lay back down on the bed, causing the elastic bed to creak as he fell.
He gently lifted the quilt and looked down at his abdomen. There were many white bandages wrapped around his abdomen.
And it seemed that because of his action just now, the wound under the bandages split open again. The color of the bandages turned crimson at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He remembered that his abdomen was once penetrated by Manel Sidney's greatsword. The wound on his abdomen should have been left at that time.
"Manel Sidney."
Thinking of Manel Sidney, his eyes were full of cold hatred. He clenched his few remaining teeth as if they would break at any time.
After a moment, he suppressed the hatred in his heart and turned his attention to his current environment.
This was a luxuriously decorated room. From the decorations in the room, this should be the bedroom of a noble family.
"Where … am I?"
"How … is the organization?"
He endured the pain and gently moved his body to the side of the bed. He wanted to get out of bed and stand up.
"I advise you not to do this. Your injuries are too serious. Even the Healing Potion can only keep you alive."
At this moment, with the sound of the door opening, a person walked in. Looking at Rob Tracy who wanted to sit up, the person spoke with an old voice.
"It's you, Relph Wallen."
Rob Tracy looked sideways at the person who spoke. It was an old man in a gray coat with a face full of wrinkles.
He recognized this person because this person had discussed with him many times about merging the Shadow Serpent into the Wallen family, but he refused.
"With such serious injuries, even the Healing Potion didn't have much effect. You were in a coma for seven days. I thought you had no hope. I didn't expect you to wake up. It seems that your luck is not bad."
Looking at Rob Tracy, Relph Wallen sighed slightly.
"Seven days? I was unconscious for seven days?"
Rob Tracy frowned and asked in a deep voice after a slight hesitation.
"How is the Shadow Serpent now?"
"I think you should already be very clear."
Ralph Wallen shook his head slightly.
"Other than you, everyone else, including the two captain-level assassins, was killed!"
"The Sidney family, and the Fergus family …"
Rob Tracy's aged fists were clenched tightly, and his eyes were ice-cold.
Even though he had already expected this, he still couldn't help but be greatly shocked when he heard this answer.
The Shadow Serpent was his life's work. He had poured his life's work into the Shadow Serpent organization. Now, his life's work was gone.
"Hiss …"
He endured the pain in his abdomen and tried to get out of bed.
"I know you want to take revenge, but I advise you to recuperate first. Not to mention the Sidney family, any family with a Ferocious Blood Warrior would be enough to take your life."
Relph Wallen shook his head.
"The Sidney family is also the enemy of our Wallen family. Our Wallen family's hatred for the Sidney family is no weaker than yours."
After being entangled with the Sidney family for hundreds of years, the two families had already forgotten their initial hatred. What was left behind was an unforgettable hatred.
Many members of the Wallen family had died under the assassination and schemes of the Sidney family. Similarly, many members of the Sidney family had also died under the assassination and schemes of the Wallen family. Even the previous patriarchs of the two families had died because of this.
"Bringing up the past, I once again invite you to join the Wallen family. I think you should understand that if you want to take revenge on the Sidney family, your strength alone is far from enough …"
Gray and Earl Fergus stayed in Sidney Castle for a full three days to complete the paperwork for the promotion to a Count family, the letter of appointment, and other trivial matters. Only then did they leave Sidney Castle.
The Fergus family's promotion from a Viscount family to a Count family naturally greatly increased the size of their territory. The original 3000 square kilometers had expanded by ten times, reaching a full 30 thousand square kilometers.
This area was already equivalent to the area of several cities and jurisdictions in Gray's previous world.
The territory had expanded on the basis of the original territory of the Fergus family. It had expanded in all four directions, forming an irregular gear shape.
Among them, the territories that originally belonged to the Rock family and the Oliver family had also been incorporated into the Fergus family's territory.
These few days, Earl Fergus had been busy with matters related to the promotion to a Count family, while Gray had been flipping through the Sidney family's library. It could be said that he had gained a lot.
"I didn't expect the blood of a high-grade blood beast to have the ability to trigger mutations …"
If a blood vessel was implanted in the training of blood techniques, it was very likely to cause the body to collapse and directly cause the person to go insane.
However, if one didn't implant a blood vessel, but simply absorbed the blood or blood essence of a high-grade blood beast through natural absorption, it could increase the speed of one's strength.
Moreover, when the blood of a high-grade blood beast was of the same attribute as the blood technique one practiced, the faster the speed of one's strength increase, the better the effect.
It was precisely because he knew this that Gray had used the blood of a high-grade blood beast as a cover when Zaloyang had mentioned the speed of his strength increase.
However, he hadn't expected the blood of a high-grade blood beast to have the ability to trigger mutations.
"It seems that the Sidney family thought that the mutation of my blood fiend ability was due to consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast!"
At first, Gray had been wondering why the Sidney family didn't seem to find the matter of his bloodline mutation strange. They didn't even ask him about it.
Now, he understood that consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast could trigger a bloodline mutation.
Previously, when Gray had mentioned that he had consumed the blood of a high-grade blood beast to conceal the reason for his rapid increase in strength, the Sidney family had obviously thought that he had undergone a mutation after consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast. Therefore, they didn't suspect much about this matter.
"However, consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast can trigger a mutation. This is quite similar to my body's metamorphosis."
All this time, Gray had been investigating the origin of his body's metamorphosis after consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast. He wanted to know exactly what had caused this metamorphosis.
Now, Gray saw a similarity in the phenomenon of consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast.
Of course, the phenomenon of Gray's metamorphosis after consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast was different from the phenomenon of consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast.
Even consuming the blood of a blood beast of the same level could trigger a mutation. Moreover, it wasn't like the phenomenon of consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast, which only had a small probability of occurring.
Not only that, but after consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast, the body would undergo a long period of a second metamorphosis. In this state of metamorphosis, one's appetite would increase, and the corresponding speed of increase in strength would become extremely terrifying.
It was very obvious that the phenomenon of Gray's metamorphosis after consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast was more significant than the phenomenon of an ordinary person consuming the blood of a high-grade blood beast. It was simply an evolved version of this phenomenon.
It was as if this phenomenon of mutation had been upgraded and evolved in Gray's body.
Two days later, Gray and Earl Fergus returned to Fergus Castle with the remaining copper rhinoceros.
In front of the castle gate, the Fergus family members came to welcome Gray and Earl Fergus after learning that they had returned.
"Father, Gray, you're finally back. You've been gone for more than twenty days, and there's been no news."
Bernal sighed in relief when he saw that Gray and Earl Fergus didn't show any signs of injury.
The others in the castle didn't know why Gray and Earl Fergus had been recruited by the Sidney family this time, but he knew and understood the danger of this time very well.
Although he didn't know the full strength of the Shadow Serpent organization, he could tell that this organization wasn't simple from the fact that they hadn't been destroyed despite being enemies with the Sidney family more than twenty years ago and that there were several berserk blood warriors in the organization.
He even faintly guessed that there should be berserk blood warriors in this organization.
Gray and Earl Fergus had left for more than twenty days without any news, so he couldn't help but feel uneasy. Fortunately, Gray and Earl Fergus had returned safely.
Thump, thump, thump!
After entering the castle, Gray commanded the bronze-armored rhinoceros to head to the basement. Seeing the numerous injuries on the rhinoceros' body, their expressions changed slightly.
"The bronze-armored rhinoceros is injured!"
Sarah and Bernice were astonished.
"The bronze-armored rhinoceros has such a strong defense, but it actually suffered such serious injuries …"
Caroline frowned.
"The bronze-armored rhinoceros actually suffered such serious injuries."
Bernal's pupils shrank slightly. Just from the injuries on the bronze-armored rhinoceros' body, he could feel the desperation of this battle.
"Master, what about the other three berserk blood fiends?"
Madame De Milan keenly noticed something that they had overlooked.
"They're all damaged."
Earl Fergus shook his head.
"All damaged?"
The expressions of the Fergus family members changed.
Although most of them hadn't heard from Viscount Fergus about the purpose of this trip, they had vaguely guessed. After all, this was the first time they had brought four blood fiends with them.
Now, of the four blood fiends, three were damaged, and one was full of injuries. One could imagine what kind of battle had taken place.
"It's good that they're fine."
The few of them comforted him.
Although it was a pity to lose the Windrider Leopard and the Jade Lizard, which could fully display the strength of a berserk beast, the most important thing was that they were fine.
Hearing their words of comfort, Count Fergus smiled and said, "Don't worry.
"Don't worry, we didn't lose out this time."