After ordering the Storm Mercenary Group to search for traces of ice-type king-level blood fiends, Gray ordered them to return to Mercenary City, while he rushed to the other two strongholds of the Blaze Fang.
A few days later, Gray returned to the Fergus family. However, he did not come back alone. Instead, he came back with dozens of people.
"Gray, what's wrong with these people?"
Earl Fergus and Bernal asked in surprise.
Although they didn't know the exact strength of these people, among these people, there were quite a number of people who gave them a sense of danger. A few of them even gave them a creepy feeling. It was obvious that the strength of these dozens of people was not simple.
"I hired them to be in charge of the castle's daily defense."
Gray explained.
"Can you guarantee their loyalty?"
Earl Fergus asked in a low voice as he pulled Gray aside.
He was happy that there was a group of experts in the castle all of a sudden. If there were such experts at Elise's wedding, he would not have been so worried.
However, many of these people were obviously very strong. Would such experts really be loyal to the Fergus family?
"There is absolutely no problem in terms of loyalty. I will pay them. You can make the arrangements without worry."
Gray nodded affirmatively. The life and death of a person controlled by the resurrection ability was in his hands. They were definitely more loyal than people who had been trained since young. Their loyalty could definitely be guaranteed.
These people were transferred from the three strongholds of the Blaze Fang by Gray.
One of them was a Wild Blood Warrior, who was at the first level of the Desolation Level. There were three Barbarian Blood Warriors, two of whom were at the first level of the Barbarian Level, and one of whom was at the second level of the Barbarian Level.
Although Gray had taken control of the three strongholds of the Blaze Fang, including the Storm Mercenary Group, he did not plan to cut off their relationship with the Blaze Fang. He wanted to make these three strongholds his spies in the Blaze Fang, so he only transferred some people over.
These people were all developed in the Purple Moon Kingdom from the three strongholds. Even the Blaze Fang did not know their identities, so he could use them without worry.
"That's good."
Seeing how confident Gray was, Earl Fergus knew that Gray must be confident.
"The forest where you usually cultivate has been burned down. We are going to find a new forest near the castle to build a wooden house for your cultivation. Which forest do you think is suitable?"
Bernal asked Gray after seeing that the matter of the dozens of people had been settled.
"There's no need to find a new forest. Just build the wooden house in the original location. As for the concealment, I'll take care of it."
Gray shook his head. There was a tunnel in Fergus Castle that led directly to the original forest. If they destroyed it and dug it up again, it would be a big project. As for the concealment, he had a solution.
The next day, Gray led more than ten former members of the Blazing Tooth, including the Desolate Blood warrior, to a forest full of burn marks.
The forest, which was originally thousands of meters long, was now pitch black. Lava could be seen in many places.
"Attack!"
"Yes, sir!"
Following Gray's orders, the dozen people began to move.
First, the people with earth elemental abilities used their abilities to turn over the soil and bury all the burn marks.
After that, those with plant abilities scattered the seeds. Using their plant abilities, one tree after another began to grow on the barren ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Among them, the Desolate Blood warrior had the most terrifying effect. Every time he used it, he could turn an area of one to two hundred meters into a forest.
Although his elemental ability was not plant elemental, he had a pinnacle bronze elemental magic weapon with plant elemental abilities. With the power of a desolate rank, its power was naturally terrifying.
In just two days, the forest that had been burned down was once again covered by trees. Even the wooden house was built. Using the plant elemental ability, the entire wooden house was a single tree.
All that was needed was bedding, cupboards, and a series of other necessities. Then, they could move in.
"It only took two days to create a forest that extends for thousands of meters."
Seeing the forest appear in just two days, Bernal was amazed. Sarah, Caroline, and the rest were also amazed.
"They have nothing to do, so they can make use of it."
Gray said with a smile.
It only took two days to create a forest that was thousands of meters long. The convenience of the Blood Warriors in construction was undeniable.
However, only a few factions could do such a thing. After all, in the entire process, more than ten Blood Warriors were used, and one of them was even a Desolate Blood warrior.
Only Gray would let the Desolate Blood warriors do construction. The other factions all supported the existence of the desolate rank, so why would they let them do such menial work?
This was also the reason why the construction speed of this world was still very slow, even though it had various magical abilities that could accelerate construction by ten or even a hundred times.
"What are the strength of the strongest few people?"
Earl Fergus asked after some hesitation.
"Three Desolate Blood warriors and three Desolate Blood warriors."
"Hiss —"
In the hall, the sound of people gasping could be heard.
Caroline covered her red lips to hide her surprise.
Sarah opened her eyes wide without blinking.
Daniela Carlisle, the wife of the new member of the Fergus family, Elise, was shocked. Did she hear wrongly?
There were Desolate Blood warriors among them.
Although they had guessed that there were many strong people among the hundred people, they did not expect them to be so strong. Not only were there three Desolate Blood warriors, but there were also three Desolate Blood warriors.
Recently, they had come into contact with many nobles of the kingdom and had a general understanding of the nobles' power. They naturally understood what a Desolate Blood warrior and three Desolate Blood warriors meant.
To put it bluntly, with the addition of this power, the Fergus family would not be weaker than any Marquis family.
Gray smiled. He still had three third level Desolated Level existences under his control. If he were to say it out loud, everyone would be shocked.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Gray's expression changed slightly. After greeting everyone, he left the hall and went to an empty area.
Whoosh!
The next moment, his figure disappeared and reappeared in a forest thousands of miles away. He had used spatial teleportation.
He did not stop there. He used spatial teleportation again and again. When he reappeared, he was in a basement.
In Mercenary City, in the Storm Mercenary Group's base, a man in a black cloak appeared in the leader's study.
"I really didn't expect that even with a Silver-grade weapon, I still couldn't kill him, and even lost my Silver-grade weapon. When they found out about this, the three leaders were very angry!"
The man in the black cloak said in a hoarse voice.
"We've disappointed the organization!"
Marlow Sydney smiled bitterly.
"I didn't expect him to have a Silver-ranked Demonic Weapon and two helpers whose bodies are comparable to King-tier Blood Fiends. If we hadn't used the Silver-ranked Demonic Weapon as bait, the three of us might have died there."
"The organization has decided that the resources of the three strongholds will be halved for the next three years as punishment."
The man in the black cloak said in a hoarse voice.
"We have let the organization down. We accept the punishment."
Marlow Sydney said with a bitter face.
The man in the black cloak nodded and melded into the shadows, sneaking out of the study.
The moment he sneaked out of the study, a blood-red spear with black fog around its tip pierced towards him.
Pu!
Facing this swift spear, even with his desolate-level strength, he was unable to dodge in time. The cloaked man's heart was pierced. His eyes were filled with shock and astonishment as his body fell to the ground.
Creak!
Marlow Sydney walked out and came before Gray, bowing respectfully to Gray.
"Lord Gray, this is the person in charge of contacting the three of us in the Ivory Organization!"
"Mm."
Gray nodded.
Because Marlow Sydney and the others had been resurrected by him, he could give orders to them in his mind, and Marlow Sydney and the others could give him feedback in their minds.
Of course, the distance could not be too far. If it was too far, the feedback of the orders and information could not be completed. He could only roughly sense the other party's call.
Earlier, when he was in the living room, he had sensed Marlow Sydney's call, so he had immediately used spatial teleportation to rush over.
He sized up the cloaked man. This was a thin old man. Grabbing him with one hand, Gray's figure disappeared and reappeared in a forest.
Moving slightly away from the teleportation point, he used his resurrection ability to resurrect the thin old man.
After some questioning, Gray learned of the thin old man's identity. His name was Barker Lance, and he was a Desolate-Level Rank-1. Because he was good at concealment, he had become the liaison between the Flame Kingdom and the Purple Moon Kingdom.
"The person in charge of my assassination is actually the King of Assassins!"
Gray had a strange expression.
Because of the tragedy of the Sidney family, Gray had promised the three siblings that if he had the ability, he would kill the King of Assassins to avenge the old Marquis and the others.
However, he had not expected that before he had the ability to make a move against the King of Assassins, he had been targeted by the King of Assassins and had already been assassinated.
The assassination this time was definitely dangerous.
A Silver-grade Magic Weapon could unleash the combat power of a Regent. If he had not reached the second level of the Desolation Level first, which gave him a terrifying defense that even a Regent would not be able to damage, he would have been severely injured when he was ambushed.
"The King of Assassins is actually in charge of me!"
Gray felt a sense of danger. The King of Assassins was not a simple King class elite. He was a King class elite who had undergone a metamorphosis. He was much stronger than the average King class elite.
"Fortunately, it is difficult for a Regent to sneak into the Purple Moon Kingdom without alerting the Purple Moon Kingdom's royal family. Otherwise, I would have to hide in the Purple Moon Kingdom's Imperial City. This time, I made the right choice by using the three Ivory strongholds as spies!"
The three strongholds were the Blaze Tooth's intelligence network in the Purple Moon Kingdom. With these three strongholds under his control, he would definitely be able to obtain information about the Blaze Tooth's actions. He would be safer and could even use this information to plot against the Blaze Tooth.