"The Locke family was also assassinated!"
"All direct members of the Locke family have been killed, and the Locke family has been exterminated!"
"The one who took action was the Shadow Snake. I heard from the guards who survived the battle that they saw the Shadow Snake's symbol on an assassin's arm."
…
The next day, following the assassination of the Fergus family, news of the genocide of the Locke family spread quickly.
All the families who heard the news couldn't help but change their colors and stepped up security in the castle. Some families secretly hid their direct descendants.
For a time, the atmosphere in the Marquis of Sidney became tense, no worse than when the Shadow Snake attacked last time.
The Fergus family, which caused this tense atmosphere, is welcoming the people sent by the Sidney family for support and investigation.
"Master Saroyan, Count Smalley, I've got to help you!"
This time, the person sent by the Sidney family to investigate and hunt down the Shadow Snake was Saroyan, the next successor of the Sidney family. Among the team, Count Smalley was also among them.
"fine."
Saroyan shook his head, but his expression was slightly gloomy.
"It seems that the lesson given to the Shadow Snake last time was not enough, and he actually dared to sneak into the Sidney Territory again."
On the way here, he suddenly heard that the Locke family was being exterminated. It can be said that he was extremely shocked and angry.
"What a pity for the Locke family."
Viscount Fergus sighed slightly with the mentality of a cat crying over a mouse.
"In less than a year, we attacked Sidney twice in a row. This will not let the matter be settled like this."
Saroyan gritted his teeth.
"You won't let it go like this?"
Viscount Fergus was startled and asked cautiously.
"Master Saroyan, is the Marquis planning to find the Shadow Snake's lair and completely kill the Shadow Snake?"
"Well, I have this plan. The family's spies are trying to find out about the Shadow Snake's lair."
Saroyan nodded, and then said.
"By the way, have you found out anything about the Shadow Snake?"
"No, the territory has been searched all over, and no trace of the Shadow Head has been found. I am afraid that it has withdrawn from the territory after the last assassination."
Viscount Fergus frowned and shook his head.
After learning about the assassination from the Fergus family and obtaining the battle process "modified" by the Fergus family, Saroyan and his party hurriedly set off again to Rock Castle without spending the night at the Fergus family.
Obviously they are anxious to investigate the Locke family. After all, the situation there is more serious than that of the Fergus family.
Somewhere in the kingdom, the four core characters of the Shadow Snake are sitting.
"Sir, I'm sorry, the assassination failed!"
The woman wearing an eye patch bowed her head and apologized.
"I already know the news. What's the specific situation? What's the damage?"
The old man with a sinister face nodded and asked.
"A total of five ferocious assassins were sent out this time. Contact has been lost with all of them now. It is estimated that all of them have been killed."
A woman wearing an eye patch reports.
"All five ferocious assassins have lost contact?"
Opposite her, the purple-haired man raised his eyebrows and frowned.
"The Fergus family should not have this ability. It seems that the news is indeed a conspiracy of the Sidney family."
"It's just that something weird happened."
The woman wearing an eyepatch continued.
"What's weird?"
The old man with a sinister face asked.
"On the second day after we assassinated the Fergus family, a Viscount family named Locke was also assassinated in the Sidney territory."
"All the direct members of this family were killed. There are rumors that it was us, the Shadow Snakes, who did it. However, I have never suffered such a fate, and I have not sent anyone else."
"Someone must have taken advantage of our name as the Shadow Snake to take advantage of us."
The purple-haired man guessed.
"During the last assassination, a noble family affiliated with the Oliver family was killed in this way. I just don't know if it was done by the same force."
"Now the Sidney family must have determined that our Shadow Snake did it."
The man with short brown hair frowned.
"Damn it, you actually dare to let us, the Shadow Snake, take the blame. Don't let me know which force it is."
The woman wearing an eyepatch said bitterly.
"Ahem."
The sinister-faced old man coughed twice, drawing the three people's attention to him and spoke.
"Since it has been confirmed that it is the Sidney family's conspiracy, we will postpone the assassination of the Fergus family."
"Yes, sir."
The purple-haired man, the short-brown-haired man, and the blindfolded woman all responded respectfully.
…
After some exploration, with the combined efforts of all the nobles of Sidney, they searched almost the entire Marquis of Sidney, but still found no trace of the Shadow Snake.
In the end, it can only be considered that the Shadow Snake has left the Marquis of Sidney, and the pursuit team led by Saroyan can only be disbanded.
A few months later, Fergus Castle White Rock Training Ground.
Bernal and others practice here, while Gray rarely appears here.
"Brother, how do you think I am practicing?"
Sarah, whose face was red and had sweat on her forehead because she had just finished practicing, looked at Gray expectantly and asked.
Now she has turned 15 years old. On the day when she turned 15 years old, Viscount Fergus implanted her with the blood of the Wind Wolf. As for her practice of blood magic, it was Gray who taught her.
"Well, not bad, great progress."
Gray praised without hesitation.
"yeah-"
Hearing Gray's compliment, Sarah's face suddenly lit up with joy. After happily saying "I'm going to take a shower," she jumped up and ran towards the bathroom.
Looking at the other party's leaving figure, Gray smiled.
He said that the other party has made great progress, which is true.
Sarah's cultivation talent is slightly weaker than the original owner of the body, but slightly stronger than Bernal and others.
I don’t know if it’s because they have the same father and mother, so they both inherited better cultivation talents.
"Your talent is so good, and Sarah's cultivation talent is also so good. It's really shocking."
Bernal, who had just finished practicing, came over and sighed slightly.
"hey-hey."
Gray laughed dryly. At this time, it was not good for him to rub salt into the wound, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Congratulations to Brother Bernal. I heard from father that you are engaged to Miss Bernice."
"Thanks-"
Bernal said with a happy smile on his face.
"What about you? I have attended many banquets in recent months. Is there any girl you like?"
"I, it's still early!"
Gray rolled his eyes. Although he had the soul of an adult in his twenties, his body was still very young.
"The coming-of-age ceremony has been held, and it's already late. You don't know that several noble families have already conveyed their intentions in this regard to my father."
Bernal chuckled.
"Yes, Baron Clive seemed to have approached his father about this matter a few days ago."
Caroline came over and made a rare joke.
"Well-"
Gray's expression changed, and his mood instantly became bad.
"Who told you to be so popular?"
Seeing Gray's expression change drastically, Bernal shrugged.
"It's not good to be too popular. No, I just held a coming-of-age ceremony and I'm already being targeted!"
"Indeed, it's not good to be too popular!"
After taking a closer look at Gray, Caroline said in agreement.
While Bernal and Caroline were talking to each other, Green left the White Rock Training Ground in a slightly embarrassed state.
He really hasn't thought about getting engaged or getting married now.
I originally thought it was still early, after all, I had just grown up, but I didn't expect that I was already being targeted.
Shaking his head and not thinking about this kind of thing for the time being, he returned to the bedroom and his eyes couldn't help but fall on a bronze vial placed on the coffee table compartment. The vial contained the blood of the iron-armed ape he once hunted.
"Would you like to choose Iron Armed Ape?"
A few months have passed, and with his current physical strength, he should be able to take the blood of the blood beast again.
But he had some hesitation regarding the choice of blood beast blood this time.
Before his strength reaches the level of a fierce blood warrior, he has no ability to hunt blood beasts. It is very difficult to obtain the blood of blood beasts, so every kind of blood beast blood is extremely precious to him. As long as he encounters it, he will naturally not be able to kill it. miss.
But now, he already has the ability to hunt blood beasts and has the conditions to choose.
In addition, blood beast blood cannot be taken continuously, so he has to think carefully about every time he takes blood beast blood and try to choose the one that suits him best.
What he is considering now is whether to take Iron Arm Ape blood.
Finally, the hesitation in his eyes was replaced by determination, he picked up the bottle of blood beast blood and walked to the bathroom.
The defense of the arm of the iron-armed ape is even stronger than that of the armored rhinoceros, which has the strongest defense among ferocious-level blood beasts. Not to mention the ferocious-level blood beasts, even the mad-level blood beasts may be difficult to injure. In terms of practicality, it is difficult to injure it. , should be even higher than the Armored Rhinoceros.
So he finally decided to take the blood of Iron Arm Ape.
(End of chapter)