187 Spreading Rumors. (1/2)

To set up the communication, a group of men had come all the way from the Neutral City. Ozul left it all to Haley and Irvin, who worked diligently.

He did not know, but Alver and Raymond really could not wait to meet him, but at the same time, really nervous as well.

They wanted to come themselves, but the movement of a Rank-9 Mage wouldn't go unnoticed by anyone around the whole Mainland. Just a single mistake could cause the entire structure of balance to fall apart.

If it was not for this simple fact that they, as Rank-9 Mages, could not even move long distances without making it seem that they had ulterior motives, the two brothers would've already been here long ago.

It also confused him when Haley had come to him once and asked a weird thing like, ”Young Master, are you sure you did not sell those two to the Ashin family?”

When Ozul asked why she had asked such a thing, Haley replied, ”They... they are giving so much for just a simple cooperation!”

”From protective talismans to formations and even basic resources for people who had just started cultivating! They are not only doing their part of the deal but more,” Haley continued in excitement.

Previously, she too had thought that 10 years was too little of a time to not only establish an organization from scratch but also spread to every inhibited area of the Mainland.

Before she was planning to buy these things over the course of time. For things such as cultivation resources, only money was not the condition to buy them.

People needed connections and power to obtain these resources. They would have had to steadily build their organization till it got to the point where it would be able to obtain them, but now the Ashin family had directly sent these to them.

If they would keep the supply steady, then it might not sound so impossible as it did before.

For the most part, obtaining the cultivation resources required the exploration of unknown and dangerous places to find valuables that are high in demand. They would then trade these valuables and obtain the resources.

However, the exploration of such parts demanded people strong enough to protect themselves. But since they were a new organization, only a couple of people were at this stage. They were not even close to being enough for exploring any dangerous area.

That's why it was a tedious process where they would have had to slowly raise the strength of the individuals first.

That is why Haley was so happy. The Ashin family saved them months and months of time only by providing the resources that they probably did not even need much.

Though Ozul ignored this part as he hadn't been familiar with them so much. Even the enthusiasm shown by Haley and Irvin, Ozul thought was natural as things were going smoothly till now.

Days turned into weeks and weeks into months.

Irvin had gathered enough men that they could start tens of branches at the same time in different cities, but they were still waiting for any reaction from the Royal family.

Only a few weeks after Ozul's orders had Haley realized that Irvin was only hiring strong men and not the ones actually capable of stealth. What use would their organization be if they did not even have information that others would want?

So, she had to take an hour or so from her schedule just so she could reassess people who Irvin had chosen as strong people.

Slowly but surely, their strength rose along with information that was useless at this time, but it helped the recruits hone their skills.

Most of the people did not know, but there were at least five people having an eye on everything around almost every other block of the city.

It was at this point when Ozul decided that it was time that they announce their presence to everyone. Unlike what others would've thought, Ozul did not care about how many people knew about their organization.

He wanted the people working as the Three-Eyed Strangers to be so skilled that most ordinary people wouldn't believe even if they confessed themselves that they were spies from an organization.

Also, there was almost no one who had come to ask for their services. Unless he spread the rumors that there was an information-gathering organization in here, no one would walk their way.

Ozul wouldn't have cared about this since he wanted to build this place solely for himself, but the problem lay in the members. What if the Ashin family stopped providing the funds at one point and the members are not ready?

For relying too much on external forces, the people under him would become useless. They would not be able to work once that load falls on them.

That's why he wanted whoever joined the organization to start gaining experience.

Haley had wanted to mark a tattoo of an eye on the people who had joined, but Ozul immediately rejected the idea.