Chapter 270: Secret Division. (1/2)

”So, how many people have you recruited already?” Ozul asked while looking straight at Haley.

Haley evaded her eyes, but managed to answer nonetheless, ”There are 35 people, young master...”

Looking at her, it was obvious that she didn't think that she had gathered enough people, but Ozul simply nodded his head and asked, ”Give me the details.”

While Haley took out the documents, the others in the room began to take their leave under Irvin's order. A few minutes later, only Irvin, Oliver, and Haley were left in the room together with Ozul and the duo.

”Young master, all of these people are Rank-8 Mages at the very least,” Haley said after she had gathered the documents. She offered them to Ozul for him to take a look at it, but he was too lazy to read.

Her words caused a great shock to Raven and Blaze who were also in the same rank, albeit in the upper level. Since when did finding Rank-8 Mages had become so easy?! They couldn't help but doubt her words.

Unknown to them, the resources that Ozul had allowed Haley to use far exceeded what any other organization might offer their members. If she could find these Mages, roping them in was not a problem.

The fact that the Three-Eyed Strangers was an information gathering organization also helped when she had to find these people.

Oliver at the side couldn't help but sigh as well. With the organization's resources and the pressure from all around him, he had managed to break through to Rank-7, but it now seemed that he was nowhere near strong enough.

Haley herself had also become a Rank-8 Mage, so she had an easier time dealing with all of this mess.

”Majority of these people are at the Initial Stage with just a couple of them at Middle Stage. Sadly, I wasn't able to find any End Stage Rank-8,” Haley sighed since having a peak Rank-8 Mage as the leader of this division would have ensured its success.

”It doesn't matter. Just inform that if any of them managed to reach the End Stage before others, they will automatically be made the division leader. Only if you can't find anyone either,” Ozul calmly explained to which Haley listened with care.

She planned to do the same before but had stopped since she would obviously need Ozul's permission before choosing the division leader.

”Since you had told me to hurry up, I could only look for people from the outside,” Haley continued while skimming through the documents once again.

Surprisingly, Blaze spoke up, ”Wouldn't it be hard to ensure their loyalties?”

His question was valid since rapidly recruiting Rank-8 Mages from outside would obviously mean that all of them only joined for their own benefits. But loyalty had to be built with time; it was not something they could buy with resources.

However, Haley shook her head and replied, ”Don't worry about that. First of all, most of them are runaway Mages from other popular factions. They are being hunted down by their respective organizations and had nowhere to go.”

There were all kinds of reasons that an organization would hunt their own member, but one thing was assured, no small faction would ever take in such runaways as it meant declaring open war.

Many of the other core members had shown their disagreement when they had learned that Haley was recruiting these runaways. After all, it might have been fine if it was only one or two people, but Haley accepted any Rank-8 Mage that she stumbled upon!

There were 35 people currently, and it meant that they would have offended tens of factions if they learned about any of this.

Of course, Haley didn't listen to any of their protests. It was a direct order from Ozul after all. Even these core members shut up when she told them who had given this order.

Earlier, they were voicing out their complaints, but that was because they had found out how many resources were allocated to this new division formed by Haley. Most of them found it unfair that this division would be receiving so many benefits when many of them were Middle Stage Rank-8 Mages.

What they didn't know was how stricter the conditions placed on the members of this division were compared to theirs.

”Not just that, all of them have taken oaths. So they wouldn't even think about betraying the organization,” Haley added with a confident smile.

Since all the members of this division were getting so many resources, they also had to take much more restrictive oaths than the normal core members.

The core members, at most, had to swear that they wouldn't betray the organization and would never spill out its secret. Other than that, they had free will and could make their own decisions and point out their dissatisfactions anytime they wanted.

They could even leave the organization. Of course, they had to take another oath to never spill any secrets of the organization even after leaving.

Unlike them, the members of this new division didn't have any of that privilege. One such oath they had to swear was that they would follow any order given directly by Ozul!

”Even if you tell them to give up their life, they will have to do it,” Haley added, startling everyone in the room except for Ozul.