"We are related to the Bombyx family! They are rich! I am sure they will be able to pay off the bills and buy us from you so do not harm us!" Celene began to become more hysterical while she tried to claw her way out of the cell by offering up anything she could to her captors.
Meanwhile the man outside the cell smirked and left to see his boss.
In the upper floor of the gambling hall the boss sat with a bottle of wine, he removed the lid and began to pour some of the wine down his throat directly from the bottle.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and the man entered, the boss looked towards him and asked. "Are there any gains?"
"The old lady was yelling that she could pay off the money with the help of her sisters family. She mentioned they were the Bombyx family who I believe have opened up a tea pavilion, a restaurant and a clothing store within the city recently and have been brought up in different topics from time to time." The man explained what he knew.
"Okay then what are the chances of getting more money from those captured? Did they mention if they had anything hidden away?" The boss asked and then added. "What about this Bombyx family? Do you think we can target them or not?"
"No, from their words their only hope to survive would be her sisters family. From their conversation between the mother and son, I understood that their only support is the Bombyx family. I will question the family further about the details about the families location, their supporters and the strength of their guards. If the results are satisfactory should we make some plans to take what we want from them? I heard that the Bombyx family is an old family, those old families usually have a lot of built up treasures and money so I believe we will gain much more if we target them." The man began to push his agenda forwards so that the boss would be tempted to go ahead with attacking the Bombyx family to satisfy their greed.
"If it is worth mobilising our men to act then we will move. Send someone to get their families background and their current wealth they have gained over the years from their businesses. Also investigate the families background and their history from the old lady. I want there to be no mistakes!" The boss tried his best to restrain his greed but was still a little tempted if he did not have to sacrifice much in order to gain a lot. 'I just managed to get the support of the blood sect outer members to gain the gambling hall, if this is something big then I can offer it up to them. If I can gain their trust maybe I can gain more information about the sect and be able to find a way to increase my place there and not have to work under the grunts of the sect for most of my life. First I need a way to increase my strength so I need to become one of them."
Very soon Celene spilled everything she knew about the families background whether it be the things she learned from her father as a child or the recent gains the family had gotten since Agnes taking over as the family head and the current events.
What tempted the boss the most was the fact that the family had no martial arts background and were always merchants, the people they hired as bodyguards could easily be persuaded or threatened in order to betray them and the people on their land were ignorant of the outside world.
The blood sect outer members were informed about this and they gifted him a copy of the blood sects Qi art along with the basic martial forms.
Previously they offered support to help him gain control of the gambling hall in exchange for a fee and monthly payments but after the contribution they gave him the Qi art which they had previously withheld because they felt that he wasn't very trustworthy.
After his contribution the members of the blood sect decided to make him one of them and send a letter to the blood sect about the new entry into their ranks as insurance.
Once the boss begins to practice the blood sects Qi art he would become an unofficial member of the blood sect in the outside world.
Although he wasn't important to the sect but now the sect knew about him, if one day he showed potential then they would bring him into the sect even with threats of leaking his status as a member of their sect to the outside world.
Once his status leaks out the martial alliance would place a wanted order on his head and he would live a life on the run so the moment he began to practice the Qi art he forever belonged to the sect and had to follow their orders.
The outer sect members aren't officially part of the sect, they were footmen which stayed in the outside world and reported various events of the outside world to the sect through various contact points or through those who recruited them.
They would either be free to act as they please to recruit more members in secret to spread the influence of the blood sect has over the world but on various occasions the blood sect will release missions for the members to complete.
The current members had helped the current boss of the gambling hall had been hiding out in Wolfden city and been silently manipulating events within the dark parts of the city.
The group was put together by their current recruiter and they all stuck together for their own goals, at first it was for survival but soon after arriving in the northern parts of the central lands they began to manipulate the events of the noble and underground through connections to some noble families who had some connections to the darker sides of the city and many underground and illegal dealings.
Normally the recruiter passes on the Qi art and keeps their recruitments on a leash while letting them do as they please but this recruiter kept his recruitments by him so he could control and use them better.
Various nobles and others within the gangs had been targeted for recruitment purposes and the current gambling hall boss was one of the targets for recruitment.
While they could expand their influence and recruit new members within the city, the current situation made it easy to abduct people to support their own blood sect Qi art thanks to the increase in missing people.
Since people were going missing because of the increased need of slaves the blood sect members could disguise their acts of abducting people for their own purpose as others committing the act.