The reaper organisation and the reaper continued to assassinate certain individuals in secret and left behind their calling card when they completed their tasks.
As the reaper had broken through to the peak realm he had greatly enhanced his qi sense abilities to detect the subtle changes in his surroundings from every angle around him.
Those with a high ranking were accepted as inner or elite members within the organisation and trained to use the same martial arts as him so were blinded with eye drops the moment their training began creating the blind reapers within the organisation.
Although they could remove their blindness with the cure they still had to train hard to grasp their new martial arts, qi art and extra sensory art so while they were training or occasionally took a mission they usually had someone keep an eye on them so that they can better identify their targets until they grasp the subtle differences on how to differentiate between the many people whether it be their habits, breathing patterns, their voice or their qi.
A new secret small group was being nurtured with the resources available to Miranda and Agnes who used the the evil yin martial arts.
Some older female slaves who were useless but still wished to repay the family were grouped together to work directly under Miranda but Agnes was able to give them some tasks if needed.
As the evil yin sect recruits began to appear within the Bombyx families territory they were identified quickly because of their activities kidnapping other females to increase their strength which exposed themselves.
Those captured were used to supply Miranda and Agnes a means to gain strength fast but also to build the small ten person team behind them.
Those people wore gloves to cover the whitish veins on their hands just like Agnes and Miranda and main followed Ki, Miranda or Agnes orders and acted as their guards for Agnes, Miranda, Elizabeth and Naara within the mansion or when they went outside so were called the yin guards in private.
Although they were not highly combat ready as the blood shadow group their speed of growth was very fast and they had enough ability to run away or use their draining palm arts if in a difficult position.
Not all of the evil yin sect members had been captured within the territory but it was enough to be able to make those within the territory to behave more carefully behind the scenes and not draw too much attention to who was behind them going missing.
Another ten man group was formed with the same purpose to protect the mansion so were given the evil flame qi arts to practice while they were tattooed with the blood mystical arts runic patterns.
Their sole task was also to guard the mansion along with the yin guards and ensure that they follow orders given by Adam or Isaac but their main tasks were to protect Adam, Isaac and Leon primarily.
Any death row prisoners were burnt and devoured by their evil flame qi arts which helped them to grow quickly and just like them who were granted the use of the blood mystical arts those within the yin guards were also allowed to complete a contract with a small pet animal to help their monitoring and surveillance abilities but also experience a small upgrade within their bodies.
And so twenty people were split up into two groups, the yin guards protected the women within the mansion while the yang guard protected the men within the mansion but most of their work was primarily focussed within the mansions grounds.
While the yin guards were characteristically identified for being young ladies who wore gloves over their hands and sometimes had a small animal with them the yang guards were identified for their tanned skin after using the evil flame body tempering art and their blood mystic abilities.
Unlike the blood shadow group who lived within the inner walls of the village and sometimes went outside the village or even further out if needed the yin and yang guards did not rarely leave the mansion unless one of the family or Miranda and Isaac left the mansion to complete a task, attend to business matters or attend a gathering of some kind.
The yang guards were more suited to combat because of their abilities but those within the yin guards were more suited to detecting threats early and getting those they are tasked to protect to safety before they can be harmed but could also use their draining palm arts if put in a difficult situation so while sometimes they acted as a group to complete their individual tasks sometimes they were paired together to maximise their effectiveness.
Much like every other group each of them still had to answer to Ki and follow her orders before anyone else.
It was also not long before even Miranda had made a contract with a small black cat just to help increase her abilities a little more and help her monitor some things in secret that would help her gain the upper hand in some business deals whether they be a private discussion of her competitors or a secret deal that was going on behind the scenes that was harmful to the family she was able to use her cat to spy on others to gain this information without being noticed.
As if being left out Isaac eventually came over to the idea of acquiring a contracted beast so he made a contract with one of the new puppies born within the batch of huskies.
On occasion a small black cat and husky could be seen walking around the village as if on surveillance duty and they reported back to their masters if anything was unusual.
Whether it was within the walls where the mansion was, the inner walls or the outer walls or beyond there within the forest they were being defended well from threats both outside and inside and the overall strength behind the family was beginning to show great progress.
Even the previous winners of the martial arts competitions were able to gain access to the martial arts books and begin to learn new things to increase their strength further.
Those that had enough potential either got to join the white wolf group or rank up from an outer member to an inner or core member of the villages martial artists depending on their contributions and their speed of growth.