With the increase in Fame and notoriety, the other organizations in the same field of work sent their spies for many reasons such as information,surbotage and assasination.
They were mostly a failure yet one had to look at the mission success rate alone to see the effect on business.
They'd not only threatened our customers but also ambushed the field crows on missions which only proved that one got past the net and is feeding information to our rivals.
As if that weren't enough, we'd caught the attention of the Imperial intelligence agency.
This not only limited our choice of jobs but also limited our reach.
And so came my proposal, ' operation clean slate' . the total eradication of all enemy spies along with the restructuring of the organization.
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On the third year since my first mission, imediately after my first mission, operation clean slate was initiated and with it over a thousand members of the black crow alongside other organizations were assasination.
No one except the members of the higher echelon of these organizations knew the reasons for the deaths of their men and they weren't speaking.
It wasn't that hard for these individuals to figure out as only third spies died in the black crow alongside the handlers and anyone with the slightest connections to their missions from logistics to the regional director non were spared.
As the news was spreading in the Underworld , more wierd news spread informing any clients of the black Crows one week closure.
After the passage of a week , the efficiency and ruthlessness of the organization had increased
The methods of recruitment became even more stringent with only one out twenty spies getting through and that one spy only lasting a week to a month at most.
The organization earned the title spy killers quite ironic as another avenue of business was opened up as ' spy hunters' for be different organizations and families.
The organization became more recluse and shrouded in mystery as the few traces of it's members were on the crime scenes of new hatchlings that were still new to the job and more prone to mistakes.
Wierder and wierder rumors started spreading about an them , from being ghosts, working with the imperial family to giving orders in the Underworld but all rumors about the bloody crows stopped a few months after the clean slate. With the exception of the true members of the Underworld and law enforcement, all believed they had been wiped out with some laymen thinking the crows a myth.
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After 'discussing ' with the upper echelon ,a new system was born.
One head, four masters and eight deputies forming the core of the organization.
One hundred and eight captains of the inner court with their respective units whose rankings are decided by the mission complession rate and combat ability of the individual members in a group.
And finally the hatchlings in the outercourt with limited authority and resources compared to the inner court.
Their base of location was shifted with only the core members in the loop of the location as inner court members are directly teleported to and from the headquarters from thier original site of operations, the now current home of the outercourt.
Having stabilized, a period of rapid growth set in with strength approaching that of the Noble families.
Eight years after Azraels first mission, the bloody crows expanded out of the empires confines and into the territory of the enemy races, the first of which was one of the more aggressive of the foreign races of the continent, the beastmen .
The beastmen are humanoid in nature with a few features or characteristics of animals on their bodies such as cat ears , tails a bit of fur and maybe slited eyes.
These individuals are therefore prone to following their more animalistic instincts.
In the race wars , they were named the mad men of the battlefield having gone berzack on the battlefield killing thousands of soldiers in a mad rage yet if all they had were instincts to guide them, they would have long since been wiped out from the continent.
The reason for their survival and development into a civilized race was their great elder council and the tribal chiefs that had all passed the trial of Lord's.