In the past 3 days, there had been a great change in Adam's power and capabilities, but also in the rest of the country that was shocked by the turn of events during the great battle for New York.
"Did you hear about the Sentinel Factions Secret Master?"
"Yeah, I heard that he calls himself Death and is 5 metres tall and has red eyes"
"I heard he has teeth and claws as big and sharp as blades. And with them, he ripped apart an entire army alone and was even able to take down the Lin Family Head with ease"
Rumours of the mysterious figure that called himself Death and the wider they spread, the more exaggerated and inaccurate they became, but the overall image of Adam was still the same.
It had turned out exactly as he had wanted and the reverence and fear that was felt towards him and the faction would greatly increase the attention on the faction, but also its growth and reputation.
Small, lone cultivators all around the country, that didn't have any supporters, resources or guidance to further their cultivation, were looking for the opportunity to join the sentinels faction and their numbers grew greatly in a matter of days.
The 5 Leaders of the faction didn't get any sleep those entire 3 days and had a lot of work cut out for them, especially Elizabeth and Cole, who were dealing with most of the financial and administrative work.
They obviously had subordinates, but they had to review and manage everything that took place, while Chase, Angela and Wayde weren't of much help when it came to those things.
Along with all of that, Wayde and Chase had begun creating their own military and training units and Angela was helping all around the faction, while working on a unit of her own that specialised in energy control and support.
All of that was being done while they were integrating the Epstein and Maxwell Family into the faction and destroying the remnants of the other 3 great families and taking over their territory, resources and assets.
They made sure to start with the blood binding and after binding all the most capable, powerful and talented individuals within the faction to themselves, they passed on the blood binding method to them.
However, they had made sure that while blood binding with them, their subordinates swore complete loyalty and obedience to their superiors and the faction and also abided by the rules that they had come up with.
There weren't many Faction Rules, but they were made up by the leaders and covered most things and also made it so that those within the faction would be killed by the blood bond if they were to leak anything to do with the faction to outsiders.
That naturally included the blood binding method and was why they had passed it onto a few others, but they were all individuals that were trusted by the leaders and had leadership positions anyway.
Despite that, most of the blood bonds were formed with the leaders who wanted to take the responsibility for all of their subordinates and they all formed thousands of blood bonds with almost all the cultivators in New York within those three days.
They were able to gather most of the cultivators in New York using their great reputation and subordinates who had already formed the blood bond, who followed the orders they were given and began the takeover of the rest of New York.
The Lin, Dale and Ford families resisted quite a lot and there was quite a lot of destruction caused by their battles, but Chase and Wayde led the combat teams and were able to successfully take over New York with minimal casualties.
Those the formed the blood bond began being spread around the city in all the different bases and the territory that was owned by the Sentinels and a communication centre was also formed.
It was formed by those that were a part of the Epstein and Maxwell Family who weren't cultivators, but were very skilled in administrative work and communications.
There was a lot of combat and different things that were done in order for such a large faction to be run and Adam didn't want to deal with all of that responsibility and stress.
He also didn't want his friends to have to deal with such tedious tasks, which was why he got them to issue leadership posts to those that they trusted and were capable enough.
The Blood Binding solved the issue and worry of loyalty, betrayal or infighting.
It was very restrictive of those with negative intentions towards the faction, their peers or people that weren't considered enemies by the rules of the faction, but for most wasn't an issue and Adam wasn't looking to make an army of mindless soldiers.
They all retained their free will and would merely experience pain if they attempted to act against the rules and would die if they did act on it.
It was merely for insurance, security and safety, as after all the things that Adam had seen, he knew how dangerous it was to blindly trust someone.
Not everything could be solved with fists, fear and money like most dictators and leaders believed and Adam had a great understanding of how the mind and emotions worked.
Desires ad negative thoughts are normal, but the faction had a zero-tolerance policy for going against the rules and that was it.
But as long as one abided by the rules, they could receive anything they could ever wish for as long as they worked for it and were of great value to the faction.
It was the perfect structure for building a fast developing, powerful and self-functioning faction and Adam's friends were flawlessly carrying out Adam's instructions.
Their results even surpassed his expectations and he was greatly shocked by how complex and developed the Sentinels Faction was in the short amount of time that it had been created for.