A contract to assist in battle was different from an enslavement contract.
The former only stipulated normal assistance in battle, while the latter was a Wizard contract that was bound by the laws of the world.
The difference between the two was huge!
According to the contract, Grimm had to pay a large amount of magic crystals or resources every time he summoned a grade 3 Lightning Dragon to assist him in battle. Furthermore, as a high-ranking dragon, the Lightning Dragon had the right to refuse any battle that was too dangerous.
Of course, in consideration of his status as a prisoner when signing the contract, Armes had specially given Grimm a price of a hundred thousand magic crystals!
This meant that Grimm only had to summon a grade 3 Lightning Dragon once, and the hundred thousand magic crystals in his pouch would disappear.
That was not to say that it was too expensive!
If he went out and asked around, he would find out that a Lightning Dragon that could suppress most grade 3 Magi with just a hundred thousand magic crystals. This … This was a bargain!
If Marquis Hennes of the Vic family could also use a hundred thousand magic crystals to summon a grade 3 Lightning Dragon, he would not hesitate to summon four or five of them and use the most barbaric methods to flatten Grimm's Wizard's Pagoda.
However, he did not have the ability to do so, which was why his Vic family suffered a calamity. Other than him, who managed to escape unscathed, only the other grade 2 Vampire, Tolle, managed to return to the family. As for the other eleven grade 1 Vampires, they were all annihilated in the Flame Cave.
This was a fatal blow to the Vic family!
The Vic family had even fallen from the front ranks of the smaller families to the back, becoming the juiciest piece of meat in the eyes of the other Magi families.
If Hennes wanted to protect the Vic family, the only way was to pull back the defensive line and transfer the members of the family who were stationed at various places back to the Ancient Blood Castle to gather the remaining forces. This was the only way to stop those who had ulterior motives against the family.
However, if they did this, the outer territories that the Vic family had spent five to six hundred years building up would be wasted.
Of course, the Vic family might have cultivated some taboo forces in the dark, and would be forced to reveal themselves at this time.
Grimm, who was safely hiding underground, did not care about all this.
He was using this rare period of time to boldly construct the future structure of the Crimson Family.
Initially, the members of the Crimson Family could be split into the core members, official members, and peripheral members.
The core members were, of course, the ones who had followed Grim the longest and had proven their loyalty to him. Currently, only Grim, Mary, Alice, Gargamel, and Meryl were confirmed to be part of the team. The official members were wizards who had signed a service contract with the family, such as Bliss, Zachary, Ava the forest demon, Dracela, Medusa, Karon the leader of the Manticore, Gaz'ruvi the brain monster, and Tigula.
As for the outer members, they were special talents who chose to serve the Crimson Family in certain aspects, but were not completely part of the family. For example, the Poison Centipede Endor, the Goblin Kabi, Sophia and Cheff, the Thunder Dragon Armes, and the Three-headed Hound Anguja …
As the Crimson family grew stronger in the future, many Magi would come to join them. They would all be outer members, and only those with exceptional performance or loyalty could be promoted to official members.
Moreover, since he had spent so much effort to divide these family members into groups and responsibilities, the resources and treatment they enjoyed would also be different.
Grim had used this as a reference to the basic structure and common methods of most Magus Families, and had basically built the ruling structure of the Crimson Family.
As the Crimson Family did not have any family assets, all the Magi focused on training and research. They were not given many family missions.
Furthermore, the Gnome Dimension that they had just swallowed had not been fully developed yet. Thus, the Crimson Family's only mission was to invest most of their Magi into the Gnome Dimension, hoping to extract the first bucket of gold from the Dimensional War as soon as possible.
Mary had just advanced to level 2 and needed to stay in the Fire Monarch to stabilize her mind. Thus, after Grim gave her the authority to defend the Wizard's Pagoda, he brought most of the Magi to the Gnome Dimension.
To be honest, this was the first time many of the Magi in the Wizard's Pagoda knew that their family had a small Secondary Dimension. Thus, when they heard the news, they teleported to the Gnome Dimension with shaky legs in shock.
It had to be said that their first impression of the Gnome Dimension was really, really bad!
As soon as they stepped out of the Teleportation Formation, Descella, who had a weaker body, was suppressed by the Gnome Dimension's "powerful" Dimension and suffocating low-magical environment. On the other hand, Medusa, Dana, and the leader of the Chimeras, due to their special bodies, had a much better ability to adapt to the environment of another world than human Magi.
As Grim's representative, the Worm Lich Bilis had been stationed at the excavation camp, "cooperating" with the brain monster Gaz 'ruvi to continuously excavate the remaining parts of the Steel Capital.
According to the information sent back by Bilis, several tons of metal products and components could be excavated from a depth of nearly a thousand meters every day. At the moment, they had already excavated two small warehouses of the Steel Capital, obtaining many rare ores and other resources.
These were also continuously being transported out, and they urgently needed a large number of people to manage and categorize them, and to turn them into resources that they needed.
Grim pondered for a moment, then decided to let Dacela and Dana take care of the trivial work.
The two of them did not participate in the previous Plane War, which meant that they did not contribute at all. Now, they could only use hard work as a substitute. Only by doing this would they have the right to participate in the division of resources and benefits in the Gnome Dimension in the future.
Other than the excavation site, Wizard Meryl, who was left behind by Grim in the Gnome Dimension, was not idle either.
Using this month's time, Meryl, with the help of Goblin Kabi and Tigule, had almost turned the entire Gnome Dimension upside down. According to the different types of resources, such as plants, animals, minerals, furs, crops, and so on, she had made a rough calculation of the resources, materials, and wealth that the Gnome Dimension had.
Among them, there were more than 3,700 types of rich mineral resources, 250,000 types of plants, 1.1 million types of animals, 58 types of basic food that could be eaten by living beings, and more than 1,200 types of strange fruits …
Such a huge survey of the Plane's resources was never done by the Gnome Empire in the past.
Therefore, Meryl could only let the governors of the various provinces report the resources in their territories. She then filtered and filtered them, and finally came up with this list of resources in front of Grim.
Faced with such a huge list of resources, even with the A.I. Chip's quick scanning, it took Grimm seven days to record all of them into the A.I. Chip's database.
In the remaining time, Grimm compared the resources of the Gnome Dimension with the resources of the Magus World, and filtered out the resources that had the greatest difference in value.
Since the Gnome Dimension was a low-magic world, the metals, minerals, and plants produced here did not have any elemental characteristics. However, the special environment also resulted in special products.
The metals refined from the Gnome Dimension were generally stronger than the metals of the Magus World. Coupled with some unique physical characteristics, they could definitely be sold for a good price in the Magus World.
Moreover, Goblin Metallurgists were very good at harmonizing the physical characteristics of various metals, turning them into special alloys. These were all rare in the Magus World, and the prices on the market were very tempting.
Currently, the consumption of magic crystals for teleportation between planes was still very high. Selling some basic resources across planes was undoubtedly a loss-making business, but it was still profitable to sell these rare resources, and the profits were not small either.
Hence, Grimm calmed down and gathered all the Magi together. He needed to find the most valuable and profitable resources from the vast list of resources.
Once these resources were delineated, he would need to send Magi under the guidance of the gnomes to check the origin of the resources to determine the reserves and the feasibility of planting or excavating them.
Those that were difficult to cultivate or too rare were all crossed out, and only those that were easy to cultivate or plant were searched. When necessary, Magi would also use some spells to find new ways to plant or cultivate them in large quantities.
With such a huge workload, every Magus in the Crimson Family was extremely busy every day.
However, under the temptation of the huge and bright future, everyone worked day and night with high morale.
It had to be said that as long as you were willing to put in the effort, you would get ten or even a hundred times the return!
When the good news came from the excavation camp, the Magi's resource count had basically come to an end. They had initially determined that there were 25 types of high-value metals and minerals, 17 types of valuable exotic plants, and 103 types of rare resources that were not found in the Magus World.
Under Grimm's forceful push, the Gnome Royal Family began to send commissioners to various places to discuss with the governors and leaders of various provinces about large-scale cultivation and development of these resources.
In order to prevent the Gnomes from slacking off or shirking responsibility, Grimm sent his Family Magi to almost every Gnome province to supervise their follow-up work.
After handing over the work to his subordinates, Grimm hurried to the excavation camp.
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