Then, Henry used 100 gray beads, 50 white beads, and 5 green beads to form 400 gray beads of energy to enhance his Divine Speed talent.
After another two minutes of feeling like he was back in the womb, Henry woke up. Divine Speed LV1 had advanced to LV2—Agility and movement speed were additionally increased by 40%. It would require 4000 gray beads of energy to advance to LV3.
Amazing, the base number gets larger the further you go, and talents that scale proportionally are types with unlimited potential.
The enhancements are temporarily complete. Now, below the release life progress bar, there are 212 gray beads, 19 white beads, 6 green beads, and 165 empty gray bead shells, 249 empty white bead shells, and 11 empty green bead shells.
These resources are sufficient for another battle Henry is about to initiate.
The reason Henry is immediately clearing out the Black Market is to cut off the source of his huge bounty.
There are two sources: the first is Brendan or others from the McKinley Family; the second is the Denver Black Market.
Clearing out the second source is the most direct and effective.
If the places and organizations that issue and collect bounties are completely wiped out, where will those killers and desperadoes even collect their rewards? How will they still be motivated to take huge risks to assassinate Henry?
Another reason is that Denver is the first city Henry wants to control, so he cannot allow such a powerful and hostile intelligence agency to exist.
Moreover, if he can obtain the intelligence files of this intelligence agency, it will certainly be of great help to his control plan.
What about S-rank, A-rank, B-rank, and so on for purchase qualifications?
Henry stated that high-end intelligence techniques mean sharing this intelligence directly, or even having it exclusively.
In a wild world like the West, offending someone you can't afford to offend leads to such a result.
Henry deliberately probed the Red-haired Youth in the Black Market just now to see if this Black Market had any bottom line.
The result was that they had no bottom line, acting like madmen.
He had only arrived in Denver for less than half an hour, and multiple pieces of his latest intelligence had already been sold.
Since they are so ruthless and vicious!
Henry certainly cannot let them continue to plot against him.
This is also why Henry eventually blew up that villa—to inform all desperadoes: the Denver Black Market is finished.
Next, Henry's target for clearance is the leader of McKinley Manor.
Henry is the Sheriff in Fresco Town, but outside the town's limits, he is a commoner with no law enforcement authority.
In Fresco Town, as soon as Henry senses danger, he immediately and decisively draws his gun and shoots, even if he shoots the wrong person, there's no problem.
Sheriff Henry believes you have a problem, then you definitely have a problem.
Conversely, if he were to do this outside of town, Henry could easily become a wanted man.
In fact, many Western Sheriffs of this era, once they left their jurisdiction, became desperadoes and wanted men.
Billy the Kid, who died at Henry's hands, was originally a Sheriff, and later became a bandit with a 5000 us dollar bounty.
The McKinley Family could easily arrange for some desperadoes to force Henry to act, or simply have friendly Sheriffs frame him or shift blame, making it easy for Henry to become a wanted man.
If Henry were naive enough to surrender, he would be easily manipulated.
Henry absolutely will not allow such a handsome guy like himself to become a wanted man, not even a little bit!
Therefore, the main person in charge of McKinley in Denver is doomed.
This was also a vow Henry had secretly made to Linda early on.
He couldn't let Sean wait alone down there for too long.
It's still early, so Henry began to inventory his other gains. Firearms and ammunition won't be specifically counted; in any case, there's enough for Henry to fight several major battles alone.
More than an hour later, Henry discovered that his cash had increased by 64,875.8 us dollars today. The bulk came from several boxes of cash in the financial office on the first floor of the Black Market's main building and a box of cash in Daysler's secret compartment. Additionally, two people who came to trade at the Black Market also brought a good amount of cash.
The 197 members of the Dodge Gang and the Spanish gang added 4,236.7 us dollars to Henry's funds.
These two sums increased Henry's cash flow to about 128,000 us dollars, which is equivalent to about 15 million us dollars in purchasing power from his time before transmigration.
Henry happily took out 2 steaks and 2 venison steaks, along with 3 pounds of bread, and began to feast with milk.
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Meanwhile, at the McKinley Family Manor in Denver, the sumptuous dinner had concluded, and Brendan invited Richard to the study to enjoy cigars.
Brendan exhaled a puff of fragrant Macanudo cigar smoke and asked Richard, who was also enjoying a cigar, "Richard, I apologize for putting you in great danger this time. I didn't expect 37 guards couldn't ensure the safety of the convoy."
Richard also exhaled a thick puff of cigar smoke, hiding his face behind it.
"It was indeed unexpected. Our situation was very critical at the time. Fortunately, Sheriff Henry arrived in time."
"Although this might bring back bad memories for you, it's very important for our next plan. Could you tell me in detail?"
"Of course, when we passed through Death Valley, we even sent 10 guards to search the mountains on both sides, but…."
After a long pause, Brendan, having listened to Richard's account, confirmed again, "So, this time the Dodge Gang ambushed Henry and attacked you along the way, and there was another 70-man gang ambushing at Hangman's Hill, and all these gangs were killed by Henry alone?"
"I only saw Henry kill the 6 bandits guarding us, and there were more than a dozen bandit corpses gnawed by gray wolves. I didn't see the others with my own eyes; Henry himself said it, but I believe his account."
"If you saw Henry kill 22 adult gray wolves in a matter of seconds, you would believe him too."
"Moreover, when we were ambushed, fifty or sixty members of the Dodge Gang showed themselves, and when we passed through Death Valley again later, none of them reappeared."
After Richard finished speaking, he took a deep puff of his cigar, then exhaled a white plume of smoke, as if to drive away the thrilling experiences of the past two days from his mind.
"After this incident, I realized that I am not yet ready to further participate in the Colorado mining industry, so I will return to Pittsburgh in these two days. I apologize that I cannot help you arrange a meeting with Mayor William."
"I understand. I am very sorry for the danger caused to you and your wife this time. I will make amends. Also, do you need me to arrange guards to escort you back to Pittsburgh?"
"Thank you, but no. This time, we will return to the East with Henry."
"Alright, I deeply apologize for the danger caused to you and your esteemed wife."
Richard extinguished his cigar, then stood up and said, "These were all accidents, you don't need to take it too much to heart. Farewell."
Brendan stood up and escorted Richard and his wife out of the manor gate.
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