David first removed Lord Marcus's equipment and Spatial Items, then had the Shadow Servant store the corpse in a Space Ring.
Killing Lord Marcus also meant that, for at least the next hundred years, the Baruch Family would be unable to recover.
David had no intention of wiping out the Baruch Family all at once. That was unrealistic, unless he intended to spend a long time afterward hunting down the Baruch Family's direct descendants.
For a newly risen noble like him, with little intelligence support in God's Great World, it would be difficult to track down every member of the top noble Baruch Family across God's Great World.
Perhaps once those 513 estates were operating properly and able to carry out intelligence work, David would have some intelligence support. Even then, it would not be enough to compare with a top noble family's intelligence network.
David put away the six Level 5 Temple Knights and the four energy clones. Recalling the brief battle just now, he could not help marveling at Lord Marcus's power.
To be honest, he had underestimated the terrifying strength of an established Level 5 Temple Knight, and a top noble family's lord.
If Lord Marcus had not focused his main attack on the spot where David had vanished, the six Level 5 Temple Knights could probably still have defeated him in their siege—but not without paying a tremendous price.
David still felt lingering fear when he thought of the three sword lights Lord Marcus had struck toward Baruch Castle.
If that attack had been directed at the six Level 5 Temple Knights, it would at the very least have severely wounded them. Some might even have fallen.
David came before the ruins of Baruch Castle and studied the fragments scattered across the ground, judging the power