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"I was wrong, I was wrong, oh!"

The Seven Wolves still made a certain whooshing sound when it was thrown up, which was the sound of a sonic boom.

Watching this playful scene from afar, Faust could no longer reconcile this man with the apostle who had just agreed to a marriage alliance and then "patiently sat on the riverbank waiting for the enemy's floating corpses."

"Alright, that kid got a beating, so he shouldn't be adding any more drama to his life," Xue Dinglu said.

Faust: "..."

“Actually, she’s already done quite well. At least her performance is good enough for now.” Faust said. In just two days, from having just possessed the local natives and having nothing, to now occupying the entire Albanian family, it was an unimaginable start.

Could this level of activity possibly alarm Mephisto?
Far from it. This was just a noble war that broke out in a medium-sized city due to power and strength. In fact, after the city lord sent troops to attack the Alban family, the entire Akatsuki organization almost completely withdrew from the war and disappeared into the shadows.

Compared to the war between the two top noble families, the gang war started by the Akatsuki organization is like child's play. Not only would Mephisto not care about such a small skirmish, but even the people from the Orben family who will be coming tomorrow wouldn't care.

This is the effect they wanted.

In this situation, no one even noticed that Akatsuki had become the ultimate beneficiary. During the aristocratic war, they continued to grow rapidly. Xue Luding's previous storage of bread and water was still sufficient, and now Akatsuki had grown to 30 people in the entire city of Roland.

In other words, almost everyone who harbors resentment towards the mafia will become a subordinate of the Akatsuki organization.

Faust no longer dared to look down on this development model. If he were given enough time, he could develop most of his people into Akatsuki's subordinates. These people would not be of any use in killing Mephisto, but their existence would be crucial for Xue Luding to scheme against Mephisto.

This is enough.

Mephisto, you will be killed by the very people you despise the most, Faust thought to himself.

After exchanging information with Faust, Xue Dinglu went to find Su Su again. This meeting with the main family was crucial. They needed to find out about the Alban family's festival ceremony and whether the legendary Harley Alban would return to the main family to participate in the ceremony.

Even the family members who came to investigate might have planned to bring people back to their own home to participate in the festival.

……

The next day, the master's men had already traveled hundreds of kilometers to Roland.

The two members of the main family did not look down on this town, which was not far from their home.

After all, although they are the head of the family, there is not much of a hierarchy of contempt between legitimate and illegitimate children in the entire Alban family. In fact, according to the relationship, there is only one legitimate descendant, Harley Alban, and this head of the family has no children to this day.

Members of the Orben branch family in other cities, even when they return to the main family, are at least in the top tier below the elders.

Although the Albanian family had become bloated and overpopulated over the centuries, the middle-ranking members of the main family still couldn't get their hands on the head of the branch family.

"Is this Roland City? What is the situation in the city now?" one of them asked. As near-Tier 4 combatants, the two of them came to quickly understand the situation and to ensure the safety of the main members of the branch family.

But now, the whole city is quiet, there are no traces of war, and there are hardly any people to be seen. The only thing that is disgusting is the sight of several piles of corpses on the streets.

“Let’s go straight to the city lord’s mansion. I want to see where this city lord is from,” another person said.

The two headed to the city lord's mansion, only to find it nearly deserted. All of the city lord's men were dead, their bodies piled up in the courtyard, creating a distorted party of corpses.

Apart from that, the entire mansion was deserted.

They hurried over to investigate and found only a woman dressed in a black robe with red cloud patterns standing there, seemingly waiting for them for a long time.

"My lords, the city lord led 800 personal guards in a personal attack on the family, resulting in the death of the patriarch. The young lady was appointed as the new patriarch in this crisis, and now we are purging all the nobles in Roland City..."

She gave the two members of her clan a general explanation of the current situation in Roland City.

Gang warfare, the sudden death of nobles—the Alban family, by taking advantage of the death of their patriarch, can wipe out all the other nobles in Roland City, leaving none alive.

Sometimes the dead are far more valuable than the living. If the head of the Alban family had not died, this purge of other nobles would have certainly provoked a huge backlash.

Ultimately, nobles are always nobles. In this world of clear class distinctions, even if all the servants of a noble family are killed, as long as the noble members are not harmed, they are still considered to be in a state of not being killed.

However, if something happens to a core member of a noble family, or even if the head of the family dies, then it is a big deal. At this time, Alban has unlimited self-defense rights, and can even use this excuse to completely wipe out the city lord's family.

Furthermore, the list of families cooperating with the city lord was found in the city lord's house, which allowed the Alban family to use to kill them one by one.

After all, why are you cooperating with the city lord's family? Did you also support them during the attack on the Alban family?
You didn't offer any support? Without your support, how dare the city lord directly attack the Alban family?

Although the reason is a bit far-fetched, the head of the Alban family has died, and your family is on the city lord's list of partners, so you're in trouble now.

In the entire city of Roland, there couldn't possibly be a family that hadn't cooperated with the city lord, so now the other small and medium-sized nobles have also come to their senses.

Oh no, they're coming for us!

But none of them could do anything about it; the Alban family could really use this incident to massacre the entire city of Roland.

Although it was a bit excessive, it still fell within the unspoken rules among the nobility and did not deviate from those rules.

Because the other nobles did indeed ally with the city lord, but when they did, they wanted to work together to deal with the Akatsuki organization, or even gather their strength to deliver a heavy blow to the Akatsuki.

Little did they know that the city lord had gone completely mad and attacked the Alban family. All the remaining people had become like clowns, and now, with a knife to their throats, they could only curse the city lord's ancestors for 18 generations in their hearts.

After learning about the current state of Roland City, the two members of the same clan couldn't help but gasp in shock.

The family members here also suffered heavy losses. The family head was killed in action, and all the other core members were killed in the city lord's attack... (Even those who did not die and escaped were finished off by the Akatsuki organization.)
The peripheral members of the Alban family also suffered heavy casualties, firstly due to the clashes with the city lord's forces, and secondly due to their own internal mutiny and infighting. It can be said that the Alban family of Roland City has been severely weakened, with only the eldest daughter from the arranged marriage remaining as a true member of the Alban family.

However, that young lady, who could only be used for political marriage, quickly organized the remaining family members, wiped out all the city lord's forces, and completely occupied the entire city of Roland before purging all the nobles one by one.

At this point, it's estimated that the entire city of Roland was completely under the control of the Alban family.

"Hiss..." The two gasped, unable to believe it.

Dude, this branch family is already so badly weakened, how can they possibly turn the tide and instantly become the sole decision-maker in the entire city of Roland?
Even they couldn't understand it.

They even knew a little about the eldest daughter of the Alban family, whom they had arranged a marriage with; she was even quite well-known within the family.

After all, the branch family of Roland City was still the main family line hundreds of years ago. Even now that it has become a branch family, it still attracts a lot of attention. However, to be honest, the reputation of that young lady named "Belly" in the main family is hard to describe.

Everyone was laughing at her, saying that the Roland City branch family had worked hard for generations, but this generation produced a fool who only wanted to get rich quick. But now, suddenly, fortunes have changed, and the person they secretly called the Roland City fool has suddenly displayed such methods, which truly made them gasp in shock.

However, for them, the purpose was to confirm the situation here and quickly report back to their families.

Now, let's first report the general situation back to the main family and explain to everyone that in the entire city of Roland, only the young lady is a family member. The other living members of the Orben family are all peripheral members, who are considered "servants" in their eyes.

However, the current situation in Roland City is favorable to the Alban family, even greatly so. It is the second city, after Tulip City, to be completely controlled by the Alban family.

Although the Albanian family was one of the most prominent families in other cities, they were still subject to constraints in many ways because they were sharing power with other noble families.

But Roland City was different; after this great purge, it essentially became the Alban family's backyard.

The family could even invest heavily here, turning Roland City into a second Tulip City.

"Go and see the family. Can things really change so much in just one year? That guy who made a fool of himself in the family last year has now become such a ruthless family head?" The two envoys from the main family asked with doubt.

……

Upon arriving at the family's residence, they were momentarily stunned by what they saw.

Everyone here has changed into pure black robes. This is what Faust told Xue Dinglu. In their world, it is customary for the living to wear pure black robes to express their mourning after the death of an important relative or friend.

Now, the entire family mourns, and the bodies of the family members are placed in coffins, where many peripheral members weep and pray.

This environment even directly affected the two newly arrived family members.

Then they saw not only the patriarch's corpse, but also the corpses of all the other members, densely packed in the patriarch's outer courtyard, hundreds of corpses piled up there.

"Alas, it seems the battle was extremely fierce; even the branch families here have been wiped out," a member of the main family lamented.

“Yes, perhaps only under such circumstances will the last member take on everyone’s expectations, and suddenly understand many things overnight, undergoing a transformation,” another person chimed in.

Now, that patriarch has completely taken over the entire Roland City, displaying the ruthlessness of an iron-blooded patriarch. Perhaps this is the realization that came from the near extermination of his entire clan.

They wouldn't accept such awareness, even if given to them.

After all, it was obtained at the cost of the extermination of an entire clan.

Even for those of their own family, a sense of shared sorrow arose.

Then soon, they met the last member.

At this moment, Su Su also changed into a pure black robe as instructed by Xue Dinglu, and put a few drops of eye drops in her eyes and rubbed them hard a few times.

The effect was remarkable; now her eyes are red and swollen, as if she had been crying for a long time.

The head of the family couldn't say anything, and could only say, "We understand everything. Please accept our condolences. After you finish things here, return to the main family to officially take up your post. The festival is about to begin, and Head Harley will also be back."

Following Xue's rule, Su Su simply nodded and shook her head without saying a word.

There was no way around it; Xue Daoli knew she might mess things up the moment she opened her mouth, so it was best for her to stay silent today and just remain a silent beauty.

Seeing the situation, the two men weren't too demanding. Although they didn't offer their two host family envoys a lavish welcome, they understood the situation given the deaths of their family members and wouldn't make too many requests.

"By the way, guests of the host family, we agreed yesterday that whoever could kill the city lord would be granted the surname Orben. However, in the end, more than ten heads claimed to be the city lord's head. We couldn't distinguish them, so we had to leave it to the two of the host family to decide," Xue Dinglu said at the right time.

"Alright, alright, leave this to us. You all should focus on finishing up the burial arrangements for your family members..."

The two hosts took over the matter very smoothly and quickly understood the situation, while also being somewhat angry.

The family is already in such a state, and instead of thinking about how to stabilize it, they are taking advantage of the situation and deceiving their superiors?
Their pupils gleamed coldly as they began to carefully examine the head.

So when they discovered that the dozen or so heads were not the city lord's, they launched another purge. For these peripheral members, they didn't care how many died.

Three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged toads willing to serve the Alban family are plentiful.

Unless it's a special case, the Alban family wouldn't even give it a second glance.

Xue's Law is a special case. At the age of 12, he is a born mystic. His awakened innate technique can turn tens of thousands of people into heroes or above.

Both family members gasped in shock, muttering things like "No wonder."

After the family members were buried and everything was settled, the next day, Xue Dinglu and Su Su prepared to set off with the two main family members to Tulip City to participate in the main family's memorial ceremony, report on the incident, and conduct a formal succession ceremony for the family head.

Xue Luding brought hundreds of Akatsuki members with him this time. Most of them were among the first batch of Akatsuki members to join, and almost all of them had reached the legendary level or above by developing their downlines.

The Akatsuki base in Roland City was entrusted to the care of its former secretary, Mouse. There was still a large amount of bread and water stored in the warehouse, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

Even for anyone who has a problem, Su Su can cut off their source of power, turning them directly into ordinary people.

After all, Susu is the source of power for everyone in the Akatsuki organization, which means she has to eat three large bags of bread every day to avoid starving.

On the way to the Alban family, Xue Dinglu continued to ask Faust, "What is the overall situation of the Alban family? Also, I still have many doubts about the power system of this world."

Faust didn't hide anything from Xue's laws and began to explain the situation of the Olben family and the supernatural system to him.

The Alban family belonged to the old aristocracy, which can be understood as the nobles of the Plain White Banner of old Tulip City. Tulip City was where Mephisto studied, so the Alban family was the first noble family to place their bets on him.

So now, the Albanian family has become the world's most powerful noble family, which is the reward for their last bet.

Therefore, the Alban family does not view "sons-in-law" with prejudice; in fact, they try their best to discover more talented people.

He doesn't need to be overly formal when he arrives at the host's house; he just needs to be neither arrogant nor servile, and there won't be any major problems.

As for the supernatural system of this world, Faust had only given Xue a brief introduction before, but now he added: "In this world, the aptitude of mystics is innate, not just in terms of knowledge, but in the talent of the person himself."

"Furthermore, this talent can be inherited. According to my research, children from noble families have a ten times higher probability of awakening innate magical techniques than children from ordinary families. This is a talent and power that can be passed down..."

"Therefore, unless major upheavals occur, nobles will remain nobles forever." (End of Chapter)