The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

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, the nobility will remain nobles forever unless there are major upheavals."

Chapter 395 The Centenary Term Has Arrived; Welcoming Emperor Faust Back to His Throne

Even Su Su started listening to Faust's story while munching on bread.

Previously, their understanding of the world was limited to stereotypes gleaned from Faust's words, but after the events in Roland City, they gained a better understanding of the world's current state.

Listening to the story of Faust now has a different flavor.

“My lord, in this world, innate techniques have the potential to be passed down to future generations.”

"Here, mystics are divided into innate and acquired, which means whether or not one is born with bloodline techniques. Generally speaking, innate mystics are more specialized and can go further on a certain path, while acquired mystics are forcibly mastered through knowledge. They are more comprehensive, but that also means they are more mediocre."

"Generally speaking, the ratio of innate to acquired skills is about 1:3. Among innate skills, commoners account for about half. Even though noble families have a higher chance of inheriting innate skills, their numbers are still much smaller than those of commoners. This means that there are still commoners who can master bloodline skills."

Faust paused for a moment and said, "In fact, acquired techniques are merely learning the bloodline techniques of others. Noble families may possess countless techniques left behind by their ancestors, or innate techniques of others, for future generations to learn."

"Although there was a large disparity between nobles and commoners among mystics at that time, the commoners were still a force that could not be ignored."

Xue Dinglu nodded. He probably understood the world's structure before Mephisto became an apostle.

This means that natives are born with a talent called "bloodline technique," which is not a unique ability; others can replicate or learn this ability based on its imprinted structure.

This reminded Xue Lude of the Great Sage's race, a group called "Demons," who were known as natural magical elves. The natives of this world seemed to have similar talents, but they were weaker than the Demons.

Noble families are those who, through generations, gradually and steadily master more techniques, passing on their own bloodline techniques and collecting information on the bloodline techniques of others, thus monopolizing this knowledge and forming a group.

This group was able to stably inherit bloodline techniques and monopolized some of the information on learnable techniques. This group was the world's first nobles.

However, at that time, no matter how much the nobles monopolized the knowledge, they could only encompass all acquired techniques, which infinitely raised the threshold for commoners to learn mystical knowledge, but they could not stop the birth of innate mystics.

Even children from commoner families have realized that their awakened innate magical abilities are actually their most precious treasures. Therefore, they have learned from the practices of the nobles in the past, looking for ways to pass on their magical abilities, and trying to obtain the magical imprints or structures of other people.

In this way, if a mystic appears in both the son's and grandson's generations, there is a great chance of becoming a nobleman.

But how could the old aristocracy possibly tolerate this situation?

Having already enjoyed the monopolistic practices and extraordinary benefits, how could they tolerate newcomers sharing their power? And how could these newcomers possibly try to imitate their methods of success and encroach on the ecological niche of the early adopters?

Why should those who came first have to tolerate those who came later?

Mephisto grew up in such a social environment.

At that time, the nobles' solution was to recruit most of the innate mystics into their own families, invest in their education when they were young, and eventually recruit other talents from commoners into their factions. This was still within the normal range.

Mephisto was one of those talented individuals who were able to pursue his studies thanks to the support of the Alban family. In fact, he suffered countless hardships in his youth in order to learn about the mystical. Even though he was a transmigrator, he endured countless discriminations, bullying, and beatings in this world before gradually making progress.

This is why Faust was able to become the second seat in the Singing Council, and Harley Alban was able to become the third seat. Faust and the Alban family helped him when he was at his weakest, and this was his way of repaying them.

However, as Mephisto grew, more and more discerning nobles discovered his value and began to invest more in him. When he became a god, he united all those who had invested in him to form the Order of Praise, which jointly managed the world.

Although it was supposed to be jointly managed, everyone in the entire Praise Society except Mephisto was a nobleman!

Even Faust was a true aristocrat.

Mephisto only requires the nobles below him to hand over enough women as tribute each year. In this case, what would the nobles do?

The world as it is now is fully revealed.

A world reduced to gangsters and prostitutes...

There are no more commoners; all commoners are descendants of prostitutes. Girls, once they reach a certain age, either become prostitutes or are captured and disappear.

The vast majority of boys are forcibly castrated and then transformed into girls under the influence of a magic potion, thus achieving the same fate as girls...

What should be done about those who have awakened innate techniques?

Like the peripheral members of the Alban family, they either joined the nobility and became their henchmen, or were sent to become managers in a nobleman's gang.

Or, it's still castration, gender-swap drugs, and being sold off all at once...

After the nobles achieved priority control over the extraordinary through their ancestors' accumulation, they did not make the world a better place. Instead, they chose to lock the door to upward mobility, ensuring that the common people would forever remain common people.

Even if you awaken an innate technique, you still have to sell yourself to a nobleman. Unless it's an exceptionally powerful one, like the kind that can reach a near-4th rank of power right after awakening, nobles will choose to take you in as a son-in-law or accept you as a dog for better conditions, in order to get higher value.

But essentially, they still accept them as dogs.

The nobles of this world are a perfect example of the saying, "Why do you think you can surpass the accumulation of our ancestors for more than ten generations just because you have awakened your innate techniques? You are a commoner for a day, and you will be a commoner for a lifetime."

What role does Mephisto play in all of this?

Xue Dinglu closed his eyes and thought of several old friends once again.

Wanyan Gou, Wang Mouren, Pétain of Vichy Franz...

By betraying the people to gain benefits and by indulging in compromises to gain support, the mystical aristocracy has become the underlying logic of this entire world.

Just like those peripheral members of the Alban family who risked their lives to fight for the city lord's head, most of them were commoners who had awakened innate magic techniques and had joined the Alban family.

Nowadays, they are capable of doing anything without any moral bottom line in order to obtain a surname, much like those abstract figures from the Northern and Southern Dynasties who buried their children to raise their mothers.

At this moment, Su Su raised her hand and asked, "Brother, brother, I know, I saw it online before. Shouldn't someone raise their arms and shout 'Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?' and start overthrowing the current situation where the nobility and the Chanting Society jointly rule the world?"

But at this moment, Faust and Schrödinger's Law both fell silent.

After a long silence, Xue Dinglu finally said, "If this trajectory of development continues, then the nobles of this world are truly born with a special destiny..."

"Huh?" Su Su was immediately stunned.

"Because civilians are endlessly divided and arrested by gangs, even if someone awakens an innate technique, it is almost impossible for them to gather a complete force. Because gangs rule over civilians, under the rule of gangs and the endless division of classes, the lower class can never gather a real force that can overthrow the existing system," Xue Dinglu said.

"Besides, even if they are lucky enough to overthrow the gang, nobles will immediately come to invite them to a banquet to be beheaded and take them in as dogs. After all, the lower classes have even lost the right to read, let alone knowledge. Their intelligence can be easily fooled by nobles, and they will be taken in immediately. If the nobles cannot take them in, they may not see the sun rise tomorrow."

"So, the mystical aristocracy of this world, are they really born with a special destiny?" Xue Dinglu's expression was also very solemn.

Although he looked down on the world's mystical nobles and what Mephisto did, the policies and structures they set up were indeed capable of maintaining their family's millennia-long legacy.

From the perspective of aristocratic families, this was a policy that would allow the nobility to continue to prosper while ensuring that the lower classes would never have a chance to rise up.

All I can say is that the political intelligence of this world is hundreds of times superior to that of the war fanatics in the old Demon Emperor's world. From the perspective of the nobility, the lower classes of the entire world have been turned into prostitutes who can be manipulated however they want through political means.

However, in such a world, there actually appears a guy who betrayed his own class: Faust.

Xue's Law also found it bizarre that someone could actually betray their class. Faust was a noble among nobles, yet he thought of others. It's unclear whether this was due to his experience as a teacher or his awakening after witnessing the gradual decay of the world.

Now, having experienced Roland City, they have a better understanding of the world.

Even Xue Dinglu, the body he possessed was almost cut off from his genitals and then drugged into a girl. If he had been less lucky, he might only be able to live in this world as Nan Liang now, which would have been truly pathetic.

Therefore, Xue's Law showed no mercy when dealing with nobles and gangsters, trampling the bones of high-ranking officials on the streets, for all things in nature are created to nourish people...

"As for the kidnapped girls, their fate is simply to become offerings to the other apostles," Faust said, and at that moment, they once again understood the underlying logic of this world.

Just as Faust and Xue's Law were recounting the situation of this world in more detail, the caravan had arrived in Tulip City. The two messengers from the Alban family said, "Gentlemen, we have arrived in Tulip City, and the Alban family has also arrived."

"Don't we need to go to the mansion?" Xue Dinglu asked, puzzled.

To everyone's surprise, the two men chuckled and, seemingly instinctively, spoke in a condescending manner: "Madam, you may not know this, but the entire Tulip City is the residence of the Alban family."

“Alas…” At this moment, it was Faust who sighed.

Xue Dinglu wasn't annoyed; he simply nodded. After all, these two wouldn't live much longer anyway, so let them enjoy themselves for the last two days.

After entering the city, the two led their caravan to the courtyard where their Roland City branch family was housed, and then went to report back.

After they left, the three of them on Xue Dinglu's side fell silent.