Free Web NovelChapter 644: Chapter 392: The Return of the Son-in-Law_2
In addition to having found the families that cooperated with the City Lord at the City Lord’s Mansion, the Alben Family can utilize this list of collaborators to execute them one by one.
After all, why did you cooperate with the City Lord’s Mansion? Did you also support the attack on the Alben Family?
You didn’t support? If it wasn’t your support, how dare the City Lord directly attack the Alben Family?
Although the reason may seem a bit far-fetched, the Alben Family’s Patriarch has died, and your family appears on the City Lord’s cooperation list, so your involvement is exposed.
In all of Roland City, it is impossible for a family not to have cooperated with the City Lord; therefore, the other minor nobles have come to realize.
We’re doomed, they’re coming for us!
Yet, they are helpless. The Alben Family can indeed use this incident to cleanse Roland City with blood.
Although it may be excessive, it still falls within the unwritten rules among nobility, not exceeding these rules.
Because other nobles did ally with the City Lord; however, when they allied, it was with the intent to collectively deal with the Xiao Organization, perhaps even gathering strength to strike hard against the Xiao Organization.
Little did they expect the City Lord to lose his mind and attack the Alben Family directly, turning the remainder of them into clownish figures, and now, with blades at their throats, all they can do is curse the City Lord’s ancestors for eighteen generations in their hearts.
Two members of the main family, after understanding the current situation in Roland City, couldn’t help but gasp.
The family members here have also suffered heavy losses — the Patriarch is dead, and the other core members have all perished in the City Lord’s attack... (Even those who escaped were finished off by the Xiao Organization.)
Outer members of the Alben Family suffered significant casualties too, firstly due to the clash with the City Lord’s forces, and secondly because of internal betrayal and strife, leading to many deaths. It can be said that the Alben Family in Roland City is already severely weakened, leaving only a young lady from a marriage alliance as the true member of the Alben Family.
However, this young lady, who was meant only for a marriage alliance, quickly organized the remaining family members, killed all the City Lord’s forces, thoroughly occupied all of Roland City, and then concluded settlements with all the noble families.
At this time, it seems the entire Roland City already belongs entirely to the Alben Family’s sole discretion.
"Hiss..." The two people gasped, not daring to believe it.
Is it possible for the separated branch of the family, weakened as it is, to make such a comeback and instantly become the only decision-maker in all of Roland City?
They couldn’t understand it themselves.
Even the young lady from the Alben Family meant for a marriage alliance, they somewhat knew her and even in the main family she was considered notorious.
After all, the branch in Roland City was once the direct line of the Patriarch hundreds of years ago, and it continues to attract attention although it has become a branch; but the young lady named "Belie," to speak frankly, her reputation in the main family was difficult to say.
Everyone laughed at her, saying that generations of the branch family in Roland City’s diligent governance led to a generation that produced an idiot thinking of achieving success in one step.
But now, suddenly the tables have turned, that idiot they called behind their backs for the Roland City branch suddenly displayed such skill, genuinely making them draw a cold breath.
Nonetheless, for them, they came to confirm the situation here and quickly report back to the main family.
For now, they first intend to report the situation to the main family and explain that currently in Roland City, only that young lady is a family member, and all other surviving Alben Family members are outer members, viewed by them as having a status akin to "servants."
However, for the Alben Family, the situation in Roland City is favorable, significantly advantageous to the Alben Family, making it the second city thoroughly controlled by the Alben Family, besides Yujin City.
Although the Alben Family is always a prominent family in other cities, they still need to share governance with other nobles, often facing constraints in many aspects.
But Roland City is different; here, after this grand cleansing, it has become entirely the Alben Family’s backyard.
The family can even pour resources into developing Roland City into another Yujin City.
"Let’s visit the family and see, in just one year, can there be such a great change? That person who created jokes in the main family last year has now directly become such a ruthless Patriarch?" The two emissaries from the main family spoke with doubt.
...
Upon arriving at the family, the environment there instantly stunned them.
Everyone here is dressed in pure black robes, a custom Faust told to Xue Dili, that in their world, when important friends or relatives die, the living wear pure black robes as a sign of mourning.
And now, everyone in the family mourns, the corpses of the family are laid in a coffin, a large number of outer family members cry and pray here.
The atmosphere directly affected the two members of the main family who had arrived.
Then, they saw not only the corpse of the Patriarch but the bodies of all other members, densely scattered in the outer courtyard of the Patriarch’s manor, hundreds of corpses filling the space.
"Alas, it seems the battle was indeed very brutal, and this branch here is almost as if extinguished." One main family member sighed.
