Chapter 697 - "No Capable Heir"

The barrier hadn't collapsed, but a tiny gap was enough for the Naran Family to send continuous troops to enter the yards.

At the same time, he prioritised the team that would infiltrate the mansion. After all, their most important goal wasn't to destroy the Sloan Family but to steal the flag.

Destroying the Sloan family could wait until they took the flag.

At the end of the day, the siege would continue for three days and three nights.

Even if the Sloan Family had lost, the tournament wouldn't end yet, and the mafia council wouldn't meddle in their affairs.

Whether the fallen family could survive or not, why should they care?

These families were just mid-ranking families that were strong enough to become high-ranking, but most of them relied on the high-ranking families.

The mafia family wasn't like ages ago where new powerful families without being influenced by other mafia families would pop out once every two or three years.

Now, the mafia families, aside from the high-ranking or above, preferred to become a lackey for the high-ranking families or above.

The power became heavily concentrated on the 7 great families, the 7 sacred families, and the high-ranking families.

Even many high-ranking families allied themselves with either the 7 great or the 7 sacred families, creating two opposite sides.

Only some of the high-ranking families would stay neutral.

This was undoubtedly dangerous.

If one day the 7 great and 7 sacred families decided to wage war, the entire mafia society would be dragged into the fight.

What could the mafia council do? Nothing.

It wasn't good for the power to be concentrated only on two sides.

The mafia council actually held this tournament for some reason.

One of them was so that the newly-promoted high-ranking family wouldn't become the older high-ranking families' lackeys.

It's okay to become allies with other families, but becoming their lackey...that's the same as becoming a sub-branch but using a different family name and different location.

The mafia council didn't want this to happen.

Thus, aside from wanting to monitor Ainsley's growth and the Sloan Family's growth, they also hoped that the Sloan Family could break free from this vicious cycle.

They weren't convinced that a baby could become a true mafia boss without becoming a puppet head, but if she's truly capable