Before Yang Bo could even begin to act, several family branches on Devon Star began emergency evacuations. The Carter Family, Zhang Family, and Luo Family all had considerable holdings on Devon Star, but they abandoned everything and evacuated at once.
These families also issued emergency orders to the heads of all their internal businesses, ordering them to implement the Highest Alert.
As for the person who had personally appeared to deceive Sword Saint Ning, he was preparing to relocate his entire family to the Alliance.
The major families within the Empire also convened emergency meetings.
The technology Bart had developed was simply too damn outrageous. He could completely disguise himself and use a Space Mecha to attack anyone, then withdraw without a sound.
The Kindling Club did possess space-interference technology, but it had two major problems.
The first was that it was expensive, and the equipment had to be fixed in place. These major families had so many properties that it was impossible to set one up everywhere.
More importantly, members of major families had to travel around.
The second problem was that if the technology's power was too high, long-term exposure to the radiation could cause all sorts of mutations. If the power was too low, it might not work at all.
Because interference and anti-interference were matters not only of technology, but also of power.
The major families urgently convened internal meetings, and the Noble Council held an emergency internal meeting as well. Those in the Council of Elders who had opposed Bart's promotion to duke regretted it beyond measure.
Had they known Bart was this monstrous, they would have made him a duke no matter what and given him a seat in the Council of Elders.
Now things were great. After rejecting Bart, that bastard was no