The Lancaster Family was not considered a major family within the Avalon Kingdom.
Its main sphere of influence lay around Lentax Great City.
Henry Lancaster was the head of the family's main branch in this generation.
Quite a few other family members served as governors of the Bang Cities under the great city's jurisdiction.
Some of the family's elites were scattered throughout the kingdom, serving as municipal officials or military officers.
It could be said that Marquis Henry represented the future of the Lancaster Family.
Thus, expanding the family had become his highest mission.
If the Lancasters could one day truly become a ducal family and possess overseas territories, it would be an earth-shaking event for them.
However, by saying this, Marquis Henry was also taking a risk.
Whether Princess Anna succeeded in abducting Prince Carter or not, the Lancaster Family would have no way out.
They were destined to suffer Jonathan's retaliation!
And the current division of forces within the kingdom was still unclear.
Aside from those great cities that had openly chosen a side, quite a few great city-level territories remained neutral.
They retained their status as cities belonging to the kingdom, yet refused to declare support for any princess or prince.
Of course, not every great city was qualified to remain neutral.
These so-called neutral great cities were usually backed by family forces or small factions.
They could band together for mutual support and openly refuse recruitment attempts.
In troubled times, it was not difficult to side with either faction. What was truly difficult was neutrality.
And Lentax Great City clearly did not have that qualification.
At the regional level, a great city was an absolute behemoth and the center of the region.
But on the scale of the entire kingdom, great cities were merely individual nodes.