An Yanfei led the way ahead as he said calmly, "Those traitorous families have all been wiped out, including the future Great Shamans—the hopes of those families whom they had planned to send away separately.
His Majesty was enraged and directly dispatched the court's most lethal young female death warriors to hunt down the chief culprits. The other two of the Three Great Shamans also felt a sense of shared grievance and took action voluntarily. Together with the three commanders of the Black Cavalry, the result was easy to imagine.
Perhaps noble families sharing their surnames will appear again in the future, but... apart from the surname, they will probably have nothing to do with the current ones.
The An Family was fairly fortunate. An Pengfei's desperate final stand brought the family some luck. As long as members of the An Family passed the loyalty ritual presided over by a Great Shaman, they could take their possessions and follow the family head out of Renhe City.
Even An Family members living elsewhere were summoned back for the ritual. Some innocent people were implicated as well, since the loyalty test had a corruption threshold—crossing it also counted as treason.
As for the real traitors... as soon as An Pengfei recovered, he returned directly to the Black Cavalry and personally led the pursuit against them."
An Yanfei suddenly turned his head slightly and suppressed the redness at the corners of his eyes. "Archmage Bolanio, you should be able to tell that I do not like An Pengfei very much.
That is perfectly normal. Although the An Family had all of us gifted children grow up together, we could only spend our days alone in our own little courtyards. An Pengfei and the true direct-line children could return home every day, and even