"That's right! Mr. Lei, no matter what you do, the Lei Family's guards will protect you to the very last moment, even if it means dying," said another guard.
"Thank you! And I'm sorry, if it weren't for you trying to save me, a dozen brothers wouldn't have died," said the Duke of Thunder, taking another gulp, his heart clearly heavy.
First, the Four Seas Gang killed over a hundred of his War Dragon Hall brothers, reducing him from the hall master to having only a dozen loyal guards. Then his elder brother's conspiracy came to light, and he was hunted down. From the Black Crown Prince's high status, he became an outcast, oppressed locally and warned by the government, even threatened against setting up a faction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or else they'd be wiped out.
In desperation, he had to contact people everywhere to purchase some weapons for safety's sake, and to give his subordinates a sense of security.
