Novel Bin Chapter 364 - The Year Over Part 2
Businesses, cultivation groups, cultivation families and every other form of association were being swallowed up by the faction and plenty of money, resources, techniques, skills and methods were being gathered by the Sentinel Factions.
There was so much to manage and with so many members it was becoming difficult to handle with so much uncertainty and with Elizabeth and Chase unable to discern whether their members are truly loyal.
That issue was being suppressed by Chase, who was the Monk, Protector and Army Leader of the Sentinels and was known to be on par, in terms of power, with even the Great Family Heads in New York.
Along with that, his army was known for being capable and had two main units, one that focused on defence and was spread throughout their various bases and businesses around the city, protecting them from any cultivators with malicious intentions.
The other focused on offence and were all trained in the same skills, techniques and methods, which were gathered by the faction and also provided by the Epstein and Maxwell Family, making the unit great at teamwork, and incredibly capable.
A year for most cultivators wasn\'t enough time to make much progress and they still were far from being on par with the military or the small armies that the other cultivation families had, but their progress was still astonishing.
Everything was very organised, but Chase and Elizabeth were struggling to keep control, not because of their lack of power and respect, but because of the sheer number of members and all the resources at their grasp.
Adding onto that, trouble was brewing in the city and the NYPD didn\'t have the cultivation contacts and support to intervene, while the big cultivators working for the government and military weren\'t planning to intervene.
Unless the conflict affecting innocents and people too much, they weren\'t going to get involved and the main reason for that was because they didn\'t want cultivation to be revealed.
That would create a world of destruction where everyone could wield the power of a cultivator and would fight over all the resources that were needed by cultivators.
What they were hoping for was a conflict that would end up with both sides weakening and giving the military the opportunity to pounce on the leftovers, but most other cultivation families on groups in other cities were thinking the same thing.
With everything was occurring in New York and large cultivation families becoming allied and growing rapidly, there were signs of wars breaking out and most cultivators preparing themselves for the conflict, but also to try and benefit from it.
Everything was becoming hard for Elizabeth and Chase to handle alone and with Adam\'s support behind them, they would feel much more confident, which was why they were waiting for their true leader to return.
Although the Sentinels Faction was quite capable, it couldn\'t rival a great cultivation family yet and it was only so formidable because of the backing of two cultivation families.
And despite it being rumoured that Chase had the power on the level of a Family Head, the family heads that heard about his age didn\'t believe it and even if it was true, didn\'t believe he would be able to defeat them.
Seeing how quickly they were developing, the Lin Family took the initiative to find a way to increase their power in preparation for facing the Sentinels, Maxwell Family and Epstein Family.
Independently, the Lin Family was the strongest and the Lin Family Leader was very skilled and was also the closest to breaking through to being a Master Cultivator, however, the other family heads were still threats.
His Lin Family was the largest and although wasn\'t the wealthiest, had the most members and were known for having wild, capable and reckless family members, which in an all-out war, would make them a force to be reckoned with.
Additionally, the Lin Family Head was extremely intelligent, calculative and cautious, which was to be expected from an individual in power who only cared about himself and his influence.
Because of that, the alliance between the Maxwell Family, Epstein Family and the Sentinels was what made him uneasy and seeing the rate they were growing and expanding made him wary.
In reaction to that, he secretly agreed to an alliance with the Ford Family and Dale Family with him being the leader of the alliance.
The two other great families in New York agreed without any hesitation and they knew that it was the only way for their survival with the ambitious, rapid growth of the Sentinel Faction.
Over that past year, the three other great families seemed to lay dormant and not do much, however they were preparing themselves for a takeover and as long as they eliminated the family heads of the enemy along with most of the elders, the rest would fall into their hands.
With one\'s life at stake it is unlikely that one would still stick to their beliefs and loyalties, making it so that as long as the leadership of the enemies were taken down, most of the rest would willingly submit and join the enemy.
The winner of the war dictated history and the Lin Family Head was seeking the unification of New York and planning to swallow up the Dale Family and Ford Family after using them to get what he wanted.
As long as he was able to become a Master Level Cultivator, he would be unstoppable in New York and would even begin taking over the neighbouring cities, or so he believed.
The Maxwell Family, Epstein Family and Sentinels Faction heard rumours about the alliance that the other great families had formed to be able to face them and if that wasn\'t enough to scare them, something sudden and unexpected occurred.
The Epstein Family didn\'t have a powerful, capable and experienced Family Head, along with the Maxwell Family, but the previous Maxwell Family Head was still alive and there were quite a few other capable cultivators in each of those families.
However, if the previous Maxwell Family Head were to suddenly be weakened in some way, it would be the perfect opportunity for the Lin Family Head and its allied families to take over New York, believing nobody else that was against him would be able to pose a threat to him.