*The Ryan family... was truly finished...*
Looking at the Duke, whose neck was bandaged and who couldn't even sit up, merely leaning against the hospital bed, the surrounding nobles couldn't help but harbor similar thoughts.
Having lost over two hundred family members overnight, with its core strength nearly wiped out, the only one capable of turning the tide, the Duke, had his neck's blood vessels severed, leading to excessive blood loss and heart failure. *It seemed he was barely breathing anymore.*
It could be said that the collapse of the Ryan family was completely in its final countdown. Apart from the shell of a Duke and a seat of the Vice Speaker in the Upper House, everything else would soon be divided among those present.
At this thought, the representatives sent by various noble factions for "witnessing" or "mourning" couldn't help but exchange glances, revealing knowing expressions to one another.
