Chapter 036 – Power of a First-Rank Family

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The crowd's jaws dropped and their eyes widened as though trying to pop out of their sockets, gaping at the person who had just revealed the old man’s identity.

This moment of shock, however, only lasted briefly before everyone slowly turned their gazes toward the old man and his granddaughter.

Although the crowd had initially sensed that the grandfather-granddaughter duo wasn’t ordinary—especially after knowing that they own bodyguards, something very uncommon in the city—they had never expected their identity to be to this extent and be this scary.

After all, who in Riverton City doesn’t know about the one and only prominent Blackwood Family? None.

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Like every other place, families in Riverton City are also classified into various ranks, starting from the ordinary-ranked families to the first-rank families, and in between, there are several other ranks, each progressively harder to attain than the previous.

In fact, many families have been stuck in the ordinary rank si