Ray had no idea that the residents in his neighborhood were already planning to join forces against him.

But even if he did know, he wouldn't have cared.

Did they think the villa's renovation had been for nothing?

Without exaggeration, short of a direct missile strike, ordinary weapons simply couldn't breach the villa's defenses.

Before the disaster, there might have been other ways. For example, fire. Turn the villa into an oven, and everything inside would be roasted or even burned to ash.