Penny was silent for a moment and sighed, "Despite being a collateral family, our lineage basically only exists to produce breeding mares..."

With that, she told Charlie about the history between the Singers and the Griffins.

As it turned out, in order to keep the Qing Eliminating Society in the shadows, the Griffins had basically coerced their relatives into perpetuating their lineage—it was like nothing Charlie had ever known!

Still, considering that an illustrious clan like the Griffins was cripplingly dependent on Fleur for survival while also having to keep the Qing Eliminating Society's important secrets under wraps, they really couldn't do much else aside from keeping their bloodline, even if it meant using people like tools.

Furthermore, according to Penny, there were actually at least twenty collateral families like the Singers serving the Griffins, even as they flourished for centuries under Fleur's protection.

Through those hundreds of years, with the dead soldiers and