Rebirth of the Deadly Beauty novel Chapter 583

A duel was a rule the underworld followed. If two forces were to have an unresolvable dispute, someone of a higher status would step in to mediate, and it would almost end up with the two parties dueling it out every time. The loser would have to follow what the winner wanted.

However, right now, other than the Serpent Alliance, Zach and the rest were not even considered a part of the underworld.

"That's right. Mr. Caldwell said that if Cayden won, we had to agree for him to return to Riverdale. When he is back, he is not to stir up trouble with us.

"But if we win, Cayden and the Serpent Alliance can no longer think of coming back to Riverdale anymore." Zach sighed. His voice brimmed with reluctance.

"Mr. Caldwell is clearly playing favorites. Doesn't he know how the Serpent Alliance started? This is very unfair for him to suggest dueling to resolve this.

"Besides that, Cayden had sent so many people to Riverdale to assassinate me and the other head of the families, which had majorly depleted his men. Many powerful experts his men trusted were also defeated in Riverdale.

"It was clear that even if we don't do anything about it, he wouldn't be able to return either. For Mr Caldwell to suddenly involve himself in this, and him wanting us to send people to compete in the duel, what he's up to is just too obvious."

"Have all of you agreed to it?" Yolanda asked faintly.

Other than Creybia's top three families, the other families had never stopped having conflict. They loved building their own forces. The other two top families in Creybia, the Fafnir family and the Storm family might be reluctant to often be second to the Hoffman family.

If Yolanda's investigation was correct, the Caldwell family might seemed to be unrelated to the top three families, but they had already secretly allied with the Storms.

What was happening right now might seem to be just a conflict between local forces, but because the Caldwells got involved, Yolanda had to read more between the lines.

"Initially, we were sure about forbidding Cayden from returning to Riverdale, and the little number of men he had wouldn't be able to hold on for long if we were to continue to run them dry.

"But because Mr. Caldwell is involved now, we can't openly oppose him even though we're unwilling. Even so, I've also discussed the matter with Mr Hansen Senior and the rest. We might not lose in the duel, so we agreed to it.

"As long as our men can beat Cayden's men, we'd rid all potential problems, and Cayden wouldn't be able to have any chance to do anything fishy anymore."

It wasn't wrong for Zach and the rest to think that way. Cayden had spent so much effort plotting against them. Even if this time things didn't go his way, he would just take a break and plan his next course of action.