Few hours prior to the attack in the SKCT.

"...Are you ready to give your all?" Ling asked with a serious gaze after finishing her speech.

"Yes, Sect Master!" Everyone shouted with enthusiasm.

"Is this the energy with which you'll enter into the battle?" A sharp glint formed in Ling's eyes as she asked the crowd the question. Her aura was domineering and she looked nothing like a loving wife that she was.

"NO, SECT MASTER!" Everyone yelled loudly.

"Are you ready?" Ling asked calmly.

"YES, SECT MASTER!"

"Good. Squad A will attack the SKCT directly from the forefront and act as a cover for Squad B as planned. Now get going!" Ling clapped her hand once and repeated the instructions.

"YES, SECT MASTER!" Squad A and B said and left quickly.

Ling then instructed the other squads and after everyone was gone, Ling looked at the last and final squad and said with a serious gaze,

"Squad Zero I have nothing to say to you. Just do what your leaders are asking you to." Ling said and pointed towards Lith, Ralph, and Dennis beside her.

"YES, SECT MASTER!" The squad in front of Ling, a group of ten people, yelled with the same energy as the other squads.

"I wish you good luck, Sir Ray." Ling looked at Lith and said.

"I wish you the same." Wan, standing at her side, said as well.

Lith nodded. "Same to you. Let's go, Ralph, Dennis."

Lith, Ralph, and Dennis left with Squad Zero and the main conflict began.

Ling and Wan left the grounds and went to the surveillance room to see the battle.

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Back in the SKCT.

"AT YOUR 1 O'CLOCK!" A guy in white Kenzal Clan robes yelled to another beside him.

"SHIT!" The guy beside him cursed.

BOOM!

A black fireball came shooting towards the guy and he was too late to dodge it.

"Blergh!" He puked blood as the ball hit his stomach.

Soon

"Ahhhhhh! It burns! It burns!" The same person cursed.

"Hey, give cover, healer check the guy's injuries!" The guy who warned of the incoming attack said again.

"Roger!" An average looking brown-haired person said and went to block the incoming attack.

The healer, a person in white priest robes and from the Kenzal Clan, went to check the injuries of the person.

As soon as the healer got close to the injured man, he saw a black foul stench coming from the stomach of the man and it appeared to be rotting.

"OH NO!" The healer quickly distanced himself from the guy and yelled, "QUICKLY KILL HIM! IT'S A HIGH LEVEL PLAGUE SPELL!"

"WHAT!?"

"FUCK!"

The people trying to defend panicked and their thoughts turned chaotic.

Right amidst their chaos, a spear came shooting towards them and before the people could even defend against it, it directly pierced the body of the man inflicted with the plague.

BOOM!

"AHHH! IT BURNS!"

"I AM INFECTED!"

"SHIIIIIT!"

"HEALER! DO SOMETHING!"

The body of the plague infected man exploded and the plague spread everywhere in the vicinity.

BURST! BURST! BURST!

One by one, the plague infected peoples' bodies bursted and the plague spread even further.

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Inside the control room of the SKCT.

"Red notice at section F! I repeat Red notice at section F! A guy quickly said into a microphone in front of him and while looking at the screen.

"Again!?" A guy beside asked.

"Yes. They aren't holding back anymore and definitely seem serious." The guy repeated.

"We are doomed" the guy beside said under his breath.

The situation looked anything but good to the members of the Senzal and Kenzal clans.

This was the seventh Red notice that they've gotten.

The SKCT was in a rectangular area and it was divided into twenty sections. The sections weren't equal in area and some were small and some were large. The control room followed by the area where the two clan heads were was in the middle and it was well protected.

But currently, the entire outer section was being attacked with immense force and the intensity was so much that it became a Red notice.

Notices were basically an instruction for help.

A green notice meant that things were okay and only a few people were needed to go help in that section and it was also optional.

Orange notice meant that things were serious and three to five people above Rank 6 were needed to go to that section and take immediate action.

Red notice meant things had turned for the worse and five Rank 7 or three Rank 8s or one Rank 9 was needed to go to the section and resolve the problem immediately.

There was also a Black notice and it meant someone of Saint Rank and above would need to go into that section to help. This notice was only issued out if someone strong is detected by the magic circles of the two clans or if 70% of things were destroyed in some section.

The Shadow River Sect disciples, along with the elders, were working as a close-knit group and were not leaving any place open. They attacked all the outer edges of the SKCT and almost all places were several damaged.

The outer areas of the SKCT were definitely going to be destroyed soon and it wasn't just the property, but the people were having problems as well.

The troops in the Section F have been infected with plague and it was spreading around in a fast manner.

The spear imbued with an explosion spell acted as a catalyst and the plague was spreading in a fast manner.

The people in the control room were all panicking as the situation was going from bad to worse to worst in just a matter of few moments.

The plague that the Shadow River Sect spread was just one of the few examples that caused the Red notice and there were various other attacks present as well.

The most deadly ones was an elder with a dark affinity poisoning the whole ground and air of Section B and the bodies of the people below Rank 7 rotted within a matter of seconds.

The people ran around with their bodies decomposing and they weren't even able to cry for help as everything melted.

At this moment of crisis, the one incharge of the control room, a Rank 9 tall man in golden robes of the Senzal Clan, said:

"Stop panicking everyone. Riess, call Duram Tower and explain the situation in SKCT. Everyone, no need to panick, the SKCT is just a small territory among the other ones and an attack of this degree was kind of unexpected. The sect members brought their full force to just attack the SKCT and I am pretty sure that the other places are unharmed."

"Yes, leader is right. Riess, quickly call the Duram Tower."

"On it." The guy called Riess said and typed a few things and called the Duram Tower.

The call took a few minutes to connect and just as it did

"HELP! SEND US HELP! THEY SENT FUCKING ASSASSINS HERE!"

"AHHHHHHH!"

"NOOOOOOO!"

"MY BALLS! MY BALLS! NOT MY BALLS! AHHHHHHHHH"

BEEP!

The call got disconnected and as it did, this time even the expression of the incharge was grim.

"Fuck" the incharge cursed under his breath, but this didn't end up helping the situation and the people in the room panicked even further.

"We are doomed."

"We really are doomed."

"I am gonna make a call to my mother and tell her I love her and not to miss me."

"I am gonna call your mother too."

"Huh?"

"What?"

"We are all gonna dieeeeeeeee!"

"OoOoOoOoO sha sha sha, ba ba ba, ma ma ma, iya iya iya!"

"This guy is singing he's really singing"

"He's lost it. He's completely lost it."

"OoOoOOOoOOh! Ba ba black sheep"

"Fucccckkkkk"

"O god, help us. O God, help us. O God, help us."

The mental condition of everyone in the room degraded and turned for the worse.

Despite the incharge being of Rank 9, he failed to realize that a spell was cast that was turning them mad with each passing second.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I WAS FUCKING STUPID TO JOIN THE CLAN ALL ALONG!"

"HAHAHAHAHA! I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT!"

"I AM NOTHING BUT A SLAVE, HAHAHAHA!"

One guy completely lost it and started laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHA! MY LIFE IS WORTHLESS!"

BANG!

He shot himself in the head with a gun that was in his pocket and killed himself.

This was the first person to have suicided and then, as for the condition of the others

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A/N: Normal chapter.

Goals:

1013/1250 GT (+1 bonus)

119/1300 Powerstones (+1 bonus)

Hi all, as usual, been really busy with festival. By the time you would read this chapter, I would be out there feeding a hundred people food.

It's festival time, why should I be happy alone, right? ;)

Bonuses will be uploaded soon, please forgive me for the delay.

Thank you for your understanding, have a good day!