After Dawnspire City, it was Glory City. Then it was Radianthelm. Then Silverwood. Then Moonfall Citadel. Then Ironvale Fortress, a city so proud of its impregnable defenses that players once joked it would survive an entire dark faction assault.
City after city fell like dominoes in a blood-soaked line, each one collapsing faster than the last. By the time Damon was done, the Light Faction map, once filled with bright, cheerful cities, looked like a toddler had taken a red marker and scribbled all over haphazardly, except with poison.
The world stared in horror, watching the broadcast updates roll in like a doomsday countdown.
[Ding! Glory City has fallen to Blood Domain.]
Players screamed, guild leaders cried, top guilds spammed emergency war horns. It changed nothing.
[Ding! Radianthelm City has been annihilated.]
Radianthelm, home of the Holy Academy, birthplace of half the server's paladins, was reduced to a crater of poisoned crystal within minutes.
Clips showed Damon walking through the sacred plaza while paladin NPCs rotted and died just by being within ten meters of him.
[Ding! Silverwood Stronghold has been conquered!]
[Ding! Moonfall Citadel has entered Corrupted State.]
This one hurt. Moonfall, beloved for its beautiful night sky and iconic moonlit lake where couples took screenshots together, was now a twisted nightmare realm glowing sickly red.
One heartbroken player lamented. "My girlfriend dumped me, and the lake is destroyed. Blood God, what more do you wantβ¦" π³ππππππππ πππ.π°π π¦
[Ding! Ironvale Fortress has collapsed. Territory conquered.]
Ironvale lasted exactly ninety seconds. By now, panic had evolved into religious fear. Light Faction leadership was in complete shambles. Top guilds formed emergency alliances. NPC councils declared continent-wide martial law. High priests hurriedly prayed to their gods and insisted that everyone do the same.
"He's clearing cities faster than we clear level 10 dungeons. Does anyone know how many cities we even have left?! Why is he still going?? Who is letting him do this???"
The guild leaders could no longer ignore Damon's message. Many started paying up gold coins left and right. Some claimed that they would never do something so shameful, but secretly they emptied their coffers and sent it all to Blood Domain.
Whether they liked it or not, Damon's ransom message had become the gravitational center of the entire server. No matter how bravely guild leaders screamed about pride, honor, or dignity, every single one of them heard the same ticking bomb behind those words, pay up⦠or your city dies next.


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