Meira turned to her, eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean? What happened? Where is he going?"
But Aurora wasn’t listening anymore. She was staring at the notification, her expression turning sour. She was clearly frustrated as she clenched her fists. "Why can’t I be by his side when he needs me the most? I don’t like it. I do not like it at all."
She clenched her fists and stared in the direction where Damon had disappeared. "I need to form my mana core soon. I cannot be weak and useless ever again. I do not want to be his burden ever again."
Meira nodded. There were a lot of things happening and a lot of changes around them. The world as they knew it was coming to an end. Today was just a glimpse of how they would be if they did not have enough strength, always at the mercy of someone else.
"We need to become stronger. A lot stronger." She nodded in agreement, her eyes turning fiery with determination. Never again did she want to message someone and wait so desperately for them to come and rescue her. "None of those filthy scums would dare to come near us next time."
The two women discussed their next plans and then dispersed. The players who died would take a couple of hours to respawn, so they could move freely for the time being without the threat of being ambushed again.
Not that they were stupid enough to get caught in the middle of an ambush like that in the first place. A few people they had trusted turned their backs against them, and they ended up in the situation. Otherwise, they would not have been caught off guard so easily.
Meria teleported to her class hall, where she had the backing of a mysterious mentor, and Aurora teleported to the divine temple to use the temple’s inner sanctum for her core formation. She shot one more look towards Neira city before setting off to finish her goal.
"I am coming, my love. Just give me a little time, and I will never ever have to leave your side again."
***
Meanwhile, Damon finally arrived in Niera City, instantly teleporting to the blood hall using one of the teleportation circles outside. There were two of them in two different corners that allowed players to join the respective faction they chose.
Damon took the one marked by blood and directly arrived at the inner sanctum. The entire place was abuzz with activity as all of the local vampire NPCs had arrived, both from Niera City and the neighboring cities. Some of them were fighting at the forefront, while some of them were recuperating inside the blood hall. From the looks of things, they were taking turns and fighting.
This made sense as there were not enough NPCs in the first place. Thanks to the basic hall upgrade, at least these many NPCs were present. The vampire player numbers were also non-existent, which currently worked against them.
No matter how one looked at it, the vampire side was clearly losing. Their defenses were down to the last 30% and the first wave was still completely rampant, the numbers of the holy and divinity players not in the least reduced.
This battle was almost over, and the vampires were most definitely losing to the purification raid.
At this rate, every single one of the vampire NPCs would be dead, and the players would receive a massive debuff. At the same time, the light faction players would receive a system-wide reward that would push the Dark Faction even deeper into decline.
But none of it mattered. The battle wasn’t over until it was really over. Damon was here now. He already knew what he had to do to turn the tide
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