Standing His Ground

The next morning.

At the Azure Hand Guild Headquarters, in the Back Mountain Forbidden Area, atop a certain mountain peak.

"How could this happen?"

"How could this happen?"

Gazing at the devastated scene of death and destruction before him, Karosinasri muttered to himself.

They were all gone.

Almost all the Purifiers were gone.

During last night's chaos, around half of the Purifiers had been killed, while the other half had escaped. Fewer than a thousand had been recaptured.

Not only had most of those twenty-odd "demonic fiends" escaped, they had also caused tremendous destruction.

Within the guild, at least three thousand patrol guards had died at the hands of ordinary Purifiers and demonic fiends.

The entire Back Mountain Forbidden Area had been utterly devastated.

The Azure Hand Guild had suffered its most severe blow in tens of thousands of years!

Even Guild Master Karosinasri, with his formidable mental fortitude, was left somewhat dazed by the sight before him, his heart aching beyond measure.

This pain was not for the guild members who had suffered such heavy casualties, but because the Mana Web purification mission had been delayed by a tremendous amount of time after this incident.

"I spent thousands of years of painstaking effort, and it has all been ruined in a single day!"

"Completing the Mana Web purification mission will be delayed by at least a thousand years!"

"Who did this? I'll kill him! I will never let him off easy!"

Hatred!

He truly hated them!

But the urgent task was not to stomp his feet and curse. It was to clean up the mess, restore the Back Mountain Forbidden Area, and get it back into operation as quickly as possible.

At the same time, guild missions were issued, dispatching large numbers of Mana Web Walkers to capture the