Minamoto Chisaki led Erii and the rapidly assembled combat personnel of the Eight Clans of the Serpent, spreading out like a finely woven net as they began clearing the Dead Servants running rampant through the building floor by floor.
The armory within Genji Heavy Industries provided ample firepower. Faced with an organized line of defense stocked with ammunition, most Dead Servants could not stir up much trouble. Interlocking fields of fire formed a deadly metal storm, tearing those twisted figures apart in corridors and rooms.
Occasionally, particularly strong or swift Dead Servants managed to charge through the barrage and breach the blockade.
That was when Minamoto Chisaki stepped in. Every flash of Spider Cutter's cold gleam precisely severed a threat, firmly keeping those that slipped through outside the defensive line.
Erii remained quietly at the center of the formation, holding the line for them.
Only when the barrage was completely breached, and even Minamoto Chisaki could not stop every attacker at once, would she resort to that forbidden power.
Given her highly unstable bloodline, Minamoto Chisaki remained as cautious as possible throughout the operation, doing everything he could to avoid having her directly enter combat.
Other than the one time she had been forced to act when they had first gathered, with too few people and too little firepower, she spent most of the time silently following behind her brother like an observer, watching smoke and slaughter unfold around her.
The cleanup advanced downward floor by floor. Sakura, Ryoma Genichiro, Miyamoto Shio, and other core members of the family joined the clearing force one after another, strengthening it.
Meanwhile, Inuyama He, Sakurai Nanami, and the still-injured Crow and Yasha remained near the elevator shaft on the first floor with the US Military troops.
The first floor was relatively open and