Throughout the various areas inside the Inverted Tower, the members listened in shock to the warnings ringing in their ears.
"The president activated the Zero Emergency Plan?! Wh-what... what on earth happened?!"
"Has the Demon Association run into a crisis that threatens our very survival?!"
"Quick! Get back to your posts!"
In an instant.
Everyone in the Inverted Tower began racing around in panic.
And it wasn't just the members inside the Inverted Tower. Members of the Demon Association throughout the Dark World received the notification that the Zero Protocol had been activated at almost exactly the same time.
Meanwhile.
Blood Saw, who had left the Doll Courtyard and was tearing through a forest toward Wandering Soul Alley, suddenly shuddered as he felt the alarm sounding inside his body.
"This is... the Zero Protocol has been activated?!"
Shock instantly spread across his face.
He had once been a senior founding member of the Demon Association. Back when the Demon Association was first established, he had even worked alongside the old president on the construction and modification of the Inverted Tower.
This emergency signal source had been implanted in every member's body when the Inverted Tower was first built.
Its purpose was to transmit information to every member of the Demon Association as quickly as possible if the Association ever faced a threat it could not handle.
The sounding of that signal.
Meant the activation of the Zero Protocol!
And he knew the Zero Protocol extremely well, because he had been one of the key members involved in setting it up!
"How is this possible?! Who would have the power-and the nerve-to attack the Demon Association's headquarters?!"
He was utterly stunned.
Although he had left the Association long ago and was now even being hunted by it.
He still had a