After just two hours of fighting, the Black rebels captured Brittany's City Hall. Martin seized the district governor on the spot and ordered all the Marleyan administrative staff inside imprisoned.
Martin knew this was his opportunity. He intended to use it to present his demands to the Marley Government and resolve the incident peacefully, ideally securing autonomy for Brittany.
But before Martin's orders even left City Hall, thousands of Black rebels descended into a frenzy. They began beating, smashing, and looting, storming shops to set fires, plunder, and destroy. Some even charged into residential neighborhoods to burn, murder, and rape.
"Let my family go! They have nothing to do with this!" Andrei, Brittany's district governor, shouted. He looked in anguish at his wife and daughter being escorted nearby, bitterly regretting bringing them to live in Brittany.
Accustomed to throwing his weight around, he had never imagined that anyone would dare resist Marley's rule. It had been far too long since Marley had faced internal unrest.
Seeing so many of their people joining the frenzy, the Black guards escorting the governor's family simply shot him dead and joined in. His wife and daughter became their first victims.
The governor's wife and daughter collapsed to the ground in tears, staring in despair at the Black men surrounding them. The shadows of several black shafts fell across their faces, and before long, piercing screams rang out.
Soon, ordinary Black civilians joined the frenzy as well. Nearly seventy thousand followed five thousand Black soldiers in a full-scale takeover of Brittany. The other ethnic minorities all became victims. Regardless of their ethnicity, they and the Marleyans alike suffered terribly in the uprising.
Brittany's border military base currently had only two hundred defenders. The remaining troops had been transferred to other defense sectors.
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