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Moonlight City stood in the heart of the Moonlight Corridor, in northeastern Tosk Province.
Though small for a commandery city, it guarded a strategic chokepoint, with the vast, rolling Moonback Mountains to its west and the mist-shrouded expanse of Moonlight Bay to its east.
A year earlier, its victory in the competition against Mountain Sea Main City, beyond Shanhai Pass two hundred li away, had finally persuaded the Chen Clan to establish its important Medicinal Herbs Chain Market here, making it the lifeline of medicinal herb distribution throughout the province's northeast.
For this reason, Moonlight City's authorities and local powers treasured the market. It was not only a source of ever-flowing wealth, but also the symbol of the Chen Clan's presence here.
Now, this Medicinal Herbs Market, once a symbol of wealth and order, had become a hellish killing ground.
Flames licked wantonly at the carved beams and painted storefronts. Thick smoke rolled upward like enormous pythons, blotting out the sky and sun.
Shattered signboards crashed down at crooked angles. Exquisite wooden herb cases, along with the precious medicinal herbs inside them, were trampled into powder amid the fighting.
Sky-shaking battle cries, the screams of the dying, and the thunder of collapsing buildings intertwined into a symphony of death.
The six hundred Moonlight Guards tasked by the Chen Clan with defending this place were locked in an unprecedented struggle.
Among these six hundred garrison elites, roughly four hundred were combat-capable Soul Masters. The rest were seasoned retired soldiers and other combat professionals. Ordinarily, they were well trained and maintained a tight defense.
Yet now, a force of only a few hundred black-clothed men was driving them back, step by step.
Those black-clothed men seemed