Chen Zhenshan stood before them and said only a few brief words. "Reinforcements outside the city can't get in for now. The people inside are waiting for us to save them."
"For many of you, this will be your first real battle. But remember, you're wearing the Paranormal Bureau's uniform. Hold the line and protect the people until reinforcements arrive."
The Reserve Team members gave no fiery cries, but every one of them silently tightened their grip on their weapons.
The Old City District was Jiangcheng's earliest residential settlement and its most densely populated area. Unconscious citizens lay sprawled every which way in its narrow alleys.
The first wave of low-level Eeries formed from Weird Domain energy had already begun crawling out of the shadows. Most were only D-Rank to C-Rank, their forms twisted and primitive. Some resembled lumps of writhing sludge; others looked like several severed limbs pieced together, slowly squirming along the deserted streets.
They instinctively crawled toward the unconscious citizens, seeking to parasitize and devour them, or even assimilate them.
By the time Chen Zhenshan and Old Chen arrived with the Reserve Team, Eeries had already wrapped themselves around more than a dozen citizens.
He struck first, unleashing the full pressure of his mid-stage Domain Realm cultivation. A single palm strike shattered the nearest Eerie.
The Reserve Team members followed close behind. The light of superpowers flashed one after another in the dim alleys of the Old City District, eliminating the low-level Eeries one by one.
But everyone knew this was only the beginning. Eerie energy continued to proliferate inside the Weird Domain. Before long, higher-level Eeries would emerge from the shadows.
Su Dingshan stood alone before an abandoned warehouse in the north of the city. This former covert outpost of Dark Moon had now become one