The Rise of the Black Plain

'I have to escape from this damn place!' One of the Chambers family subordinates thought to himself as blood dripped from a wound on his forehead.

At the same time, where his clothes and armor were partially destroyed, he was trying to escape from that city, trying his best to avoid the enemy specialists.

Due to the large number of people fleeing, it wasn't long before the situation became even more chaotic. The weaker ones were falling even faster than before as they lost their allies who had kept them alive up to this point.

"Ahhh! Please don't leave us behind, Mister Roy!" several of the Spiritual Generals in the vicinity shouted at that man as they suffered from the powerful attacks of their enemies.

But this Spiritual King, Roy, level 52, didn't care about helping nobles or subordinates of the Chambers family.

He was one of the few Spiritual Kings of the initial levels of this stage in this battle. As such, the chances of him falling into this place were much higher than that of his superiors. So, he had already decided to abandon this family and try to escape from this place!

'Damn it!'

'It's all over!' So, he thought as he saw the streets in his surroundings were already filled with blood marks and pieces of human and beast bodies.

It was indeed a desolate scene, something that was making this man feel sick, much more than the smell of death would bother him. That was because, although he had never faced situations of this magnitude, Roy was already used to the unpleasant smell of death.

After all, he had already killed a few thousand people in his life!

On the other hand, for a person who had been abducted during his childhood and was forced to join the organization, he had lived almost all his life in this city. However, for this very reason, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scenery around him, of the place he once thought was impenetrable.

He had long ago given up the idea of trying to escape from the Chambers family and perhaps seek revenge. Not only that, in addition to giving up, he had entirely accepted the lifestyle of his captors, even becoming one of the current pillars of this noble house!

He might not be a great regional expert, but he still was one of the 29 Spiritual Kings of the Chambers family that remained!

And because he shared the practices of this organization, because he had lived in the same culture as his kidnappers for so long, this man had genuinely seen this place as his home.

For all that background of his, Roy could not help but feel disturbed by the destruction he was witnessing around Persephone and the thousands of deaths in his surroundings.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Boom!

"Tsk!" He made a sound with his tongue while having every muscle in his face contracted. 'There's nothing to do. From now on, it won't be long before the Chambers family ceases to exist.'

'I can only follow my course and try to continue living...' He then looked steadily in a particular direction and understood what he should do. 'Maybe I can use the family connections for me to get a place among the Scourges of the Devil!'

After that, he continued to run northward, heading towards the location of that organization's headquarters!

...

While blood flowed through the streets of Persephone and many people tried to flee from that place, some of the invaders were attacking at this moment the Chambers family headquarters.

At that place, the barrier created by a medium-level grade-2 defensive array had already been destroyed many minutes ago.

That had happened before the battles of the Spiritual Kings began, as previously all the local family experts were within that protected area.

But unfortunately for the sovereign organization of these lands, the forces of the Hayes family and their allies had prepared for such a thing. Because of this, these defenses had been destroyed by the strongest specialists of the invading group, who had the best weapons in their possession.

In any case, at present, many Hayes family forces were slaughtering the remaining people in that place, those individuals who could cause trouble if they escaped.

But while cries of pain and murmurs of dying people resounded through the headquarters of this local organization, some of the last nobles of this family were running through the secret exits of that place.

Obviously, a family with the violent background of the House Chambers would not live in a place with only one way out. After all, sooner or later, their plans could go wrong, and any sensible person should prepare for the worst!

Otherwise, only despair would remain for such souls.

As such, the essential descendants of this family were running through the local tunnels, heading separately to different places.

"What the hell!"

"I can't believe we ended up humiliated like that!" One young man said this in anger, while the pallor of his face would make anyone believe that he was very ill.

But such a thing was not due to physical problems, but rather to the great fear this young man had of dying along with the rest of his family members!

"How could all this have happened, uncle? How could we have been caught by surprise in our own home?" He asked while talking to one of the five people running away with him.

"Sigh..."

"I don't know, maybe the enemy group got a great ally, and this is their first big action." So, the old man leading this group said while he felt very vulnerable.

He was a prestigious noble, but he was only at level 49. So, he couldn't help but feel bad for everything happening, especially after he found out about the death of the supreme elder.

'All we can do now is hide and slowly gather strength. Maybe going somewhere weak and easy to hide in is the only alternative for us...' So, he considered, running alongside his younger family members through one of the several tunnels leading out of that headquarters.

"Come on, run with everything you've got!"

"Luckily, we'll be able to gain a few minutes because of the tunnel entrances we destroyed earlier. But that's only temporary..."

"Sooner or later, they will enter our tunnel network!"

"OK!" The other people shouted simultaneously, following in through the darkness of that place.

...

At the same time as that, tens of thousands of people had already died on the outskirts of Persephone, including in those numbers, 14 Spiritual Kings, 10 of them being members of the Chambers family!

However, while most of the Hayes family Spiritual Kings survived this great invasion, most of them were gravely injured and would need months to recover.

On the other hand, the few who were not so injured were utterly exhausted, to the point that even intermediate-level Spiritual Generals could put their lives at risk!

And with these possibilities in mind, it wasn't long before all these individuals gathered in one place, while some Spiritual Generals protected them during this initial moment of their rest.

"Hah... That Virgil Chambers still managed to take three of ours! Damn him!" One of those most injured Spiritual Kings from that surviving group said this in anger.

"Tsk!"

"That lapsed old man dared to sacrifice himself and destroyed the bodies of Camille, Christopher, and Garth, the only ones of us who were within the range of that sacrifice!" Another Spiritual King commented as he rested sitting on one of the stairs of the Chambers family headquarters.

"That bastard must have killed tens of thousands of citizens with that sacrifice!"

"Hmm, I could hardly believe that someone would be able to do that in his own city!"

"Did he not care that it could affect even his descendants?" Another asked as he felt terrible for the deaths of allies and the residents of an entire neighborhood in this city.

And indeed, Virgil's sacrifice had been terrible.

After all, he was already at level 57 and had too much power to be burned during such an act.

But in the end, these Hayes family members and the city's residents had been lucky. That's because if Virgil hadn't already been very weak, close to death, such a thing could have been much worse!

Anyway, while they talked about this, suddenly, one of those stronger individuals there asked what he found most strange about this whole invasion. "You guys.... Have any of you seen patriarch Chamber? Shouldn't he be here?"