[A/N: Please donate some Golden tickets! My mom is kinda homeless...]
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Chapter 48: The Coward's Cage
The massive holographic screens suspended in the center of the Academy cafeteria were supposed to display daily schedules and tournament rankings.
Today, they were broadcasting a bloodbath.
Patriarch Vance Hennessey had not wasted a single second.
His elite shadow guards had breached the toxic sewers beneath the slums in a synchronized and brutal assault.
The Cult of the Eternal Eclipse was entirely unprepared for a full-scale war.
But a cornered rat will always bite.
Instead of dying quietly in the dark, the surviving Cultists had blown the sewer grates wide open.
They flooded directly into the bustling commercial district of Bastion Seven. The news choppers circled high above the burning streets.
The high-definition cameras zoomed in on the absolute chaos.
Desperate Cultists were dragging screaming civilians into alleyways as human shields.
