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Four sturdy men stood guard at the passage leading to the uninhabited area. To be precise, they stood in the crumbling corridor in the southwest sector of the residential area.
They were handpicked cultists from the Wellad branch, highly trained in martial arts. Of course, no amount of skill in martial arts could allow ordinary men to stand against Karnak's group. Even Hugot hadn't assigned them as guards expecting them to serve as a meaningful line of defense.
That was why the standard two-man patrol had been increased to a four-man team, and each of them had a whistle made of bone hanging around their necks. If an enemy appeared, at least one of them was expected to survive long enough to blow the whistle and alert the others.
From the start, they hadn't even entertained the idea that they could actually stop an intruder. It was essentially a suicide mission. Yet their vigilance remained strict. They were fanatics of Tesranach, after all.
Even if they died in battle, they believed the Black God would resurrect them. So, the four guards stood gripping their spears and swords, their eyes fixed on the dark corridor ahead.
Then, a chilling sound echoed through the passage, and an eerie cold...
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