In the monitoring station, a clone's blade missed its target by millimeters. The blackguard spun in his chair and raised his arm. A shield of mana appeared before him, deflecting the clone's second strike.
"Intruders!" he said, running to the emergency alarm button and slamming his fist onto it.
The siren pierced the facility like an arrow through flesh; its howling echoed through every corridor, alarming every single person inside that building that they were under attack.
Red emergency lights filled the rooms as the clone and the blackguard grappled. Three more people burst into the room, but they were not on the clone's side.
Jets of fire engulfed the Dark Shape, reducing it to ash in seconds. Similar scenes played out across the facility as the alarm prompted responses from the Blackguard security teams.
In the research wing, the blackguards swiftly overpowered the clones. The Dark Shapes were no match for their superior combat abilities and a high number of neural links.
