The Spectral Response Corps captain was already running when the order reached his squad. Officers followed him out of their post with portable lights and Radiant Lock totems, while the Public Safety Wing began clearing the buildings nearest the explosion!
They had practiced hundreds of drills for this.
Fifteen minutes of complete darkness could establish a Stygian Gate... and nobody intended to give the nightcrawlers waiting on the other side that much time to overwhelm the city.
BOOM! BOOM!!...
Another detonation shook the western district... then a third erupted farther south, destroying a second supply point just as the monitoring teams attempted to restore its connections.
The captain watched three more sectors turn red on his display.
"Deliberate sabotage," he reported with a grim expression. "Multiple sites."
"Contain what you can... Reinforcements are moving."
High Chancellor Gideon Valemont's reply reached every responding unit.
