An hour had passed, and as Canna had declared, the troops of the sanctuary were ready to finish what they had started. As the clock struck midnight, the stillness of the night was shattered by the sudden appearance of multiple red portals across the kingdom.
They opened silently but ominously, scattering across various locations identified by Noctis where the remaining Black Thorn members had holed up. It was time to end the reign of terror once and for all.
There were two key factors in Canna's strategy: the element of surprise and the sheer exhaustion of the Black Thorn and its remaining allies. Having suffered heavy losses in the earlier confrontation, the fighters of the Black Thorn were already battered, tired, and stretched thin. The sanctuary forces, on the other hand, were relentless and ready to strike hard.
