The Mountain River Sect took care of the Advanced Crushers with great speed. One of their own Advanced Crushers died during the battle, but exchanging one Advanced Crusher for ten was more than worth it.
After the Advanced Crushers were dealt with, Star Genesis deactivated the Containment Formation Array, and every member of the Mountain River Sect charged at the three leaders.
If the three leaders of Heavy Lift had remained in the Containment Formation Array, they would have eventually died, but that would have taken a while.
One had to remember that these Formation Arrays didn't run on nothing. The offensive powers of the Containment Formation Array were substantial, but they also consumed a substantial number of Energy Stones.
The Containment Formation Array by itself had consumed over 20 Grade Five Energy Stones. That was a huge chunk of the Mountain River Sect's wealth.
13 Advanced Crushers and four Fulfilled Crushers attacked three Fulfilled Crushers.
The battle went about as expected.
Two additional Advanced Crushers died, but that was it.
When the three leaders died, the Mountain River Sect deactivated their Barrier Formation Array.
As the Barrier Formation Array vanished, the five remaining Fulfilled Crushers looked with shock at the Mountain River Sect.
"Your Advanced Crushers and your leaders are dead," the Sect Master of the Mountain River Sect announced. "Submit or die!"
The Fulfilled Crushers were shocked and terrified.
Their comrades were dead?!
How?!
The Fulfilled Crushers hadn't seen the power of the Containment Formation Array. To them, it seemed like an impossibility that all of their comrades had died while the Mountain River Sect had only lost three people.
For just a brief moment, they considered continuing the fight.
Yet, they very quickly realized that this would lead to their death. The four opposing Fulfilled Crushers would keep four of them busy, while the last Fulfilled Crusher would need to fight eleven Advanced Crushers at the same time.
There was no way they were going to win.
"I submit," the first Fulfilled Crusher said as she raised her arms in surrender.
The other four quickly followed, and the Mountain River Sect accepted their surrender.
The five Fulfilled Crushers lost a bit of their Momentum but not a lot. They had technically entered a fight, but they hadn't truly felt like they were in a life-or-death battle. The confidence they had lost was more related to their Organization as a whole, not their individual powers.
The five Fulfilled Crushers joined the Mountain River Sect as new members. Most members gained during such a war had to work a lot for several centuries to earn their place in their new Organization.
Technically, the five of them could also flee, but that would come at a hefty price paid in Karmic Luck. Usually, it was better to just work for a couple of centuries instead of paying so much Karmic Luck.
Yes, the surviving Fulfilled Crushers had lost friends today, but in the end, almost all Crushers in the Secondary Sector were here for their own power. Friends died, while they survived.
Sure, there would be resentment between different members, but with time, that resentment would lessen. The different parties wouldn't become friends, but they could at least work with each other.
The former members of Heavy Lift handed over all resources of their former Organization and helped the Mountain River Sect to absorb their territories.
Maybe this wasn't such a bad thing. Heavy Lift had owned some Level Four Law Wells, but not enough for everyone. Heavy Lift was no more, but the surviving members now had access to Law Wells they hadn't had access to before.
The vast majority of Crushers didn't even know that there was such a thing as a Legendary Crusher. The Fulfilled Crushers just wanted to become Unique Crushers while also making a shitload of cash.
If they could become Unique Crushers, they could join a Peak Organization, like the Array of Stars or the Contrast Empire. Alternatively, assuming they failed, they would have gained enough money to support them in the Wisdom Fire Realm.
Naturally, the thing the new members were most interested in was how the Mountain River Sect had managed to win so convincingly. Based on the numbers, the Mountain River Sect should have lost.
How did the members of the Mountain River Sect answer?
The lower-ranked members said that they didn't know since they hadn't seen the battle, while the higher-ranked members said that they were not allowed to share the details. The higher-ranked members always told the questioning person to ask upper management.
Upper management said that they had extremely powerful and talented members. The Mountain River Sect was unified under one banner, and they didn't have useless people.
Of course, the five new Fulfilled Crushers weren't stupid. They knew that this was a lie. However, they also stopped asking for a while.
As more years passed and as they got more familiar with everyone, they started to ask again.
Upper management said that their Formation Arrays helped a lot in the fight, but they also said that the Formation Arrays hadn't killed a single member. It was the glorious and unified forces of the Mountain River Sect that killed all the enemies! Praise the Mountain River Sect!
Naturally, the new Fulfilled Crushers realized that Heavy Lift had lost because of the Formation Arrays and started to ask questions.
However, the Sect Master and Head Elder just told them to ask the Formation Elder about the Formation Arrays. They were not the Formation Elders. How were they supposed to know?
Yet, the Formation Elder just said that she wasn't allowed to talk about the topic.
As time went by, the normal members also started to become interested. Yes, they had seen Kyle arriving many years ago, but they didn't know any of the details. Kyle and upper management had talked via voice transmission.
The only things they had seen were Kyle arriving, their Formation Arrays activating, their Formation Arrays deactivating, and Kyle entering the Sect with Star Genesis and the Treasury Elder.
They only knew that their Formation Arrays had been different back then.
Yet, the Mountain River Sect kept claiming that they owned the Formation Arrays.
Well, that wasn't a lie, but it was also not the truth. This made almost all of the members curious about the Formation Arrays, and they started to ask more questions.
Who created them?
They asked several times about who made the Formation Arrays.
When the questions became too many, the Sect Master made an official statement.
The Mountain River Sect officially declared that their Formation Elder created the Formation Arrays.
Yet, whenever anyone asked the Formation Elder afterward, she just said that she wasn't allowed to talk about it.
Naturally, in the background, Star Genesis entered a conflict with the Head Elder and Sect Master.
Whenever she said that she wasn't allowed to talk about it, she stated that the Mountain River Sect forbade her from talking about it, which diverted all the karmic weight back to them.
Every time she gave this answer, it was like the Mountain River Sect said that they refused to answer the question.
Yet, they had promised that they would be honest.
So, every time someone asked, the Sect in its entirety lost a bit of Karmic Luck.
Upper management wanted Star Genesis to lie, but Star Genesis refused. If she lied and claimed that she had designed these Formation Arrays, she would lose her own Karmic Luck, and she wasn't willing to pay with her own Karmic Luck to help her temporary home in the Secondary Sector.
She was here to gain resources, not lose them.
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