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The Sect Master of the Winter Lotus Sect sat down over her throne, as she saw the destruction around the palace and the sect members moving around trying to quickly resolve all the issues going on around. She had already taken a big strategy meeting which decided their next course of action, acting defensively was the only way out of this situation, but even then, she had begun to consider surrendering completely to the Dark Shadow Sect in hopes of her people being able to survive in the process, even as prisoners.
"What we have done is a sin that cannot be forgiven… The righteous faction… if they get to know that we singlehandedly let hundreds of innocents die for our own safety… they'll surely label us as a corrupt demonic sect."
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