Emergency red alarm lights bathed the sterile corridors of the North District Medical Clinic in an eerie crimson glow.
Inside the intensive care ward, heart monitors and mana stabilization arrays beeped erratically as the circuit voltage dropped toward zero.
Fifty wounded hunters lay in the recovery beds, their mana reserves destabilizing as the severed external power lines starved the entire facility.
"Keep the manual chest compressions going on Bed Four!" an apprentice healer shouted in panic, struggling against the failing equipment.
"The backup batteries are spiking past safe thermal thresholds!"
"Do not let the oxygen concentrators stop running!" another medic yelled, holding an emergency mana crystal against a patient's trembling chest.
"The patient's pulse is fluttering below thirty beats per minute!"
"We need more stabilization fluid in Wing Two!" a third nurse cried out, running down the hall with an armful of glass vials.
