Even with the City of Death marking the intruders, it still took three full days for the Time Storm expulsion operation to conclude, and although it was only a probing attack, the post‑battle tally showed over a hundred dead.
This test offensive forced Maomu City to temporarily suspend all mountain and forest patrol missions, handing them over entirely to Wild Spirit Beasts.
There was no helping it; this time the Patrolmen were hit just as hard. Unlike the patrol squads, the Patrolmen never had much manpower to begin with. They're usually one person in charge of one sector—when something like this happens, they can hardly mount any effective resistance.
Precisely because of that, the group with the second‑highest death toll in the Time Storm was the Patrolmen, and that's even with their scattered distribution and small numbers.
