The rain turned into fire.
Heidi exclaimed, and this cry that sounded like illogical logic was the only description she could think of at the moment - she really couldn't understand what she saw, couldn't understand what happened, she only knew that there was Rain of fire fell from the sky.
It was just a moment.
The heavy rain that enveloped Puland instantly turned into flames pouring from top to bottom, just like the setting sun falling and the corona hanging upside down. The entire city-state changed from a city in the rain to a city of living fire in less than a second. scene.
Everything was ignited, trees, houses, towers, bell towers, and even the ground itself was bursting with flames. Even the rainwater flowing on the ground turned into hot lava, and the deafening thunder turned into a sound that spread throughout the city-state. There was an explosion everywhere. It was the loud noise caused by all the steam pipes, gas pipelines and pressure vessels blowing up one after another in a short period of time. This loud noise was even more terrifying than the previous thunder... The whole cathedral was shaking!
Heidi stepped back in horror, witnessing an end of destruction covering the real dimension directly, and then she heard a bell ringing.
The sound seemed to be separated by a thick barrier, and it sounded as if it was coming from a very far away place - it was the steam bell tower behind the cathedral that was ringing the big bell.
The loud and melodious ringing of bells broke through the rain of fire, followed closely by the sound of bells coming from far and near from the depths of the rain of fire.
Hundreds of bells in the church matrix of Plande chimed, and the reality stability barrier was activated. The rain of fire seemed to be invisiblely disturbed by the sound of the bells. The flames falling on the church turned into an ordinary heavy rain. Even the original The church steeples and flags that had been set on fire were restored to their original state in the blink of an eye.
The whole city of Puland was burning, but all the churches withstood the flames falling from the sky amidst the ringing of bells. The strange heavy rain and the even weirder sea of fire were mixed in the burning land in an extremely contradictory way, and each church seemed to be transformed. It became an isolated island in purgatory, supporting a continuous anchor point in the great changes of heaven and earth.
Only then did Heidi finally hear a steady and old voice coming from behind her. It was Bishop Valentine who broke the silence: "The enemy has attacked... Destroy all targets that try to get close to the church bell tower!"
Heidi turned her head and was about to ask something when she heard a series of deafening roars suddenly coming from the direction of the square outside the church.
She ran to the window and saw the defenders gathered in the square firing - the steam walker's minigun was spraying barrages on the streets in the distance, and the steam tank's main gun fired continuously, which had been urgently deployed from the city-state guard. The troops that came over had also built fortifications on the edge of the heavy rain and began to pour firepower on something in the sea of fire.
Heidi finally saw her enemy.
They were squirming human-shaped ashes, endless, struggling and squirming human-shaped ashes from the sea of fire. The sight of the human-shaped ashes was terrifying.
Those ashes seemed to emerge out of thin air from the flames, and the amorphous shapes seemed to be roaring and screaming in pain every second. They surged in from all directions, like a herd of beasts that were inexplicably attracted towards all realities in the city-state. The stable node - the church bell tower is coming.
The soldiers pulled the trigger in a daze. Most of them did not know why this battle started, nor what happened to their familiar homes. They did not even dare to think about what seemed to be an extreme situation. Where did the restless "enemies" come from? It was just the mission of guarding the city-state, the instinct to obey orders, and the will to survive that allowed them to cling to the defense line in front of this horrific scene like purgatory, and trained according to thousands of times. muscle memory to fight back.
Then the guns of the guards fired in unison, easily tearing apart the first group of ashes that swarmed closer.
However, in the next second, more ashes emerged from behind the scattered ashes, and even more twisted and burned objects rushed toward the church with flames and thick smoke.
Their number seemed to be as large as the population of the entire city-state.
"Keep the bell tower," Valentine's voice suddenly sounded, echoing over the entire church square, and even over the entire city-state, "as long as the bells are still ringing, our reality will not be modified or overwritten by them! Believers, witness The time has come for faith...Hold the bell tower!!”
Heidi looked at all this in huge chaos, feeling as if her world had fallen apart at this moment, but after a brief adjustment
After that, she had forced her thoughts to calm down. After realizing that this was a real-life invasion-level disaster, she forced herself not to pay attention to the sea of fire across the square, and not to think about the fact that 90% of the entire city-state had become subterranean. Instead of seeing the "fact" of sexual destruction, he immediately ran to Valentine: "How can I help?"
"To appease the civilians who are taking refuge in the church, we need to avoid the appearance of mentally broken people within the church as much as possible," Valentine said solemnly, "and then wait with them for the storm to end."
Heidi nodded immediately, and then, Valentine suddenly raised his head, his eyes seemed to penetrate the high wall of the hall, looking into the distance.
The archbishop's eyes reflected fire and flash, and an aerial view of the entire city-state emerged in his vision.
He clearly saw that the entire Purand was burning in the rain of fire, and churches were turned into isolated islands in the sea of fire. Each church was being invaded from outside reality, and the fiery evil spirits were released from a certain branch of doomsday. The ground attacks those bell towers that are still ringing, as if desperately trying to make this still existing real world fall into the same tragic end as them, and behind those ashes, there are countless tall and thin black figures.
Those black shadows stood silently in the flames, silently pushing the city-state into doom.
They are the minions of the Children of the Sun.
The heirs of the Sun?
Valentine's expression suddenly changed slightly. In the face of this huge disaster at the level of reality invasion, he suddenly remembered a "little thing" that seemed to have been solved a long time ago and was therefore almost forgotten.
He suddenly turned to a high-level aide next to him: "Are those sun heretics still in the underground temple?!"
"Sun Heretic?" The high-ranking aide didn't react for a moment. He was stunned for a moment before he hurriedly said, "Yes, they are still being held in the underground temple. There is a whole team of guards guarding them. They can't escape..."
"They never wanted to escape from the beginning!" Valentine said quickly, "They wanted to be locked up in the church from the beginning!"
"What……"
The high-ranking deacon's eyes widened for an instant, and then, before he finished speaking, a dull loud noise suddenly came from deep underground in the church.
It was as if some kind of giant beast had awakened in the underground temple.
Some priests in the cathedral who had experienced a certain solar crisis four years ago thought of another thing in the loud noise——
Four years ago, hundreds of solar heretics gathered in the hideout and summoned a short-lived and terrifying forbidden power in a crazy bloody sacrifice. A "fake scorching sun" took shape from underground, almost causing a catastrophe.
But before the matter could succeed, their conspiracy was discovered by the then newly promoted judge Fanna, who led a team to put an end to it.
"...That was a test..."
The senior aide opened his eyes wide and murmured to himself.
Heidi felt the sudden rise in heat around her, as well as the stronger vibrations deep underground.
The sea of fire rose, bells rang, and whistles screamed in the rain of fire. Countless ash monsters emerged from all directions and ran rampant in the world.
Vanna has experienced many dangerous battles. She has faced cultists, forbidden monsters created by cultists, and even faced out-of-control deep demons and crazy final preachers, but there has been no battle. It can be compared to this purgatory at this moment.
What she faced was no longer a battlefield, but a sudden doomsday.
In other words, the end of the world has already come, but it has been blocked by the curtain until today. Now the curtain is suddenly lifted - the living have no time to react, and they are already the embers of the end.
But she was still alive, fighting her way through the sea of fire and ashes, and struggling to get closer to the towering cathedral in the center of the city-state.
Every breath brought a burning sting, and her physical fatigue was almost to the extent that it could crush an ordinary person several times. The armor on Vanna's body had also been severely damaged, and her body's recovery was gradually unable to keep up with the damage. The injury is getting worse little by little.
But the young Inquisitor pressed on.
The bells of the cathedral are still ringing, which shows that Bishop Valentine’s defense has not yet been broken. Perhaps the defenders are not aware of this conspiracy to pollute history, but they have always been responsible for it.
All plots and battles are ready.
Since the battle in the cathedral is still going on, he has the obligation to return to his fighting position.
Vanna is thinking.
She noticed that Bishop Valentine had activated reality stabilization measures, which showed that he had noticed part of the truth. At least this part of the response was no problem. As long as the bell tower was not lost, those heretics tried to cover the "official history" with "fake history" The conspiracy is not so easy to succeed.
As long as the covering process is finally interrupted and the pollution is stripped from history at the source, the city-state can still be saved - the destruction at this moment is not a real destruction, but a terrifying "possibility" caused by the superposition of two histories... Not too late, not too late.
Vanna repeated in her mind as if to cheer herself up. She tried not to think about the possibility of churches being lost, nor did she think about where the mysterious and terrifying Captain Duncan would be waiting for her. She just moved mechanically. Destroy all the obstacles on the road with your footsteps, move forward step by step on the burning streets, shortening the distance between yourself and the cathedral.
But suddenly she stopped at an intersection not far from the cathedral.
A dark gray car fell on the side of the road with all four wheels upside down. It seemed that it had rolled over in an accident. Several bodies lay dead on the side of the road, seemingly thrown out of the car.
And there was another person in the car - an arm stuck out from the crooked window and got stuck on the twisted door.
Vanna instantly recognized the car and the arm.
It was her uncle, Dante Wayne.
