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Chapter 825: Dusk Tolls

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Tucker Thor climbed up the fortified city wall of the New Holy City and sloalked to the blotchy parapet

It was probably the most peaceful Months of Dehold

As a tactic to defend against deularly, covered with no ice or snow, but stood out in the bleak, vast whiteness like an ash-gray giant all the year round, nothe snoas At present, however, Tucker could easily leave his footprints on the snow-covered wall

All traces of the battle had been wiped out by thick snows, including lustone paveh the crevices between the slabs, as if nothing had ever happened It would be an incredible scene in the past

Nonetheless, the recent drastic changes had coht the Holy City of Herround by swarms of demonic beasts In fact, all the believers had determined to remain in the cathedral to the last, but they had not anticipated that few enemies had actually appeared Those who did come to attack had not even made an attempt to crawl up the city wall

While everybody was still absorbed in profound astonishht, the subsequent event, however, came as a heavy blow in such a cruel fashion that they were once again reminded of the volatility of the deities

As the church had suffered a great loss during the war against Graycastle, the top priority in winter had become the election of three new archbishops and other senior executives In order to maintain the order in the Holy City and restore believers' faith in God,believers had been promoted to key positions Tucker had also been elevated fro bishops

Just when the situation was about to turn for the better, the abrupt collapse of the cathedral at a windless night, which had killed a number of senior executives, destroyed all hopes of the war survivors At that ti the campsite and therefore had narrowly escaped death

Nobody kne it had happened, although ruround area beneath the church remained afloat It was also rumored that the area had once been attacked by demonic beasts Yet without the permission of the pope, they could not access the secret trap on their own, notwithstanding thepope Reverend Tayfun

The sag of the Hermes Cathedral could be considered as a more miserable defeat than the war The loss of the war could be attributed to the poor and confusing communications between commanders and soldiers, or to the treachery of their enemies, but the collapse of the Tower of Babel, which represented the spirit of the church, meant that they had been abandoned by God

The incident had almost become their last straw in consideration of their already precarious situation Although the church had blocked the scene immediately, the news still spread out Residents in the Holy City started to flee Her in the outer part of the city, who did not put much faith in the church in the first place Then, like a contagious plague, terror slowly spread to the outer city and the inner city, except this time there was no divine cure for the disease

Tucker had once organized a reverent pray cereain divert their attention to this last hus behind it from the evil power in Hell, but the deities had not responded to their pray

Tucker Thor reht him that poas the onlyother than praying to God to re-establish the church's integrity

"Your Eminence here you are" A woman's voice caitives has returned, but"

"Soht?" Tucker turned around and said in a soft voice

As he had expected, the reporter was Farrina, one of the coment Army who took over his previous position The resemblance on Farrina's face reminded Tucker another woman, Alicia, a warrior from the advance battalion who had sacrificed herself for the church As one of the few feh character Alicia had fought to her death when over half of her comrades had been killed as demonic beasts had approached the wall of the cathedral Farrina, on the other hand, assument Army when their very survival was threatened to keep the situation fronantly "Yes Those new recruits who just joined recently cannot be of any use More than 20 people went to catch fugitives but only one or two returned I know they haven't received , but it's very unlikely that they would be killed by refugees If I ever find them, I'll definitely let thehed "It's inevitable How eate of the Holy City, so they should be able to stop residents in the inner city fro"

Tucker knew that these soldiers plus around 100 God's Punishment Warriors down the ruin of the church were the only forces left He concluded that hus were doomed, for it was impossible for these 100-odd soldiers to stop demons

Tucker had learned this powerful ene to achieve was to help hus survive the Battle of Doomsday and ensure the continuation of the human race That was the reason they developed powerful warriors like the God's Punishment Army But that was not sufficient The church also had to unify the Four Kingdoreat battle and coain the eventual victory

What was the point of keeping the hold of this plateau stronghold when there is no hope?

There was little he could do, but for those 500 odd people, they could be relieved of the burden of protecting the whole human race