The Savior: This isn't just any heretic, The Emperor

Hurry up and get some people over here!

The earth of Phanes was trembling.

It was a terrifying quake unlike anything before, as if some colossal thing were churning beneath the crust.

One massive Hive City after another shuddered beneath the geological disaster. Those caught in the seismic zone suffered widespread collapses, even total destruction.

Hundreds of millions of lives were buried without the slightest warning.

Even the largest Main Hive shook endlessly beneath the disaster, and its power systems were affected as well.

The lights in this Lower Hive market flickered between bright and dim. Cracks visibly spread through the surrounding buildings, and one huge fissure ran upward along the stacked residential blocks for several kilometers.

To the people in the market, such a drastic change was like the end of the world.

One second ago, they had still been laughing and talking, discussing their plans for the Day of Worship, discussing the good days that would come after Phanes returned to the Imperium.

Perhaps once the Hive City was expanded, they would be able to move up another level.

Yet the sudden disaster shattered every expectation. They were panicking, screaming, not knowing why they had to face all this:

"Emperor, what on earth is happening?!"

"Xenos heretics are attacking us!"

"It's collapsing! Run!"

The residential district above the market split apart. Debris of quick-setting cement, wrapped around human bodies, came crashing down, blooming one small blood-red flower after another across the ground.

Even more people were smashed into pulp by the building wreckage.

"Mom..."

A filthy child stood frozen in place, staring helplessly at the smear of blood before him.

Just moments ago, he had taken a piece of coarse bread from his mother's hand and had been about to taste that rare sweetness.

There were too many