After the Burning

Years later, every person who had fought against the Cecil Army and survived would remember one nightmare-like phrase forever—

The bombs are falling.

But at this moment, Heaton knew none of this.

He did not know what those things falling from the sky were—they looked rather different from the "heavenfire" launched by the Cecilians. They were not wrapped in pale blue spheres of light, but fell like stones. Nor did he know what the sudden voice from high above meant, because "delivery" seemed to be a newly coined word.

Yet he instinctively sensed the danger of those things.

The Chapter Master of the End of All Things immediately raised both hands high. Powerful Dark Lightning instantly condensed in the air, countless densely packed black lightning snakes converging into a thick storm that swept across the sky with overwhelming force, intending to wipe out the falling objects.

It was an instinctive reaction, but the instant the lightning storm touched those things, he realized he had made a grave mistake—

The falling objects contained power far greater than "heavenfire," and the sweeping lightning storm instantly detonated every one of them!

He saw only a blinding flash before it instantly expanded to fill his entire vision. A terrible Chain Explosion erupted, hundreds of falling objects detonating densely over Red Maple City as chaotic, disordered primordial energy surged forth—

From afar, people could clearly see a brilliant nova of Arcane Flash and Shockwave suddenly appear over Red Maple City. The Magic Power Tremor created by hundreds of simultaneously activated arcane explosions gathered into an oval cloud of energy. This vast cloud seemed slow but was actually swift as it approached Red Maple's City Shield. A weak black arc of lightning seemed to attempt to stop it, only to be swallowed and extinguished by the