"Boom—boom—boom—boom—boom—!"
The explosions rang out one after another, as though they were shaking the entire atmosphere.
At that moment, Avignon had completely become a battlefield, where Academy City and the Roman Orthodox Church's first face-to-face clash unfolded.
This was a battle with absolutely no room for compromise.
The ones who had dispatched the mechanized forces here were originally the radicals within Academy City's General Council. Naturally, they had not considered that a direct clash with the Roman Orthodox Church here could become the spark that ignited a formal war between the two sides, and continued to blanket the area ahead with siege cannon fire.
The magical force formed by the Roman Orthodox Church's three hundred and thirty-three monks was even more extreme. Taking the extermination of heretics as their duty, they were true fanatics. They felt nothing but hatred toward Academy City, which had desecrated their faith and reached out toward angels, and they showed no mercy.
Under such circumstances, the siege cannon fire and the fanatics' magic ruthlessly pulverized the streets, scenery, and surrounding buildings, gradually leveling this area, which had already been reduced to ruins.
Destruction had become the only protagonist here.
"Cough, cough...!"
Behind a wall not far from the battlefield, Tsuchimikado Motoharu coughed up blood again, blood even trickling down from his forehead.
"Tsuchimikado!"
Kamijo Touma shouted anxiously.
"Y-you used magic?"
Gohwa seemed to have realized it, fumbling as she tried to take out a handkerchief and bandages.
Just now, it was Tsuchimikado Motoharu who had used magic to save them from that violent explosion and bring them here.
Otherwise, the three of them would not have come through unharmed.
"This is... really troublesome..."
Tsuchimikado Motoharu's voice had finally begun to weaken.
"Academy City's mechanized forces and the Roman Orthodox Church's magical forces actually started fighting