As holy sites of the Lan Religion, Medina and Mecca had never allowed nonbelievers to enter.
But times had changed drastically. After the invasion of aberrant species threw humanity into panic, the Muslims guarding Prophet's Mosque in Medina had initially screened and restricted those entering the holy city.
Yet as more and more people gathered here, even the Muslims of the holy site had no choice but to open it to outsiders.
Because—
There were metahumans among the scattered crowds.
Some were even elite Tier 3 and Tier 4 fighters, while a very few were powerful Tier 5 or even Tier 6 metahumans.
Some were Egyptian descendants from Cairo, some were bounty hunters wandering across Non-Land, and some were missionaries from The Holy See who had spent years preaching throughout the Middle East. Along with metahumans recruited by authorities from various countries and independent metahumans who had come seeking fortune... Medina's situation had suddenly become extraordinarily complicated.
On the first day they tried to stop them, metahumans took the lead in killing seven or eight Muslims guarding the mosque. They had all been mullahs of the mosque! Quite a few of them had been metahumans themselves.
The bloodshed immediately provoked the Muslims. Many ordinary Muslims were filled with outrage, but when butcher's blades hacked across their necks one stroke after another, and thick blood slowly flowed past their feet, they gradually quieted down.
Granted—
They were stubborn and fierce.
But before even fiercer metahumans, their ferocity was more like a sheep provoking a wolf.
Given the circumstances—
Even the Muslims of the Lan Religion had no choice but to compromise. The chief imam of Prophet's Mosque had personally come forward to calm them.
After negotiations, the chief imam of Prophet's Mosque stated that nonbelievers could enter the holy city and