Apocalypse Church

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Apocalypse Church (天启教)
Alias(es)	The Church; Holy See
Affiliation	Human Faction; one of humanity's three world-class organizations 217 255
Occupation/Role	Global religious organization, humanitarian protector, military power, intelligence network, and commercial supplier
Status	Active 379
First Appearance	Chapter 47

Background and History

The Apocalypse Church first becomes known through its warning that the Wasteland Zone is nearing destruction. Its followers are widespread enough for the warning to reach independent survivor communities, which regard the Church as a world-class power. 47

The organization sends missionary Mobile Cities across the world to recruit believers and disseminate its doctrine. One such city, Believer, operated with 159 residents—69 church members and 90 normal residents—and functioned as both a settlement and an evangelizing outpost. 57

During the zombie civilization's expansion into the Eternal Night Zone, the Church organized a regional defensive war to delay the enemy and evacuate human forces. It deployed 25 Level 2 Mobile Cities, established four defensive fronts, and prohibited Predator Cities from hunting other cities during the operation. 103

The Church subsequently coordinated mass evacuations through burrowing and aerial Mobile Cities, relocating survivors to the Red Ridge Zone and constructing new towns and fortresses. Bishop Heath later became the human faction's overall commander for a counterattack against the zombie civilization. 131 135 168

Doctrine and Practices

Worship of the Wasteland Gods

The Church worships the Wasteland Gods, whom it credits with helping humanity survive the early wasteland era. 47 219

Dagon is revered as the Sleeping God, the Lord of R'lyeh, the Church's Heavenly Father, and humanity's Savior in the Wasteland. Its depiction is a gray-green humanoid creature with an octopus head, back tentacles, gelatinous scales, and the appearance of a decaying deep-sea being. 57

Religious Life

Believer's residents wear white and observe scheduled prayers signaled by a bronze steam clock. Exhaust valves release black smoke mixed with incense while deacons walk the deck with mechanical incense burners; worshippers then gather around a steam altar to chant scripture. 57

The Church's religious institutions include:

• Apocalypse Gospel — A steel-bound scripture more than ten centimeters thick, decorated with seven brass gears arranged as a cross and a spine of interlocking piston rods. 57
• Sanctum Academy — A tiered mechanical academy that educates normal residents, cultivates followers, and selects the devout for Church service. 57
• Confession Furnace — A punishment device in which offenders heat a branding iron themselves and receive an Apocalypse teaching on their skin. 57
• Gear Cemetery — A cemetery that preserves each deceased person's skull in a small grave and records their life on a gear-shaped tombstone. 57
• Bronze-cross branding — Children may receive a permanent bronze cross emblem through a steam-treatment chamber. 57

“To our revered, immortal Gods.” 57

Organization and Governance

Rank / Institution	Known function
Pope	The Church's highest leader. Constantine directs major policy, the Holy Son project, and Human Faction war deployments. 217 221 358
College of Cardinals / Holy See	Senior decision-making body responsible for promotions, strategic policy, high-level research, and inter-organizational negotiations. 135 217 284
Archbishops	Senior commanders. Heath was promoted from bishop after the zombie civilization's defeat and later handled major military and evacuation duties. 168 217
Bishops	Administrators, military commanders, and regional authorities. Known bishops include Heath, Wilson, Albert, Thompson, Evan, and Whiteman. 99 150 184 215
Deacons	Clergy serving as missionaries, combat personnel, and technical staff. 57 107
Discipline Executors	Armed security and enforcement personnel who patrol Church cities and settlements. 57 184
Mechanical Deacons	Technicians who inspect and maintain city systems alongside apprentices. 57

Symbols and Visual Identity

The Church commonly uses sacred white paint, bronze crosses, and light-blade motifs on its Mobile Cities. A documented flag design includes a broken bronze cross, a central open eye, and twelve asymmetrical floating light blades. 94

• Church personnel on Believer wear white. 57
• Cathedrals, steel-and-glass structures, steam mechanisms, and bronze religious machinery are recurring elements of Church settlements. 57
• Its Mobile Cities often combine religious names with alphanumeric identifiers. 103 107

Mobile Cities and Military Assets

Naming System

Prefix / category	Function
Holy Sword	Assault-type Mobile City. 103
Holy Shield	Defensive-type Mobile City. 103
Holy Spear	Fire-support-type Mobile City. 103
Holy Skiff	Aerial combat city designation; Holy Skiff H3 provided air support during the Rotting Bone Bulwark operation. 104 105
Elegant names	Usually assigned to missionary cities, such as Believer. 57 107
“Holy” command names	Flagship command cities commonly begin with “Holy.” 107

Documented Mobile City Inventory

Mobile City Tier	Number
Tier 7	1
Tier 6	1
Tier 5	4
Tier 4	9
Tier 3	47
Tier 2	87
Tier 1	242
Tier 0.5	568

Reported Church inventory. 271

Notable Assets

• Holy Skiff H3 — Level 2 aerial combat city carrying dozens of light aircraft with heavy machine guns and bomb bays; its more than 500 occupants are all combat personnel. 104
• Saint Revelation — Level 7 Mobile City with a biological teleportation system and an internal scale comparable to a modern metropolis. 308
• Saint Michael — Flagship city from which Constantine coordinates Human Faction strategy. 353
• Sky Punisher — A 1.5-kilometer weapon satellite built like a mechanical temple, armed with a central mirror of 120,000 hexagonal lenses. 253
• Level 6 Planetary Transfer Device — Paired interplanetary transfer system able to move objects between planets within the Solar System at extremely high resource cost. 300

Operational Doctrine

The Church maintains specialized aerial, burrowing, transport, engineering, assault, defense, and fire-support cities. Its Level 3 combat groups can be organized as one Level 3 Mobile City supported by four Level 1 cities fully equipped with Level 3 weapons, aircraft, artillery, and missile launchers. 131 185

During the Silent Agreement, the Church deliberately limited its intervention against the zombie civilization to Level 2 forces. Escalating to higher-level cities would have prompted corresponding monster deployment and risked devastating the continent. 103 113 134

Humanitarian and Commercial Operations

The Church has a strong reputation among wasteland human forces for protecting compatriots, responding to emergencies, and avoiding harm to other human factions. This reputation enables its leaders to rally independent cities, survivor convoys, and bounty hunters. 105 118

Its evacuation and resettlement operations include:

• Deploying burrowing and aerial cities to move survivors across dangerous terrain. 131 135
• Planning the evacuation of two to three million survivors from Southern Liu Continent's Scrap District. 184
• Operating Tower Cities with water stations, canteens, infirmaries, education centers, and public entertainment areas. 184
• Screening incoming residents by age, gender, health, and professional skill before transferring them to allied settlements. 215 272

The Church also operates a trade department and official stores. It buys low-level blueprints for resale and to support weaker human forces, while using resource-transfer devices to conduct long-distance transactions. 219 250

The Holy Son Project

The Church's top-secret Son of God project was personally led by Pope Constantine and intended to provide humanity with an ultimate weapon. Church leadership considers the project both essential and exceptionally dangerous. 219 221

The project created Adam, the Holy Son. Although he normally appears as a young child, Cardinals state that this human form is only a vessel. Adam can perceive thoughts and emotions, purify old-era humans afflicted by Dagon's mental contamination, and possesses sensory abilities surpassing those of an Emperor-class Monster. 221 285

During the battle in the Otherworld's War Venerable's War Kingdom, Adam revealed a true form described as a hundreds-of-meters-tall, six-winged, headless angel radiating annihilating light. 377

Story Role and Major Arcs

Event	Chapter	Church involvement
Wasteland Zone warning	47	Its destruction warning alerts scattered survivor communities to the impending collapse of the Wasteland Zone.
Believer missionary visit	57	Jack introduces Li Ye to the Church's doctrine, city life, religious institutions, and worship of Dagon.
Eternal Night Zone war	103 104 105 106	Bishop Heath organizes a four-front defensive war; Church cities spearhead the assault on the Rotting Bone Bulwark, while Bishop Wilson sacrifices Holy Sword U2 to enable the Tomorrow Alliance's escape.
Flesh Furnace operation	110 111 112	Heath promises major city-advancement resources for the destruction of the zombie war factory and confirms the reward after the mission succeeds.
Red Ridge evacuation and counterattack	131 135 168	The Church evacuates survivors, resettles them in the Red Ridge Zone, and elevates Heath after the human victory over the zombie civilization.
Continental war preparations	175 179 185	Heath organizes defenses and mobilizes Church forces against monster civilizations while the Church escorts human cities toward the Great Wall.
Silent Agreement crisis	217 221	Constantine and the Cardinals negotiate after monster organizations announce the agreement's abolition; the Church prepares Adam as a contingency weapon.
Dagon investigation	281 284 285	The Church investigates Dagon's underwater city, isolates contaminated old-era humans, and uses Adam to purify survivors.
Operation “Dawn”	358 359 360	Constantine deploys one Level 6 and two Level 5 Mobile City Combat Clusters against the Monster Faction; the C-3 cluster later suffers devastating losses against Ada.
Final Human Faction victory	379	Adam battles the United Church's God's Offspring, while Constantine and the other human leaders thank the Tomorrow Alliance after the Human Faction's victory.

Relationships

• Wasteland Gods — Objects of the Church's worship; Dagon is specifically revered as its Heavenly Father and Savior. 47 57
• Dagon — A Wasteland God tied to mental contamination of old-era humans; the Church investigates his underwater city and prepares extensively due to prior contagion disasters. 166 281 284
• Tomorrow Alliance — Frequent independent partner and customer. The Church provides intelligence, transport, rewards, blueprints, resident screening, and trade access, but Li Ye declines formal absorption because Church membership would restrict the Alliance's autonomy. 110 216 219 272
• Titan Throne — Fellow human world-class organization and strategic partner in evacuations, war planning, and Human Faction leadership. 131 217 255
• Iron Oath Brotherhood — Fellow human world-class organization that coordinates with the Church on major military and political decisions. 217 255
• United Church — Opposing monster world-class organization, portrayed as the Church's “dark” counterpart; its Pope Ede commands the God's Nest and God's Offspring. 168 379
• War League — Monster world-class organization whose demand to abolish the Silent Agreement leads to the renewed large-scale war. 217 358