"Report! Border Purgatory Gate is under attack!"
"Black Water Pass has stopped responding. The heretics have already crossed the Acron River."
"Archangel Homini has lost contact. The Fourth and Eighth Holy Hymn squads have been wiped out!"
"Heretic traces have appeared outside the City of Sorrow. A large number of heretics are approaching the Prison cage. We have already received a request for aid from the Saints' Praise Army—"
Within the central Sanctuary, an unending stream of dreadful news reached Legion Commander Kong Sai's ears. Every attendant at his side had gone pale with shock. The elite forces that had sallied out in full strength had not achieved a single victory; instead, they had suffered losses one after another.
Accustomed to trampling those incompetent, furiously raging heretics, they could no longer accept reality when faced with fully armed Iron Demons.
Even with an overwhelming numerical advantage, once they discovered that the weapons in their opponents' hands could steal their power and make them feel pain and injury, a few charges were enough to swiftly crush their fighting spirit. Great numbers of Angels were even defeated in turn by demons numbering less than a third of their own forces, scattering in flight.
In less than half an hour, the invading heretics had driven straight from Border Purgatory's outskirts into its heart. They had even reached the City of Sorrow at the center of Border Purgatory.
Encircled by the four rivers of Black Water, blood, lava, and tears, the resplendent city that existed as a miracle created by the Holy God was gradually being covered by the shadow of heretics.
Faced with tight defenses and the terrifying firepower of Flame Cannons capable of burning every enemy to ashes in an instant,
those monsters whose entire bodies had mutated into steel actually charged