Compared to the fierce and hardy customs of Dunkirk, Port Vias was undoubtedly far too peaceful.
Even after Divine Radiance Cathedral had been burned to the point of collapse, and more than two thousand Punishment Knights and Guardian Knights had been slaughtered to the last man, Port Vias's city defense forces only cautiously set out under the protection of several thousand militia, with several hundred scouts leading the way, staggering their way to the foot of the hill where the cathedral stood.
On the way, a pack of startled wild dogs came stampeding through and crashed into the marching column. The army of more than ten thousand men immediately scattered like a hall being swept clean. By the time the officers leading them had painstakingly regrouped the soldiers and brought the disorderly mass to Divine Radiance Cathedral, the cathedral had already been burned clean, and nearly everyone who could be killed had been killed. There were practically no survivors left.
Alda and Bilibili followed the soldiers' movements from start to finish. After returning to the Red Gryphon Hotel, they vividly described the soldiers' conduct to Lin Qi—seeing that most of the cathedral had been razed to the ground due to their failure to provide aid, the officers in command actually dispatched a thousand fully armed heavy infantrymen to attack a village dozens of miles away, slaughtering a passing caravan of merchants to the last man.
More than a hundred heads were handed over to the government office. At daybreak, Zeppelin began loudly proclaiming that the culprits behind the attack on Divine Radiance Cathedral had already been executed—they were fiends colluding with the Abyssal World, and had attacked the cathedral for certain evil purposes. Yet beneath the tenacious resistance of the Federation's brave and fearless soldiers, these evil heretics had been