"Clear the square!!"
Above Hero's Tower, the cardinal shouted the order.
The surrounding Imperial Cult personnel shouted:
"Clear the square!!"
The cardinal held an olive branch, dipped it into the Holy Water before him, then flicked it toward the massive Bell of Lost Souls.
"Connect the chains!!"
The surrounding Imperial Cult personnel shouted:
"Connect the chains!!"
Several Adamantium chains, driven by mechanical equipment, connected to the Great Bell of the Dead and descended underground.
The cardinal waved the olive branch again.
"Let the saints enter!!"
Beneath the ground, under enormous blocks of concrete and stone, tens of thousands of saints entered and grasped the Adamantium chains together.
The cardinal flicked the olive branch one final time.
"For the Imperium's fallen heroes, to guide their souls back to the Golden Throne, by order of the Imperial Cult's pontiff, ring the Great Bell of the Dead for the 999 fallen of the Broken-winged Angels Chapter!!!"
After saying that, the cardinal and the Imperial Cult personnel left and took shelter behind the bunkers.
Everything within one hundred kilometers outside Hero's Tower had also been cleared. Not a single living thing remained on the surface.
Once the clearing was complete, beneath the surface, hundreds of meters below marble shielding, tens of thousands of saints gripped the Adamantium chains and pulled with all their might!
The Great Bell of the Dead stood over a hundred meters tall and more than fifty meters in diameter. To strike it required a ram as thick as a bridge pier.
Driven by tens of thousands of saints, the Adamantium chains slammed the ram fiercely into the bell.
CLANG!!!!!
A thunderous boom seemed to tear through time and space as it exploded outward!
Everyone on Terra heard the bell. Beyond Terra, people also felt the violent surge of Psychic Power!