The people who had been tearing each other apart like wild beasts all stopped at the same instant!
They turned their heads in unison!
Tens of thousands of bloodshot eyes fixed on the three figures charging toward the High Platform!
The chaos and madness had vanished from their eyes.
In its place was a fervor so devout it was as though believers had seen their god!
"Don't... don't hurt... Lord Angel!"
A man covered in blood let out the first hoarse, dreamlike roar!
Then—
"Kill them!"
"Kill these heretics who dare blaspheme against our god!"
"Protect Lord Angel!!!"
Crazed shouts rose from every direction like an avalanche!
Rumble!
Countless civilians whose minds Angel had completely seized with a mental command surged toward the raised platform like floodwaters bursting through a dam!
They poured in from every corner of the port, crazed, rushing toward the High Platform!
With their own bodies, they built a thick, seemingly unbreakable wall before Angel!
"What?!"
Xiao Tian Ce's pupils contracted!
His Azure Dragon Emerges from the Sea, a strike he had been certain would land, stopped dead in midair!
The wind from his fist sent the hair of a little girl, no more than seven or eight, flying wildly!
Tears covered her face, yet her eyes burned with a madness and hatred no child her age should have known!
She spread her small arms and stood firmly in Xiao Tian Ce's path, like a young beast protecting its mother!
"Damn it!!!"
Xiao Tian Ce's eyes went red!
How could he strike an unarmed little girl?!
He forced himself to pull back his power!
Pfft!
His qi flowed backward, and blood sprayed from the corner of his mouth!
"Bastard!!!"
Zhao Mengsheng faced the same predicament!
He tried to go around, but several civilians who had completely