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What happened?
Audrey thought, almost at a loss.
In theory, this was already her second surprise attack. The first had been the sudden airship attack in Backlund. She already had experience escaping, and with no need to worry about damage to her current body, she should have quickly pulled herself together, gathered the doctors and nurses in the hospital who could still move to carry out rescues, and led the survivors in an orderly evacuation to a nearby open area-
But she could not move. The arms supporting her body trembled violently, and her legs had lost all strength. Never mind standing up and walking, Audrey had even lost the courage to raise her head, and might collapse again at any moment.
Because-this was not a man-made calamity like a bomber attack. What had descended here was a calamity, a divine punishment.
Humans could not defy gods.
Humans had to accept the punishment of gods.
But gods loved humanity, so they would not casually send down divine punishment. Thus, only sinners and blasphemers would be punished.
...Am I a sinner?
...God, great God, have I become a sinner because I helped these people and abandoned Loen's position?
She did not hear the thunder that could almost rupture eardrums, but she saw the silvery-white lightning outside the window, almost tearing the sky apart, vast and terrifying, like fissures, and like an enormous lightning tree.
She did not hear the wind, but she felt the gales surrounding her. In this soundless world, Audrey saw through the gaps in the collapsed building trees bent almost into a "bow" by the hurricane, and the signs and awnings of roadside restaurants swept away by the wind. People struggled to hold on in the storm; the slightest misstep would see them swept away.
Of course,