Arknights' Lock of Heaven

Compared to sub-zero temperatures and massive cracks that stretch for miles and could fill a small city, this natural disaster is actually quite mild.

With a sufficiently sturdy shelter, it could withstand the attack. In fact, if it weren't for the machinations of Talulah and certain people in Ursus, Chernobog would have already received the Scourge messenger's message and left the region long ago.

No matter how dark Talulah is, her plan is still to use the core city to provoke Lungmen, and she won't choose to act during a major natural disaster that could destroy the entire city.

After all, if the core city is gone, how will we be able to provoke Lungmen?

Therefore, although this meteorite disaster was massive, it was not fatal to the urban structure of Chernobog alone.

But this is not the case for the residents of Chernobyl who are under threat of riots.

The Reunion Movement doesn't care about their lives; in fact, Talulah doesn't even care about the lives of the lower-level Reunion members.

Indeed, how could an ambitious person care about human lives?

In this world, human life is the least valuable thing, like weeds that grow back after being cut down.

33 Surprise

The real test comes after the natural disaster.

As the natural disaster gradually disappeared, ACE, with a grave expression, pulled everyone together to discuss the evacuation route.

Even the amnesiac doctor was dragged over.

During this time, the doctor tried to strike up a conversation with Xia Yu several times, but ultimately did not take any action.

The natural disaster is finally over.

But for this city, the disaster had only just begun.

Countless crystal clusters spread at a visible speed around the fallen Originium.

Due to the enrichment effect of Originium, the land after a natural disaster is practically a natural mine. The mines in the Ursus Snowfield are built on the ruins ravaged by natural disasters in history.

In fact, the first wave of attacks was the easiest; if you just tough it out, everything will be fine. The subsequent infection problems are enough to give any government a headache.

Chernobyl is the most unfortunate part.

They are expendable pawns.

Ursus will not come to save them; it was this very country that should have protected them that pushed Chernobog into the abyss.

The Reunion Movement will not protect them either. These people are thugs incited by Talulah with hatred. They occupied the city not to rule, but simply to vent their frustrations with all the injustices they experienced after becoming infected.

Patriots' shields are ultimately few and far between.

Nobody will care about them.

This land is just that cruel.

Xia Yu sighed as she watched the white-masked survivors of the natural disaster, their eyes red, charging towards Rhodes Island's team like wild beasts roaming the mountains.

Aren't these infected people who were exploited just pawns for Talulah to realize her ambitions?

He raised his hand, and a longbow materialized in his grasp.

Then came the pseudo-spiral sword, a magnificent longsword that gradually transformed into a spiral arrow.

In the clear sky, a red meteor streaked across the air ravaged by natural disaster.

Fantasy collapse!

The projected Noble Phantasm is destroyed, and its power is instantly increased by exploding it.

Only Gilgamesh and Shirou Emiya could afford such extravagant methods.

boom!

The exploding pseudo-spiral sword cleared a blank space from the vast Reunion Movement landscape.

Yes, these infected individuals are being used; they are Talulah's expendable pawns.

However, Xia Yu showed no mercy when killing them.

Because they don't deserve sympathy.

If you are oppressed, you can resist.

But not towards Ursus who oppressed him, not towards the emperor and nobles who set the policy of oppressing the infected, not towards the customs squads that arrested them from their homes and brought them to the mines, not towards the mine guards who took pleasure in slaughtering the infected...

Instead, they turned their swords on unarmed ordinary people.

They were indeed incited by Talulah, but they are all adults and must take responsibility for their actions.

In fact, the Reunion Movement members who rushed to attack Rhodes Island just as the natural disaster subsided were definitely the most extreme and the most ruthless group in Chernobog.

Those who are less extreme are busy avoiding natural disasters.

These people have long been misled by the hatred incited by Talulah, and are now hopelessly deluded.

They never considered the suffering their atrocities would bring to the infected community.

Back when Frostnova's guerrillas were in the snowfields, they could still see steaming bread on the windowsills of homes where people sympathized with the infected.

But when the news of the tragedy in Chernobyl reached those people, and they learned that the infected guerrillas they had helped had committed such heinous crimes, what would they think?

Would people in the corners of the world who sympathize with the plight of those infected think this way?

These thugs are actually pleased with themselves for doing something so self-destructive.

Ignorance is not a reason to escape punishment.

Xia Yu shot ten arrows.

The retreat route behind Rhodes Island was like a smooth road.

Even Amiya stared blankly at Xia Yu.

She had thought that the flight and the light barrier that blocked the natural disaster were already amazing enough.

It turned out that she didn't know enough about her personal bodyguards.

Even the fervent integration movement has come to a halt.

Undeterred by the natural disaster, they were intimidated by this simple and straightforward violence.

As it turns out, not everyone is fearless.

The evacuation route has now been identified.

But there are still problems to be solved.

Several distinctive figures appeared in front of him.

One of the women in the black dress was almost as striking as Xia Yu.

"This is the smell of steel and sulfur..."

Lin Guang's expression was solemn; she knew this was an opponent she had never faced before.

This is proof that Originium Arts has reached its pinnacle.

"I have never seen anyone like you."

The tyrant in the black dress slowly descended from the ruins, looking down at her and asking, "Answer me, archer, who are you?"

“She is Talulah, the leader of the Reunion Movement,” Amiya said, a hint of something unreadable flashing in her eyes.

I don't know if it's hatred, misunderstanding, or something else.

"Are you still able to move?" ACE leaned close to Xia Yu and asked softly.

He felt that Xia Yu must have been quite exhausted.

Each of those ten arrows was comparable to the full-force burst of a warlock squad, enough to destroy a skyscraper. In addition, Xia Yu single-handedly withstood the attack of the natural disaster for them, so he was a little worried about Xia Yu's condition.

This is normal, after all, that's how Originium Arts works. In ACE's eyes, Xia Yu's performance is already considered top-tier.

Even the most skilled warlocks cannot withstand such a massive drain on their resources.

"Okay."

Xia Yu didn't answer directly, but just squinted at Talulah.

Then he put away the longbow in his hand.

Seeing this, Nearl immediately raised her shield and stood in front of him.

ACE also made the same move at the same time.

As the team's shield, they understood their duty: to protect sorcerers like Xia Yu.

Although I initially thought of him as a heavy armor user, it now seems that this new colleague is undoubtedly a top-tier warlock.

Faced with the overwhelming oppressive tyrant of the Reunion Movement, their only way out lies in Xia Yu's hands.

Even Amiya came up to Xia Yu, mustering her courage as if she wanted to negotiate.

Xia Yu's silence seemed to displease Talulah.

Heat gathered in her hands, causing even the surrounding air to distort.

She is heating the surrounding air.

The gravel is burning, the air is burning, the steel is burning, the Originium left behind by the cataclysm is burning, the ruins are burning...