"What is this?" a soldier with a punctured lung murmured in disbelief, looking at the green energy covering his body.
He found that his injuries were constantly repairing themselves, and his pierced lung was gradually healing.
The surrounding commoners were already on their knees, weeping and kowtowing endlessly toward the sky.
"Thank you, gods! Thank you, gods!"
An old woman held a young man who had clearly been on the verge of death just moments ago, but whose face was now gradually turning rosy, her own face streaked with tears.
"Thank you, Lord God, thank you, Lord God. If it weren't for you, my son would have..."
As she spoke, the old woman began to sob again.
Venti did not reveal himself but continued on to the next disaster-stricken area.
The situation here was the fourth such scene he had encountered. Unfortunately, he had arrived too late for the first three groups; this was the only one he had managed to save.
At this moment, Venti's usual playful smile was gone, his face filled with a cold chill.
The invasion of this strange dimension was so similar to the events in Khaenri'ah~
Except the people here had truly died, not been turned into creatures like the Hilichurls.
A gentle breeze flowed. Venti could only strive to save more people before the next wave of casualties appeared.
...
"Damn it, where did these monsters come from? There's no end to them!"
A middle-aged man raised the longsword in his hand, frantically hacking at the insects appearing at his doorstep. Inside the house behind him were a middle-aged woman and two six or seven-year-old children—his wife and kids!
But no matter how many he killed, the insects seemed endless. The moment he cut one down, another would charge forward.
By now, sixteen fist-sized insects lay on the ground.
In the instant the middle-aged man paused to catch his breath, one of the insects suddenly accelerated, its scythe-like claws easily severing his arm.
"Ah!!!"
The middle-aged man screamed in agony as his right arm was cut off.
And that one mistake allowed more insects to swarm in.
Just as they were about to tear the man to shreds, a voice suddenly called out, "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation."
A massive wall of fire swept over, incinerating all the flying insects.
"I'm... I'm saved?"
Seeing all the insects burned to death, the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then looked toward the source of the voice.
A man with a full head of hair, clad in red armor, appeared in his line of sight. The most striking feature was the blood-red color of his eyes.
Madara Uchiha glanced at the middle-aged man, then at the house behind him, and left with a single sentence.
"You've done well."
Before the middle-aged man could come to his senses, countless pure white feathers appeared in the sky.
To his amazement, the man found that his severed arm was gradually growing back.
Witnessing this miracle, the middle-aged man's eyes filled with tears.
"A divine miracle! It's a divine miracle! The gods have really come to save us! We're saved!"
And high above the entire city, Zelel, Gabriel, and Vignette were doing their utmost to release a holy light.
(Surprising, isn't it? But Vignette can indeed release holy light; it happened in the original story.)
"Little Gab, are you okay? Are you pushing yourself too hard?"
"Shut up! I just forgot how to use it. Now that you've all demonstrated, I can do it too!"
"Vignette, have you really not considered becoming an angel? I think you'd be a good fit."
"Don't worry, if I personally make the request and you show them a little of your power, you can definitely become an angel!"
"Um, allow me to think about it..."
...
"Sister! Over there!"
Kanae Kocho cut a five-meter-tall strange being in half with her sword and alerted Shinobu Kocho.
"OK!"
Shinobu threw the sword in her hand, piercing a strange being that was about to grab a little girl.
"Kiyo, here, over there, and over here..."
The three little ones scurried about with recovery potions, tossing a bottle whenever they saw an injured person.
Compared to fighting, they were better suited for rescue work.
"I wonder how Tian is doing right now?"
Mitsuri Kanroji wielded a sword that was like a vine, instantly dispatching hundreds of charging imps in a flash.
This sword had always been with her. Back when she used an MC sword, she found it very awkward.
But when she learned about Netherite swords, she had a whimsical idea: could her own sword be forged from Netherite? It turned out to be a success, which had left even Lin Tian baffled at the time. He never thought such a thing was possible.
...
Scenes like this were happening all over. The survivors in the city suddenly realized that not only had these monsters appeared, but a group of mysterious people seemed to be helping them. And these people were all incredibly powerful, with an endless variety of strange abilities.
"Universal Assimilation."
Standing outside the city gates, Zhongli spread his arms, and a massive barrier enveloped the entire city.
"Morax, it's been a long time since we fought together," a burly man with two dragon horns on his forehead, standing next to Zhongli, said with a laugh.
"Azhdaha, now is not the time for chatter."
Looking at a figure slowly approaching in the distance, Zhongli's expression was somewhat grave.
It had been a long time since he had seen someone whose strength was nearly his equal. The pressure emanating from the figure was not much weaker than his own at his peak.
This was probably the true power of the strange dimension, or perhaps not.
But if it was the latter...
"Let's go. We must move the battlefield. We can't fight it here; we're at too much of a disadvantage."
With that, Zhongli transformed into his divine form, and together with Azhdaha, they sent the attacker flying.
Tatsumaki, Madara Uchiha, Shinobu Kocho, and the others also sensed several abnormally powerful auras coming from all directions.
After confirming their respective positions in the chat group, they also rushed toward the city gates.
A large number of people had already started rescue work within the city; they needed to ensure the city walls were not breached.
...
At this moment, Lin Tian had already arrived on the moon. Although there was no air, he could still survive for a while.
And on the moon, Wolffy was frantically tinkering with a super-massive instrument.
Lin Tian watched from the side as Wolffy worked. From time to time, a few strange beings with auras that even surpassed Zhongli's group would rush over, only to be dispatched by Lin Tian with a single sword strike.
Finally, after driving off the thirteenth wave, Lin Tian felt that the strange dimension had probably realized he was a tough opponent. Suddenly, millions of imps, along with ten strange beings whose auras almost completely crushed Zhongli's, swarmed toward Lin Tian and Wolffy.
'Oh! Is this a final, desperate counterattack? Or do they know they can't win and are trying to take us down with them?'
"Wolffy! How much longer?"
"Just one more minute!"
"Is that so?"
Lin Tian took out an Enchanted Golden Apple and ate it, then equipped two enchanted Netherite axes in his hands.
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