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Chapter 524

Day 114 – Morning, Theocracy, Grand Cathedral

The Holy City, we alone managed to slip inside ahead of the others and head for the Grand Cathedral, thanks to the Shinobi clan’s elder sister, who let us through while the Theocracy’s army and the Knights of Precept were moving to encircle.
But the Cathedral, which from afar had gleamed with pure white brilliance, had lost all of that, reduced now to an aged, decrepit building that looked like it could collapse at any moment.

From a distance, the people of the Holy City all gazed upon it, staring with complicated emotions at the sight of the once-symbol of church authority crumbling away.

But the battlefield isn’t the Cathedral, is it? Off in the distance stands a hemispherical domed sanctuary… no, that’s a fortress. Rocks pour down on it in a concentrated downpour, a hammer of stone striking again and again, yet it doesn’t budge