Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 420 The Immediate Counterattack

Not long after the action team withdrew, a large number of members of the Black Robe Apostle Group poured in from all directions from the streets.

They gathered in front of the cathedral, now a ruin, each holding a copy of "The Word of God" and remaining silent.

Then the crowd parted to make way for the three people as they walked through the passage, and the apostles all knelt down on one knee to greet them.

This is a courtesy that is only observed when the Pope arrives.

The three walked to the ruins of the cathedral. The boy on the left looked resentful and unwilling; he was none other than Bishop Bike.

On the right stood a burly man over two meters tall, with bulging muscles all over his body, looking like a high wall, his suit almost bursting open.

Standing between the two was the Pope, an unremarkable-looking young man wearing black-rimmed glasses without lenses.

He looked at the church ruins in front of him, thought for a moment, and asked, "Why did this plan fail?"

“It’s ‘Shadow,’ Your Holiness,” Bike whispered. “I didn’t expect him to be in the action team too… If it weren’t for him, those heretics would have died in the magic circle we set up in advance!”

“‘Shadow’? He is indeed a troublesome character,” the Pope asked. “However, I heard that the Sororo team did not teleport with the main force.”

“Yes, they teleported directly into the church, it must have been intentional. But if it weren’t for ‘Shadow,’ Heath and I could have easily taken care of the main force, and with Peter’s surprise attack, wiping out Adam’s Soromagatovich would have been a piece of cake… Now Heath is dead, Peter is dead, we’ve lost two bishops at once…”

"Alright." The Pope didn't let Baike continue, turning to look at the burly man in a suit who stood like a high wall on his right. "Khan, you and your men should prepare to be teleported to the Black Flag Kingdom."

The priest, called "Khan," nodded, then turned and left without saying a word.

"The Khan is going to the Black Flag Kingdom?" Baike was unaware of this arrangement. "Your Holiness, do we have any plans for that country?"

"The prophet on the parasite's side told me that we need to counterattack the coalition forces, and I've asked Khan to help. Byk, I've also made arrangements for you."

"Please give the order, Your Holiness!"

The Pope looked at Baike and said slowly, "Now that your identity and abilities have been exposed, you will only be a target for enemy reconnaissance and assassination. Rather than die at the hands of heretics, you'd better be buried with my cathedral."

"Yes!"

Baike seemed to be under a spell, completely oblivious to the fact that there was nothing wrong with the order.

He walked calmly into the ruins, picked up a sharp brick, and plunged it into his throat.

As bright red blood gushed out, his body slowly collapsed.

The Pope turned to the kneeling congregation and declared loudly, "Those who destroy our churches will pay a bloody price. Do you have the courage to show our enemies our resolve?"

"Yes!" the believers shouted in unison.

"Then let's start today, let's launch a counterattack right now."

……

After the team withdrew, they collectively used a teleportation device to return to the Confederation of Humanitarian Associations' office in Solma.

After entering the operations room, the group, filled with anger, discovered that the elder Soloma was nowhere to be seen; only a few other team leaders remained in the room.

The team leaders explained the situation to their respective team members.

Li Meng said, "That elder was summoned and questioned by King Soroma. This matter is extremely serious, and King Soroma is probably furious right now."

“Of course,” Silver Fox said. “Our team has four people in total. One was a traitor, one was killed, one ran away, and only one came back. They definitely can’t accept that.” Of the four members of Soroma’s team, only Moon Key returned. Adam, however, had disappeared with Amanda’s body. The other members of the action team weren’t surprised; they had a premonition that Adam would leave after they saw him crush the communication headset.

"That fortune teller is nowhere to be found right now, she's probably been taken away for questioning, right?" Yang Ran said. "Do you think she might also be a traitor? Otherwise, isn't her ability to predict the future? How come she didn't predict that Peter was a traitor, that we would be ambushed, or that our teammate Amanda would be sacrificed?"

Although Guan Tong and the others did not believe that Moon Key was an inside agent, Yang Ran's words were not without reason.

Did she not use her abilities to see anything before she took action?

Normally, if someone has the ability to foresee the future, they would definitely use that ability before embarking on a dangerous mission.

"You don't need to worry about the investigation, the results will be out soon... In any case, this was indeed extremely dangerous. If it weren't for Guan Tong breaking the formation, the consequences would have been unimaginable," Li Meng said with lingering fear.

Silver Fox: "Yeah, the combined mental power of the rest of us can't even compare to that of a few hundred cultists. With so many of them, that magic circle was indeed unsolvable—thankfully, we have our super god's shadow here~"

"Hmph, how could a bunch of cultists be a match for Brother Guan?"

"As expected of the captain!"

The rest of the team agreed with Li Meng's assessment. Even Bai Xuewu, who had initially clashed with Guan Tong, witnessed firsthand the terrifying extent of Guan Tong's mental power reserves. After all, in that situation, her mecha was simply unable to break the deadlock.

Silver Fox then asked, "Section Chief Li, if there are no follow-ups to this operation, shouldn't we return home as well?"

"It's hard to say right now. The People's Federation is having a meeting to discuss it. If there are no further developments, we should be able to go back tomorrow. You guys go and rest first. I'll wait here for the results."

Even though no one in the North Star Squad was injured, actual combat is a huge drain on both physical and mental strength. Not to mention, they had also experienced betrayal and being ambushed, which were both physically and mentally exhausting.

Everyone went back to their rooms to rest. After returning to her own room, Guan Tong lay on her bed and sorted out what had happened.

Firstly, the Soromagatois's teleportation location was inside the church, a fact unknown to Peter, the traitor, and consequently, to Bishops Byke and Heath, who were lying in ambush outside.

Adam and the others, unaware that Peter was the traitor, were also unaware that the other teams, who had been teleported to their original locations, had fallen into a trap and were now trapped.

"It seems I had some misunderstandings before."

Guan Tong thought to himself that he had opened fire on Adam and the others inside the building without regard for their presence because he felt that Adam and the others had betrayed him first, so it was not wrong to kill them.

Since Adam and his two companions were unaware of the ambush outside, it's understandable that they didn't come out to rescue them immediately... But regardless, their concealment of the inconsistent teleportation coordinates is an undeniable fact.

"Adam told Amanda, 'You shouldn't carry out the king's mission'... What was the mission King Soro gave him? Wasn't it to behead the high-ranking members of the Firebringer Cult?"

Guan Tong thought for a moment, then suddenly heard a commotion outside the door.

He immediately got up and went outside, where he saw several ascendants from other countries' action teams talking in fear.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Cultists! The cultists have attacked! We just received news that a large number of cultists have broken through the border with Soma and are targeting our city!"

Guan Tong frowned upon hearing this: "Are they crazy? Aren't they courting death?"

Soromagnets' war robots kill ordinary cultists as easily as mowing grass. Could it be that the Pope, in his anger, couldn't even distinguish the difference in strength between the two sides? After the last crushing defeat, he still dared to launch a large-scale ground attack.

“No! They’re exploiting this apocalyptic rule!” another person exclaimed urgently. “Every cultist is covered in high-resolution photos of ‘Scarlet Terra’! They’re a bunch of lunatics!”

(End of this chapter)