Hell has invaded, but my Hextech is invincible!

The Adventists' choice of location was extremely deliberate.

The United Textile Factory was a very conspicuous place with a chaotic flow of people coming and going, making it a classic example of being overlooked and thus failing to attract attention.

This slum is hidden in the most chaotic crowd.

No one knows exactly how many poor people live in the slums, and no one cares if some neighbors disappear one day.

Dirty, chaotic, and overcrowded, dilapidated buildings were piled up haphazardly, one layer on top of another.

It looks exactly like the lowest level of the hive in the Warhammer 40 universe.

However, if you were to ask who knows this slum best, the answer would be the gangsters.

They are here to traffic people, sell drugs, collect debts violently, and extort protection money.

The vast majority of gang members were young people who grew up in this slum; they were true local bullies.

Under their guidance, the remaining agents of the United Front quickly launched a cleanup operation.

Now that things have come to this, the united front is already exposed to the church's very nose, and there's nothing left to hide.

The city hall obviously didn't have time to interfere with them; everyone was too busy taking care of themselves.

After all, there are still four altars to be cleared in the upper city.

Hex stood on the roof of a dilapidated four-story building in the slums, looking out over the high wall that stretched more than 500 meters away to the upper town.

Boom—

Streaks of light streaked across the sky and crashed down, followed by deafening explosions.

"They've really started fighting, and it's so intense," Hextech murmured.

He had assumed it would be another small-scale elite squad operation like before.

Unexpectedly, after Inessa returned, she immediately brought in a regular army.

The British 8th Regiment, stationed on the outskirts of Manchester, marched directly into Manchester.

After the army entered the city, they used artillery to clear the way and bombarded several altars.

A sharp, piercing sound tore through the air.

Hex looked up and saw a dozen fighter jets flying low overhead, dropping cylindrical bombs from their bellies, which ignited into towering flames upon landing.

Hextech's lips twitched.

Why would they take such drastic measures against their own city, or even just the Upper District?

If the United Front hadn't taken on the mission to capture the lower city, who knows how the army would have treated this slum.

Cruel person.

"This is the church." Ida stood beside him, a hint of mockery on her face.

"It is better to kill ten thousand innocent people than to let one guilty person go free."

"Don't the upper-class nobles, big merchants, and factory owners make a fuss?" Hex frowned.

That's outrageous. You could say they mistreat the poor, but after all, the poor don't have the power to influence the upper echelons. They either have to join the United Front or a cult.

But Shangcheng District is where the city's builders and managers live.

Ada glanced at him, her eyes filled with a hint of disbelief at his lack of expertise.

"Mr. Horus, it seems you really don't understand the Church in this world."

"The Church is the undisputed and sole sovereign authority over all nations."

"No power can defy the will of the Church."

"So you should be able to figure out why so many nobles, factory owners, and even members of royalty would become our secret allies?" Ada said with a half-smile.

Hextech thought for a moment, then chuckled.

It turned out to be the case.

The reason why the united front was able to grow from a small group of scattered soldiers to spread throughout Europe was not only due to the grassroots resistance fighters.

More importantly, it possesses the power that those in power need—a power that can directly confront the Church.

In fact, the United Front was a sharp blade deliberately indulged by the upper echelons, barely used to counterbalance the church.

There are some things that the higher-ups dare not do, but these lunatics in the United Front do without a second thought.

The logic made perfect sense.

It seems the screenwriters of this world didn't just haphazardly piece together a world view from the new Three Kingdoms.

Just then, a green signal flare exploded in the night sky.

"We've found them," Ida said.

By the time Hextech arrived, the battle was already over.

The Adventists had clearly realized their presence had been discovered and had withdrawn most of their forces to the upper city.

The altar in this slum was left with only a dozen or so cult members, as well as nearly fifty misled ordinary believers and outsiders.

Under the gangsters' desperate charge, these ordinary people, who had not yet been deeply tainted by evil, were instantly riddled with bullets.

Two of the cult members were particularly difficult to deal with; ordinary bullets couldn't kill them at all.

It wasn't until the United Front brought in gasoline and burned them for a full ten minutes that they were completely charred.

Hextech looked at the mission panel, where the progress jumped from [1/6] to [2/6].

He raised an eyebrow.

That's a bit fast.

However, this is also reasonable.

The reason cultists are cultists is simply because they rely on the power of hell to survive.

In other words, without the support of hellish demons, they are nothing.

If he hadn't forced out Carlodos's projection in the underground space and allowed it to possess Emily and escape, the situation might already be out of control, and an even greater disaster would have followed.

But Calodos has been defeated.

For the demons to project themselves onto the human world again, they need complex rituals and lengthy preparations. The Adventists had no time to prepare and were caught in a pincer attack by the Church and the United Front.

The Church is the supreme representative of this world order, wielding the highest level of military power and authority.

The more terrifying the demons' suppression of the church was underground, the more powerful the church's suppression of cults is in the city now.

Within the city limits, churches stand in abundance, believers are countless, holy power is ever-present, ramblings are suppressed, and cultists rarely receive direct blessings from the demons of hell.

This resulted in the vast majority of cult members in the city being, in essence, just ordinary people.

Only those fanatical believers deeply corrupted by demons possess bizarre powers, yet they can only remain in the wilderness and cannot enter the city.

Moreover, the reason it went so smoothly was because he exposed the Adventists' conspiracy in advance and named all these altars, allowing the Church and the United Front to target their objectives and strike at the heart of the enemy.

Just then, Hextech's mission panel popped up again.

[Destroyed six altars: 2/6] After three jumps, it directly became [5/6].

Hextech's eyes lit up.

Those people in the church are really ruthless!

In such a short time, three altars have been destroyed. No wonder he's a ruthless person who dares to fire on his own city.

Hex said, "The Church is really going all out; they've already destroyed three."

"Including the two in the lower city."

"I'm afraid it won't be long before the sixth altar is destroyed."

Ada couldn't understand why he was so confident about the outcome. Instead, she frowned slightly, showing no sign of happiness. "You don't seem worried?"

"Isn't this a good thing?" Hex looked at her. "It's almost over."

"No, it's not that simple," Ada said with certainty.

The upper city was still filled with the sounds of artillery fire, machine guns blazing, and warplanes roaring.

"The battle is not over yet."

"This shows that the Adventists have concentrated all their power on the last altar."

"They haven't given up yet."

Before he could finish speaking...

A terrifying, inhuman roar suddenly exploded.

The roar was like a thunderclap. Even though the source of the roar was in the upper city, two or three kilometers away from Hex, his heart was still pounding and his blood was surging.

If he's like this, then what about ordinary people?

Several poor people from the lower city rushed out of their houses screaming, but after running a few steps, they clutched their chests, screamed in agony, and collapsed to the ground, scared to death.

Those gangsters who were still boasting and gloating turned pale and collapsed to the ground.

Just one roar.

As far as Hextech could see, at least several hundred civilians died on the spot.

Ida clutched her chest, breathing heavily.

"really……"

"The Adventists have summoned a True Name Demon into the mortal realm."