I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

This is no ordinary individual.

It was a size larger than the others, and its shoulders and back were covered with a layer of dark brown keratin, like it was wearing a natural armor.

[Environmental Perception: Enhanced individual detected... Giant Ghoul (Half-Evolutionary Individual)...]

The moment it landed, the bronze ground beneath its feet cracked.

The surrounding watchmen opened fire simultaneously.

The bullets struck the stratum corneum, sending sparks flying, but none penetrated.

It didn't even slow down.

The giant ghoul swatted away the wreckage of the barricade blocking its way with a single claw and charged straight toward the center of the position.

Another newborn went to greet them.

The metal frame rattled beneath the black robe, and a long blade sprang from the forearm, aimed straight at the ghoul's throat.

The tip of the blade pierced the stratum corneum.

But it only went in an inch.

The giant ghoul grabbed the newborn's arm, gripped it tightly, and twisted it.

The sound of metal twisting is sickening.

The newborn's left arm was twisted into a spiral shape, with gears and springs flying out of the crack.

But it still hasn't retreated.

The short spikes on his other hand pierced the ghoul's eye socket.

This time, the giant ghoul failed to dodge, roared, released its grip, and took two steps back.

Black blood flowed from its eye sockets as it growled, and the keratin layer on its body swelled.

The wound is healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just when everyone thought the defense line was about to completely collapse.

A voice came from behind.

It is chanting.

From behind.

From a higher place.

[Environmental Sensing: A small amount of divine pollution source detected...]

Several voices rang out simultaneously, in unison, carrying a penetrating power that was impossible to ignore.

"Lost sheep, you need the guidance of angels, the blessings of the great angels."

The voices weren't loud, but in this night filled with screams and gunshots, every word pierced everyone's ears clearly.

Lu Yuan suddenly looked up.

On the roof behind the Alchemy Workshop outpost.

Four figures stood there.

The white robe with gold trim gleamed softly in the light of the marching lanterns.

Each held a book in their hand, the angel wings on the cover faintly glowing in the darkness.

nun.

She was a nun from the church.

Lu Yuan stared at them. Were they all sources of pollution? And when did they arrive?

It's important to know that the Bronze Age doesn't have any church strongholds.

They stood on the rooftop, looking down at the battlefield of blood and fire, their faces calm, as if they were performing a daily morning prayer in a church.

The leading nun raised her right hand.

Palms down.

Golden light emanated from her palm; it was holy light.

Pure, scorching holy light.

The light, like mercury spilling onto the ground, poured down from the roof and covered the entire position.

Lu Yuan felt a warm sensation descend from the top of his head, down his shoulders and arms, and all the way to his fingertips.

I looked down.

A layer of pale golden light enveloped his body.

It is as thin as a cicada's wing and almost transparent, yet you can clearly feel its presence.

warmth.

It felt as if it was being gently wrapped up by something.

At the edge of vision, gray-white text flickers:

[You have been blessed by the angels; for a short time, your attacks will be imbued with holy light.]

[Note: Holy Light is extremely effective against polluted creatures.]

Not just Lu Yuan.

The same golden light enveloped Bor and the Night Watchmen.

Everyone.

Apart from...

Three members of the Ascension Society.

The two beings born with bird-beak masks, and the woman with gray hair.

When the golden light reached their vicinity, it seemed to be repelled by some invisible barrier.

The light film dissipated automatically at a distance of half a meter from them, without attaching to them.

The same goes for women with gray hair.

The golden light veered slightly as it passed by her, like water flowing around a stone, without a trace clinging to her.

She herself seemed completely unconcerned, not even glancing at it.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan thought to himself, "The Ascension Society and the Church are still the same as ever..."

The chanting of the leading nun had changed at this moment.

"My angel, your most loyal apostle begs for your protection, to grant strength to the lost, courage to the helpless, and holy light to the watchmen to cut away the darkness."

With each prayer uttered, the golden light on the battlefield intensified.

Lu Yuan felt the temperature of the revolver in his hand rising.

It was a feeling that permeated from within, a gentle yet undeniable warmth and light.

A very faint golden sheen appeared on the barrel.

The other Night's Watch members also noticed the same change.

The bronze sword was covered with a golden light.

The nozzle of the short spray gun is glowing.

"What is this..." Bo'er paused for a moment, looking down at the gold gleaming on the bronze sword in his hand.

He was a Night's Watchman in the Bronze City and had almost no contact with the Church...

The second round of blessings followed immediately.

The other three nuns simultaneously opened their scriptures, their voices merging with the lead nun's chanting, creating a fourfold harmony that echoed through the night sky.

"The angels have bestowed upon your believers and warriors the strength of bronze, the blazing of holy fire, and the immortality of souls."

[An additional blessing effect detected: Physical endurance threshold is temporarily increased.]

[An additional blessing effect detected: Melee contact inflicts Holy Light burn.]

[An additional blessing effect detected: Temporary increase in mental resilience.]

Three gray-white notifications popped up one after another.

Lu Yuan felt the golden light solidify on his body surface, no longer a light, thin film, but with a certain thickness and hardness.

The blessing ceremony has ended.

The four nuns simultaneously fell silent.

The leading nun turned to a new page in the scripture.

Her lips moved slightly as she began to recite a completely different prayer.

This time it's not a blessing.

It's for myself.

"My angel, may your merciful gaze cleanse the world of its filth..."

Her voice grew softer and softer, but her speech became faster and faster, the last few syllables almost squeezed out between her teeth.

Lu Yuan couldn't understand those words and phrases.

But he sensed a change.

The golden light emanating from the nun surged dramatically.

The original soft pale gold turned into a dazzling bright gold, and the whole person seemed to be enveloped in a ball of holy light.

Her eyes opened.

Lu Yuan saw it.

Those eyes were no longer human eyes.

The pupils disappeared, leaving only two pure golden lights.

It was as if something was looking at the world through her eyes.

[High-level divine spell detected: Angel's Eye (temporary)]

[Note: This nun briefly gained power output far exceeding her own level.]

The nun held up the scripture.

The pages turned automatically, and golden light seeped out from each page.

A golden beam of light shot out from the scripture and landed straight on the ghouls in front of the cave entrance.

boom.

A burst of golden light erupted.

The ghouls within a five-meter radius were swallowed by the holy light.

There were no screams.

Because they didn't even have time to scream.

The grayish-red body instantly disintegrated in the holy light, like boiling water poured on a candle, melting into a pool of smoldering ash.

The first strike.

The nun did not stop.

Turning the page of the scripture.

The second beam of light was fired.

The third way.

The fourth one.

The frequency is getting faster and faster.

Golden beams of light poured out of the scriptures like a barrage of bullets, each beam accompanied by the instantaneous annihilation of a ghoul.

White smoke rose in plumes in front of the cave entrance, the stench of burning flesh overpowering the smell of blood.

The other three nuns also acted at the same time.

They did not unleash the same powerful divine magic as the leading nun, but each opened their scriptures and chanted incantations.

The beam density is a bit low, but it is more precise.

Every single one was perfect.

The ghoul that circled in from the left was pierced through the chest by a golden light, fell to the ground, and turned to ash.

The right wing maneuvered, and two beams of light crossed and struck, instantly disintegrating the target.

Those who tried to climb over the pile of corpses and rush in were blasted back to the cave entrance by a golden light.

On the battlefield, all the watchmen were stunned.

Bohr stared with his mouth agape, forgetting to sheathe his bronze sword.

Even the two born beings had their bird-beak masks tilted slightly.

"A nun from the church?"

A night watchman's voice was filled with confusion.

"People from the church? When did we hire outside help?"

No one answered.

But Lu Yuan didn't waste time thinking about these things.

Holy Light attribute.

It has an extremely high inhibitory effect on polluting organisms.

Lu Yuan raised his gun.

Aim at the edge of the cave entrance at a ghoul that is climbing.

Pull the trigger.

boom.

The moment the silver-plated projectile was launched, its surface was coated with a layer of golden light visible to the naked eye.

The bullet pierced the ghoul's chest.

The next second, golden light spread outwards from the bullet hole, as if a fire had been ignited inside its body.

The ghoul's body split open from the middle, with golden cracks spreading along its skin.

Two seconds later, its entire body shattered into countless charred fragments, which drifted in the air.

One shot.

One.

What used to take two to three silver-plated bullets to take down a ghoul now only takes one.

A glint flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes. The effect wasn't this strong back in Grim Port.

"Stop standing there! Open fire!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it was loud enough for the Night's Watchmen around him to hear.

Bohr was the first to react.

He glanced at the bronze sword in his hand; the golden light on the blade was still there.

Bohr did not wait for confirmation.

He charged toward the nearest ghoul and slashed at it with his sword.

The copper sword cuts into the stratum corneum.

hiss hiss hiss...

The burning sound was ten times louder than before.

The burning of copper combined with the properties of holy light creates a double effect.

Where the blade passed, the stratum corneum was cleaved like paper, and the blade cut all the way down from the shoulder to the waist.

The ghoul's body split in two.

The tissues on both sides of the incision charred rapidly in the golden light, before even the black blood could flow out.

Even Bohr himself was startled.

He spent all night trying to cut through the stratum corneum, but now he can cut through it with one stroke?

The night watchmen around them also came to their senses.

"Fire! Open fire at all levels!"

Gunfire erupted once again.

But this time, every bullet fired was enveloped in golden light.

Each one is several times more lethal than the previous ones.

Ghouls fell in droves amidst the golden hail of bullets.

The large ghoul, its shoulders and back covered in dark brown keratin, was still struggling.

One of its eyes had been gouged out by its birther, but the other was still turning, flashing a look of fury.

The three watchmen fired at it simultaneously.

The bullet, imbued with holy light, struck the stratum corneum.

This time, it penetrated effortlessly.

The golden bullet pierced the muscle tissue, exploding inside and causing a burning sensation.

Golden cracks began to appear on the giant ghoul's body.

It roared and retreated, but Bor had already arrived.

The bronze sword pierced its abdomen from below, into its soft belly that was unprotected by keratin.

Holy light exploded inside its internal organs.

The ghoul's roar abruptly ceased.

The rage in his eyes turned into fear.

In the end, it became a blank page.

When it fell, its entire body began to shatter from the inside out, and golden light seeped out from every crack, burning it into a huge, charred shell.

Bor drew his knife and flicked away the shards from the blade.

He turned and glanced at the nuns on the roof.

The four figures in white robes continued to unleash their attacks.

The leading nun had already turned more than half of her scripture, and the frequency of the golden beams of light did not weaken in the slightest, turning the area in front of the cave entrance into a golden sea of ​​fire.

The remains of ghouls piled up around the cave entrance.

White smoke billowed.

It had a burnt, pungent odor.

But nobody cares about these things.

Because everyone felt it.

The pressure is dropping sharply.

The number of ghouls pouring out of the cave is decreasing sharply.

It's not that there are fewer of them.

Instead, every single one that came out was immediately killed.

The golden beam of light sealed off the entrance to the cave.

Bullets imbued with holy light and bronze swords swept across the flanks.

The two newborns protected the front.

The gray-haired woman held the far left. She offered no blessings, but she didn't need any.

Although there was never any tactical coordination between the Night Watch and the church.

But the partnership has already been established.

"Counterattack."

Lu Yuan's voice was calm.

Bor glanced at him.

Then he laughed.

It's the kind of smile that only a veteran would show when they suddenly see a turning point in a desperate situation.

"I heard you!" Bor turned and roared at the night watchmen. "Don't just stand there! Push it up! Clear the bodies off the balusters!"

The watchmen moved.

The three men rushed to the front line and used their bronze swords to pry the charred corpse off the barricade, revealing the bronze spikes once again.

The two men repaired the collapsed copper wire mesh.

With the remaining men under the cover of the nun's fire, Bor led his men toward the cave entrance.

Each strike was accompanied by the burning of holy light.

Every shot was fatal.

The ghouls were forced into retreat by the Night's Watch's counterattack.

They were driven back to the front from the wings, and then forced back to the cave entrance by the golden beams of light from the front.

dilemma.

It's a dead end.

Lu Yuan stood in the center of the position, revolver raised, calmly firing at each ghoul that tried to break through from the side.

He didn't waste a single bullet.

Every shot takes a life.

At the edge of my field of vision, gray-white text danced quietly:

[Rationality: 69/120]

The angelic blessing is fading...

enough.

At least, it's enough to hold on until the next chance to catch one's breath.

Lu Yuan looked at the nun on the roof.

The nun leading the group was so pale she was almost transparent; the output of holy light was consuming her own power, and it was consuming it very quickly.

But her eyes remained two pure gold orbs.

The scriptures in his hands were still swirling and turning.

The golden beams of light continued to pour down.

It didn't stop.

They didn't stop firing at all.

Lu Yuan looked at her for a few seconds.

[Target of detection: Church nun (extraordinary believer)]

[A vessel of absolute, pure holy light, dedicated entirely to the angels...]

Lu Yuan glanced at the prompt, looked away, and raised his gun again.

This is the Night's Watch's battlefield.

The church came, regardless of who invited them or what their purpose was.

At this moment, they are comrades-in-arms.

We'll talk about the rest after we get through tonight.

Gunshots and holy light mingled together.

The ghouls' howls grew increasingly faint.

The white smoke from the direction of the cave entrance grew thicker and thicker.

The defenses are being rebuilt.

The position is being consolidated.

The counterattack has begun.