With the activation of the self-destruct procedure, the outermost layer of the Void Barrier naturally bears the brunt.

The barrier that had completely severed the connection between Sky City and the Void had ceased to exist after a few blinding flickers. The void creatures who found that the connection between themselves and the void had been restored again were overjoyed, those heroic beings had long felt the stench of those demons from the bottomless abyss, even the void creatures who lived by devouring were unwilling to go with these foul-smelling chaos demons, and in the face of a large number of demons, the void creatures with a little brain immediately chose to leave here and return to the void.

Then there was the earth, which was completely condensed into a cohesive earth by the energy of the sky city, and as the energy ran away, earthquakes and earth cracks followed, and bottomless fissures traversed the entire earth, and buildings collapsed, destroyed, and disappeared because of the torn earth.

Bang! Bang! Huge fireballs shone across the land like fireworks, and nothing within the blast range could resist the catastrophe caused by pure arcane energy, destroying them in the midst of these brilliant fireworks.

"Quick! Don't look back! Rush forward! "Camilla took the lead, and the players with the Angel's Covenant rushed towards the teleportation array that had entered the Sky City, and at this time they had already rushed out of the inner city and entered the outer city, and the towering walls of the Sky City were already in sight!" This is the opportunity that His Highness Raphael has won for us, don't let His Highness's sacrifice go to waste! ”

Under Camilla's encouragement and desire to survive, everyone's speed increased again, due to the sudden disasters in the sky city, few monsters came out to stop these players along the way, so that they could easily pass through these areas, of course, the expeditionary force also played a great role in the cleaning of the outer city in the early stage.

"Miss Tiramisu, do you have to give up these things?" The Radiance Guardian Guild has had a very in-depth cooperation with the Angel Covenant for a long time, and it can be said that this guild has become an anonymous branch of the Angel Covenant, so Tiramisu naturally won't let the Radiant Guardian Guild lose its personnel here in vain, and at this time she is leading this group of players with nearly two thousand people to follow behind Camilla and them, running out of the city.

"President Rafario, believe me! Your lives are more important than these loot, and if you die again, the loss of the soul energy limit will not be compensated for by these loot! Moreover, you have already given up most of the loot before, so what difference does it make if you give up some more? Tiramisu said as she blessed herself with wind spells so that she could run faster.

Lafario said in frustration: "Okay! You're right, Miss Tiramisu! Everyone, throw away everything you can, the lighter the load, the faster you can run! If anyone doesn't listen to orders, don't complain about the guild if they die here! ”

Hearing the president's words, who still wanted to stay and die, they all threw out everything they could in their backpacks while running, on the one hand, these members were already of relatively high quality and could distinguish priorities, and on the other hand, it was also because most of their loot was brought back to the Holy City by the returning transportation and supply team yesterday.

The same is true for the Angel's Covenant and other well-connected guilds, whose loot is usually shipped out directly after the last supply of the day, taking the opportunity of the supply team to return to the city, rather than being like other guilds, which have no transport team of their own, so they can only store the loot on their bodies or in shelters and temporary camps. Therefore, although Raphael asked Tiramisu to give up all his supplies and baggage, the actual loss was not much.

"Your Excellency Tiramisu, don't you really need to go looking for His Highness Raphael?" Brad's Knights of the Round Table are much faster than ordinary players who rely only on two legs due to the popularity of their mounts is almost 100%, if it weren't for the fact that they are in the city right now, and the road is not very wide so that the speed of the mounts cannot be mentioned to the maximum, otherwise they would have overtaken Camilla and them and rushed to the teleportation array first.

"I believe in the President, just as the President believes that we can get everyone out safely!" "And if we can't even get out of the president, I don't think we'll be able to get the president!" ”

"Okay!" Brad had to admit that Tiramisu was right, "I hope His Royal Highness Raphael can be auspicious!" ”

"Lord Brad! We're about to pass through the walls! I hope you can take the Knights of the Round Table to take the lead and preemptively ensure the safety and order on the teleportation array's side, I'm afraid what happened in the inner city hasn't been communicated to the teleportation garrison so quickly, we must seize this opportunity to get everyone out of the sky city as soon as possible! I'll send everyone who has mounts and can fight with you! ”

"I see! Rest assured, I'll make sure the teleportation array is intact! Brad nodded in agreement, and led the men to speed up their horses, pass through the city gates, and rush towards the teleportation array.

In the end, under the leadership of Camilla and others, including the Angel Covenant, a total of more than 70,000 players successfully escaped from Sky City through the teleportation array, of which nearly 40,000 were relatively smart and gave up their loot early and rushed to the teleportation array through the entire city of Sky City.

When Tiramisu and the bell were the last to step into the teleportation array and slowly disappear in the white light of the teleportation array, the last scene that came into their eyes was that the towering Sky Tower in the center of the Sky City emitted a fierce red light, and then like a huge firework that had been ignited, it enveloped almost half of the Sky City's huge fireball!

On this day, the deepest memory left in the hearts of the believers who still remained in the Holy City and celebrated the return of the Holy Fire was the huge flame in the blue sky that almost split the entire world in two, and no one except a few people knew that it was the effect of the total destruction of the Sky City, known as the Throne of the Gods.

It's a disaster! Especially for humanity as a whole!

In order to seize the Sky City, under the call of the Holy See of Light, the twelve kingdoms of mankind used almost all the elite forces that they could use, and the total number of soldiers exceeded 500,000, of which sixty percent were the main armies of the kingdoms, that is, the middle ranks. And after the expeditionary force broke into the inner city, in order to further strengthen the control of many entire sky cities, including the Holy See of Light, a total of nearly fifty hero-level and seven legendary-level powerhouses were invested in the sky city.

The former is to help the expeditionary force destroy those void creatures, while the latter is to fight against those gods who are peeking into the sky city in the void!

In fact, it is not that there are no gods who notice what is happening in the Sky City. Although these gods had not been able to find the specific location of Sky City from the vast void before, with the successful positioning of the Holy See through the Holy Flame, and the subsequent establishment of teleportation arrays by other races, the location of Sky City was also exposed to the eyes of those gods.

But on the one hand, the fragile spatial protective barrier of Sky City simply could not accommodate the entry of more than hero-level existences, and the only consequence of forcibly entering was to cause the spatial barrier to be damaged, and the entire Sky City was completely exposed to the void. Therefore, the expeditionary force was able to rely on the numerical superiority of players and soldiers to quickly occupy the city in the sky!

On the other hand, the fact that Rose fled with the Kingdom of God also attracted the attention of many gods, and compared to the Sky City, which could only wait and see for the time being, most of the gods chose to bet their attention on Rose. After all, the fall of a god is much fiercer than the battle for a castle in the sky!

It was precisely in order to prevent those gods from interfering that those legendary-level powerhouses did not enter the battle in the sky city, but stood by at the other end of the teleportation array. What's more, Dalaran's legendary archmage, Antonidas, has personally entered the Void to intimidate the gods who are about to move (the Legendary already has the ability to move in the Void for a short time).

But no one expected that the ending of Castle in the Sky would become so unexpected! Less than two hours after Rose fled back into the bottomless abyss, the entire Sky City turned into a large firework and was completely annihilated in the void.

And for this unprecedented firework, the entire human race also paid a heavy price. A total of more than 300,000 soldiers died (almost all of them were the main forces of various countries), and nearly 20 heroic powerhouses were either killed in battle at the hands of the Void Creatures, or were buried in the Sky City because they finally had no time to escape.

Player losses are even more difficult to count! According to the calculation of the Angel's Covenant after the fact, the number of deaths of players during the expedition alone reached 27 million! In other words, in the twelve days from entering Sky City to finally evacuating, the total number of players exceeding 1.3 million died an average of 20 times each! That's a staggering number!

Not to mention the experience points, soul energy, equipment, and various props and materials lost by the players, it can be said that this expedition has almost hollowed out the foundation of human players.

As a result of the final decisive retreat, the loss of the Angelic Covenant was not unbearable. But that doesn't mean Raphael can sit back and relax.

Pensions for union members! Lost supplies! Equipment and power-ups consumed! And so on and so forth! Among them, the pension alone emptied the treasury of the Angelic Covenant, and even forced Raphael to make a loan to the Holy See of Light to barely meet it.

The greater loss lies in the deterrent power of the covenant of angels and the personal prestige of Raphael!

In the eyes of the small guilds who participated in this expedition, the Angel Covenant not only wantonly oppressed them in the process of attacking Sky City, but also took the lead in retreating at the last moment, completely abandoning them, which caused them to suffer unnecessary losses, and even caused a large number of unions to dissolve because they could not pay all kinds of compensation and pensions. For a while, attacks on the Angel's Covenant and Raphael sprung up everywhere, and even under the impetus of some well-intentioned people, those angry players called Raphael a "selfish and selfish"!

Even within the Angelic Covenant, Raphael was also questioned, especially the remarks of those who were peripheral and low-level members were the most uncomfortable.

Although relying on the support of the Holy See of Light, the Angelic Covenant barely suppressed the internal discussions, but within the entire human race, it no longer had the status of a superpower. A union like Ye Lingjian's Spirit Sword Villa could only survive under the suppression of the Angel Covenant, but relying on this opportunity, it couldn't help but get the support of the city where it was located, and even took advantage of the anger of those ordinary players towards the Angel Covenant to absorb a lot of fresh blood and grow better.

And the Holy See of Light, which is the backing of the Angelic Covenant, has also been affected by this incident, and its momentum is no longer high. Originally, with the return of the Holy Flame, the Holy See of Light had formed an absolute suppression of Dalaran, and in addition to Virgil and several small kingdoms, several major human kingdoms, including the Arnas and Almeria Empires, began to cooperate deeply with the Holy See of Light, fully supporting the Holy See of Light to compete for power with Dalaran.

But with the failure of the expedition, the Bright Sect, whose prestige and strength had been hit hard, also fell from the limelight all of a sudden, and the loss of a large number of Bright Knights and Paladins, as well as the death of seven heroic-level powerhouses, was enough to make the Bright Sect break its muscles and bones. Not to mention the invasion of the bottomless abyss, which may come next, and threaten the entire Ntagri world!

And all this is because the Holy See of Light can't wait to launch an expedition against the Sky City, if the Sky City is finally successfully included in the control, then the Holy See of Light will become the most powerful religious organization in the human race, even Dalaran can't fight against it!

But this huge expedition has now been a complete failure! Someone has to come out and take responsibility for all this! Neither in terms of identity nor status, Raphael is not qualified to be a scapegoat! Eventually, it was her teacher, Cardinal Meladel, who took responsibility for the defeat and was demoted to bishopric, and the vacant position of cardinal was replaced by Archbishop Messis, who was previously second only to the four cardinals.

And the repercussions of the failure of the expedition to Sky City have only just begun! It was precisely because of this defeat that the human kingdoms suffered heavy losses, which led to the inability to provide sufficient military support to the elves and dwarves, which prolonged the war in the Jeremanca Desert and finally allowed the demons to win. Thankfully, the kind of magic that the elves feared most did not fall into the hands of demons, and that was perhaps the only thing they could be thankful about.

"President, it's all here!" On the third day after the explosion of Sky City, when the entire human race was still debating who should bear this responsibility, all the high-ranking officials of the Angel Covenant at the headquarters of the Angel Covenant in the Holy City gathered and sat in the conference room, waiting for Raphael to give the order.

With a hint of exhaustion on his face, Raphael showed a contract in his hand: "The Kingdom of Sadalin has officially signed a power of attorney, as long as we destroy all the demons in the province of Bailu within three months, then the entire province will become our territory!" This is also the only content of the Terran's only orange crusade mission! The Angelic Covenant is about to usher in our own territory! ”

Everyone here smiled, and the original sad expression disappeared in an instant!