Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Burning City

Three-quarters of the city was completely destroyed, 90% of buildings were destroyed, and more than 100,000 people died.

On August 21, 1687, the most important "Red Moon Mica Festival" of the Rokar Empire, it turned out to be the most devastating disaster in human history, causing more casualties within hours than any single battle.

Although the number of survivors who survived the disaster was very small, they all had an indelible shadow engraved in their hearts, and some even suddenly launched a frenzy whenever they saw fire or something golden.

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More than a dozen golden heads dominate the sky. The golden dragon's fireballs rained down on the ground, engulfing the crowds that had been celebrating so long ago, as well as the beautifully decorated buildings. Originally, the "Flame of Punishment" of the Golden Dragon Clan was a flame that could distinguish between friend and foe, but now these golden flames indiscriminately want to destroy all living or dead things in the city, which shows how resolute the Golden Dragon Clan's heart is to destroy the city.

Thousands of people evaporated in an instant, and hundreds of buildings were reduced to powder. It is not only the golden flame of the Golden Dragon Clan that harvests life, but also the golden flame of the Golden Dragon Clan, under the high temperature, many flammable materials in the city are ignited, forming a substantial flame without magical attributes, burning a large amount of oxygen in the air, making the air pressure up and down the city different, and the air at the height rushes down rapidly, filling the lack of air below, but it suddenly spirals up under the scorching temperature, and the cyclone drives the flames and the burning people or other items and ashes, forming a terrible "fire tornado". Several fire tornadoes moved around Alexandria, exacerbating the destruction of the thousand-year-old city.

A mother with a baby on her back runs desperately to escape the rapidly approaching tornado behind her, but her will to survive and her child's desire to protect her child have not spared her and her child. The flame first licked the child behind her back. The flames burned the baby's throat, preventing the child from screaming, and the poor mother, unaware of the child's death, still ran forward with a "fireball" on her back until she herself was completely consumed by the flames.

Not all human beings who have been slaughtered have been slaughtered to sit still. At the beginning of the attack, the Imperial soldiers, who had organized themselves in the chaos, immediately rushed into the fortifications, manipulating the giant crossbows on the fortifications to fight back at the dragons in the sky, but unfortunately, this pale and feeble counterattack was not only futile, but also infuriated the dragons, no matter how well trained they were, they could not resist the dragon's wrath, and together with the fortifications and the giant crossbow machines above, they were destroyed by the angry golden flames. The only bit of anti-aircraft armament was destroyed, and the Golden Dragon Clan was even more like no one.

The square where the Empress's motorcade was first attacked had been turned into a charred crater. Only then, the palace and palace were also burned, the Golden Dragon Clan carried out the most ruthless and ruthless attack on the palace, the tallest building in the city, the main hall of the Imperial Palace, under the anger of the dragons, only supported for less than half an hour before collapsing, with not only the palace guards and surviving noble ministers, but also a large number of ordinary citizens who fled to the palace for refuge, thousands of people were crushed under the thick rubble of the collapse, no life survived.

In addition to the Royal Palace, the other strongest building is the thousand-year-old St. Ethore's Cathedral, a marble building with two large pools for storing holy water, and nearly 2,000 people crowded into it, hoping that the cathedral's solid structure would save their lives, but the heat of thousands of degrees burned the exterior walls of the rock-made buildings red, and the water in the large pools heated into high-temperature steam. The cathedral, which was supposed to be extremely safe, was turned into a sturdy "big steamer". In St. Idore's Cathedral, the corpses were stacked on top of each other 2 meters high, and all of them were "steamed" alive.

There is no safe place on the ground directly exposed to the roar of the dragons, so many people choose to flee into the shadowy, damp sewers, thinking that they can escape, however, the actual flames have burned all the oxygen, and the air in the sewers is pumped out, and the calamity called "lack of oxygen" spreads among the sewer people. Breathing harder and harder causes a slow and painful death, and people tear their clothes, scratch their chests, and even scratch the moss-covered walls of the sewers in despair, but they can't escape suffocation.

Tens of thousands of victims were suffocated to death due to the depletion of oxygen, especially in the low-lying areas, where people on fire and lack of oxygen rushed to jump into the Tefner River, which runs east and west of the city, but instead of saving those who fled the fire, it brought more painful deaths. The unusually high temperature boiled the river directly, and hundreds of people jumped into the Tefner River, no different from jumping into the boiling water, shouting, floating, tumbling, and finally being "boiled" to the point of flesh. In addition to the stench of burning, the smell of human flesh being cooked wafted through the air.

During the burning of the city by the Golden Dragon, many of Alexander's citizens fled from the city in panic. But the Golden Dragon Clan did not let go of these fleeing humans, there were two golden dragons separated from the team, and the crowd that fled out of the city in the north and south directions rushed out, stopping in front of the crowd, the dragon flame had cleaned the wilderness once, and the crowd that had fled all over the mountains suddenly turned into piles of charcoal-like charred corpses. Such a scene makes the people who finally rushed to the city gate alive even more frightened, it is impossible to return to the city, and if they continue to move forward, they will be intercepted by the golden dragon, and when they are in a dilemma, only the fate of death awaits them.

After cleaning up the crowd at the north gate, the golden dragon flew back to the city to continue the destruction, and found that there were still dozens of living humans standing near the city gate and hesitated, the golden dragon did not hesitate to pounce down, spewing a fireball into the crowd, and then pulled up the height and left in a wail.

Near the burning north gate, countless burning men ran in all directions, and finally fell to the ground with all their strength, and the gate was completely destroyed, but in the midst of the sky-high fire and the "thunderclap" sound of the burning, the sound of a child crying could be heard.

Under the city gates, in front of the firelight, a little girl of 5 or 6 years old wiped her tears with her hands and let out a sad sob.

Her father had been crushed under the collapsed buildings in the city, and her mother had to go through great hardships to bring her to the city gates, but she didn't expect the golden dragon's breath to bury her mother and dozens of others in the fire. Although the little girl survived, the clothes on her back were already burning, and the only remaining fabric on her body had become pitch black. Her bitter crying, I don't know if it was because of sadness, fear, or pain, heard from afar, extremely desolate.

But there is no mercy in the midst of disaster. The main structure of the north city gate that was destroyed was seriously damaged, and a burning thick column beam smashed down on the top of the little girl's head, and it seemed that the little girl was about to be crushed underneath......

"Cross Panic Flash"!

At this moment, a fearless figure leaped up, and the two swords crossed in mid-air, and the two mysterious powers of the holy sword "Eternal Victory" and the magic sword "Tears of Repentance" were intertwined, so that Julian was still able to use the battle soul technique even if he had not yet burned the battle spirit, although the power was reduced, but it was more than enough to crush a burning giant beam.

The second flaming beam fell, and Julian had no time to swing his sword again, but fortunately, a second sedan figure flew by, hugged the dazed little girl, and jumped out of the beam's destruction before it hit them.

"In the end, it was a step too late. Julian looked at the city weeping in the flames, and hung down his sword in loneliness.

"Nope. We couldn't have come at the right time. Owen walked up behind Julian with the child he had just snatched back from death.

This sentence was not meant to comfort Julian, and in Owen's view, as long as he could save a life, it was already a great victory.