...she meant to think about it for much longer but this was, in fact, a very rough couple of hours, and she hasn't been this badly injured without access to healing for a very long time.

(And while Iomedae finds somewhere to rest, it is also the case that Steelmind's army is rushing Heavyhand's body to a tinker cryochamber; they don't have anyone in the city who can do resurrections at all reliably, but such people do exist if the brain remains intact.)

Iomedae will wake up without being stabbed even a little bit. She can hear distant thunder.

Most importantly she does not appear to be in Heaven so they don't have Discern Location. 

She sits up. Usually when she wakes she uses a Lay On Hands to suppress the aches and pains and exhaustion from sleeping in a suit of armor, but she's out. ...she can fix that, though. She pulls out her holy symbol and clears a little space on the ground and kneels, still invisible, and reaches to Aroden.

When Iomedae was very young she travelled to the paladin order nearest her, and demonstrated that she had been chosen by Aroden, and was welcomed, and taught the standard prayer-forms, which she kept for ...one year, before she realized with horror one morning that she could not in fact say them; that she was not sure she wanted to be steered however Aroden saw, that she was not convinced that they would win that way. And that she was, in fact, loyal to a project she'd defined for herself and then read into Aroden's holy books, and that if her read of the books was wrong it was her project, and not the books, she was loyal to.

She'd really expected Aroden to renounce her, when she had this realization. It would not have been unreasonable. The gods are entitled to hire only people who wish to serve them, and not people who wish to serve something else. She spent a couple of days explaining to Him that He probably should; she was horrified by the idea of using His gift not in His service. Eventually she'd admitted to herself that He was a god and probably knew what He was about, and that she should probably just go and check, whether her project was His, whether the story she'd told herself was a true one, whether Aroden was in fact the god she'd in boundless optimism imagined.

When she came back to the formal prayer-forms most of a decade later she believed them again, but had learned some other things along the way and made some adjustments for accuracy. 

My lord, my god, my guide and my sponsor, make me the instrument of Your will in this world. May I see the world clearly enough to do your work in it, and may all I do rebound to your greater purposes. May I be eager for your guidance, but rarely in need of it. May I live and die in Your service, and do honor to your name, and obey you in everything. Where I am in need of it, I entreat that you correct my errors, arrange my triumphs, and direct me to the most urgent of Your work in the world. I pledge to you today that I will use Your powers by my vows and in Your service, and obey you in all things, and be Your sword and Your word in this world. 

And her spells come to her, in that rush that feels more like drinking when desperately thirsty than it feels like most things. She'd left herself open to learn what they should be, today - that's usually a good idea in a strange situation, though it's costlier for Aroden to do it that way - but in the end He gives her mostly what she's accustomed to, some Divine Favor and Hero's Defiance and Lesser Restoration and Resist Energy at second and two Tongues at third circle. And her healing is back, which means she can expend a Lay on Hands right away to stop being quite so battered and to address the exhaustion from her habit of sleeping in armor. 

And then she'll go up to the surface, still invisible, and see what's going on.

There's no thunder, just very large irregular explosions going off a long way away. The battle lines have shifted somewhat relative to where they were, moving inwards to reduce the fraction of the city controlled by Ilderia, but otherwise there's no major change.

Right. Then she’ll head towards danger, still invisible, looking for Evil and also a gun.

She doesn't have to go very far to find danger, since "moving inwards" and her comparatively short journey past the battle line mean that the firefight is practically on top of her. Finding evil, or guns that are not currently in use, may be trickier, since detect evil doesn't have that long a range and the typical gun is being fired.

Right. What does the situation appear to be, is there a copy of Century, are they fighting hordes of constructs or something more dynamic than that -

As was previously the case, the force that mostly looks like humans is retreating and the force that mostly looks like constructs is advancing. Century is not immediately visible; there's an aerial battle between two flying people shooting colorful energy beams at each other, who are doing enough aerial acrobatics that it's hard to tell which of the masked woman in an elaborate armored dress with a pair of submachine guns that shoot glowing green beams or the man with flaming hair and a flaming body and shields of flames is on which side. Most of the retreating troops have badges checkerboarded blue and red, sometimes also with Ilderia's badge (or an improvised version thereof, just a white stripe on blue) and sometimes not; any other supers are behind cover and hard to see. The retreating troops are planting traps as they go, which explode unless disarmed; some constructs are heading into captured buildings, but the advancing construct army continues to have a very large advantage that only the defenders' advantages of cover and prelaid traps can compete with.

'huge numbers of robots' continues to not be a problem Iomedae is at all equipped to solve. She isn't tough enough to stand up all day swordfighting them, and wouldn't get longer than it took to identify her anyway.

....satisfy a curiosity, then. What are the constructs doing in the buildings they're retaking.

Looking for soldiers of the other side hiding in them, so they can kill them.

- and the civilians in the basement?

Only if there's soldiers still in uniform hiding among them.

It's not that Iomedae actually expects better from anyone who doesn't work for her (either better than 'hiding among the civilians' or better than 'killing the civilians if there are soldiers hiding among them'). 

Is she missing something. Is there some way she can in fact fight 'absurd numbers of constructs'. ...kill whoever controls them. Important medium-term priority, no immediate implications. Break the connection with whoever controls them - Magic Circle Against Evil might in fact work for that but she'd need someone who can survive more direct fire than her, maybe the man she saw last night who was fighting the demon lord -

...ask Aroden for arcane spells? She's never tried that, she doesn't actually know that it wouldn't work, and he can always just refuse her if it's too expensive. She requests a Lightning Bolt. Nothing happens, which is almost certainly because Aroden is not allowed or not able to just give her arcane spells.

Right. Back away from the battlefield, then. There is not much point in putting herself in danger to solve problems she's not uniquely or even especially equipped to solve.

That person looks Evil! She also looks like she's on Ilderia's side and dashing from cover towards the army of constructs. Old-looking woman, still in decent shape, wearing a pale blue-grey armored costume.

Iomedae'd have to touch her to try 'give her a Magic Circle Against Evil' and that looks like it'll be ...hard to do. Maybe worth it, if she seems to have the reflexes Iomedae doesn't to fight the constructs indefinitely. 

(It's not a great sign that she's Evil. It's not shocking. Plenty of Taldane generals are.)

People scatter as she approaches. This is because everything near her is starting to freeze over. Water vapor in the air condenses, forming fractal patterns of ice on the ground; the asphalt beneath her feet cracks as it tries to shrink away from itself, buildings accumulate thin coatings of ice.

If Iomedae tries to touch her, this is going to be uncomfortable.

Iomedae will make herself subject to Resist Energy (Cold)! But she's not going to startle the sorcerer with abilities she hardly understands; she'll stay nearby and see if it makes any sense to try (it doesn't if the constructs are fleeing anyway) and see if 'being slightly less confused' is attainable here.

(In the condensing vapor it's probably possible to pick out there's an invisible person crouched nearby.)

At which point, two separate chains of events occur.

First, the icy woman does not notice Iomedae. She's the chief target of the Tyrant's forces. They fire bullets at her; if they hit, they deflect off and she staggers and keeps moving. The constructs attempt to use beam weapons on her; these are largely ignored. Maybe someone would find something that works - she's not moving like she has all the time in the world - but it's not a long walk, and as she closes into melee, her suit gushes out icy foam and all the constructs near her - stop working, watch their arm joints freeze over, shatter into thousands of pieces.

(All the constructs, anywhere near her. There's reasons her people took cover.)

And the other thing that happens is that both sides, knowing there's an invisible person and not knowing this person is on their side, will try to shoot Iomedae!

Yeah, that figures!

(They mostly miss. She's invisible, and she's stayed under cover as much as she can, and she has more and more expensive magic items than a third-circle paladin ordinarily would, and as soon as trouble starts she can make the sword Defending at which point it blocks bullets for her with blinding speed, and also she can activate the boots and get elsewhere. But when they don't miss, they hurt. The armor's helping much less than it should.) 

...yeah she is not in fact durable enough for it to be a remotely good idea to be on the front of this battlefield, not because there's nothing she can do - she suspects at this point that there's a lot -but because there are too many things happening for her to identify the ones she can help with with any success. At the end of the day if she doesn't die she'll have a perfect understanding of everything and also she'll be dead before then. 

Lay On Hands. Hero's Defiance. Lay On Hands. Ice lady had better not need any help because Iomedae is going to be somewhere else.

Ice lady is running for cover as fast as she can, and looks like she'll make it.

Iomedae can be somewhere else! She's not that slow and in house-to-house fighting, battle lines are.

She wants to get up in the air and get a view of the whole fight. She wants to go walk to the wall of force and figure out if it's meant to keep people in or worse horrors out. She wants Aroden to give her some guidance here, but He's not doing that. She can't usefully participate in engagements until she happens to spot an instance of Century.

...maybe she can obtain a gun and practice the reloading-a-gun action, that seems like a skill she might shortly wish she had mastered.

Does she prefer "steal a gun," "ask someone for a gun," "take a gun from a dead body," "look more for Century," "ask someone on Ilderia's side for help finding Century," or some sixth possibility as a tool for achieving this end?