'A genuine, flawless true god.'
'There was no way we could deal with it.'
'But someone with only a semi-finished product Divine Kingdom, who wasn't even inside it, might be another matter!'
'After all, it was merely an incomplete product. Presumably, it couldn't max out every aspect of itself like a true god could...'
There was nothing particularly wrong with that line of thinking.
Logically speaking, it made sense.
And their approach showed that they knew their limits.
Knowing that peaceful trade was possible, they preferred to conduct a peaceful trade.
They had not intended to charge in recklessly!
It could be said
that neither their thoughts nor their actions had been problematic.
They were cautious without lacking the ability to act!
But unfortunately,
two problems still severely hindered the smooth progress of things.
First,
due to their immediate superior,
Orsaga, the holder of the technology, proved rather uncooperative, carrying a distinctly nonviolent-resistance sort of air.
Second,
Orsaga's individual strength was just ever so slightly formidable...
Compared to exchanging blows with him, it would have been much easier to simply go slay a god...
Of those two points,
the more important one was that they only learned of the latter after they had made their move...
Therefore,
after provoking a tremendous disaster,
the scene became exceptionally brutal!
The entire conflict could not even be called a battle.
It could only be described as a road roller crushing mice.
The other side had not even felt how they had been run over.
After one wet splat, an eye-catching scene of flying flesh and blood remained!
In less than a second,
Orsaga had smoothly finished harvesting them all.
He killed every one of those professionals, the weakest of whom had been Legendary Rank.
Afterward, not a trace of blood or dust stained