A wealth of treasure lay scattered around the altar.
Judging by the traces, these adventurers must have tampered with the things inside the altar. Deities themselves had little need for wealth, but they still needed to bestow rewards on their followers and churches. Even demons knew how to tempt mortals with riches, so evil gods naturally used wealth to win over worldly powers as well. Every sacrifice to the God of Hunt brought the faithful something in return, but it could not always be a gift of power. That would cost a deity too much.
Sometimes, rewarding the faithful with gold, silver, and jewels was far cheaper!
Every deity's realm held vast accumulated wealth. Aside from rewarding followers, it was also used to develop the God's Realm itself. Take the altar before him: at least a thousand gems were set around it, along with sacrificial implements made of gold and silver and an altar base that appeared to be obsidian. This was a grand altar of impressive scale. Its cost was probably not much less than that of the Half-Elf Grand Temple Soren had built.
By a conservative estimate!
Building this altar had cost the equivalent of more than five hundred thousand Gold Dalers on the Material Plane.
Those gems were what the adventuring party had touched.
Unfortunately, they did not know that places within a deity's realm—especially those storing astonishing wealth—were often guarded by Holy Spirits.
A single Holy Spirit had slaughtered almost all of them.
Perhaps because the altar had been damaged, this God's Realm Fragment was shrinking faster and faster. The void gradually closed in, and everything—soil, stone, water, even the air—was swept into the void torrent.
This was no time to get trapped inside.
Even a deity caught in it would struggle to escape. They might