In short, judging from the reaction of that temple consciousness fragment, "Divine Sin" truly had no place in this world. Therefore, he absolutely could not summon "Demon God: Abyss Walker" in front of those gods!
Having learned his lesson, Dark hid "Demon God: Abyss Walker" even more deeply. He had also developed murderous intent toward those temple consciousness fragments.
If they could find where those temple consciousness fragments were hiding during this deep exploration...
The team advanced very slowly. The four squads were arranged in a lightning-bolt formation.
Magic Spirits scouting ahead, behind, left, and right kept moving, determined not to overlook the slightest suspicious detail.
Under normal circumstances, it did not snow within the temple section located inside the "Divine Kingdom."
Yet for some reason, thick snow always accumulated on the ground and atop the buildings.
The snow was not unable to melt, but it would constantly increase out of thin air. This made both travel and clearing obstacles quite difficult.
Dangerous creatures would occasionally hide beneath the snow. Originally, they lay like corpses, emitting no aura whatsoever. Sometimes, even Magic Spirits passing overhead would detect nothing. But once a human approached, they would instantly shift from "death" to "life" and launch a sneak attack.
Those ambushes were impossible to guard against and extremely terrifying. Many members of the previous investigation teams had been injured because of them.
Later, the investigation team simply deployed Ghost-type Magic Spirits to conduct full-penetration searches of all matter within their range, including the ground and accumulated snow. Even though the Magic Spirits lacked the intelligence to distinguish genuine dead objects from falsely dead ones, forcing them to spend more time and effort investigating, they still did not change this approach.
In short, the pace of exploration could be slowed, but casualties had to