Very soon.
It was as though they had charged into a different space.
The surroundings changed in an instant.
This sudden shift made them raise their weapons warily and scan their surroundings with vigilance.
"A cave?"
"How did we end up here?"
Behind them was utter darkness—a wall with no way through.
Ahead lay a dim, damp cave filled with water.
All kinds of tiny crawling insects scuttled across the walls and floor.
Long, many-legged centipedes slowly crawled along the walls, seemingly unafraid of this group of intruders who had suddenly appeared.
"Where is this?"
"How did we suddenly end up here?"
"Teleportation? A God-Blessed One with spatial abilities?"
"This doesn't match the intelligence we received. Wasn't his ability supposed to be controlling insects and toxins?"
"Insects? Aren't there plenty of insects around here too?"
Boom!
One of the God-Blessed Ones launched an attack, killing several crawling insects.
Those insects seemed to be nothing more than ordinary bugs. They were sliced into several pieces without even struggling.
More crawling insects appeared to have been startled by the commotion and scattered away.
Remaining vigilant, they felt their way forward through the cave.
At the same time, they used True Name Detection to search for Sante.
Before long, after some twists and turns—mainly because there were too many forks in the cave—even with guidance, they still went in several circles and doubled back a few times before finally finding Sante.
In this world, all anomalies had been concealed. To the God-Blessed Ones, the world was still veiled behind a layer of gauze.
Some of Weird's abilities were utterly unfamiliar to them.
Trigger rules, instant-death rules, Ghost Domains, and so on—these were all foreign concepts to them.
They found Sante.
Of course, what they found was already Sante's corpse.
When Desire discovered the