The Light Screen image decided to head for the city-state of Kutha, but they needed to gather intelligence first.
Through Siduri's explanation, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others learned that Kutha nominally belonged to Ishtar's territory, but in reality, Ishtar had never managed the place.
Moreover, Kutha had effectively been destroyed. Several months ago, on a certain day, it had suddenly lost contact with Uruk.
When Uruk sent people to investigate, they found everyone in the entire city-state of Kutha collapsed on the ground as if asleep.
Every single person had suddenly lost their life at some moment. Their bodies bore no injuries, nor had they suffered any fright.
Many even retained the expressions they had worn before death, as if their lives had all been taken at the exact same instant.
The situation was bizarre to the extreme.
As this intelligence was explained, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others felt as though they were listening to a ghost story.
Still, since a Singularity was already a fantastical world—and one from the high-magic Age of Gods at that—unexplainable occurrences were perfectly normal.
After recovering from her shock, Fujimaru Tachibana immediately judged that this had to be the work of some god.
After all, the sudden death of everyone in an entire city was the sort of thing that appeared in all kinds of myths.
One famous example was the story of God judging a sinful city and wiping out every living thing within it.
So, once myths and legends were involved, incidents where an entire city's population was killed in an instant no longer seemed surprising.
Though it was still terrifying.
In any case, when people in the real world learned that everyone in a city had suddenly died without a sound, many felt their scalps go numb.
Humanity itself could destroy