Find the Demon-Eating Microbe as quickly as possible, then figure out why divine spells could still descend even when prayers were not directed at a god.
Time was tight, and the task was heavy.
Jia Xiu had more things to do on the Ukemak Plane.
But he could still distinguish the priorities. He would finish the "official" assignment first.
After fine-tuning the control over Hero production and observing the entire process of a Hero "taking office," Jia Xiu found the place most likely to be storing the Demon-Eating Microbe.
A treasury that stored the ultimate weapon against the Devil Race.
If Ukemak civilization had not achieved some new technological breakthrough during those centuries of isolation, then its ultimate weapon against the Devil Race should still be the Demon-Eating Microbe.
Jia Xiu believed the odds of that were extremely high.
Judging by the development of this town alone, there had definitely been no progress. It was hard to say how far they had regressed. He did not know how advanced this place was within their overall civilization, but they had certainly regressed by no small amount. It felt as though they had reached the point where developing new magic required "archaeology."
And even after excavating it, they might not necessarily understand how to use it. They might end up using it in some bizarre way, completely deviating from its original intended purpose.
Perhaps the Demon-Eating Microbe here was now used to enchant weapons. Maybe they had discovered that smearing it on a weapon made it deal especially high damage to Demon Kings—
As for how to open that treasury.
He did not quite understand what the god who had provided the official solution had been thinking.
The Hero Squad had to defeat fierce beasts in different places, obtain medals, then return