There was surely no need to explain how important load-bearing pillars were to a high-rise building. In the eyes of the Kshahrewar construction workers, tampering with those pillars was no different from dancing on their ancestors' graves. They would fight you to the death over it.
Not to mention that the pillars now supported the entirety of Sumeru City. This was even less of a joking matter.
Sumeru City was a city built upon the Divine Tree, an enormous tree hundreds of meters tall that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata had created with her divine power. One could well imagine how much vitality her divine power had possessed back then.
However, although that enormous tree supported the whole of Sumeru City, it also placed immense pressure on the ground beneath the city.
Had Sumeru City been built in any other nation, it would not have faced this danger, because the ground in Liyue, Mondstadt, and Inazuma was solid. Yet it had been built in Sumeru, whose geography was notoriously... hellish.
Throughout Sumeru, both the Rainforest and the Desert had been divided by the power of nature into aboveground and underground levels. In other words, the ground beneath Sumeru was hollow.
When building a city atop a hollow surface, load-bearing pillars became crucial.
To build the God-Descension Workshop in secret and facilitate their subsequent research, the Sages had directly exploited Sumeru's hollow geography, constructing the enormous God-Descension Workshop beneath Sumeru City to fit the terrain. It could be said that they had further expanded the hollow area.
Of course, for safety's sake, the Sage of Kshahrewar had understood the importance of load-bearing pillars and expended tremendous effort building several of them to support Sumeru City.
But now, Scaramouche's final strike had destroyed every last pillar. Without their support, Sumeru City immediately found itself