Mass hysteria and a complete loss of direction.
That was the state of affairs affecting almost every Familia in Orario at the moment.
The sky, cleaved by hundreds of pillars of golden light, had snatched away the gods in the blink of an eye.
However, the faction hit hardest by this apocalyptic disappearance of the gods was undoubtedly Freya Familia.
That was only natural.
From the very beginning, Freya Familia had been established and populated by fanatical, insane warriors whose emotional attachment to Freya was extraordinarily extreme—even bordering on unhealthy.
To every member of the faction, Freya was not merely a 'leader,' but the spiritual anchor and the very center of meaning in their entire existence.
Just look at the reactions of her highest-ranking executives when the pillar of light carried Freya into the sky. Hedin, Hogni, and the Gulliver Brothers immediately suffered severe mental breakdowns and bouts of hysteria.
The Elf and Dwarf factions within Freya Familia, whose lives had long depended heavily on the validation and smiles of their Goddess, suddenly screamed hysterically as though they had lost half their souls.
Without Freya by their side, they instantly lost every reason to keep living.
As their captain and the only person still capable of maintaining his cold composure, Ottar would undoubtedly feel profound grief deep in his heart. However, as a true knight who firmly upheld discipline, he tried to bring the internal situation under control first, preventing his increasingly deranged comrades from committing mass suicide or indiscriminately slaughtering the entire city out of frustration.
Generally speaking, the reactions of other Familias in Orario to their Main Gods being forcibly deported without any apparent reason were dominated by mass panic, confusion, and a crisis of power.
For any faction, the sudden loss of its Main God was the greatest catastrophe that could possibly befall it.
This was because the Falna on their backs would immediately become locked and frozen. They would never again be able to update their statuses, increase their statistics, or level up until their blessing marks were converted by a new Main God.
But with all the gods having been forcibly deported en masse to Heaven, where could they possibly find another Main God to perform such a conversion?
With not a single god remaining in the Lower World, there would no longer be any entity capable of performing Status Updates, raising adventurers' Levels, or carrying out Conversion (changing Familia).
The Levels and all the status points of adventurers throughout the world would remain frozen at their last recorded values.
Logically speaking, this mass disappearance of the gods meant the extinction of the era in which new heroes were born.
No, that assumption was not entirely accurate.
At present, two gods still remained in the Lower World because they had been deliberately exempted from the banishment: Astraea and Aphrodite.
Astraea: "😐"
Her emotions were complicated as she watched her own kind being forcibly deported to Heaven by none other than her own lover.
She let out a short sigh, trying to process the new world order unfolding before her eyes.
"Charlie... Now that Ouranos has been deported to Heaven, the prayer he has been reciting from beneath the Guild to suppress the Dungeon will come to an end."
Astraea turned toward Charlie beside her and regarded the young man with an exceptionally serious expression.
"Without that prayer, the Dungeon will immediately run amok. Monsters from the Deep Floors—with power equivalent to Levels 7 through 10 and beyond—will continuously crawl toward the surface on a scale far more terrifying than the Grand Day incident or the massive monster assaults of the past."
Astraea paused for a moment, a ripple of concern passing through her eyes.
"Without Ouranos's suppressive prayer, the Dungeon will also begin regenerating monsters at several times its usual speed, creating large-scale global monster invasions across the entire outside world."
Hearing this analytical explanation, Charlie smiled faintly. He already knew perfectly well what the Goddess of Justice was trying to tell him.
"Rest assured, Goddess Astraea. Everything will be fine." He replied in an exceptionally calm yet reassuring tone. "Not long ago, I actually explored the entire Dungeon, all the way to its very end. So I know for certain that the Dungeon has a total of 100 floors, and the strongest monster at its deepest bottom is Level 13."
Charlie had managed to carry out that exploration in secret after successfully awakening 100% of Karasuki Rio's Template and becoming a Transcendent entity.
With that power, he had conquered the Dungeon all the way to its final floor without anyone in Orario ever realizing what he had done.
Charlie had initially undertaken that dangerous expedition to test whether defeating the deepest floor would allow him to advance to Level 8.
Unfortunately, the attempt proved to be completely futile.
Technically speaking, he was still Level 7, but his actual power had already surpassed every measurable limit of the Falna system.
For the Charlie of today, the Falna on his back was nothing more than a useless decorative accessory.
This situation had become even more apparent after he officially received his Spirit Rank from Little Garden in recognition of all his legendary achievements, as well as successfully breaking through into the 3-Digit tier of power.
"As for the large-scale rampage of the Dungeon that you're worried about, it will never happen." Charlie continued confidently. "I've already placed a special seal to suppress all activity within the Dungeon for the time being."
"Until the new generation of Mages in this world has fully matured and successfully mastered the new magical power system I developed last night, the Dungeon will remain calm and won't disturb the surface."
"..."
Seeing Charlie's confidence, Astraea finally chose to place her complete trust in her lover's actions. The heavy burden on her shoulders gradually lifted.
On the other hand, Kei and Mahiru also breathed sighs of relief, feeling genuinely happy to hear his explanation.
After all, as girls with strong moral principles, they had absolutely no desire to see their beloved turn into the mastermind behind the total destruction of world civilization.
Meanwhile, Aishia and Est remained standing in silent stillness, gazing beyond the fence as they watched Orario sink into chaos.
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