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By this time, many of the temple's clergy had already finished their day's activities and gone back to their quarters to rest.
Though the temple's status in the Hidden Land was transcendent, and it held an astonishing number of powerful figures—taking out just a fraction of them would surpass the peak combat strength of a kingdom in the outside world, and toppling a kingdom would be an easy task—
Even a place so filled with experts was not particularly strict in its defenses.
There was no helping it. The Hidden Land had been at peace for far, far too long. People had long since lost their vigilance toward the outside world. Coupled with the belief that the temple's status was so exalted that no one would dare offend it, there were very few people standing guard or patrolling at night, and not even the more powerful Magic defense systems were activated.
