These are the massacres created by Itros in the past, curses and hatred emitted by some highly willful intelligent beings in situations of extreme despair.
Matthew was extremely familiar with these things, feeling quite similar to the core consciousness of the ancient evils.
Surging arcane fire launched an attack on the divine soul from one corner.
The divine soul, losing support of divine power, was quickly ignited and then began to disintegrate.
When a part of the divine soul was ignited, it spread fear to other thoughts and ideas, ultimately turning into nothingness amidst howling, leaving only traces of pure golden strength.
Matthew's advancement was very slow, primarily to gain pure strength bit by bit.
At the same time, it was to avoid the divine soul from suddenly regaining consciousness under the threat of death after suffering wide-scale attacks.
Though Matthew was not afraid, he also didn't want to encounter unnecessary troubles.
