It took an entire year, but eventually, the lockdown in Etijei was lifted. During this time, several searches, repeating the same places many times, happened. As one can imagine, quite a few 'dirty' deals and other not very 'legal' events were unearthed, but none of them had anything to do with the phenomenon. The same thing happened to all the other cities that were affected by the phenomenon, just not as rigorous as Etijei.
Yet, this region of the Divine Snow World became many times more livelier as well. The cities were on lockdown, but that didn't mean the regions were completely locked. The area was just too gigantic for the powers to keep an eye on everywhere, so they didn't even try.
