It is clearly unrealistic to have a purely one-sided, unconditional trust.

There are many guesses that can be made about such a situation.

For example, the Elders took control of the High Priest, making him their own puppet for controlling the Temple.

For example, the elders do have some unknown and trustworthy abilities, but only the high priest knows these skills.

It's just that such speculation is obviously unreasonable.

If the Elders wanted to manipulate the Temple, they would have had no need to set up a mechanism for the election of high priests after the temple was established, and they could have come directly to power as the supreme ruler.

But they didn't.

This means that the presence of the High Priest was necessary for them.

Now, in front of Dill, all these necessary people are dead, lying in silver-white coffins, forever and never losing the chance to happen.

And according to the time calculation, most of these high priests died just one or two years after they took office, and at most they did not exceed ten years.

However, the magicians in the outside world are not aware of the death of these high priests, and even these high priests, who have become dead, can still be active in the public eye from time to time.

All this shows that the high priests who later appeared in the public eye were other people.

Who, then, could be these impostors who had passed away from the high priests? Why would they trust the magicians of the Elder Order unconditionally?

There are probably only two situations in this world.

One is blind, and the other is oneself.

Naturally, the person who can become a high priest is not blind without judgment, so there is only one possible situation, that is, those later high priests are impersonated by the magicians of the elder group.

This would explain why there were surprises at the inauguration of the eleventh high priest.

That's because there are only ten members of the Elder Body.

And why are there only ten magicians in the Elder Order?

Make a bold guess that the mages who built the Temple of Light with a certain purpose in mind only need ten "high priests" to achieve a certain purpose.

The circle surrounded by ten coffins in front of them and the pattern of the black six-pointed star in it clearly revealed the purpose of this group of people-

Complete a sacrifice to the god of darkness.

The conditions of this sacrifice are extremely harsh, and it requires ten light mages whose strength is above that of the magic master and meets certain conditions.

Therefore, it can be known that the crystal ball used to identify the magic master is definitely not a crystal ball that has been poured into Ye Tingxi's magic power.

As for what the selection criteria are, dill does not know at the moment.

But she could speculate on the purpose of this thousand-year-old sacrifice.

can pretend to be the high priest of the level of the magic master, it is conceivable that the strength of this group of people must also be above the magic master.

Moreover, it should have reached the level of magic grandmaster or above a thousand years ago.

According to the general cultivation process of magicians in that era, except for Ye Tingxi's unique anti-heaven wizard, even a magician with the most top-level cultivation talent would need to spend nearly five hundred years if he wanted to advance to the realm of a magic grandmaster.

Now, a thousand years have passed.

In other words, the original group of magicians has now reached the age of 1,500