The place where the riot took place is actually half a distance away from the side hall, and strictly speaking, this is not within the scope of the big temple. If it weren't for the Great Temple Festival, there wouldn't have been so many people gathering, and the high priest wouldn't have taken care of it at all—I serve God, not the peace.

Since the high priest came in person, he had his own Taipan priesthood and deacons on the periphery, and Kimpfunk ordered the same noble representatives to walk between the priesthood and the deacons. As for the believers, they have already made way of a wide road, allowing the high priest and others to approach.

The place where the corpse was located was at the intersection of a main road leading to the temple, and there were two tall pole trees beside the road, and judging by the breadth of the canopy, the age of the trees was not more than two hundred years. Many of the vendors who were in a hurry to buy and sell during the festival set up their stalls under the canopy of trees on the side of the road, and those who participated in the festival were hungry for a day and a half, and most of them would stop and eat something when passing by.

The body was lying in the middle of the intersection, body

Strange large-character pose, with his back facing the sky.

This is indeed a mage, at least judging by the clothing, dark blue satin, red trimmed robes, a mage badge on the chest, silver lacquer purple, and engraved with the emblem of the First Spell Academy of the Imperial Court - this is a purple-collar mage from the Imperial Certification Academy.

The temple has its own system, and there are also people who can see and treat patients among the priests, so a priest asked for advice and stepped forward to examine the corpse.

Male, about thirty to forty years of age, of average height, non-native-looking, resembling the eastern race of the empire, bearded. There are no visible wounds or scars on the face, but the eyes are bulging and visibly congested, the mouth is wide open, and the tongue is straight, as if caused by suffocation.

However, the strange thing is that the forehead of this corpse is actually inserted into the crossbow arrow, which is shot from the front, and from the protruding part of the crossbow arrow and the length of the tail, only half of the crossbow arrow is inserted into the mage's head.

The priest explained to the priest beside him as he prepared to untie the robes from the corpse and examine the rest of the corpse.

"There is no need to heal it, only this wound. One of them suddenly stopped him.

Here, only one person is qualified to say this.

No one questioned why the High Priest said that, the High Priest said no, just no.

"Temple, it seems that this mage was strangled to death. The priest who had heard the priesthood turned around and reported to the priest.

The temple seat is the exclusive honorific title of the priest, regardless of the gods and customs, when in person, the temple seat must be used to call the priest in the number of rituals, and even the name of the priest is considered disrespectful.

The Grand Priest did not look at the priest nor answer, but he stepped out of the crowd, walked a few steps in front of the corpse, closed his eyes, stretched out his left hand and made an unknown gesture, and his mouth seemed to be silently reading something.

After only a few words, a dark red light suddenly seeped out from the closed eyes of the great priest.

Everyone on the scene, whether it was the priest or the local commander, or a group of pretentious nobles, suddenly saw this dark red light, and almost at the same time they knelt down to the great priest.

They did not kneel to the great priests, but to the gods themselves.

Everyone present, even if they haven't seen it in person, have heard that this movement is that the great priest is using divine magic, divine magic is different from spells, spells come from cultivation, and divine magic comes from divine grants, so the use of divine magic is equivalent to obeying the will of the gods, even if it is a trivial little will, in front of the gods, mortals can only kneel.

The dark red glow didn't last long, and the archpriest had already reopened his eyes.

"This mage was killed by the crossbow arrow, but not with a bowstring, but in a semi-suffocated state, with some force slowly inserted the crossbow arrow into his forehead, and he died of great pain and fear, hence this appearance. The Great Priest lightly explained the cause of the purple-collar mage's death.

This is simply an incredible method of killing, cruel and laborious, and by no means ordinary killing. But from the mouth of the great priest, there were thousands of people at the scene, and none of them doubted it, not even in their hearts.

Of course, the priest can use divine arts, and as a great priest who serves the god of death, there is a divine skill that is different from other great priests, that is, to see the cause and circumstances of a dead person's death.

Therefore, the cause of death that came out of his mouth is absolutely, absolutely the truth.

Who killed a purple-collar mage in such a brutal way?

But if the high priest didn't say it, no one would dare to ask.

"Do any of you know this mage?" the priest asked, looking around.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one answered.

Purple-collar mages are almost top-notch existences outside the imperial capital, and there are no wandering robe mages, but it's really difficult to meet, these robe mages don't even wear robes and badges, and it's difficult for others to distinguish them, so in the vast majority of Sakai, the most powerful mage you can see is the purple-collar mage.

According to the registration statistics released by the Ministry of Justice, the number of purple-collar mages in the empire is less than a lot on average in Sakai. And at the level of purple-collar mages, there are almost no wanderers, even if they are not willing to serve the emperor or the powerful, they are enough to stand on their own. Since they don't move much, if a purple-collar mage is completely unknown, then he is definitely not a mage from Honsakai, and he may not even be from neighboring Sakai.

"How did this corpse come from?" a clever priest asked a vendor not far away.

"God, Lord Shinji, fell from heaven. "This vendor is probably usually trading in this area, and he wasn't too nervous about the Shinji's inquiry.

However, Lord Shenji was very dissatisfied with this answer, he frowned and wanted to reprimand, but the vendor was clever, and hurriedly pointed to the people behind him and shouted: "Lord Shenji, it really fell from the sky, I don't believe you asked them." ”

The other people's expressions immediately became nervous when he pointed at him, but they all nodded desperately in response to the inquiring gaze of the Divine Division.

What the hell is going on, who has the ability to make this corpse fall from the sky? The highest in the vicinity are two pole trees, but not to mention, whether others have the strength to throw the corpse from the pole tree to this position, even if there is, it is impossible for no one to find out in the whole process—there were a thousand people here at the time, and many people were trading and resting under the pole trees.

The clever priest can't figure it out, and no one else can figure it out, but the great priest doesn't seem to want to think about it.

"Since no one knows each other, let the order here take care of it, go back. The great priest said, and he turned around and walked towards the big temple first.

As soon as he left, a group of priests naturally hurried to follow, they didn't mix much with mundane affairs, and as soon as the boss left, they still had nothing to stay, but left a few protectors on the scene first, waiting for the people who ordered him to take over - after all, he was a purple-collar mage, and even if he died, he should leave some dignity.

Of course, the aristocratic representatives also walked behind the high priest, and after watching the excitement here, there was still a little bidding left inside. It's just that everyone's expressions are solemn, most of them are whispering, and those who don't speak don't know what they are thinking in their hearts, but it should be related to the corpse of this purple-collar mage who fell from the sky.

No one noticed that the few people of the Senchaiba family who walked at the end of the line still had their mark not sung, they should have been the most anxious, but they walked last. If someone turns around, they don't even have to look closely, and they can see their shoulders shaking, but unlike before, this time it's not the shaking that comes from trying to endure, this time it's shaking, the trembling of fear.

"You've all seen it, are you sure it's the gentleman?" asked the one walking in the middle.

"Yes, yes, it's definitely him, it must have been the mage from the Law Department. One of them replied.

"Nonsense, what are we going to do now? Will he find us?" interrupted another.

"Don't panic, we are absolutely safe by the side of the great priest, now we first have to take this land, and then we don't go anywhere, find a way to contact the uncle and listen to his arrangement." The first person to speak seemed to be the leader of the three, who calmed down the quickest and responded quickly.

These three members of the Senchaiba family, naturally, have been hiding in the dark.

In fact, it was not their idea to kill Aozhuo, and the decision was made purely by the purple-collar mage who exposed the corpse on the street, but since the other party could even kill the purple-collar mage, would he give himself a chance to defend himself?

They were scared, trembling with fear. But after bothering to plan for so long and paying such a big price, if they come to retreat at the last minute now, they will not be able to turn a blind eye.

Fortunately, there is no power that can prevent the Senchaiba family from obtaining that piece of land now, with the great priest here, and it is still within the scope of the big temple, even if he gives that mage of the Law Management Department three more dares, it is impossible for him to dare to attack here.

Yes, there is another risk factor - Kimp Fink Commander had seen the dead purple-collar mage, and it was all thanks to this that the Ring Reluctantly agreed to help them and reveal a wrong winning bid to the others. Now that the purple-collar mage is dead, will the order be reversed?

This worry just popped up in their minds, but they were instantly relieved by themselves - although it was the purple-collar mage who came forward, the one behind him was the one who really made the purple-collar mage unable to have any confrontation, so the death of the purple-collar mage was not in the way at all, and this small encirclement would not be turned against because of this.

Thinking of this, the people of A, B, and C finally felt a little more at ease in their hearts, as long as they could take this land, the loss of a purple-collar mage was not unacceptable. Of course, when this matter is certain, it is absolutely impossible for Uncle to let go of that mage of the Legal Management Department, he is dead!

From the intersection to the half-way road to the side hall, A, B and C imagined various situations, both good and bad, but no matter how much they wanted to break their heads, they would never have imagined that such a thing would happen next.